skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't new, the 1.9M were already up. It was one of my favorites and its in a list I keep of "High Quality Collections of Digitized Art and Archival Finds" (here: https://simonsarris.com/art-collections)

What's truly new here is a detailed search function that works FAR better than the old one, which would sometimes have a warning/apology box that it didn't quite work!
freezing helps solidify and congeal the grease that degrades and becomes stickier over time and causes the drive mechanisms to stop spinning or blocks the seeking heads. As the drive heats up again, that degraded grease becomes a sticky goop again and gums up the drive.

Heating devices to fix them is a form of "reflowing" where you're getting the solder on the board close to its melting point, helping the solder 'reflow' into the cracks that have formed between its component contacts, via thermal or mechanical stress over time.
Trump admin threatens to sue states that don’t lift pandemic orders
TL;DR to skip the glossy page.

> The primary focus of this release was on improving content routing. That is, advertising and finding content. To that end, this release heavily focuses on improving the DHT.

> A secondary focus in this release was improving content transfer, our data exchange protocols

Other improvements to data store, libp2p, etc.

source: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
13% rise in Revenue. Cloud is up from last year $1,825M to $2,777M
Amazon S3 REST API with curl (2015)
I’ve not looked much into D, but I’ve really been enjoying Rust.

I think the main takeaway is that there are very different ways of approaching language design. In Rust there was a decision to make the function signature the single place which defines the guaranteed input and output types to a function, but that is a trade-off. It encourages a more complex type system, as the flexibility of functions is on a sense constrained by the type system. Personally I like that explicitness, since there is only one place to look. In the future features like const generics and GATs will make that more powerful.

But on the other hand, D appears to be able to support much more complex types (possibly dependent types?) by not requiring that the type system can express them directly. In a sense the whole language can be used to define types. That’s a cool thing to be able to do, even if it means having to inspect documentation and method bodies to work out what they do.
If you were on the Dutch organized world championship years ago, I might've seen you. Not a competitive DDR player, I was part of the random audience that was there.
The SourceHut backend is also open source. A related idea is "if you're handling my data, I'm entitled to view the code which is doing so".
The real question is what do you get if you add:

0.999 ... infinite number of 9s ... 9

and

0.000 ... infinite number of 0s ... 1
"Performance was strong during the first two months of the quarter, but then in March we experienced a significant slowdown in ad revenues. We are sharpening our focus on executing more efficiently, while continuing to invest in our long-term opportunities."
You're gonna be gutted when you look up how much non-CS scientists make.
Sample API query URL (undocumented)

https://www.britishmuseum.org/api/_search?keyword[]=greek
I guess if you now count Netflix out, we should now look at the FAAAM stock in 2020 (Using Google's parent company, Alphabet). Sounds cooler than FAAMG and FAANG in general.
0.000...1 can be written as 1/inf, which has sense in Surreal Numbers math.
Just get your live-in nanny to supervise homework, duh.
> A creative spark is required.

Right, and I'm pretty sure setting up a photography and lighting rig on a painting is enough in the UK to be a creative spark, under case law.
Wow, I wish I could satisfy my currywust craving now. I ate a ton of it on my short trip to Berlin. Delicious!
> remember additional 50 numeric characters

The numerals are not distinctly varied like our Arabic numerals. Quite the opposite, they are repetitive and completely systematic and require 80% less effort to remember.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Babylonian_numerals....
If time=money, scaling your hardware.
"What if you want to print them and distribute to schools - can you get reimbursed for the paper ink and distribution costs"

That does not fit my mental definition of "commercial", which I would define as for profit. I'm sure there are corner cases but I don't think that is one of them.

Running ads whilst mirroring them - that might be hard to justify unless the revenue was only enough to support the website. Then you should wonder why mirror them at all? Now what about using them in a novel way which is ad supported? Probably OK, provided its at cost and you attribute the source.
I don’t know what your feelings on qz.com are but it disagrees.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/1314814/universal-educat...

> Factory owners required a docile, agreeable workers who would show up on time and do what their managers told them. Sitting in a classroom all day with a teacher was good training for that. Early industrialists were instrumental, then, in creating and promoting universal education.
Are you only allowed to be a “builder of tomorrow” if you’re a high achiever from a high income district?

That would be a sad indictment of our society if true.
This is a common trope on HN that's strange to me.

I feel like people are unable to see the complexity of an organization from the outside, but normally accept the complexity and need for employees while on the inside.
Ericsson has something similar for cellular signals over CAT5 called Ericson Dot [0]. Though I believe they have it at baseband or intermediate frequency in the cable and then shift it up in the Dot. Disclosure, I worked at Ericsson when the first Dot was released, but never with it myself. But they were really proud of it I remember.

