skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you advocating for separating the island of Taiwan from the ROC? I'm honestly not sure what you're getting at here.

The ROC has already been an independent entity for over 100 years. There is nothing new in this situation that needs to be declaring independence. If the ROC amends its constitution to remove "China" from its official name, the PRC will attack instantly (they've said as much).
AWS has a free tier for a year after signing up. A 'tiny' instance for webserver with letsencrypt on for your free ssl/tls certificates. You can automate backups via snapshots, though make sure they delete automatically after a week or so. I would recommend you use MySQL instead of SQlite, use RDS free tier there, SQlite not so good with concurrent connections and definately not if people are adding their own information. Look into haproxy as your gateway so you can scale to multiple servers if need to but not be tied into AWS specific Route 53, if you set it up right you can basically grab the configs, site source, files etc and a database dump and run it on a Raspberry PI in your home if you need to and have a static IP. Try not to get tied into one specific cloud provider too and keep shopping around for free or better deals. You can have a web presence for no money except your DNS registration with a little bit of tinkering and looking around.
Vulkan is built on top of AMD Mantle, which predates Metal. There's not much reason to think that when they started working on Vulkan in 2014 that they were even trying to compete with metal, considering it was still iOS only at that point.
Every strain identified so far has been found in the US. You have provided absolutely nothing to support the claims that the US has handled this badly, or that they have ignored advice from experts. And you simply dismiss the evidence that proves objectively that you are wrong with "the US has better healthcare", despite the US ranking low in healthcare.

>I know this will likely go in one ear and out the other, but you should really stop listening to Fox news

Do you think that meets the HN posting guidelines? Do you think that is a constructive thing to post? Does assuming anyone who presents information you dislike is ignorant create better, more informative discussions? Perhaps you should start listening to the WHO.
No specific question, I had my opportunity to ask a bunch of him in a recent interview, but I just wanted to comment to say that DVassallo is 100% legit and has given me some great ideas, so ask him some questions.
Yeah, I use Gladwell as a negative control on book lists as well, along with Jared Diamond.
The One Word Change That Turned the Tide and Led to Brexit
If you think they are propping up the stock market, then it doesn't make sense to be worried about inflation. Inflation would devastate the stock market.
You Want to Avoid These Mistakes During Your Pa Application
"I have to talk to my wife/husband/SO/roommate". Works for practically any decision that you need time to make.
I have a lot of friends playing the game and it just looks like all the worst features of grinding through an MMORPG with the only paid being "look at this village I put together". I've generally quit playing any games that involve grinding. Which means I've mostly quit playing games, especially in Mobile, as they pretty much all involved grinding of some kind, even the action games. It's depressing how samey the game market has become.
It's also untethered, which is a far bigger deal than you think. I tried playing tethered and really didn't enjoy it that much, but wireless? That gets used multiple times a week.
Played the dino game, reminds me of elementary school.

Pretty neat!
Yes, because the idea of rich, influential men pimping out children in modern America is simply unthinkable and certainly hasn't happened recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein
It's not a pay cut with the extra $600/week added in. So why give up those benefits for an uncertain, unstable gig-worker job with Instacart?
I bought a 3d printer from aliexpress. I received it in 6 days.

of course it was a more expensive item, and it shipped straight away via DHL.

The cheaper items I bought through alixpress typically ship via china post, and that took rather longer.
Outliers is debunked. The authors of the primary sources that he quoted disavowed it as an inaccurate representation, and when you look outside of kind learning environments like sports its becomes even less correct.
I've heard it rumored that one of Peter Thiel's private beliefs is that tech bubbles are necessary to fund non-trivial innovation in new industries (when expected value to investors is largely negative). This is a fascinating question either way.
Thank you. I used to design microprocessors (a LONG time ago) and TIL that there are CPUs that can operate at 225°C. Wow. And even limping along at 300°C? Wow wow.
BTW, I can't stand the 8051 architecture, but that's really off topic. I guess if you need 225, you need that chip. Reminds me of the Henry Ford / Model T quote...
Maybe there is something here but it is hard to read as the text goes from:

"Lockdowns don't work."

To

"But, put simply, the scientific and medical case for strict lockdowns is paper-thin."

That's not quite the same thing...

Then it dances around what a 'lockdown' even is.
I just want to say, I've been following Capn for a few years now, excellent work, keep it up! I feel it's a better architecture overall than protobuf and wish I had more time to contribute to the project.
I just wanted to say since you seem unsure of yourself a little:

You have a really great approach to simple software. Turns out your strengths do include setting up backends for web development!

