skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone can reasonably be called an artist if, having listened to thousands of hours of music and training to replicate it, can create a new piece using a request from a patron — “make me a song that reminds me of my youth in Saxony” or whatever.

What’s the difference between that and a GAN transforming the request?

It sounds like worrying if submarines swim.

Not that I believe computers have quite reached the level that an expert artist does — being able to suggest modifications to a request — but saying they don’t produce “art” also seems incorrect.
I wonder how successful are these "managed <open source stack> as a service" startups.
While you’re right that Q2 will be worse than Q1, don’t underestimate how early the pain started. Restaurant bookings on OpenTable began dropping in early March, before the lockdowns began. By 3/16 OpenTable has bookings down 50%, before most municipalities had lockdown orders in place.

And that’s not even including the drop in travel and supply chain difficulties, which started earlier still.
Hard to keep up with all the changes.

The only thing that's annoyed me with FF was the recent update where the url bar got bigger when clicked.
> There are a lot of problems with how we discuss suicide

I used to be heavily suicidal, and occasionally have bouts of suicidal ideation to this day. I found that most of the time when I spoke to other people about how I was feeling, I was treated like I was some kind of fragile human being who needed wrapping in cotton wool. It really didn't help at all, it was demeaning, I felt like I was broken goods. I've never experienced that kind of treatment or feeling when talking about other mental health issues like ADHD or anxiety.

The worst was when people told me "things will get better", as things progressively got worse. It wasn't until I realised that it might not get better and accepted it that I was able to move forward.

I guess it's hard if you've never felt suicidal to empathise, and people get worried that something they say or do might push you over the edge, nobody wants to be responsible for someone killing themselves.

I generally don't talk to people about suicide these days, I don't think anything good comes from it, I try to talk about what I think it causing my negative emotions instead. I think it's borderline emotionally abusive to tell someone you're thinking of killing yourself, it makes people feel responsible for you and your actions. I had a former friend try to kill herself because of me, and it's the most narcissistic, emotionally abusive thing I've ever been subjected to, luckily I was in a state of mind at the time that I understood it wasn't at all my fault and that I wasn't responsible for her actions.

I do think it's something that we should be able to talk to our friends about, but education and awareness surrounding suicide is fucking lacking for most people. I find that it's only useful to talk to mental health practitioner and within support groups (I attend a general mens' mental health group). The message seems to be "you're a selfish bastard if you kill yourself", which really doesn't help. It just invalidated my emotions, I wanted to kill myself and now I felt guilty about it too. Something like 75% of men who kill themselves never seek help and I completely understand why.
Show HN: Moanalytics.com – Analytics management for your team
Hey everyone!

I worked the last weeks on a problem I wanted to solve and came up building this (so far) small tool.

In the backlog are quite a few features I want to add to it.

The idea behind moanalytics.com is to replace the well-known google sheet companies are using to organise their tracking events for a product. Tracking events always have some parameters which are written down in these sheets.

Additionally I am working as a software engineer and there is always a manual process to copy&paste the events from the sheet in the actual product. This is solved now since I added an export for the events.

Please try it out and I am happy about any feedback :)
That should only change the asking price, not the actual sales price. Its not like the dealers are going to eat the loss. They just roll what they might lose into the new loan.

I dont have access to the actual sale prices at auction to know what the true worth of these cars is though. I would guess half of the retail asking price?
The market can either be betting that there’s a floor, or that Google will survive and ads will be valuable again in the future. Either or.
A lot of the advice given is good, but I would like to add something I did not see: you can only be really fluent at a language you practice daily. I speak three foreign languages fluently, and speak two of them daily (English and German). I barely speak my mother tongue (French) with anyone else than my 3 and 1 yo. I am not really fluent at my mother tongue anymore, and my family often makes fun of how I speak, which is often a straight translation from English or German (and I apparently also have a German accent), with lots of pauses to search my words. Of course, one week in a French speaking environment and fluency is back.

What I want to say with it is: do not worry too much. Read, listen and speak English with natives, and you will keep a decent enough level to gain real fluency any time you get immersed in an English speaking environment.
Ryan Huber wrote and open-sourced a single file web app called flashpaper for sharing secrets. Here's a version of it I've deployed - it's public to the internet, anyone can create a secret and share it via a one-time-use link:

https://flashpaper.logsnitch.com

Here's Ryan's code:

https://github.com/rawdigits/go-flashpaper
That’s odd, because from my experience, it’s Google that’s constantly ignoring my search terms. With Google, I often had to quote “every” “single” “keyword” when it came to searching for computer science stuff. With DDG, not as much.
Pirates the world over have engaged in (sometimes large-scale) land operations throughout history. Henry Morgan led a force of about 1400 men overland to sack Panama, for example.
Defending Against Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) [pdf]
Thanks for the links. Indeed if the synchroscope needle is turning clockwise I know the grid frequency is greater than 60 and if counter clockwise then less than 60 and exactly 60 no movement of the needle at all.

