skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many pages is the diary? I wonder if it isn't much simpler to brute-force it via Amazon Mechanical Turk and similar platforms.
Companies bet on AI cameras to track social distancing, limit liability
Interested in this, but getting 502 Bad Gateway at the time of writing from IP 138.68.233.101.
Holy. That sounds intense, to say the least. A part of me likes to experience this, even though you made it abundantly clear, that it did not have a positive impact on your life.
Full WebAssembly and WASI self-hosting finally achieved
This is such a popular topic that AskHistorians has a whole section [0] in their FAQ devoted for this.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/faq/militaryhist...
Part of the current waste is a desire for photogenic foods; minor blemishes don’t sell as well as pristine items.

Another part (not counted in the statistics if I understand right), is obesity. We over-consume to the point of illness.

Another part is deliberate over-production in good years so that we don’t go hungry in bad years. This part ought to be considered as unavoidable.

Another part is the types of food. Meat is, in general, a wasteful indirection between sunlight and us. Even ignoring any argument about vegetarian/vegan diets, I accept that this isn’t universally so, as some land (I don’t know about fish vs. seaweed) is unsuitable for growing human crops. However, it remains broadly true.

In principle, though perhaps not in practice, indoor farming (not just artificial lighting, also greenhouses etc.) could supply a more consistent yield. I can’t comment on the economics of that, not even a little. However, as farming as a whole represents a very small, and still diminishing, fraction of the west’s GDP, my guess is that it could become achievable even if it is not yet achievable.
If you banned ads in such a way as to stop the economically powerful funding disinformation it would.

How do you fund the google replacement if you're not allowed to sell adverts? You'd have to charge people who want to use the search engine. How do you fund your magazine or news site? You'd have to charge the viewer.

In a world where you have to actually _pay the cost_ for all this stuff everyone would be much more discriminating on what they bought.
Those open-air stockyards in Chicago look like crap, and even then still miles better than what pigs go through today. At least they saw the sky for more than the few minutes just before their deaths.
I agree, I should have written that it helps to think in sets rather than tables. SQL implementors do a lot of fantastic shit to get our queries to run in a reasonable time, and SQL is not one of those langages that are like "understand this one core principle, and you get it" like lisp, prolog, TCL, Smalltalk, Forth etc. Have a look at the query plan if your DBMS can output it, it's not always easy to guess what it will spit out. In the case of

(select a from nums) order by b;

my best guess is that the parser helpfully strips out the parens as because the "order by" needs to be a part of a table expression to make sense. This expression is a syntax error in SQLite by the way.
I'm curious as to why you chose The Archers to learn English.

For those who don't know, The Archers is a long running radio soap opera in a rural setting and featuring lots of aspects of rural life.
> the fact that sometimes it is much cheaper than fresh vegetables (at least in the west).

You need to eat vegetables anyway. You just replace meat with cheese, eggs and beans; all of them are cheaper.
Norway is much like this. There are limits on how much overtime can be worked in a given week that allow for unforeseen circumstances and another limit for the month that is a lot less than four times the allowed weekly overtime. Overtime compensation is higher I think, especially for weekend or night work.

Seems to be working here, the Norwegian economy is quite good and unemployment is low. It helps that people here 'work to live' rather than 'live to work' and that the work ethic (in most people) is fairly strong, people get on with working rather than spending a lot of time chatting round the coffee machine.
Going forward, you may wanna user reMarkable.
1 Ws is just 1 J (1W = 1J/s).
Just for comparison with a more widely used unit, you need 3.6 million J to make one kWh.
Not all NBA

E.g. Jazz, Heat, Thunder
Ok, now I get it, the original comment implied the wheel would be inside the gutter which would lead to the problems I noted, I guess refuse coming down the pipe would come out the end, not especially higher chance of clogging the pipe.
How much of your consciousness is grounded in sight, sound, taste, touch and smells? How many plants have eyes or ears or any kind of vivid sensory organ? Your argument lacks any kind of credulity.
Can Estrogen and Other Sex Hormones Help Men Survive Covid-19?
The problem is more when you're a software engineer, and you're asked something like "how many manholes are in Los Angeles" - it is so completely tangential (at best) to any of the estimation skills you'd use on the job.
Seriously you're being toxic.
"Stay home. Protect the NHS. Save lives." has the ring of a Dominic Cummings slogan. It's in the same vein as "Take back control" or "Get Brexit Done". It's campaigning distilled down to the minimum possible words.

Edit: Interestingly(?), the government official leaflet adds an "at": https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid...
It's not outside the realm of possibility that many humans alive today will have a chance to live forever.
Ok, I took a look and it doesn't look good ... Compare Sweden to the list of its Nordic neighbors: https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?location=Denmark&location=F...