Many self styled experts / People 2 digit years of experience who consider themselves solution architects could learn from you and your approach here.
Can someone explain to me what separates ECS from relational modeling in databases?
glad you enjoyed the ad free gaming experience!
Most important question is a matter of two things. History and genetics. You preserve history for it's own sake. And you preserve biodiversity to take advantage of all sorts of traits for breeding. One might be particularly cold hardy, another resistant to blight, and so on. Or not. You preserve them for their own sake. And also because people just love this stuff.
How many pandemics did we have since WHO was founded, not originated in China, with such speed of contagion and long incubation period which allows for infected people to get infected in one city and be on a plane to infect the other side of the world in less than 24 hours?

Hard to find a counterexample when n=0.

My "being rude" is due to the fact that the WHO's actions and directions have been mostly politics washed up in science instead of properly looking for guidance for the well-being of people. It has cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

They should've asked for restrictions. They should tell people "wearing a mask may not help you, but not wearing is certainly worse, so go ahead and get masks." All we get instead is CYA and bureaucratic responses. They need to be held responsible for their part in this mess.
The answer is reputation. Organizations need to market their dedication to objectivity - the processes they combat their own biases and the ability they have to cover different perspectives.
A few things:

- VR headsets generally are similar to focusing on something further away due to the setup of the lenses. It's not literally focusing on a screen 1cm from your face.

- One direction for current VR work is dynamic focus via lens arrays.
I consulted for a company once that made very expensive field equipment that was ruggedized and placed in locations that were often difficult to supervise. Their customers would often lose devices that were stolen, the $10,000 guts dumped out, and the metal housing used as a pot.
A list of possible advantages is not what I mean by "a mechanism". It's very, very much not. I'm not saying I disagree with anything in particular that you listed, but you can list any number of things and it simply doesn't even assert what those things sum up to.
GTAV is actually a really interesting game in this regard. It's trying to balance full, immersive gameplay and story, with grind and grow mechanics like a traditional MMO has.

The grind is the least fun part of the game, but also why you keep coming back.
I would be terrified if you wrote a script that used locate in place of find.
That's a good summary.

My years suggest that he wasn't nearly pessimistic enough.
Mass production biases towards produce that is cheap, easy to grow in a wide range of environments, travels well and and is generally reliable. Mass marketing tends towards the bland, as can be seen today in the plague of ruby grapefruit.
Oh yeah, Dell XPS Dev edition is usually a decent choice, although you're right that not everything works perfectly (at least it didn't a few years ago when I bought one). It is a little annoying to have bugs in a factory-installed OS, but I'm glad to at least have the option.

I actually prefer Thinkpads these days because everything "just works" when I install Fedora on it.

If you're an Ubuntu person and want it from the factory, I have heard that System76 build quality has gotten pretty good.
Correction. $1.2 AUS not USD.
I hate to say it but this just demonstrates, all in one place, how far behind PWAs are from native apps. Does anyone have an example of a PWA (hosted here or elsewhere) that rivals the best apps seen in native app stores? I’m talking about beautiful animations, native-feeling navigation, and an overall immersive, cohesive experience?
The tower game was really good and if you told me it was a pwa I would've been blown away
> Full respect to the author, and I'm sure they knew exactly how contrarian they were being.

Yes, Ian Bogost is a respected game designer and developer.
Congratulations on the launch.

I have been lately working with lot of clients who want PWA's and I have found https://appsco.pe/ to be one of the nicest PWA gallery.
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Depends on the area, and the areas paying the most will be the ones worst hit by COVID-19. How many of the unemployed have pre existing conditions? How many are willing to risk not just their health, even if it's just a 1/1000 chance they'd die if they're less risky and get sick, but also risk those around them if they get sick and give it to others? I have my family, my wife is at risk. Her parents, with us, are also at risk. Things aren't as simple as "you'd make more money with Instacart" even if that's true for where you live.
PWA's have room to grow but have a lot of benefits over native apps
“If you wear a tinfoil hat and doesn’t have effect, nothing happens. If it does, that’s a benefit, so you can only win by wearing one.”

Not disagreeing on masks, but your argument here is a real stinker.
That's not contradictory. You wear masks whenever your local laws or WHO tell you to, and you satisfy both of them.
Check out google cloud run for running your stateless webserver, its free tier is pretty good and you can run whatever stateless container you want to.

