skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to understand the true beauty of these machines, I recommend listening to this wonderful mix by the great Kerri Chandler played on four reel-to-reel machines https://youtu.be/YC7Mw8RjlXM
Apple and Google employees came together to help trace coronavirus
Yup! All parks are closed, but you can't even tell if you drove by say MacArthur park right now.

https://www.laparks.org/covid-19
South Korean government did have strong laws on their side, some of which can be considered as draconian by American standards[1].

Considering behaviour of American population to the lax government measures, I guess strong laws/measures are the way to go.

1. https://www.lawfareblog.com/lessons-america-how-south-korean...
No one is entitled to a business model. If you can't exist without being ethically sound, then you can't exist - period. Capitalism is not a replacement for ethics.

And in any case: you can sell open-source software.
They don't have to know that it's a real number. Knowing that you never stop writing nines is sufficient to perform the calculation.
So app vendors can leave the database wide open on the Internet, for anyone to pull their customer list or generate their own keys.
Way way back, when Amazon got bigger than just books, my motivation for using them was a) very good selection (in one order, I can order bagel chips, wiper blades and a router?) and b) price. Implicit in this was authenticity and good customer service -- for me, if the product isn't the real thing, or the company is a nightmare to deal with, it's a non-starter.

Well now here we are. Fake reviews, counterfeit products, most things (IME) are actually FBA or just outright 3rd party sellers (not automatically bad, but more opportunities for problems), their prices aren't competitive anymore...

So, they've still got a lot of selection, although it's really more like shopping at a bazaar, since really their website is almost nothing more than Ebay in some sense, and I will say their customer service has almost w/o exception been stellar. But that's not enough anymore.

We'll see. Nothing lasts forever. Either Amazon will get the wakeup call and tighten its ship, or it will become the next Ebay/Myspace/Craigslist (I'm deliberately just throwing the kitchen sink here).

One last footnote -- just within the last week or so, 2 Amazon tech products that I've praised -- the Ring Doorbell and the Eero router(s) -- had firmware problems. Ring bricked itself (firmware update gone wrong) and had to be RMA'ed (they did it w/o any problem, and this was almost 2 years after purchase). The Eeros went into a cycle of resets and couldn't update their firmware.
Google is unusable for product search. It's too heavily gamed and optimized not to show you things you want to buy, but things Google is paid to show you. It makes it too difficult to get the information you want to make the purchases you want. Try shopping for a car or hotel room sometime on Google. None of the information is reliable, and none if it is for what you want to see or ordered in a reasonable way to navigate. They're paying too much money to try and get your eyeballs at this point, and I wound up not making purchases because of it.
> If you disagree, vote with your wallet.

That only works if you have the option to. The vast majority of the time you don't.

Edit: Perhaps I'm being misunderstood? I mean that there very often no equivalent, or even near equivalent option, for you to choose between. As an example, I cannot pay extra for a "smart" consumer electronic, including car infotainment systems, with no proprietary bits and with access to the source.

Even "smart" phones which can have their bootloader's unlocked, which isn't a huge portion, don't provide access to the proprietary bits needed to compile your own AOSP system. However, I'm calling out phones separately as there are a few, nascent nearly fully open source options.
Like my comment said, it's not that they are fraudulent. The voting system is inaccurate (leaving dead people on the roll and letting others vote as them accidently). We should modernization the voting system to reduce these inaccuracies. Photo ID is a cheaper bandaid.

Here is a non-comprehensive list that show a number of the know offenses. Keep in mind that most places don't do much monitoring for voter fraud (why else would they have thousands of dead people still listed).

https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud
I think the option to save the transcript is available only to the organiser of the call.
Fixing an ambiguous function by converting boolean parameters to enumerators makes the issue worse in my opinion.

The right solution (if you are refactoring anyways by altering the signature) is to fix the real issue that you have, a function that is doing multiple jobs.

s setUserState() should either accept a user_state or be re-factored into state specific methods such as setUserOnline()

Using an enum if I do:

setUserState(UserState.ACTIVE)

followed by

setUserState(UserStates.BLOCKED)

What is the actual user state? Is it "blocked" or is it "active and blocked"? At least with the series of booleans, that would be made clearer.
I don’t disagree, but I think the PRi 4 no longer suffers from the USB-Ethernet bottleneck (never pushed my 3 and 4 hard enough to notice, to be honest).
I was almost stranded in Colorado while driving during a snowstorm. I reached out to my girlfriend and asked her to help me look up motels as I didn't have good internet service.

She said that a small motel near me had great reviews. "This was the best part of our trip to Colorado!". 4.5 stars on TripAdvisor.

