skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's peculiar about the way you started it was using the word "umbrage" even though there wasn't anything about how I originally phrased my question or qualified it that suggested offense or annoyance. Maybe you should choose your words more carefully and understand what they mean before you use them.
Yes, one thing Cantor showed is that it is somehow meaningful to define numbers like infinity+1, where there are an ordered infinity of elements followed by one more element. Sets like this are called ordinals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number

So you could, if you like, define 0.9...4 to be a bunch of digits indexed by the ordinal ω+1. However the thing you have now defined isn't really a representation of a real number any more, unless you just ignore all the bits after the ... I guess.
I think that this is a good idea. Do you have plan to make browser extension?
People have cell phones in their pockets 24/7. Someone could demand photographic proof of your ballot regardless of mail in or voting booth. Sure you could doctor the photo, but you can doctor paper too. Neither are such common skill sets that there's a real difference between mail in and a booth.
Interesting (to me anyway) that (it seems?) you decided you wanted to home-school separately and before you decided how?

I suppose I just imagine most people have an idealised view of their child's education, and then decide they need to home-school to realise it. But perhaps that just wrong, I've no experience, first-hand or otherwise.
FWIW most of these images are plain 2D reproductions of already-public-domain images on which the museum can’t claim any copyright.
Could you explain the differences between Liftbridge and Kafka?
> But nowhere on the page does anyone say "it worked!"

Does it work? The Army definitely believed it could work at the time, but even today, nobody is sure. Many countries use cloud seeding in a routine basis for civil purposes, but there's still no scientific consensus [0] on the effectiveness of Cloud Seeding. Some researchers believes it works, others don't.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding#Effectiveness
But then as soon as a paying customer exercises freedom 2 and helps their neighbors by redistributing the software on the Internet, the vendor is most likely screwed. Particularly if they developed a great piece of end-user software that doesn't need support, training, hosting, or any other service to go with it.
I see he generically refers to "the mod key" but I don't see anything declaring what the mod key should be like you would in a tiling wm config, so I'm assuming the M- is the meta key in all these keybinds then. I wish that had been made more clear. I was pretty curious the whole time I read the article how he'd changed C-b to something else and what he'd picked.
I had also briefly wondered if he'd somehow made things modal like vim so he could enter some sort of "tmux mode" where he could just press a key for an action and then return to his insert mode after. (also a bit like i3/sway's modes, the most common one being for resizing windows)
> (In my professional experience) Google is absolutely terrible at B2B, their support is sorely lacking.

I am curious about which products and what kind of support they are lacking at.

> (In my personal experience) Google deprecates products I love at a fast pace and have for many years.

Can you name a few? (going to guess reader, inbox for gmail etc)

And if they are being like any other tech company, why the extra unnecessary bullying though?
The issue isn’t that things are delayed, the issue is they are saying an item isn’t going to get here until May when they know full well that it’s been put on a truck and will arrive today.

They are advertising their shipping speed as being worse than it is, causing people to think competitors are faster, when, typically, Amazon is still superior.

Edit: needlessly inflammatory language
I'm the author, if anyone has specific questions :)
How Apache Kylin Achieves Precision with Count Distinct
This is the same situation in any number of industries where you can "mix & match" equipment. Even different products from the same company might have radically different UIs. Like anything else, it's not ideal, but you get used to it.

In my previous job, the same thing happened. In fact, one of our selling points was that we had a unified look and feel for all our equipment UI's. It made it easier for salespeople to demonstrate how buying our stuff could reduce training cost and error rates.
That’s great but it’s 100 years a day of completely unusual inputs. It’s great they can navigate fairly empty streets but what happens when the flood returns?
You'd enjoy Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
Well when you have the money printer at your fingertips, it really is impossible for you to lose money. But that doesn't mean that what they're doing with the money supply and buying bonds is moral or fair.

What they're doing is monetary fascism, where they are picking the winners and losers based on arbitrary criteria. Some companies and industries will get more help than others. Whoever gets the money first will have an advantage over who gets money last. The moral hazards of this interventionism are many.

It also means that people who properly hedged for risk, the way capitalism actually works, are getting punished.
I'm not super familiar with Akka beyond high-level/actor model so I can't competently compare the two. NATS can be used to implement an actor model and has a similar philosophy to Akka core in terms of delivery semantics (i.e. no real guarantees - https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.1/general/message-delivery-g...).

Looking at Akka Streams, it appears to be more in line with Liftbridge, though I'm not totally sure. Liftbridge (like Kafka), is a message log, so messages do not get acked or removed from a stream (unless removed due to retention limits or compaction). I'm not sure if that's the case with Akka Streams.