To me there is something about watching the inertia of the entire system change and it controlling itself to stop frequency excursions and then AGC or other human interventions to restore the balance.

Thanks for the ideas and links.
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He also worked on the ventilator problem. He clearly understands the pandemic problem so this tweet is a little dissonant.
I must be missing some hidden meaning in these wikipedia link/lyrics because what I'm getting from them is a song about a guy who broke out of prison for killing a guy who raped his sister when he was 20 and was in jail for 18 years..

I guess the point is he was gone from society for 18 years? Am I the only mid-30s person who doesn't feel like they're unhip?
Having swung away from the technical somewhat and back again, my opinion is that many techies could make a decent fist of the non-technical side if they were forced into it, whereas the reverse would end in absolute disaster.
WOW! Thanks for this!
Gramma's maiden name followed by our street address and the current date
Crying helps. I remember reading about the different kinds of tears.A photographer made some kind of art project out of Microscopic slides made from slides. Anger crying and stress crying had markers for cortisol in them.
The amount of material required may drop, but the amount of material actually used definitely increases. This argument is a bit disingenuous because it implies that our resource usage has reduced when in reality the opposite is quite true. Unfettered capitalism optimizes to create the most wealth, not necessarily the highest efficiency. It's much easier to grow wealth by tapping new resources, which is why there are constantly hundreds of billions of dollars at work doing so.
Not to gatekeep but this comment was so profound, I cried.

"This makes you realize that you're taking color(vision) for granted.
There are people who not only are colorblind
but are completely blind-- blind from birth.
And I'm just sitting here, like, "Oh, I'm so bored."
And I'm surrounded by colors!"
-Michael from VSauce

Source:
YouTubers React to Colorblind Man Sees Purple for the First Time
https://youtu.be/FANiL2dPCCg?t=530

Ennui is bullshit.
You don't get the privilege/right to say, "I'm bored." Ever.
Ok, I'll bite. How is it mischaracterizing? I just don't see how the left can beat Trump, if Trump is advocating for opening up. Especially if the economy stays closed and he is fighting to open it up, he will especially look good. The options are, from my view:

Either the economy opens and people die (trump loses), it opens and people don't die (trump wins), the economy stays closed and people die (trump wins) or the economy stays closed and people don't die (trump wins)
Having a diversity of languages not only helps preserve culture and human knowledge, but also gives linguistics more examples to test hypotheses against. Is this language feature a universal feature of all languages, or did it just spread from one language to another?
You can apply calculus to estimate the stepsize you need for the current iteration. If you do this in a principled way then my results suggests that for linear regression you may only need one gradient calculation.

Yes, it's called Linear Least Squares. Gauss discovered it in 1795.
Is pricing update sarcasm or 8base just jerks?
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Bitwarden is amazing. It's still a young project, but the fact that it's FOSS and that you can host it yourself, gives it a real compelling reason for personal and enterprise use.
The “lockdown” is a Fabian strategy; one of the goals is to preserve our ability to stage an economic comeback after the health crisis has been resolved. In the near term, the economy is toast no matter what we do (short of a well oiled contact tracing and isolating machine).

This paper seems to suggest there isn’t really a tension between protecting people’s health and saving the economy: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3561560

You are correct that the lockdown measures are a choice and not a natural consequence of the virus though.
> They aren't constitutional rights violations by definition.

IANAL, but pretty sure that’s not how it works. Articles incorporated against the State prevent the State from passing laws that violate the Article.

The Attorney General specifically has told the DOJ to be on the lookout for over-reach by the States in these lockdown orders.
How's this at all different from traditionally schooled children? Nothing you said applies to homeschooled kids at all.

You're basically just saying "if your parents socialize you then you'd be socialized." Sure, but if your parents don't socialize you then at least you'd have a slight chance to pick it up at school, if you're also kept away from school then you're just completely fucked.

I'm speaking as someone whose parents didn't socialize me.
The S&P500 is an index of some of the best performing companies in the US. Their performance isn't completely correlated with the broader market. Additionally, this damage to the economy is not permanent, most companies in that index will survive and continue to / return to paying dividends for a long time going into the future.
I was responding specifically to this comment that says "look at the Dow Jones instead of the S&P" to make a point that it's the same issue. I agree with parent overall in that I'm surprised the market is holding up as well as it is.
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That's exactly what I suspected (I work at a dl/ml hardware co), thanks!
I strongly recommend Billion Dollar Whale [1]. The relative ease with which Jho Low could get away with this, and the number of people/institutions willing to be complicit (by action or omission) was breathtaking.