I decided to check in. It was clearly immediately a mistake. There were so many red flags - from the weaving, amphetamine addled check in clerk, to the smoke stained room with ripped, stained bedsheets, and how the proprietor didn't even give me a room key. The room door could not be locked from the inside - the knob was smooth and no deadbolt. There's no way those reviews could be legitimate. The hotel was terrifying and I left after 20 minutes and filed a CC chargeback.

I looked it up myself and the place had 1.5 stars on Yelp, 2 on Google, 5 on Facebook and as mentioned, 4.5 on TripAdvisor. Upon reading and comparing, the Facebook and TA reviews seemed obviously fake. Yelp contained stories of the manager talking to the children of guests at the vending machine in an incoherent way and asking 'if they'd seen Billy' and various other disturbing stories.

I looked into the manager, Wayne, and found his Facebook page. It was filled with references to Satan worship, group sex and demonic possession. The necklace he wore which I thought was a Star of David was actually a pentagram, as displayed in his collection on FB. He had photos of his dog that he claimed depicted demonic possession on his FB page, as well as photos of their satanic altar at the motel.

So, my conclusion was that TripAdvisor and Facebook are very, very bad at preventing false reviews compared to Yelp or Google.
Nutritional Treatment of Coronavirus
Motorcycle helmet speakers have adaptive volume, at least at the quality end of the market.

You can't quite walk around everywhere with a helmet on, but I do give it a good try with my flip up - I'm rarely stopped when shopping etc. - twice in 13 years.
The (dictionary) definition of censorship does include private institutions censoring. For instance, if private libraries remove a book from their shelves because they dislike the contents, that’s absolutely censorship.

It’s YouTube’s legal right to remove this, but I do recognize that the more YouTube exercises censorship and editorial judgment over the content, the more likely they are to remove content I like and agree with as well, so that is what concerns me.

And I also wonder if removing this specific video might do more harm than good, because it lets the authors cry out that the establishment is censoring them and helps promote their conspiracy-theory-level thinking. In certain cases speech suppression can be very effective, but since powerful elements of US society (e.g. Fox News) are engaging in motivated reasoning to agree with the contents of this video, it could provide an additional plank to convince those who aren’t capable of evaluating the scientific arguments themselves.
Less than 40% of Average Joes apparently [0]

[0] https://morningconsult.com/most-trusted-brands/
This is exactly what you're referring to and it was really straight forward and clear. The project is a theme for zsh

https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k#configuration-wizar...
You seem both pragmatic and kind, and I'm sure that your students appreciate it!
Be very careful with licensing.

VMware early-on had licensing code that disabled a customer's app and cost them a lot of money. Licensing of enterprise features is best to have a nag screen and disable some future actions rather than drop a ban-hammer. They were forced to strip out that code and ended up with weak enforcement of licensing.

Telemetry and online verification are unacceptable to some customers of on-prem software. To them, it should work even if the vendor goes out of business.

Volume license keys should exist for large-scale deployment of on-prem software in concert with open sources surveillance (search engines and warez sites) of license keys and software to prevent abuse. Even then, it's better to reissue volume license keys to customers because DLP of an external entity is an essentially impossible task.. at least they will know there's a problem and may work to police themselves.

Stopping all piracy is undesirable because persons who cannot afford it but are in/direct decision-makers have the ability to sabotage sales and/or acquire an unfavorable impression of the brand. Piracy and leaks are indirectly helpful to overall sales and marketing. Keep it down to a dull roar, because some people and some factions of industries are more-or-less like Fight Club. If something is used commercially at-scale from a small vendor, support their survival with licensing fees... don't be Best Buy.
One is positive and the other is negative. I thought that was pretty obvious!
Believe it or not, there are people who don't drive, take long-distance buses, or buy guns, and therefore don't have valid photo ID.

> Most states will issue an ID card good for 4-7 years for a very minimal cost

It's not just the cost of the license. There's also the opportunity cost of going to the DMV and potentially spending all day in line, which can mean missed work and lost wages, or childcare costs. And if you don't already have a driver's license and don't live someplace with good public transit, how are you going to get to the DMV in the first place?

> trickery of the individuals involved should not be used as a defense against the underlying concept.

Why not? If the intent is voter suppression rather than rooting out fraud (which hasn't been found to be widespread), then the crafting of the legislation would reflect that intent. A good voter ID bill would also mandate that the IDs are free and easy to obtain.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/12/16767426/...

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/15/21222084/kentucky-voter-id-cor...
I agree - I don't think votes are worth much and would be willing to sell mine for $100 or so. I'm sure many people would do it for less.
So now we are calling “33%” a monopoly?

But even AWS admits that only 5% of Enterprise workloads are using any cloud provider.

Also that includes IAAS and PAAS and private cloud services not companies like Linode that offer just a VPS nor places like Rackspace.

If you want a simple group of VPS’s to setup your own website to sell goods and you’re hosting on AWS (outside of Lightsail), you’re doing it wrong.