[0] https://www.ericsson.com/en/portfolio/networks/ericsson-radi...
Depends on how dumb you are. Autopilots seem pretty dumb at this point.
Wow, I probably have seen 10 of these kind of companies over the past few months. Personally I believe (and hope) the winners in this space are going to be modular open-source companies/products as opposed to the "all-in-one enterprise solutions"
There are entire industries around elder care and providing for their needs. I would not call this "no value to the economoy".
The lack of basic internet access is problematic in this scenario. I don't know a single person who isn't receiving their assignments from their public school in any other way than through some web app.

Our libraries are closed -- we can't just go there and ask them for the public school curriculum (not that they would have it any way). It's possible that the districts may have mailed out course work to people, but I don't know if that has happened or not. The city of Minneapolis has given free public access to WiFi so it seems unlikely that something would have been mailed out.

I'm happy for you and your success with your children. It sounds like you've built a strong culture within your family. Not everyone is as fortunate to be in this position. Is that their fault? Maybe. Maybe not.
Sure, why not? Different notations for different surreal numbers. But it's not actually a good notation; I wouldn't know how to write 1 + 10ε.
> pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP

I see a maintenance page instead:

"Sorry! The URL you requested was not found on our server.

Is it Sunday between 4 and 8 PM (CST)?
If so, the server may be undergoing regularly scheduled downtime. Otherwise, please contact the maintainer of the referring page and ask them to fix their link. Thanks!"

Here's a Jan, 2020 snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20200122013800/https://pages.cs....
That's an incredibly dangerous mentality, as it tells people currently in those situations that all is lost and that they can never participate in the rest of society again, so why bother? I think it's important to give sincere people a path to redemption, not because I have any sympathy for nazis, but because I want to have fewer of them around.

Really, you could say the same about criminals, drug dealers, gang members, and anyone else with a terrible back story. I want those people to get out of those lifestyles and become productive contributors to civil society. If we tell them they're beyond hope, then their numbers can only increase over time as people join but then never leave.
So that's the positive, but you completely ignored the negative. I know you did it on purpose, but I don't know why.

The kids who were already statistically bound for a positive outcome due to family and income are fine, and locking that in even tighter. The kids who have hurdles have EVEN HIGHER hurdles now.
I have a goofy idea: kite power to replace portable solar panels and generators rather than for the grid. Something small scale you can take in your car (backpack would be even cooler) to get a few watts to charge your phone. Would this ever work to, say, to the extent of having better power to weight than solar?
22,000 employees not counting drivers? Holy crap.
I noticed a similar thing being done for Bird scooters a while back. I forget the suffix but they did the same and I noticed because I was still authed on my phone after requesting deletion. My token has expired since then though so for all I know they have fully deleted the account since.
Still no Mac App Store version? Sigh...
Might have something to do with the paycheck you're receiving regularly while on the inside...
Maybe their models already take into account this and the cost of lost commissions in such events is lower than the cost of increased scams.

"Now, should we tweak our process ? Take the number of merchants in the marketplace, A, multiply by the probably rate of false positive, B, multiply by the average cost of lost commissions C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost in increased scams, we won't do it".

"Are there a lot of these kind of issues?"

"You wouldn't believe"

"Which cloud company do you work for?"

"A major one"
If Spain had taken strict lockdown measures before the virus took hold they would not be in the mess that they are in now.

Compare Denmark to Sweden and it gets pretty obvious that early lockdowns have an effect
Huh, I had no idea Duolingo was this successful. Anybody with insight into General Atlantic that could speculate on what changes they could bring? I've read their Wiki page but it's pretty barren, although they seem to be enacting some curious initiatives like: "In 2018 General Atlantic invested in UK investment start-up Greensill in an attempt to challenge traditional lending systems"
Hah, Uber did this to me once. Someone signed up with my email and somehow the verification failed. So they started sending me details about someone else's trips! When I complained, instead of deactivating the account or trying to contact the user to find out their actual email, they changed the address on the account to the same thing but with "void" prepended. I have a gmail account and was pretty sure that email didn't exist... Sure enough, I tried registering the new email address with Google and got nothing but Uber spam. Oh well at least they're not sending me trip details anymore.
I think house is might be the one genre I genuinely don't get at all. Playing this mix just cemented this feeling to me. I can hear it's smooth and mellow, but it's also just the most boring thing ever. If I go out to dance and a DJ is playing this I go find a different place. As I'm typing this comment the music only just got interesting, and I'm at 8:15, like why.. And I just know that he's just going to ruin it by making the interesting part boring by stretching it for the next 4 minutes. I've got a few friends in my old crew that still do house dance, and I can get with it for a while, but eventually the boringness just gets to me and I need something to either pop or break.
I'd like to hear from parents who are managing well.

