skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While building products online, a fundamental thing almost all of them needed was the ability to collect payments and send an email to deliver the product.

Now, collecting payments is hard and if you're someone who doesn't have a background in engineering, its worse.

While there are some solutions, I couldn't find any that would allow me the flexibility to replace it with any product till I find a good product market fit.

So i decided to build one for myself.

Now more than ever as people attempt to start online businesses and having received a lot of positive feedback during beta, Its now finally available for wider use.

Take a look, drop questions or comments below and let me know what you think.

And of course, If you were affected by COVID-19. Send me a message. You don't have to pay anything.
The Fatal Hike That Became a Nazi Propaganda Coup
> The LGBT kids fuck to an extent, as do some of the lower achievers, but even then it's nowhere near as much as I expected.

I'm trying to be charitable and not over-interpret the juxtaposition of "LGBT" and "lower achievers". I'm surprised you have so much time to study who is having sex. Quite remarkable.
Subsides where not handed out for the 1918 pandemic and no recession occurred. Hell this was the middle of WWI and society survived just fine.

So, your argument is society has become more brittle over time, but that’s hardly a reason to make companies even more dependent on government handouts. People and companies are over leveraged, based on assumptions that don’t line up with reality. The basic capitalist idea is lot let them benefit or lose their shirt when reality hits them in the face.
Operation Condor
Prof. Dr. Drosten (inventor of Covid-19 test) said in the interview below that there is a study which shows asymptomatic adult shed as much virus as symptomatic ones. He also said there is no good study on how many viruses are shed by kids.

https://tvthek.orf.at/profile/Additional-Content/1670/Langfa...
>To me it seemed clear that he was talking about a research idea, not about a home treatment.

Yes, the preceding paragraph makes that clear.

>On the other hand I don't think he made that point 100% clear.

Definitely not, most of what he said is barely coherent nonsense. So if the media wants to report on that, they should report what he said, or even "we have no idea what he is babbling about". But instead the media openly lies about what he said. We have huge numbers of people right here being outraged that Trump would give people the idea that drinking bleach is a good idea, yet it is the media giving people that idea, not Trump. Our media is not simply failing us, they are actively harmful. It is disgraceful.
I'm just gonna throw these "Rosanne/Married with children"-ready insults out there:

"oh, take a pill!"
"you need to get some sun, why don't you go outside!?"

and my favorite

"[... something something...] bl-cleaning supplies"
>I got an easy A in your course. How would that happen if I weren't paying attention?

This statement implies that something was taught, what else can help you get an A with your attention
That was kinda my point. We had a brief period of a unipolar world with the US as the sole superpower. I don't think that's stable or likely to persist, and it looks like China is already filling the empty niche.

I think the 21st century will have China and the US as the two superpowers and the rivalry will be mostly economic and technological rather than military (via build up and proxy wars) and propagandistic.

I don't think it was the Great Recession that cut America down to size. I think it was the Iraq war. We "won" but it was a classic Pyrrhic victory that cost us both a ton of capital (I wonder if it caused the Great Recession) and our reputation on the world stage. We basically burned our Cold War victory on that. Bush II was the worst president of the last 100 years, in my opinion worse than Nixon and worse than Trump has been so far in terms of actual damage done. I don't think there would be a President Trump either were it not for that damage.
I very much doubt that the average train speed in EE is 35 km/h, and I traveled extensively by train from the baltics through the balkans over several decades.

If you take the average EE train, it is worse than Western Europe or Japan, comparable or better than US, with more extensive coverage.
Introducing them initially as being for caregivers and the vulnerable could cement the idea that they are not be messed with.

Now is a good time for that kind of social engineering: put an NHS logo on them, for example, and have the robots initially doing food delivery for shielded households.

In the long run: 1 in N robots could contain a dye pack, as a deterrent to robot capture and theft of contents.
Why would you want to know how you configured your NAS three years ago?
Thank you for the feedback, this is incredibly helpful!

- Regarding the new account message I shall update this to point at the providers page (https://github.com/Oxygem/Kanmail/issues/81)

- I like the idea of auto populating sidebar folders (without causing cluter, one to investigate) (https://github.com/Oxygem/Kanmail/issues/82)

- Originally Kanmail did copy emails between folders/labels (matching Gmail) but moving emails is more IMAP friendly in general. However, perhaps an option to copy is the best solution here, giving the end user the choice (https://github.com/Oxygem/Kanmail/issues/83)
The difference is that code with bugs can still compile, but proofs that are unsound won't check. Now granted, you can still prove the wrong thing or _not_ prove the thing that is supposed to make your system robust is taking place, so it's still very much a human endeavor with all that entails.