I’m a cloud true believer, know the ins and outs of AWS well, etc and I wouldn’t use AWS - besides Lightsail maybe - if I just wanted a VPS.
Inside of a Tractor Cab [video]
Home schooled children generally get plenty of "socialization", it's just with adults rather than with large groups of children. All of the ones I know had social skills at or above average.

And yes, socioeconomic factors play a huge part in outcomes.
Calling them anti-India is a bit too much. Their shallow analysis might be the result of less people on the ground.
The reason why I chose a 2012 link was to allow people to freely dicuss what the current state of the art is or might be. I know it is bad form to self-comment on a submission but thought the clarification worthwhile
Exploiting the Exploiters
XR2206 chips are pretty useful as cheap function generators for analog projects.
I saw no compelling evidence of anything. Too long ago, too easy to cover up / make things up. That's just my .05 though.
It’s Randall Munroe. :o
How many vandals are in your home? :)
Important note: CC BY-NC-SA is a non-free license since it discriminates against fields of endeavour.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/terms-use/copyright-and-permis...
It won't be long until Amazon represents the entire market of many goods. At what point will we decide that the function of a market should be left to an independent regulator? Or that "selling stuff online" should be a utility?
I wonder what major global event could have caused that in the last two months.
Funding for what? Isn’t he retired?
Ok. (a) I think you're saying that 0.00 ... 1 is not a real number. (b) Do we agree that lim n->inf 10^-n is a real number? (I.e. zero?) (c) Then you're saying that limit in "(b)" is not a reasonable definition of the string "0.00 ... 1". Is that correct?
This perfectly describes my experience with Amazon. It was my go-to store for just about everything until around 2017. The reviews used to be so helpful in pointing out features I didn’t even know I wanted and problems I didn’t even know I should be looking for but now the reviews are less than worthless to me. It just isn’t worth the effort to pick through and decide which are legitimate.
Good question. It's early days, so there's still a lot of work to be done around geo-replication/geo-aware. It depends on the specific use case, but there are a few approaches you could take. You could run a Liftbridge and NATS cluster in each DC with the NATS cluster connected to a global NATS supercluster. Alternatively, you could just run separate Liftbridge clusters and do replication between them (sort of like the MirrorMaker approach in Kafka, though the tooling here is still lacking for Liftbridge).

Longer term, I'd like to take advantage of the recent work in NATS around superclusters and geo-aware subscribers to provide better geo-replication primitives directly inside Liftbridge (https://www.slideshare.net/nats_io/deploy-secure-and-scalabl...).
Awesome presentation highlighting so weel how hot the Ceph project is.
Land borders are of course harder to seal than air - but not impossible. Having to shut down entire cities if there is a breach will make their vigilance that much higher.

The green zone will prosper, perhaps those wealthier western countries finding themselves in the red zone will no longer look so desirable. Of course I'm hoping it won't come to this, but it does seem to be the direction we are heading.
Great. Now you have 3 separate languages to maintain. Make that 4 if you're using Flutter or React Native.

You could use Kotlin Native [0] to eliminate the tertiary language (Rust) which essentially boils to 2 languages used if your Android app is written in Kotlin and you can then use your business logic as a dynamic library for iOS to link against as a cross-platform SDK.

[0] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/native/apple-framework...
The Start of Something Epic
I can't parse this, but the facts remain that the only JIT Apple allow is their own. Any other app cannot generate and run native code at runtime. Thus, apps are interpreting the immediate form (for iSH that 32-bit x86 and for A-Shell it's LLVM IR).

iSH is threading, that is, the x86 code is translated into an IR consisting of pointers to the code that executes its interpretation. This is a technique older than FORTH and which may be the best you can do on iOS currently. A-Shell may do the same, I don't know.

EDIT: updated with more details.
{ 0.999... | 1 } using surreal number notation.
I think most tech startups would aspire not to increase prices, but increase market share such that selling a high volume at the original price is enough to cover the investment and start to turn a profit.

Of course you might price your product less, but from a certain point of view it's less predatory than it is just fair market price. When you are a startup with no customers, your first customer is taking a chance on you. They have no idea what the quality of your product is. They have no idea if you're going to be around to support it in 6 months. All that uncertainty should be factored into the price. If you are a more established startup then the fair market price for the exact same product all other things held equal, should be higher.
https://archive.md/qlMqm
Because they wanted to disallow commercial use.
Is this due to people being unable to afford it, or telecoms being unwilling to build infrastructure?
Just to be clear, as I said, I totally accept the correct answer. I was just trying to humorously point out the non-intuitive nature of it.
> reading the binary format ... it'd be nice to do more advanced debugging with a text format.

Do you know about `wasm2wat` (from the WebAssembly binary toolkit, "WABT")? It produces a 1-to-1 text representation of the bytecode and is meant to always roundtrip via `wat2wasm` back to the same bytecode.
While I don't work on a red team, it does seem to me that an organization should vet software used by their red teams via the same processes that they use to make risk determinations regarding any other software run on organization systems.