Or, for a more direct comparison: https://i.insider.com/5e9d6a5015ea4b315c0b4d0a?width=1100&fo... (from https://www.businessinsider.com/how-sweden-and-norway-handle...) - Sweden's population is 2x that of Norway so keep that in mind when comparing, but the difference is really apparent.
Macroeconomics. Central banks are "creating" a trillion here, a trillion there, like nobody's business. But what are the consequences? What is the thought process that central bankers have gone through to make these decisions?

Also why, exactly, are they buying the exact assets that they are buying (govt. debt, high-yield bonds, etc..) and why not others (e.g. stocks or put money into startups)?
And then, what happens if a debtor pays back its debt? Is that money consequently getting "erased" again (just like it's been created)? What happens if a debtor defaults on its debt? Does that money then just stay in the economy, impossible to drain out? What is the general expectation of the central banks? What percentage of the debt is expected to default and how much is expected to be paid back?

And specifically in the case of central banks buying govt. debt: Are central banks considered "easier" creditors than the public? What would happen if a country defaults on a loan given by a central bank? Would the central bank then go ahead and seize and liquidate assets of the country under a bankruptcy procedure to pay off the debt (like it would be standard procedure for individuals and companies)?
So much metaphysical blabbery to justify cruelty.
But the fraud in paper voting happens at another place - often when the results are transmitted to a centralized place.
All I got from that was:

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Totally agree! I wonder, what would/should a modern reimplementation look like? Shouldn't be that hard to do or am i missing something?
Look up Lindsey Shepard of Canada and why she was banned.

Also the Aytu ban was pushed by a NYTimes writer and twitter often bends their rules to that. Aytu bioscience is a publicly traded company with deals with one of the largest hospitals on tech they have been working on since 2016. They even have a SEC filing from this week of their deal on the tech which twitter and YouTube both banned because a nytimes reporter complained (bias against the president).
It is not so easy with Africa. They already getting a lot of chicken wings and legs for very cheap from europe, because we in europe just like the bigger chicken breast. So legs and wings are send to africa for almost free, because nobody would like to eat it in europe. The result is, chicken from europe is so cheap in africa, no african farmer can compete with that price. So there are now no almost no chicken farms in africa because of this.
You really shouldn't do random testing. Fuzzing is better, but property testing (fuzzing with shrinkage) is even better.
Your “are” examples refer to a team ending in S and the “is” examples don’t.

perhaps why it sounds right
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> Will an advanced alien visitor be shocked by our animal farming or will will they hunt us down for meat. I guess we should expect either based on our own behaviour.

What are your thoughts on where they will judge us for our pro-choice stance? Do you think that will shock them too?
Totally agree that half the fun of hackathons is throwing away all that shit and just fucking building something :)

But I never have to go back to hackathon code 3 months later and fix it. Bitter experience has taught me that at least some of that stuff (like the unit tests) is not optional if I want to stay sane.
For me the following is quite a convincing perspective:

Slavery has existed for most of human history. The inherent cruelty has only in recent times become something understood widely as morally wrong and unacceptable. We have abolished slavery and while it exists in some forms and niche cases, the majority of mankind looks with disdain and hate at those still practicing it, and with shame at their ancestors for accepting and tolerating it.

(Factory) farming/slaughter of animals has existed for most of human history. The inherent cruelty has only in recent times become something understood widely as morally wrong and unacceptable. We will abolish farming/slaughter of animals and while it will still exist in some forms and niche cases (eg pharmaceuticals?), the majority of mankind will look with disdain and hate at those still practicing it, and with shame at their ancestors for accepting and tolerating it.
>* Quite means something different. In British "quite good" is similar to "particularly good". In American it's more like "OK"

This doesn’t seem right (as an American)
> Yet this job is oddly comfortable (in terms of benefits)

I once walked away from a gig that was literally 2 blocks down from my door and traded it in for a gig with a 2 hour commute. Just to guard my sanity.

I think it comes to to cost/benefit and opportunity cost calculations. And those are different for everyone.
As many tiles as possible.
Yeah the big kick in the pants I got this year was using nullable columns in composite keys in MySQL and finding out that when their value is null, the result key is considered unique, because NULL is literally unknowable. So:

col A, Col B
null, 1
null, 1

Is not constrained, but:

col A, Col B
1, 1
1, 1 <--- NOT ALLOWED

I guess this is one of those things that is completely obvious to those that know it.
Full-functional quiz in FIGMA to celebrate World Design Day 2020
That post should really be called, "Stop using email". Which is fine when you don't need something like email. But sometimes you do.
Khronos Group Releases OpenCL 3.0
But then i will not be SQL. SQL is built like this because all these operations are projections on a set. You can not really change their order and have meaningful results.