I have a hypothesis that in households where children's behavior is better regulated (through example, discipline, or disposition) things are going better than they would otherwise. (I have evidence from my own childhood that this would be the case), but I'd like to know, if this situation is manageable or even an improvement for your child's education, what are you doing to make it so?
Some parents aren't good enough and aren't raising good children. Trouble is they're not to blame for the skills they don't have. What is to blame? Entropy. Plain old time degrading memory and skills and effort. It's almost as if a larger pattern of skill and memory retention would be useful. Something old and robust, yet flexible and humane.
covid19 really kicked in late march.
Socialism is coming, whether we admit it or not.
Amazon has Chime.
The school isn't just about the academic part. It also teaches you invaluable soft skills. How to handle conflicts, how to present in front of the audience, how to make friendships, how to respond to bullying, how to find like minded people. All those skills are extremely important in your average team environment, and learning them as a kid is much easier than guessing why you've been laid off, while your useless, but very empathic colleague got promoted instead.
And this still does not solve the problem of access to the internet (through which formal education is being delivered) or this idea of parents being able to both work to support their children and somehow replace this online formal instruction with homeschooling.
Hahahahaha dream on, I’m in the middle of a pretty dense part of a city, but not a rich part, and I have exactly one internet option and it is ass.
IMO the real killer feature of AirPods is that they seamlessly "just work" when pairing, switching devices, taking them out, etc., and it's vanishingly unlikely that Google got this right.
Give 'em something to do in the morning.

Make sure they've done it by the evening.
Yep. Post service is still working. People have been homeschooling their children long before the internet became ubiquitous.
I don't agree with you, or with the sibling comment that claims that "infinity plus one" is "nonsense". It is in fact precisely well-defined, to a mathematician working in a framework that admits it and makes it worth discussing.

The blog post that (I think) started off this chain of posts, at https://blog.plover.com/misc/half-baked.html , has the most concise and lucid explanation I've found, so I'm just going to straight-up copy it: 0.666...7 is an “an object... said to ‘have order type ω+1’, and is completely legitimate.”

It's not very useful – it's exactly equal to 0.666... ! – but it's legitimate and well-defined.

My absolute favorite construction of objects like this is Conway's surreal numbers. These things appear perfectly naturally in the surreal numbers, and are completely well-defined, if (again) not very useful.
Hi HN,

I’m the solo developer behind mungbean. It’s a different take on the ambient location app, such as yikyak of yore.

This is a real time content sharing/chat app, that uses your location and activity levels to group and split communities of users. Each “room” represents a geographic fence. As more people join, the room splits and the geofence shrinks - hopefully equalizing the overcrowding that happens with most regular chat rooms, while giving those users a more local experience. Users can chat, submit pics/blurbs/links, or just lurk and upvote on the front page.

The goal is to give a voice back to the individual, rather than being drowned out too many messages (like on youtube chat) or revolving around influencers. This is accomplished by letting the app form a community, instead of the traditional pick-and-choose method.

An Android version is also available in the Play Store (just search “mungbean”). Pop in for a quick hangout, and let me know what you think!
Sweden didn't close restaurants, shops, nor schools: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/26/845211085/stockholm-expected-...
Much of modern public government education is part baby sitter, part indoctrinator, part time waster, and part money waster. The topics public schools waste time on are not something you would catch private elite academies getting caught dead teaching their pupils.

I feel like public schools are more interested in just ensuring an equitable lowest common denominator result at the maximum budget possible to satisfy economic, social, and political grievances.

Parents of kids in public schools have dropped the ball on education. They rubber stamp yes votes on budget increases yearly, and never ask themselves why it continues to fail and get worse year by year.
AMD Reports first Quarter 2020 Financial Results – Revenue grows 40% YoY
I wonder how they are doing this. Wouldn't a low quality recording render this fingerprint invisible?
Whoops - good catch.

Not without value. :)
I'm a teacher, so I know I'm biased, but I definitely don't agree with this (and didn't even before I became a teacher).

First off, there's a sizable chunk of the US that can't access online learning, whether it's due to poverty or just living out in an extremely rural area where all you can get is satellite internet that may or may not work.

Second, there's something to be said to being there in-person learning something. Having the teacher explain it to you and go over it with you is something that just can't be done as well on video for all students. Yes, some can get it and do great with self-directed learning and video explanations, but some students do need the extra work that they can get in school; there's more to school than just babysitting, even if some parents (and others) don't think so.

That said, if we could guarantee students had internet access, I'd totally be for a flipped classroom, especially in math and science. Students could then practice with the teacher present and able to give feedback and correct understanding during the school day, without having to use two days for a topic (which is what I currently do; one day explaining a concept, the next letting students practice it with me answering questions).
Even if the Fed nationalized every US company, the interest rate would skyrocket in the corporate debt market. It actually makes things worse. No creditor will want to touch those bonds, hence the interest rate naturally increases to entice would be creditors.
I learnt a bunch ...I will build up my knowledge from Ansible first.
> But I do wonder how they can introduce truly "unpredictable" events in the simulations.