Is it a trend to just "let red teams go to town" without their strict compliance to existing security processes? Are software titles to be used usually included in a statement of work or when negotiating the scope of an engagement?
Tripadvisor has become pretty bad anyway. There are so many great experiences in any new city, but Tripadvisor is pushing hard on the ones that benefit them, rather than me.
Was homeschooled, which was mostly a mixture of taking university classes from 12 onward in math/science + lots of motivated self study that was evaluated solely through dinner conversation with my dad. Ended up at Stanford for grad work in applied math. My dad was a PhD in philosophy though, and I was a very self driven kid. I think it's very family dependent, and the selection bias, as others stated, of who chooses to pursue it is the biggest factor.
Fed aid program for corporations won't require them to preserve jobs
That is, until Cantor showed otherwise
Because MongoDB is a document store and you really only need a key/value store for this.

Also because MongoDB started life preferring speed vs durability, which is a bad look for a database. They may have fixed that now, but I cannot forgive them for that.
Math Teacher's Virtual Reality Class in Half-Life Alyx
Open any compilers book, WASM will look alien. Control flow analysis is normally done through basic blocks. If you make a toy language and don’t do control flow analysis you won’t notice what’s so weird about WASM. If you take an existing compiler and port it to WASM, you’ll cry, then gather yourself together and read how the relooper algorithm works.
There are a surprisingly large number of electronic and media devices that can be fixed through baking (1 would be surprising). I've heard this can work with video cards and motherboards as well I wonder if HN knows of any other such devices.
من+نحن
There is a world of difference between just homework, and being essentially the teacher's proxy for the entire school day.

I didn't say homework, I said schoolwork, which is quite intentional since a teacher does a lot more than just assign homework.
We keep running into issues where our kids didn't know (or claim not to know) that a particular assignment was due, or required, or sometimes even assigned. This seems to happen a lot more than it happened when they were on-site, so I do tend to believe that there's a huge coordination/communication problem going on.
Enforcing a 'black hole approach' for gaming the system then leads to an inverted instance of the same problem: game the system, in an obvious fashion... but for your competitor. This leads to your competitors getting 'black holed' and there you are at the top of the searches.

It's unscrupulous, absolutely, but I imagine it's very hard (if not impossible) to prove who is or is not performing the gaming.
I'd have though Amazon legal or their rep would have at least got something happening.

But just Fyi, often fraudsters will buy or otherwise gain control of companies with long histories to commit fraud. They do this exactly because you'd assume a company in business since 2013 is legit.

You see the same thing with old ebay accounts, people buy/hack them, suddenly start selling again and when it turns out all they mail is bricks in boxes it's too late, they took the money already.

For tax evasion (and I'm sure also legit purposes) you can buy companies that have been setup, registered and had returns filled for years, and now look like real entities. They're called "Shelf" companies.

Edit: I think they even do it the Sopranos. A guy has big gambling debts, they put a gun to his head and his company maxes out its credit with the bank and all its surpliers such that it will never be able to repay. The money goes to Tony and the bank/suppliers are left wondering why an established businessman ruined his own business and probably their's too.

Criminals are clever and that makes everyone's lives more difficult...
Ask HN: My father had a stroke, know interesting rehabilitation startups?
Honestly, this is the kind of stuff that freaks me out. Even if you don't eat a lot of meat - the last thing we need right now is food to start disappearing off of shelves. And this is likely just the squeakiest wheel of a tenuous food supply chain.

I've heard that this summer's produce harvest is going to be a massacre - the migrant workers farms rely on won't show up. And if they do, the temporary housing available is incredibly dangerous.
Better Data Loading: 20x PyTorch Speed-Up for Tabular Data
> Although the coronavirus lockdown has temporarily cleared the skies, it has done nothing to cool the climate, which needs deeper, longer-term measures, the scientists say.

Actually the opposite. The reduced emission of fine particles causes short-term a reduced cooling by reflecting / dispersing solar rays.
It's in the middle of a huge city. If nothing else, they could use mobile data hotspots. The school district has been handing those out to kids with no stable internet at home where I live in Oregon, or trying to, at least.
I never said it was the right or the left making anything a big deal. I think many government agencies have inconvenient hours (sheriff's office, marriage license, etc). In my experience the DMV has better hours than most. I'd be interested in your examples of the right making ID harder to get.

So they shut down the DMV in the poorest area. Where's the next closest one?

As you can see in my other comments, I'm not a fan of political game playing. But using that as an defense against the underlying principle of validating voter identity is not a valid argument.
Sad that you geoblock your blog
Regardless of whether or not they are human abstractions, a process (making cheese) and a noun (cheese) are two distinct things.