skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"By April 23, the Westport pilot was dead" was a really poor choice of words. It took me a few times to reread that paragraph and assure myself that it's just the experimental rollout that was cancelled.
I remember YaCy, yes... I tried it once, and wasn't convinced.

I mean, obviously, there is more to building a "search engine" than just a big fat searchable index. I think where Google shines is to understand what you mean, not what you wrote. This is a pretty complex task, I guess.
Rise: Turn Notebooks into Slideshows
sorry, the sec has rules that prohibit a ceo from writing fanfic about themselves in ways that materially affect the markets.
Thanks for finding that.

If everyone on earth was using lightning, I suspect most users would be using custodial lightning wallet providers (e.g. "Wallet of Satoshi" is very popular now). I doubt even 1% of people would elect to host their own node (although it's important that they be able to). 500 bytes is also a high estimate of channel opening transaction size.

The socially efficient end state I expect looks a lot like the current state of affairs (in terms of payment network topology), except A) small institutions (including individuals) have direct access to the same financial network used by large institutions if they want it, B) the financial network is trustless, C) transactions are non-repudiable. This is to be expected - there's no reason to expect Bitcoin would cause a radically different experience for the typical end user, except insofar as they will capture whatever passive benefits may be associated with saving in a hard currency. Paypal et al is already quite convenient and technically amenable to microtransactions. The benefits of Bitcoin, while substantial, mostly occur at the margins.
xor is a commutative operation; there is no technical distinction between the "data" and "encryption pad" as you call them. The URL identifies an unordered set of blocks, and does not distinguish which of them are the pre-existing "randomizer" blocks ("encryption pad" blocks, as you call them), and which one is the new block ("data" block, as you call it). The URL has a set of blocks, you xor them all together in any order, and you get the result.
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There are multiple COVID vaccines in play, and they use different technologies. Assuming you have a choice, it would depend on which of those you're administering. But yes, it is certainly possible. There already exist combination vaccines like MMR, DPT, etc
This happens all the time in Chicago too
I question whether it's the "correct choice 99% of the time" or if, anecdotally, you're making the same kind of application and using technology you're comfortable with rather than considering alternatives.
ahh good ol' IRTC.

I remember looking at this entry in particular: http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2006-06-30/hideaway.jpg and thinking "how the hell is that possible?"
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There’s one thing that’s bothering me about this “project”. How is it supposed to work with the upstream? Is this supposed to be a rivaling fork? How am I supposed to have it on my system?

Also, it rubs me the wrong way that the blog author is seeking a person to do all the dirty work — even for compensation — and then what? Have all the credit? Basically, act as a glorified Forward button?

If I felt up to the task enough, I’d slap a sponsorship button onto my github on my own. And here’s the difference: prior to asking for the money, I’d have something to show to prove I’m not a phony.

The upstream is not without its problem as well. Right now it’s being maintained by Peter Hutterer from Red Hat, and judging by his LinkedIn, it’s pretty much his job description. Recently he did a talk about how overloaded he is with libinput[1], and how someone volunteering to comb through pull requests and issues would easily become his “number two”. Which also is striking me as odd.

libinput, given its importance for Linux ecosystem as such in general, and Red Hat ecosystem in particular (especially since they bet on Wayland as the future, and there libinput is the only choice), is important enough that Red Hat better make sure it’s well maintained. It’s Red Hat/IBM, really, who should be interested in making sure the bus factor of libinput is > 1. Thus the problem should be raised within Red Hat’s management, and they should _hire_ additional people for fair buck to help. Otherwise it looks as if someone who’s paid for X input stack maintenance is seeking free labor to help him.

If I asked someone to help me do my paid job for free, open source or not, I don’t think it would even be ethical.

[1] http://who-t.blogspot.com/2019/10/libinputs-bus-factor-is-1....
Let me start off by saying good job on launching. Is there an ability to stop automatic deployments on change and instead allow for manual deployments? Also, I am a bit confused about the hosting. On your landing page you say:

"Sitesauce hosts your static sites on Vercel (formerly ZEIT), offering unlimited bandwidth and their world-class CDN for no additional cost."