I think a dedicated red team going after a system for 6 months and not finding anything is a pretty good "unit test", personally. It's _evidence_ of effectiveness, not _proof_.
It's 8.8MB of plaintext English output describing the ridiculously long number, for those on mobile (who can't see the full file), or who don't want to click through the 'file is truncated...' link
I have had a similar experience when first using a 144hz display. I was amazed how responsive the mouse was. How "in control" I felt.

Then, going back to a 60hz display, I couldn't NOT see the gaps left by the cursor's movement. I had never before seen this as a problem, but seeing something better ruined 60hz for me.
Historical data is useful as a rough guideline, but it is very difficult to use to make comparisons.

For example: If there is a small Ebola outbreak in New York and you give the patients hydroxychloroquine and the death rate is 80%, is it good or bad?
I have a feeling Gopher nowadays has more 'holes' available than it ever had :-P
Does real time means that it was not turn based in this context? I cant open the link on the Iphone because my browser isnt supported
At which point it becomes ambiguous with function application.
I heard great things about the paper-based bank system. :)
Emojis can be used as evidence in court
It's all in the eye of the beholder:

Africa have registered 1,297 deaths with a population of 1.2 billion (https://www.africanews.com/2020/04/24/coronavirus-in-africa-...).

Given the fact that 8.8 million die yearly, i'd say that for Africa this disease can be classified as 'not serious'.
Amazing. If someone from Slack is on this thread, you can please implement the todo/waiting reply/etc. tagging/view-by-tag UX shown in the ^ post?
> Put a loop on the q, to avoid confusion with 9

I already put a loop on g. I put a little "serif" bar on the stem of the q.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Rent a man a fishing rod, and you make him a slave to you forever.
Use automation to get human-friendly text for numbers. An example from the readme:

- Q2 sales were around 1M$

When the input was $1,002,184.
Don't waste time in lecture taking notes. Pay attention and think.

Save your rote copying for homework time.
Compiling Neural Networks for a Computational Memory Accelerator
Just to add some background. My lad has just started a Udemy online course in Unity/C#. From the number of course completions and the price the 2 authors appear to have taken ~$10M for what amounts to, it seems, a relatively straight forward course. (I'm not saying it wasn't hard work setting up, but it seems like less work than a year's regular teaching.)
Simultaneously you acknowledge that sexism existed and simultaneously you want to make it taboo. It is not personal offence to you that sexism existed or exist nor something outrageous to talk about it.

This is how he is characterized:

> known for his [...], sexism along with generous support for women academicians

But to answer the question, the reason for this to not make it taboo is simple - it is part of history and world. When you make it taboo, people end up having naive simplistic ideas over how world worked back then.
Simply to compare the author list to mine and check for compatibility issue if needed. Ryzen 3000 series CPUs are known to have issues with systemd while booting ( which affect nixos https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/64443). And the fact that it works for the author helps me deciding that 3700x suits my needs and budget without worrying that i will need to use old versions of NixOS.
Also the suggestions that you gave are valid, but that doesn't mean I will go with them because as you said I'm doing my own research. For example I will stick with the stock cooler because it got good reviews and my budget won't allow another cooler for now.
The latter. Wealth is a verb, not a noun. It's measured in flow, not money in the bank. Idle wealth is not wealth.
Oktane: A light-weight and customizable library for data fetching in React
Are you talking about DFU mode? I think it would be very difficult for Apple to remove that without causing a lot of issues for people. Being able to completely reset the device if you forget the password is useful, especially since you still need the user's iCloud credentials to activate it (so as to discourage theft).
Thank you! Agreed re:noisy-ness there's a lot going on currently; will be looking into tweaking that!
Your idea is great but impossible.
The article mentions that a law firm is currently pursuing this.
>The main thing I notice among my peers is an obsessive (borderline autistic) focus on "getting in" and having good credentials. Enjoying your life and doing things that you take pride in are secondary to the all-encompassing drive to impress people who know nothing about you.

This sickness was around a decade ago when I was in HS but it sounds like its gotten worse.
But how do you know you have the right proof obligations? It's very easy to discharge a massive number of proof obligations while proving nothing of interest.

Formal methods don't just make bugs and debugging disappear, they just move it to a different domain - the development of the proofs.
I always thought the free to download strategy would become the norm.

Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java was free to download. IIRC, from early drafts thru many editions.

Crucially, Eckel built a community. He was great about including reader feedback, errata, discussing finer points, vetting example code. (Today, authors would probably just host on git and accept pull reqs.)

As a result, Thinking in Java became significantly better than any other Java book. The easy, safe recommendation.