They could make it a MMORPG and get people to drive or walk around?
> I'm guessing that video is taken in the US since she is planting corn.

Yep, Nebraska. I grew up near(ish) the town on her sweatshirt.
Thankfully the major version update doesn't mean a completely new UI, which would have cut their userbase in half.
> We taught them discipline, to learn, to value education, and a love for knowledge; after that we could not keep them away from education.

I'm curious as to your heuristics. Please point me towards your models.
Isn’t the point that it embeds your email address onto screenshots you take?
> right-wing types

What you perceive to be the right wing, possibly. Some would call these types 'Neocons' or 'RHINOs' implying they're not actually conservative, they're authoritarian statists. This is why there was the 'tea party' deal a few years ago.

Many people actually do believe in smaller government and individual liberty, but the media likes to point out the crazies and the statists as proof that all 'conservatives' are bad, immoral people. So far, their propaganda is working.

Edit: Spelling
Thank you. Your number 8-10% was very useful in getting the idea of why the rate change would not affect those unprofitable companies.
From the article:

> Because our code winds up running in other people’s apps we don’t use a full-fledged async runtime like tokio or async-rs since those are optimized for “use all available resources” scenarios like network servers or client applications.

Have you considered the recent alternative, smol [1]?

Do you have any plans to share source or build scripts for the glue components?

How have you been able to incorporate native functionality such as media codecs and screen capture with shared logic written in Rust?

Has Rust worked well when you also need to integrate with runtimes such as React Native or Flutter?

[1] https://github.com/stjepang/smol
Sometimes an organization is complex because it has a lot of employees, rather than needing a lot of employees because it's inherently complex. You see the same thing with large software projects.
I have lots of mini projects, so I am game to try it. Any cool things I might want to play with on there?
*help identify the participant's account, but not the actual participant.
ISOBUS was supposed to fix this by using the same monitor for multiple implements.

https://www.precisionfarmingdealer.com/articles/299-isobus-s...
The last few years Google Cloud sales reps have been much more aggressive. They walk in wearing Gucci loafers, talking about their MBAs, and telling us we need to spend 50% more this year. With the new GCP head from Oracle, I wouldn't expect it to get better, but glad to hear others are getting better treatment.
They have a habit of copying open source software and re-branding it as their own.

Here is an article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/technology/amazon-aws-clo...
Any anyone who's worked in a school knows how quickly diseases spread there. Like, my district, and all the districts near us, routinely close down every February come flu season as kids come to school with it (or other diseases) and they spread like wildfire. We take 3 days off, give the school a deep cleaning and let the kids pass their infectious period or get to the doctor, and then come back. Diseases spread like wildfire in schools.
Or just a better understanding of the organization and the problems they face. The inability to use that understanding and apply it elsewhere is what's strange to me.
Zoom meetings for preschool?!

I had no idea.
https://marketbrief.edweek.org/marketplace-k-12/instructure-...
The silver lining is that most of the more fragile and complex food products are "luxury" products, relatively-speaking. The farming of grains and the like is heavily automated at this point; I don't think we need to worry about actual starvation.
1. rename the file from prog.c to prog.d

2. set up to compile with dmc prog.c -c -betterC

3. replace all the preprocessor stuff

4. compile it, and fix the errors diagnosed by the compiler

The hardest part will be how much metaprogramming was done using the C preprocessor. Once that's dealt with, the rest is fairly mechanical.
"Molecular agitation" is a weird way to spell "sintering".
If I recall my US history class, universal public education (in the US) was a Great Depression policy created to prevent children from taking jobs from adults.
Intermittent Internet Connectivity Woes Strike Virgin Media UK
Open Source surveillance means "looking for/at stuff that is openly published" - e.g. looking on warez sites for keys being shared..

I'm pretty sure the term has been in use since the 1940s
There's much more to this story than just keeping hamburgers on buns. What we have here is a peek into how the federal government will force states to re-open, with worker protections or not.
I see... Nice!
One goal of AI/ML for this kind of task is to discover a latent space of the source images, such that the “average” in that space is always a “valid” image (not splodge).
No, at the moment. But it's possible in the future if such an approach to phone usage will help someone and will be useful at all.
We can only speculate, but Zoom is really big in the news right now, so Oracle could have offered them a special deal so Oracle can be in the news too.

If you aren't knowledgeable enough about cloud providers to evaluate them directly on their merits, then you look for signals. Some people might think, hey, Zoom is doing well, they are a well-known, up-and-coming company, and they chose Oracle, from which we infer that Oracle must be good choice.