Then in your Terms of Service you say:

"You agree that Sitesauce is not responsible for any additional fees charged to your credit card by third-party server providers such as Vercel."

How does the hosting work? Do I sign up with Sitesauce and also sign up for Vercel? If that is the case, would I be able to pick a different host if I wanted? If it isn't the case and Sitesauce handles the backend process of creating an account on Vercel is it paid for by using my credit card and you pass that info to Vercel?
well, them and ucsb undergrads
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Both my spouse and I had COVID. I say probably because we both showed the expected moderate symptoms and we both did the Roche swab test for COVID. I came back positive. My spouse, with the same symptoms and who sleeps beside me every night, came back negative. Doctor just shrugged his shoulders and said "Yeah, it seems like if you have mild or moderate symptoms, the tests are only about 60% accurate." and just worked on the assumption we both had COVID for his suggested response.

Later on, we did a blood test at local university and we both came back with positive for the antibodies. So yeah Roche needs to address their own tire fire of a test at some point.
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I just wrote and then rewrote a huge Trello comment to someone and then ding the light went on for a super simple solution to a problem I’ve been debugging for a few days. For a long time I didn’t know this phenomenon had a name and so I try and share this with as many hackers as possible.
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I agree. I certainly won't be sending mine back in a rush, not until I am confident they have a manner of control rather than just "well the health services won't be overwhelmed by the dying"
Knowing not much about this story, what are the odds that Amazon executives did not know about the use of this data and didn't order or condone it?

From a total outsider, it seems plausible that cowboy merchandisers within Amazon could find that data to get an edge for their own careers. It's not even clear they used internal data, right? I know there are many third-party tools that Amazon sellers use to analyze products and categories.
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The article kind of misses the point, it's not 'margins' it's about the variability of costs.

If a restaurant has x% less business, they can buy x% less 'proteins' and x% fewer servers.

But they are screwed on the fixed costs, which is mostly rent.

The thing is, these are not normal conditions. Real-estate owners everywhere are as worried as anyone about their business.

If restaurants and other such businesses start collapsing - they will take a whole chunk of businesses with them - and maybe even risk the viability of some banks.

If one major bank has been doing stupid things, like Bear Sterns, and collapses, it could take the whole system down.

(Don't want to chastise but HNers could develop a stronger appreciation for how all of this stuff is connected and there are some really scary outcomes from this economic meltdown)

So - there might be a kind of reckoning.

Restauranteurs could legit approach landlords and say: "If my rents stay the same, we go bankrupt, you won't see a dime, and you will not rent this place for a year, and when you do, it will be for 20% less"

That's a credible premise.

In other words - the property is really worth a lot less.

So it's hopefully an opportunity for some hard bargaining.
This post misses the forest for the trees. The reason for the low margins in the restaurant business is the lack of differentiation. Their products are largely commoditized, so they have no competitive advantage or market power. Peter Thiel discussed this in a lecture for YC, where he said that you can work very hard to make the best restaurant in a city, but it doesn't give you much pricing power, because the second best is still pretty good.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fx5Q8xGU8k
I'm not sure it would be cheaper. The car company needs to pay all the people in the dealership plus back office staff to manage all those dealers. It might or might not be cheaper. It is for sure a distraction from their real job (design and assembly of cars and engines)
I made this thing once upon a time to browse all the symbols http://tingletech.github.io/unicodetoy/
> Dropping 32 bit support frankly was a good idea

No it wasn't. Apple has the resources to support 32bit apps. Wine is looking at adding support in userspace for mac osx. If it can be supported in userspace they could have added a translation layer themselves if they really couldn't stomach keeping it in the kernel.
It's just marketing bullshit, I don't feel bad at all for offering damning criticism. Companies hire people to do this kind of stuff on purpose. Many unfortunate software trends of the last decade have been started by equally flimsy PR jobs.
How to store your little secrets
ITYM "doc", since "docs" is already pluralised...
> Would you have recommended that strategy to Lombardy in February?