I probably bought 10+ copies over the years, for self and gifts. And it became the default book for workplace study groups.
Their daily testing was reasonably consistent over that time period. So, their is some wiggle room, but it’s at minimum a 80% drop over 2 weeks. Compared to the US where daily numbers are steady for weeks with the last two days having the greatest number of detected cases.
> Do you realize that there is a reason that this law exists and that people could legitimately want to ask for documents in French?

I don't see where my comment is saying that individuals shouldn't be provided the documents in French.

I'm only discussing what I observed and further providing context when it was suggested it doesn't happen often and it could be legitimate.

Equally it might not be legitimate.

It is actually fairly common reply I get when I mention it can be abused.
Given GP's "...whether the author wants to emphasize..." I don't think an algorithm could choose without knowing the author's intent. There's so much context and subtlety in choosing words based on intent.
There's already a comment above pointing out that it might be the initial infection location plays big role. Seems very likely that poor ventilation (in e.g. medical facilities) is main cause of severe cases.

Also, the virus is replicating exponentially only if it can reach many uninfected cells. It takes ~10 hours for an infected cell to start producing virus. Not sure whether non-specific immune system can somehow "contain" virus, would be great to learn about that.
I think there are two factors for this in my case:

- My environment wasn't batshit crazy, my parents environment was. In part because of their class, in another part because of the time.

- They gave me advice that they couldn't get, like "don't smoke, don't do drugs, alcohol is bad for you in the long run, etc." Back then people simply didn't know, or didn't know well enough.

I'm sure I'd turn out like them if I'd have lived in their circumstances. The world is simply becoming a better place, and in part it's because around 1945 it was an awefully shitty one to such an extent that the world was still reeling from it in the seventies. I daresay that it takes 2 generations to smooth the sharpest of edges.

Disclaimer: armchair historian here.
Yes, the WHO is not a spy organization. They rely in large part on cooperation from member nations.

Sometimes that’s an issue, but it doesn’t mean they were lying when they said they didn’t have the evidence yet.
Those are orthogonal concepts anyway
It's also an infrastructure thing. Is it faster if I cycle? Do I have a place with a roof where I can store my bike? Can I change and store my wet clothes at work?
Expect from a few, people will choose the most convenient way of transportation.
It depends on how you use it. The Shadertoy examples demonstrate that it's possible to do a whole scene as one shader, but I agree the performance is not great for complex scenes.

This one is intended to be used as part of a 2D renderer. It would be easy to write this up as a fragment shader (and the parameter calculation can be done in either the vertex shader on the CPU). I believe, without having tested it yet, that it would be lightning fast, especially because the heart of the erf approximation can be done with inversesqrt.

I'm also working on a compute-centric renderer, and for that I expect it to be even faster. There, I'll break the scene into tiles, and for each tile there can be an analysis of what's inside. So tiles on the interior of a large blurred rounded rectangle can be solid colors, the edges can just compute a 1d function, etc, and only the corners with the full version.

Keep in mind, what's done in many, if not most, rendering pipelines is to render the rounded rect into a buffer, run a Gaussian blur shader over that buffer into another one (often two or more stages for the separable version of the kernel or something like a dual Kawase blur). Even the simple fragment shader version should massively outperform that.
There doesn't seem to be any real sources in the article. How can we be sure this isn't simply more misinformation?
> I think before the digital age, it must have been hard to do it irl or not?

Isn't this the stereotypical 'goth' group or such like? I reckon sad kids have always found other sad kids to cling together with.
Where the Open Shading Language has been used
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In my opinion those who thoughtlessly leave their unused motor vehicles blocking up the side of the road (or worse, the pavenemnts!) are the renegades.
Thanks for pointing out that wiki link. It lead me to another link

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/beg-the-questi...

which seems to indicate my usage is quite acceptable in modern English.
> Formal verification does not remove the element of human error from a system; it removes it from the code and adds it to the system of proofs which verify that code... Proofs can be written with incorrect assumptions (human error) in the same way that code can be written with incorrect assumptions. As one of the people in the article acknowledges, writing good proofs is challenging; "challenging" inescapably means "prone to human error".

I think those statements are rather inaccurate, or at a minimum prone to erroneous interpretations. Formal verification is usually based on machine checked proofs. It doesn't matter how much error occurs in the creation of a proof, once it is checked it is known to be a valid proof with mathematical certainty. That does depend on the correctness of the proof checker, but in principle that can be formally verified as well.

I think the main issues with formal verification lie elsewhere than where you seem to be placing them. Such as the problem that the specification itself may be incomplete or contain errors.
The whole thing is about to be so political that everything is buried in noise.

China's numbers cannot be trusted. Turkey's numbers cannot be trusted. WHO cannot be trusted.