Some oeprators can be swapped, but this part of the optimization process and nothing you need to be aware of.
I don't disagree that they're not doing as well in terms of absolute numbers of cases as their neighboring countries in absolute lock-down. However, that's also intentional: they believe they won't be affected by a second wave of cases, whereas their neighbors will, so any delta in death count is simply a deferral. Similarly, they're seeing way less flu deaths and way less car accidents nearby.

To the extent their new case burden remains flat and their medical system capable of treating cases as they arise (which they seem to be) then they are meeting their objectives.

Their goal was never "pretend its not happening and hope it goes away" -- and it certainly was never to have fewer cases than neighboring countries -- so it seems a strange way to compare them. Their goal isn't zero new cases, either. With that said, a flat case count is certainly positive and totally compatible with their goals, which makes it IMO a fair axis of comparison.
Khronos Announces OpenCL 3.0
To me, the layperson, the idea that you cannot distinguish whether you are in an accelerated frame or in a gravitational field seems wrong due to a very simple fact.

The force that would be exerted from acceleration versus gravity is different. The force you we think of as gravity comes from a center point that changes with your position while acceleration comes from a uniform direction without regard to your position.
Researchers identify key mechanisms involved in pulmonary fibrosis development
Our team is working on that, but it’s going to take a couple weeks for us to have something we can invite you to. Would you like to test it?
Immunity passports reveal a naive understanding of infection. Thousands of people in South Korea have tested positive even after testing negative. Some of those people continued to infect others. One man in China has tested positive for the virus for over 70 days despite having no symptoms. You can read anecdotes on /r/covid19positive from people who, after exercise, suddenly tested positive and developed more severe symptoms after having previously “recovered” and tested negative.

It could very well be that the virus remains reactivatable in some people for an unknown amount of time, maybe even establishing permanent latency like HIV or herpes. Neurological effects are known to occur with this virus and the types of tissue known to be affected continues to expand.

In such a scenario, an immunity “passport” would become more of a scarlet letter.
I thought it said you can install additional packages with pip? That said, iSH has been very fun to play with (and even useful a couple times).
TypeScript Express Tutorial #15. Using Put vs. Patch in MongoDB with Mongoose
Hmm, I don't really see any really convincing points, or workable alternatives that your linked article provides.

Nevertheless I would like to read more about this claim:

> It [PGP] was designed in the 1990s, and in the 20 years since it became popular, cryptography has advanced in ways that PGP has not kept up with. So, for example, it recently turned out to be possible for eavesdroppers to decrypt messages without a key, simply by tampering with encrypted messages. Most technologists who work with PGP don’t understand it at a low enough level to see what’s wrong with it.

(I admit I am one of these technologists)
The first bit ("The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there") is from L P Hartley's novel "The Go-between". The "ugly tourist" bit is a later addition.

(Very likely you already knew this and were asking about the "ugly tourist" part.)
Same. Can we get some details or notification once it is back up?
New Zealand Says It Has Won 'Battle' Against Covid-19 – Lifts Most Restrictions
[1] probably explains the downsides best (which I had not considered).

I guess considering that, the only way to make it viable is if there isn't much rainfall, or if the terrain is very flat/porus, or if you can make the collection devices very cheap (for example a kite that flies into a cloud and can collect a few tens of liters per second 1km up could generate 100 kilowatts, which is a lot less than a big wind turbine, so needs to be a lot cheaper to compete)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22994225
Thank you for posting such a concise description.
Whenever someone criticizes email encryption they fail to provide an actual replacement. Encrypted instant messaging is an alternative, but it's not a replacement.
> I guess some people feel all "leet" by using abbreviations without (or before) defining them and expecting everyone else to run around looking them up.

> It's tired and lame.

It's an incredibly common term we use at my workplace, and I expect many other engineering orgs use it as well.

We use it not only for services ("five nines"), but also for tasks and human initiated things.

It's a simple and useful stand-in for a complicated and abstract concept. I don't expect to have to explain SLAs every time they are discussed.
cool, TIL

(origin of "hello, world" convention)
Having an alternative implementation to GnuPG is a pretty important. Although many would argue against the use of PGP encryption for many use cases such as email, there are other use cases where PGP's ideas have no replacement.

For a specific example take signing git commits. Even fossil scm delegates this task to pgp. Personally keybase is the only project that may provide some form of alternative, but they do so by supporting pgp.

I definitely agree that PGP was and is no longer the correct tool for every use case as it sort out to be, but I find there are still pockets where PGP has no alternative. I'd be interested what HN's thoughts are on PGP for this specific use case and if there could be an alternative.
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Because coming from a natural source, namely other people, I can estimate risk probabilities for a range of outcomes, in the short term. Highly pathogenic viruses in general have a tendency to become attenuated as they spread, due to evolutionary pressure. In the medium and long terms, there are two main benefits to the virus versus an experimental vaccine. One is that there are no known long-term effects (aside from scarring) from other closely-related viruses, and two is that because tens of millions (or more) of other people have been (or will be) infected by it, there is enough of a population for serious focus and work to be done on dealing with it. Lastly, it isn't unreasonable to assume that practically everyone will be exposed to it anyway.