Personally from there I would use a min-spec Postgres CloudSQL for the DB, but you can use whatever hosting you like if you want to DIY.
The term you are looking for is “Multi Channel Fulfillment”
The contention is not that lockdowns let the virus run rampant.

Rather that the slower spread is attributable to milder measures like closing schools and canceling concerts and sporting events.
>at some level almost all games could be reduced to a version of cookie clicker

I can think of some interesting counterexamples: in games like Minecraft and Factorio, you create something and are left with an interesting artifact you've designed. In MMOs, you're often left with new friendships.

But I'd be lying if I said I played those games primarily for those outcomes. It feels like each of those games still have some core meat that's shared with cookie clicker, and those other things that come out of it are somehow secondary in my short-term choice to play the game.
A) this is all good stuff, I want to get better with powershell in 2020 and just learned some things here
B) I think the authors point was that a lot of their googling for how to do things in a shell assume posix shell. So copy paste from web doesn’t work as well for powershell, which becomes frustrating for new onboarders.
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The thesis of the article """I had imagined Animal Crossing to be a game about the world, one that offered ingenious, if abstract, life lessons. But the players enjoying it in quarantine celebrate it for escapism, which any form of entertainment might provide. Neither interpretation seems quite right. .... Instead, Animal Crossing is a political hypothesis about how a different kind of world might work—one with no losers."""

This strikes me as "blood from a stone".

Generally, games aren't taken as serious art with high brow messages. I don't think Animal Crossing is really trying to 'say' anything. (Albeit, the original one was made when the developer was feeling lonely when he moved to a new town). I think the author is the kind who wants to write lofty things about games.

I think that explains the frustration in the question "Do people find comfort in [this bullshit]?". If you make serious games with serious messages to be taken seriously by serious people, I think something relaxed like Animal Crossing somewhat undermines "games are a serious artform".
How so? The point in this example is that they company was contributing to progress.
From the comments, it seems likely that the author doesn't have a precise definition of non-trivial. But the framework still feels potentially useful as a way to precisely parameterize disagreements about whether or not a given semantics is declarative.

That said, I'm also having some trouble with the concept. Take for example the rule: there exists x such that succ(x) = y ⊢ dec(y) = x. If we're used to operational semantics which include pattern matching, this feels trivial. But otherwise we have to be clever to avoid exhaustive search.

I'm a bit out of my depth here, but it sort-of feels like 'non-trivial' here means 'I can't immediately/uniquely produce a corresponding well-moded operational semantics'. Whether this lends any clarity might be a matter of taste...
Sign up for an Amazon Web Services account and a Cloudflare account

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DNS + SSL
Cloudflare free plan

Total cost = $0
If he keeps one copy at home and one copy at the office, he could get done reading faster than if he left a single copy in one place and only read it at that place.
Any individual or collective which had the wherewithal could do the math and it will always be strongly in favor of working with Amazon rather than against it.

Old boss wasn't going anywhere until a new one came along that was big enough to crush at will.
75? Happy birthday?
In Linux?
I think it depends, in most states, by whether you pay into the unemployment insurance fund. Contract workers like gig workers usually don't, at least not in many states. I thought the bailout passed made provisions for gig workers though, but I could be wrong.
My anecdote is the opposite.

The desk in my home office overlooks the street, so I've gotten used to counting the delivery trucks during the day. (FedEx truck? Time for more coffee!)

We used to get one Prime van a day up my street. Now we get between five and eight a day.

My wife has ordered some very frivolous things from Amazon lately, including a cat tree, a cat scratching post, and an actual tree. All arrived early.

Sorry to hear that things are rough in your neighborhood. But I don't think that's enough data to point to some kind of conspiracy.
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Is there a simple way to charge for a monthly PWA subscription without coding a backend to handle the various subscription use cases and without providing a complicated UI to subscribers?
> but without a meaningful reward loop of any kind

Maybe the reward loops aren’t what you think they are.
I know it sound silly, but I find that it goes really well with an audio book. It's a nice way to chill out at the end of the day if I don't have the energy to hack away on anything. Having something to do with my hands while listening helps my thoughts not to wander as much, even if I'm just going around fishing and harvesting fruit so my son can sell them and build/buy whatever he wants the next day.

I wouldn't have bought it on my own, but having just one child and the quarantine I'm thankful that it exists.
It must be really weird to be a conservative think tank largely focused on anti-abortion think pieces, and then be tasked with coming up with arguments that will cause death for large numbers of people.
That reddit thread was pretty disappointing. I was expecting some analysis of the contents of the network calls. It's also around four years old.