It seems you are willfully misinterpreting me. As you will see above, I said:

> The virus is a serious threat. It's good that we took the actions we did.

Things were much less known then. Now we have better ground truth and are less likely to be blindsided. I stand by my state's actions and decisions to date.

I have been exercising caution and following the recommended guidelines. I will continue to. I would guess most people here will as well.

We can't be in lockdown forever. The prudent thing to do, in my opinion, is to loosen restrictions slowly, being fully aware that we may have to tighten them again.
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The point is that the CEO of a company has certain duties, and tweeting like this goes against them. Consider how easy it would be for a CEO to manipulate the stock market with statements like this to enrich themselves or people they've informed. In addition, Elon Musk has been fined by the SEC before for making statements like this.
Neither of those are stopping an angle grinder for more than a few seconds
On µ-Kernel Construction (1995) [pdf]
It sounds to me like the Linux macbook drivers are worse than the drivers for other hardware. Which is a problem, but on the other hand I don't see a reason anyone would buy Apple's overpriced hardware and put up with glued-in batteries, soldered on SSDs, display cables that disconnect if you open the screen too much, crappy keyboards, thermal throttling, etc., if they weren't married to Mac OS.

Plus, with how the T2 chip is going you might not even be able to boot Linux on a Macbook in a few years.
This is the only reason I don't ride anymore. I don't get why my complex car full of caustic liquids and burning them to drive a bunch of parts super fast can go tens of thousands of miles with nothing but oil changes and nothing breaks or doesn't work almost-like-new unless I run over a nail, but bikes? Ugh. Every time I go to get on it, something's broken. Flat tires constantly. Changing them sucks and takes forever (rear one, mostly). All the gear combos that ought to work never quite actually seem to. Something'll come loose during the ride, creating a safety hazard. And so on.

Give me a bike that doesn't break all the time or at least makes it super-easy and super-fast to fix any parts that do, and doesn't cost like $1,000 (why the actual hell should a decent one cost 1/20th as much as a lower-end car?! Think about what goes into both! How does that make any sense? 1/100 seems more reasonable, and for one that does not suck just like the $20,000 car probably does not suck remotely the same way a low-end bike does or it'd get lemon law'd away) and I'll go back to bike riding.
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The first sentence is describing how Dgraph shards data for storage; the second sentence discusses how data can be represented in the query API. You're right that this could lead to broad fanout, if users typically retrieved all attributes for a given UID. It also impacts the performance of joins: graph traversal across a single attribute is much faster when all those edges are on the same node, but graph traversal across different attributes might pay a higher latency cost. This is a classic dilemma in distributed graph storage--does one shard by attribute? By entity? Each leads to distinct performance tradeoffs, and Dgraph happened to choose attribute sharding.

Also keep in mind that typical Dgraph workloads request specific attributes (think "SELECT NAME, AGE") rather than everything ("SELECT *"), which reduces the impact of fanout. :)
Not the only thing too high...
> Ghostery will continue to operate normally.

Good to hear :)

> There's a lot of FUD regarding this. We outline what happened here: <Link provided>

Yep, I still stand by the statement that it was a debacle and was a poor decision by Mozilla. All parties should have known that users wouldn't appreciate the privacy violation and as a user of Firefox it was disheartening to see.

For what it's worth, I also still stand behind the idea that this just dropped search diversity and user options. There also seems like other things that Cliqz did helped further user privacy and rights. Sad to see that go
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Interestingly when Fox and CNN cover the same political event they can both come to opposite conclusions at the same time that present a victory for their side.

It really is like there are multiple realities.

But luckily enough, CNN and Fox are both more irrelevant than ever. There's a reason no young people watch. Young people get news from YouTube, Snapchat and other new media sources from people they trust.
You make it sound like you expect people to be infallible.
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