Vaccines, on the other hand, especially experimental ones, have been historically known to suffer from contamination (biological or otherwise), and result in strange, hard-to-diagnose problems. These problems are suffered by a tiny population (the experimental group), with no broad societal, medical, or research support -- which makes sense, since the highest societal priority is typically to help as many people as possible. The three main concerns with the vaccines themselves are that (a) there's no biological pressure to attenuate negative effects, (b) the biologic components themselves may infect the patient, without any point of comparison commensurate with widespread viruses in the field, and (c) the other ingredients (stabilizers, preservatives, etc.) in vaccines are often toxic in their own right. In the past it has taken many years, even a decade or more, to get it all right.
opt-in social distancing / lockdown lasted fully 3 days in the UK before it became clear that it wasn't going to have the necessary effecity.

Citation?
How modafinil might help? As treatment of potential undiagnosed ADHD?
This book by Larry Harris helped me understand much better the mechanics and terminology of financial markets.

https://www.amazon.com/Trading-Exchanges-Market-Microstructu...
I disagree about the nature of the problem.

You can’t give sole ownership of a project people depend on to just one person - a bus factor of 1 is unacceptable in most circumstances. Busses happen, people leave, etc. Some things are also too big for one person.

And when you give it to a team of proud capable developers, you will get ego wars, blame throwing, etc. with probability that increases quickly with team size.

And that’s with capable, proud, responsible, cooperative people.

But not all your people will be like that all the time - some will be burnet our, some have no passion and just try to do the minimum to not get fired. Some are sociopaths who actively try to shift work to others and only pride themselves on work they managed to avoid.

Mom and pop software shops can afford non-replaceable-cogs, Google can’t (and afaik didn’t even in the old days when they were run by engineers and not MBAs).

And this whole discussion of copying corps was in the context of mono Vs multi repo....

(For the record, VueJS and Evan You are awesome)
...it gets better! this morning she brought her doll to the game, and we had to draw cards and play on dolly's behalf too...
This is an argument you can't win in my experience. I don't know why some people are so adamant I bought something because of advertising... And I mean the "shotgun" ads - on TV, radio, online, in papers, etc

All of these untargeted ads are meaningless to me. Even before the Internet, if I needed something I went and looked for it when I needed it. An ad on TV for a product I need? Yeah, I'd just take note and look for something cheaper/better, which I always found.

On that note, avertising does work for many products if it's at least somewhat decently targeted, otherwise it's brand awareness, so not a total waste of money.
> Because it turns out big corporations that use multirepos tend to be even less efficient (about versioning) than those that use monorepos.

How do you measure that exactly?
PGP is used for more than just email
After working on a monorepo and then the split up repos for the same codebase, I cannot fathom why somebody would want to take small repos and merge them in a single repo. The mess and complexity just increase.
Startups don't cost anything, unless you make them so. Chasing scale for the sake of scale is stupid. If you're actually selling something that's not fluff you get a couple of customers, improve your product then roll out when you need to.

I'm running a startup right now. The first year cost 0 for me and my partner (besides gas). All the engineering work was done on my gaming PC and the feedback from potential clients was gathered by my partner.

After we got something going, it cost us about 2k for servers (256GB RAM, 50TB storage, 32 CPU cores total) and around 4-5k for graphical product and website design in the next year.

If we're lucky, we're getting a contract this year netting us about 100k/yearly revenue, which will cover all costs + good wages (we were on no/minimal for two years) + another engineer (bus factor of 1 is not fun).

Disclaimer: What I wrote applies to software B2B startups, hardware startups almost necessarily cost a lot, B2C may be harder, but still not that hard if you're not selling fluff.
I've built a tool to perform automated testing of hardware using Robot Framework. Despite the name Robot Framework it actually isn't really targeted at robotics, but it ends up working out well since you can write your own Python interface libraries!

I've used this method to create automated tests for a variety of projects including industrial machinery, robots, and CAN-based vehicle controllers.
The TB controller is built into the CPU with Intel. So it's still relevant.
I like it.
Serious twitter users do make heavy use of "threader" and similar apps to roll up discussions, and serialized / daisy-chain conventions indicating long form multi-tweet posts have emerged, but yeah it'd be a lot nicer with native support.
You're thinking of a specific gravity scenario versus a specific acceleration scenario. But the equivalence is true, it was one of the things shown by Einstein.