[1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38743564-billion-dollar-...
Because:

1. Companies have no incentive or competitive advantage to do so

2. Salary is a negotiation, and you don't hand the person you're negotiating with information

3. Companies can control pay variations amongst current and future employees.

Despite all this, some companies have chosen to be public about their salaries (GitLab, for example).

Public institutions often have a legal requirement to establish and publish salary ranges; for example, you can see the salary steps for GS-* ladder employees, or the steps for a public school teacher.

Even if you did create an 'app' to circulate 'only-with-salary-disclosed' jobs, I can't imagine more than a few companies wanting to participate. Why should they? What concrete, guaranteed incentive could you offer them?
What if you're colorblind?
My favorite was when I was working at SGI after it had taken over Cray Research. I was one of the lowly Cray guys in Wisconsin working with the wonderkind in California. I was to run the regression tests on the chip being design in California using some software that they had provided. I would run the tests, but some days they would crash in the middle of the night. Then the California guys would be angry that they got no tests results. I started debugging the code and got to a program called lswalk that would dole out jobs to the dozens of servers to be 'run'. The code was written by a hot shot young MIT graduate, but I was sure that the problem was with this code. I got the source code and started looking for problems and one thing I found was that if one of the servers resplonding with error the code would print out an error message. One problem though... The error string printed had an uninitialized string, so that when the printf routine would search for an end of string that was never there, probably overwriting buffers and crashing code all over the place. So one lesson is that even the best and brightest make mistakes.
Sometimes I wonder how we accomplished anything in those days with software that had so may trap doors beneath it.
I think it makes more sense in the context of the full quote: "Experience is overrated. When hiring, hire for aptitude, train for skills. Most really amazing or great things are done by people doing them for the first time."

He's pretty clearly talking about creative work here, where the goal is to make new things. Whereas the goal of most of medicine, presumably yours included, is to reliably do a known thing. If I'm going to have surgery, I'm going to find a surgeon who has done the procedure a large number of times, because there's a clear expected outcome, and a deviation from that likely means failure.

A useful tool here might be the Cynefin framework: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework

You're talking about work that's mostly in the Obvious and Complicated buckets. He's talking about work in the Complex and Chaotic domains.
This might be a dumb question, but wouldn't whoever sold the car/provided financing have the lien on the title? Wouldn't sale/financing be contingent on no other liens on the car/property?
> nobody seems to care.

A lot of people care. Many of those who care believe that the situation we're in right now is caused (or at least greatly exacerbated) by incompetent leadership at the national level, but unfortunately that view is not shared by a substantial fraction of the American people, and against that kind of headwind there is only so much we can do.
The short answer is "when the Scandinavians began to adopt Christianity." While for some time there wasn't a real issue squaring Christianity and going viking, it didn't last.
Yeah. I wonder if this sounds somewhat correct:

1) Big companies already decided what your job position is worth, and don't have time to negotiate. They have 75,000 other employees, growing that to 75,001 is not worth special-casing you.

2) Small companies have not realized how expensive custom software is yet, and are low-balling you out of general ignorance. Or, when they're aware of the true price, they decide they don't need custom software anymore. (Which I think, in many cases, is the right decision.)
> Out of curiosity, what don't you like about the UX?

Not GP, but I’ve railed against Signal’s stability and UX before.

Apart from messages not being delivered sometimes (or taking very long) and getting unnecessary “device changed” messages when nothing has changed (this happened as recent as last year), within a year or two of use, Signal makes sure that the user realizes that it’s meant for ephemeral use.

It does this by a few different ways. One is that if you change devices, you’d have to jump through hoops to rejoin groups you were a part of, and then see that you cannot see the list of members or the group’s name. Once you change devices, at least in iOS, you’d realize that you’ve permanently lost all your previous chats because Signal explicitly prohibits chat backup by iTunes and does not provide a way to backup chats and restore it either.

In terms of UX alone, Telegram > WhatsApp > Signal. FWIW, I use all these and Wire too. Signal gets the least amount of use because the people I chat with on it are also fed up with the poor UX and lack of features.
Yeah the terms make no sense.
But to say rendering performance of the vdom with it’s ability to sync dom updates into one one reflow/repaint was not one of the selling points of React (one of the first notable vdom proponents) is neglecting history.

When you also couple with the fact that at the time Angular 1 was doing things like dirty checking, render performance with the vdom and the ability to sync render updates was definitely a selling point for me.