I'm curious what your needs are around exactly-once delivery. From what I can tell, Akka only supports at-least-once semantics and is of the opinion that exactly-once isn't really possible as such (which is an opinion I agree with, but that's a more nuanced discussion). https://www.lightbend.com/blog/how-akka-works-exactly-once-m...
Either you missed the point of that survey or you're deliberately misrepresenting its results. Did you miss the sentence that said 'This ranking is determined by share of "a lot" responses.'? Amazon is the 2nd most trusted brand, according to that survey.
What? We require evidence before we accept claims, not before we reject them.
Under British law they can claim copyright of the photograph.
That's the Nvidia branding for it
PageRank is a popularity contest, not sure why you’d put so much trust into it as a reliable proxy for content quality. Lots of crap can be popular. Perhaps Google is doing a decent job eliminating crap from their search results (debatable), but that’s not an outcome of a naive application of PageRank.
Yeah. The money in the space business was never in launchers but in satellites.
It'd be pretty tricky to photograph your own images that good! I'm not an expert but I believe that makes them 'artistic' in the eyes of the law, and so not copyrightable through precedent.
Ask HN: Does anyone maintain a list of must read essays on software?
> I get really frustrated when people only mention Fox News and not CNN/MSNBC in the same sentence.

I was sharing a personal anecdote of something that happened to me. Why would I add “CNN/MSNBC” to the sentence when I didn’t watch those channels?

Nowadays, outside of a couple of notable exceptions (Fareed Zakaria’s GPS and Perhaps one or two others) all of the stations are absolute total garbage. They are only worth watching when a live, raw feed of a major event is occurring and I turn it off when the commentary starts.
> Correct. But we are entitled to the source code for programs which run on our computers, ...

No you're not. If you want the source code for the programs to run on your computer either write them yourself, choose FOSS ones, or pay someone to write one that supplies the source.

Nobody is mandating you buy a particular piece of software or run it on your computer. You're choosing to do it. If you decide you're not going to run closed source software that's your personal choice.

> ... or is paid for by our taxes.

That's moving goal posts.
We Need DevOps for ML Data
Modern phones use heavy post-processing to compensate for sensor size. Works okay.
Google sees Zoom as competition (They recently updated Google Hangouts to compete with Zoom) so it won't make sense for them to host there.

Microsoft has Skype.

I am not sure about Amazon. Someone please enlighten us.
Which is exactly what you found when you clicked on the link to the blogpost in the previous comment. So what is your point?
Should I remove remote verification entirely? Or, how can I adjust to make it more proper to use?
which customer-focused-product from google that you paid for that hurt you?

Look, I find their behavior pretty anti-consumer in some aspects too but relatively, they don't look bad.

We can talk about amp, controlling the web through blink and chromium, search, map and the list can go on.

But as I grow older, I think that's not how anything is going to change. Blaming the company is unreliable way to achieve what you hopefully want - a good competitive market with pro-consumer policies and behavior.

That won't happen with blaming google or any other company. People won't change either if you told them about AMP a million times everyday on every thread. This forum itself is an echo chamber in that sense as with other tech focused online groups.

Do you think you should participate in politics? Check up with your local authorities? And try to sneak in reforms that will probe up more competitors and improve the current monopoly?

The problem isn't that google is being anti-consumer more so that you don't have any way to reliably remove google as a dependency
Regarding the effectiveness:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/making-it-rain/

> Operation Popeye had four main objectives: to turn the roads to mud, to cause landslides along roadways, to wash out river crossings, and to keep roads muddier for longer than usual. But cloud seeding at the utime, and even today, is far from an exact science. At best , the military could measure three things: what the average rainfall for that area was, what the estimated rainfall would have been, and what actually fell after a seeding mission. But, in the end, they couldn’t collect enough data to rigorously analyze the outcomes. “The rain is completely variable,” says Fleming. “You have a tremendous temporal variability, spatial variability, and that means that statistics are not robust about what your particular intervention did to that particular rainfall.”

> And even if the U.S. military could make it rain, they couldn’t precisely control where the rain landed. One official described accidentally dumping a ton of rain on an American Special Forces camp.

> Nevertheless, Operation Popeye was deemed effective enough to continue for five years, from 1967 to 1972.
Only if that person doesn't understand how all that works and why the current situation is an absolute extreme, and there are some pretty significant differences between WTI and Brent futures, namely in where and how they're delivered.
Seems small potatoes compared to spraying Agent Orange on Vietnamese subsistence farms, civilians, and US' own troops. My dad is currently in hospice from a rare bladder cancer and 50 years of adult-onset type 1 diabetes from it.

Truth be told, like Cheney led to ISIS and millions of deaths, Kissinger is also a war criminal who enabled the rise of Pol Pot and the genocide of millions of Cambodians.
Logitech has controllers: https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/farm.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx3A-zDRTFQ
I apologize for my assertion, however there is a decided lack of transparency around issues like this that definitely contributed to my thoughts on the topic.

Not sure how to balance transparency on HN's moderation with the fact trolls and bad faith actors will abuse it.
Tigerdirect has a pitiful selection as far as PC building goes, and usually their prices are not even remotely competitive. I'm not even sure how they're still in business.
Its not the in class socializing, but out of class. Hanging out with your friends at lunch. In the halls. Walking to and from school. If you try socializing in class you get sent to the principle for being disruptive. Meeting kids your age in your area and seeing and talking with them every day is the social aspect, not class time.