Since I have trouble believing Facebook isn't gathering telemetry from Oculus users, do you know of any more recent attempts to see what they're doing?
Yeah but if they're robbers with a fake badge and gun, how will I know? At least when they barge in I'll already be on the phone with the cops.
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Granny Smith apples are popular for eating out of hand.

In North America, unkept apples are feral. There's a fair chance they are descendants of trees planted at a homestead.

The wild ancestor is from central Asia:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/5/apples-of-ede...
Covid-19 and Our Environment
How is the push notification story with PWA’s?
Hard disagree. Stardew valley is a simple cellphone quality game. It's like saying Farmville is great because it is addictive.
I would also recommend two more good books. They are relevant to almost every aspect of life and creation process:

- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb[1]

- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
by Ben R. Rich[2]

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530973-antifragile

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101438.Skunk_Works
> If a representative portion of the population didn't click on Facebook ads then Facebook wouldn't generate revenue from these ads.

That doesn't make any sense. Ads can make plenty of money even if they're only seen by women, or people between the ages of 30 and 70, or people in zip codes divisible by 3.
I finally downloaded this app at the last session of the board game club before lockdowns started happening. At this rate, I don't know if anyone will want to touch someone else's phone even after things go back to normal...
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I didn't intend any of this to be about scale. Again, it's about ease of setup and maintenance.

For example, I spent a pile of time getting letsencrypt to work with nginx. Admittedly, this was a couple years ago, but I had to go back in and fiddle with a config I barely remembered 6-ish months ago.

My ELB + AWS Certificate + EB have kept chugging along without a peep. I also ticked the EB setting to continually upgrade linux to take care of OS-level security issues.

You may be an expert on setting up linux/nginx/puma/bundler/ruby, but I've found that running my own (which I do!) requires a full couple days of maintenance a year. Again, from a person who does not do this regularly.

My AWS EB environment just does a new deploy and the magic keeps on magicking itself.

:shrug:
Having to use postgres seems like a plus :) besides being a great dbms, using postgres means you can port to other hosts easily, as opposed to say firebase.

I second heroku for OPs requirements, extremely easy to set up and manage, and the free tier handles many small sites well.

Whatever you choose, use cloudflare for free SSL.
> This still is not a random sampling. It only samples from shoppers at grocery stores and big-box retailers. Imagine doing the same study, but of people who ordered groceries online only. Would you expect to see big differences in exposure rate? I think so.

I'd expect people who still do their own grocery shopping and go to big box retailers to be a better sample of the population than hacker news' audience definition (ordering from instacart/whole foods, working on Zoom/slack all day).

The vast majority of the population does not have the privilege that many people in the tech industry do. Going to a grocery store is a pretty basic activity in most of the population. People who get their groceries delivered online and can maintain their livelihood being on Zoom calls all day are probably statistically insignificant enough to be covered in the sampling error.
People commonly refer to the United States of America as "America" which is odd since there's also Central and South America. Being common doesn't equal being correct, and in this case the ambiguity is used by the aggressor state (PRC) to get people to believe a certain narrative. I'll continue to inform folks where I can as most people aren't aware of the situation between the ROC and PRC. I don't care about downvotes on this site _especially_ if it's because I'm stating facts that people do not like.
Instead of additional content, play time is added through annoyances?

Just Nintendo Fanboy Things
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(and a FreeBSD friendly).

I wonder if you would also benefit from
installing something like yunohost [2] on top of Debian.
This will get you your personal cloud.
And the use YounoHost's 'Custom web app' container [4]

This way, you get an automatically configured web server (nginx), with certificates (via Let's encrypt) that get auto updated.

You also get a pre-configured user/sftp access to your app's folders.

And those folders will be backed up when you hit the backup button...

Nginx will invoke your python app when the predefined URL is hit.

All you have to do is to point your domain registrar to the prmgr VPS host running yunohost.

[2] https://yunohost.org/#/whatsyunohost
[3] https://yunohost.org/#/apps
[4] https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/my_webapp_ynh
> the only reason it doesn't recognize it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_the_United_Nations#R...

The only reason it doesn't recognize it is because US kicked RoC out of UN by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758
Wow, downvoted for providing factual information on how researchers mitigate non-response bias. Didn't think there was anything controversial there. I'm willing to accept the additional downvoted for this comment though.
And he hired 4 people to read to him for each book. Now he could learn 8 times as fast.