The apparent motivation behind React seems to have morphed a bit.
Deliberate practice makes perfect. (Watching TV or even reading is not enough.) One caveat, though: it will never feel like a mother tongue.
Public transit ridership is much less “white” than before the pandemic
My point is that many of these people are enduring real financial hardship. Many have already lost jobs or taken major pay cuts. The ones who haven't lost them are afraid of it, and diverting more money into savings and away from discretionary purchases. I assume the people I know are probably more white-collar and in relatively safer jobs than the general population, which (looking only at today's unemployment numbers) is bleeding badly.

This isn't about what people want to do. It's about what they will be able to afford to do.
Does LibreOffice have an answer to OneNote style documents? I know for a while in MS Office 97 there were obscure optional tools like Binder (that I used the fool out of ) and Equation Editor (that I never opened) - does LibreOffice have the same sort of thing?

Ever since Onenote 2010 got its cloud sync killed by MS when they deprecated cookie auth in January of this year, I'm trapped with Office 2016 and looking for replacement virtual 3-ring binder / organizer software that supports text, images, file attachments.

I am not going to OneNote UWP app or O365 for the same reason I am not trying Notion, the data is not on my computer.

I have a personal DokuWiki that I use for its purposes, but it does not support WYSIWYG or instant image/copy paste, audio recording etc.
1. Have hobbies
2. Get married
3. Have kids

2 & 3 cancel 1 out, and you're never "bored" again.
classic emacs guy!
in my opinion - the more research you do the better. you test many different angles, cases, "but's" and after bringing the data together you may get a great result
Yep, there's zero reason for the gifs. They seem really slow to me. Makes it impossible to copy the code if I wanted to, as well.
The CARES act waived penalties for up to $100k in withdraws from an eligable retirement account, and lets you pay off the taxes on that ratably over the next 3 years, assuming you don't contribute them back to the plan, which you can do at any time during those 3 years.

https://www.fedweek.com/issue-briefs/covid-19-stimulus-bill-...
A lot of people praise DDG and I'm also one using it as a default search engine, but it's not exactly clear how much independent it is. I've started to consider using Cliqz (https://cliqz.com/) as an alternative or at least a parallel experiment; they claim to be totally independent and to care for user privacy at least as much as DDG does.

Does any other HNer have experience with their search result ? I'm still not using it enough to have a reliable conclusion of my own.
This overlaps like 80% with clinical depression as currently defined, no? How does this entire article not include "anhedonia", which is literally the inability to enjoy things you previously enjoyed- and is a classic marker for clinical depression.
So I still think there's a huge disconnect between market perception of what's going on and what's actually going on. Last month I was saying "don't treat this is a temporary dip". Many have never known anything other than a bull market. The S&P 500 has rallied some ~20% since then (after a >30% fall mind you) so I've had a couple of people point to this like I'm wrong.

The perception many seem to have is that everything is going to go back to normal in a month. But some businesses and jobs are just... gone. This will absolutely impact demand and this will be much slower to recover.

I was also surprised to learn that S&P 500 earning shave been flat since 2014 while the market has gone gangbusters. That had to come crashing back to Earth eventually.

Also, some things like social distancing are here for the long term. I've already gotten emails from airlines saying they won't be filling certain seats on the plane. It's probably going to be a lot nicer to fly in coach, which I guess many will enjoy, except it's going to have to get more expensive. Less passengers, same plane, higher price per passenger. It's just simple math.

And who's going to be traveling anyway? Business travel (the lifeblood of most airlines) is going to take a long time to recover.

The economy just doesn't shrink 5% and everything is back to normal the next month. People who think so are hopelessly naive or just plain delusional. And that GDP contraction isn't going to end here.
> So the market is still 15% or so under its February peak.

The S&P 500 was up 29% last year. It's now back to the level of October last year - when there was no pandemic or economic crisis. So you could say that the market is remarkably blasé about the current situation.
100% agree. The housing market in the bay area will go down even more. The last year changes in tax rules such as lower deduction for mortgage interest and municipal taxes had already weakened the market. With RSUs going down, even less people will be able to buy housing, driving the price down. I think my house lost 8% in the last year, pre-COVID19. Sucks for me as a home owner, but I really believed the housing market was over-inflated. If we have layoffs, in FAANGs, I suspect a lot of folks will not be able to pay there mortgage.
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For some people like me who basically live in extended-stay hotels, yes, it is my space. In the US, as much as it's trampled on, people will still fight for their 4th amendment rights.

https://www.foster.com/duff-on-hospitality-law/guest-room-pr...
That’s why there’s a lot of debate about whether this is a depression or a recession, we haven’t had enough time to decide.
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Depends where you live and how much you drive. While the situation is much much better than it used to be, cars in places like the Northeast still tend to start getting serious rust damage after 10 years or so.