Even Germany cannot be trusted; I saw a statement from an Italien doctor saying that reason for the difference between Germany and Italy was that Germany was systematically undercounting deaths (for political reasons).
I still don't see how that would help. What does adjusted mean? The problem is there isn't enough capacity, yeah they could just reduce how many people can take the train, that means people being late to work or otherwise with an impacted schedule.

And they already know which train routes at which times are crowded, if they could just add more capacity they'd have already done it.
I think that the trouble with pollen (from the trees) is mostly allergies.

However, it seems to me that allergies are much more frequent nowadays than they were in the past, and mostly concentrated in the cities. There's a study [1] linking allergies and asthma with pollution.

> Strong epidemiological evidence supports a relationship between air pollution and the exacerbation of asthma and other respiratory diseases. Recent studies have suggested that air pollutants play a role in the development of asthma and allergies.

So maybe more trees IS the solution, even though it would seem they're the problem?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192198/
Fair enough, although I don't see how mentioning the names of competitors and giving well-reasoned comparison is somehow worse than calling a project "poorly implemented", "lacking merit", and having a "toxic and obnoxious community" without providing any verifiable arguments.
Death attribution can vary; I think deaths themselves -- as in, how many people have died, from any cause -- should be fairly reliable and comparable.

So for the clearest, most unbiased picture of COVID impact, calculate % increase over normal death rate by country, and then compare that.

(I guess. Just spitballing.)
I was a CS student at Warwick (UK university) in the late 80s, and clearly remembering doing functional programming with Lucid. Never heard of it since.
> I assume a lot of progress will happen regardless. The newest generation has everything at their fingertips. They get to read past experiences and how to approach things while the information is criticized more so than previous decades.

What? Yeah, sure, it's easier to open a tab and google something than to get a book from the public library, but I don't think that's what's stopped people from learning about the past.
Yeah, I'm very disorganized. Also, I had a new baby in mid-2004 and I was really busy for a couple of years.
This seems like a great litmus test for who actually reads the articles on HN, because if you do you will notice the article actually says that dropout rates aren't high relative to other STEM fields and even those fields aren't drastically higher than the average among all fields.
HotWired — sibling to “Wired”, and was a fertile ground of invention for the early web.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotWired
That's why in my OP I said:

> Technology can be dehumanizing, or very humanizing. It's up to us to curate it properly. Endless advancement in the name of technology will simply destroy the human race.

Whaling largely stopped because of regulation and social factors, not technology, just like cutting down trees - it can be sustainable if you simply do not cut down all the trees in an area, replant, etc. This is an example of curation of technology.
From all that I've read, corruption is why Africa has been so poor and missed out on much of the development of the 20th century. Why bother investing in anything when it will just be stolen by the local strong man?
The publisher _requested_ that I wait six months, and I agreed to that.
Obligatory xkcd

https://xkcd.com/2295/
Plus all the Apple branded things too. It's especially interesting because only "good characters" can use Apple's devices on screens [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22434315
One of the Apple watch’s original designers tweeted a behind-the-scenes look
> I've argued about this numerous times: ISP's need to provide customers with an opt-in p2p license that adds a small fee to their monthly bill.

brb downloading Windows Server 2019 Enterprise Datacenter iso torrents to put into production
The current proposal in Congress reimburses landlords for their loss. It has stipulations though, such as a 5 year rent freeze.
Have spoken to a doctor you know in Turkey about the situation (I'm assuming you are Turkish)?

The ones on the ground don't have such a rosy view.
Normalizing errors in language is how language degrades. We no longer have a word for literally, because people use literally to mean figuratively. We are losing the ability to talk about begging the question, because people think it means raising the question. The fact that English has degraded is not a reason to give up and let it get worse.
How about Google Books? Does that not obviate the need for outright piracy?
I wish Request Desktop Site would also fake a larger viewport width, maybe 1024px or so.

Without that, it’s becoming increasingly less useful IMO.
Music was different during the illegal rave days in the UK. It brought people together to party. Kids were doing the organising and not to make money. You would work with your friends to pull off an event that could be a house party for 25 to 100 people or some event for 200 to 2000 people. Some people got to play records and be the DJ, some got to sell drugs to their mates (mostly at cost), some got to get laid and everyone got to dance. You would have a network of people able to do sound systems, lights, decor and whatever else needed. Publicity was word of mouth with no social media or even mobile phones.

Eventually the music died along with the organising capability. Nowadays there are organised festivals with security, laws to obey and profits to make. Kids go to these proper events as spectators rather than participants. There is nothing subversive about it.

The culture that went with the rave party scene in the UK was a reaction to the Thatcher government. Temporary autonomous party zones where the police were powerless were wonderfully exciting. Today I don't stumble across the equivalent scene when travelling at night. There is no equivalent going on, young people are just not having the same fun. It is consumer capitalism all the way.