I was educated montesorri until middle school, and while there was plenty of socializing it was ultimately detrimental imo. A couple of us including me had serious trouble getting assignments done with all the distractions and were always in the principles office as a result. One kid just had to work in a separate 'office' because he could not actually get his stuff done with his friends there in the class room available to talk all day. I didn't get my work ethic up until high school, didn't really apply myself until college, and to this day I struggle with self discipline and staying focused on the task at hand.
It is strongly encouraged by the right wing governments cutting the museums' budgets.
He literally was the getaway driver for a synagogue shooting by a kkk member. I’m not sure it’s possible to be more directly connected to the kkk than that.
AWS isn't that far off from following in the same path. Look at what they did with Elastic Search.
For those who may think Oracle may have moments of nuance, it's always worth listening to Brian Cantrill's epic rant on Oracle and lawnmowers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=34m7s
No, it is really trash. It's down there with IBM cloud. I've worked with it (and IBM) extensively, and with AWS/GCP (but not azure too much yet, interestingly). Depending on what you want AWS/GCP/Azure are largely fungible, Oracle and IBM are really lacking just about everything you could want, and I would be hesitant to call them "cloud" except by the barest definition of the word. Also worked with another one, who I won't name, but scaling your instances required filling out paperwork and sending it in. Oracle wasn't quite that bad, but they're down there.
The excellent Omega Tau science podcast recently did an in-depth episode on the not inconsiderable complications of the ELT’s five mirror lightpath and its control: http://omegataupodcast.net/150-5-controlling-the-elt/
I've heard nothing but negative reviews about Chime from amazon employee's whom have to use it daily...
British Museum ... in the United States
Since we have no common definition of what 0.00...1 might possibly mean, let's say we agree.
That's a perfectly legitimate question and it's surprising that the reporter didn't follow up on it. But if he were lying about that at this point, it would certainly ruin him, so it's probably true. The part that I find unsavory is that his comment repeats the detail twice. That's milking it, which to me makes the whole thing read like PR. He also shouldn't have included the bits about forgiving himself and employing hundreds. Someone is giving this guy bad editing advice. On the other hand, the claim that an abused kid would join a gang of criminal nutcases because they offered him belonging when no one else would, seems completely credible to me.
What about a natural resources tax into a sovereign fund, combined with a savings/investment account. It can achieve roughly the same thing, without nationalizing every industry. Closer to UBI and food stamps than free services.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23010921
Coronavirus Spreads Alarmingly in Open Space Offices
The outbreak occurred in a building where the commercial offices were located on the first 11 floors, and the rest was occupied by residential apartments.

Of the 1,143 people tested for COVID-19 in the building, 97 were diagnosed positively and 94 of them worked on the 11th floor, for a call center with 216 employees, indicating an infection rate of 43.5%, says researchers in a study published in the CDC Medical Journal.
> Let’s not forget that time zones are a human invention less than 200 years old.

What's the point of that statement? Before the introduction of formal time zones, we had thousands of informal ones, one for each settlement, calibrating noon to the zenith of the sun.
This article is about cars driving in simulation, not on the real streets. But I do wonder how they can introduce truly "unpredictable" events in the simulations.

I don't know anything about self driving cars, but it seems like solving self driving cars isn't far off having general artificial intelligence. How well does a car react when there is a construction flagger telling it to turn around, or when there is no signs and the traffic lights go down due to a power failure?

As an aside, my recent experience ordering a burrito from a virtual assistant over the phone did not leave me too dazzled with the state of the AI industry. Of course, Chipotle's phone robots are probably not training on 100 years of simulated burritos...
The only work my kids (10 and 7) are getting from school is maybe one question per subject per day.

My wife and I have designed our own curriculum to fill the gaps. The kids are done with their "day at school" after about 3 hours. They work with me in the morning, I've been able to keep up with their questions and guide them through their day while doing my own work and meetings. It's a lot like being a team lead again haha

EDIT: my kids are in DISD ( Dallas ) so the bar isn't exactly high. Even during regular school they were in various tutoring and clubs to fill the gaps
Apple adds Covid-19 testing sites to Maps across the U.S.
Probably most of them can as long as US copyright law doesn't start permitting sweat-of-the-brow copyright.
I mean state level officials. IIRC Kobach was very serious about tracking down all the voter fraud he was sure existed in Kansas (and everywhere else, but that's where he could look), and came up with so little—and ~all of it accidental, not some kind of intentional scheme to change the outcome of elections—that it was, truly, comical. If others have gone on similar crusades and come up with contrary results I'd (honestly) be interested to know.
I'd expect it to be strongly bimodal precisely because it's so self-selecting: You get the up-and-at-'em overachiever parents who can't bear the thought of their children being less-than-challenged at a school full of the kids of those who barely care, and the extremist parents who are so intense about their religion they can't bear the thought of their kids being out in the secular or even not-quite-as-religious world learning about stuff their dogma absolutely denies.

Maybe the children of the extremely religious parents don't make it into the studies.
There is incentive to push pupils up the bell curve to the mean, and incentive to push (the big heavy) bulk of the curve to the right, but much less incentive to push them down the other side.
I mean, you're not getting millions of dollars of funding. Also, people get rejected from 100k house loans for much less than this...
"Typos on records connected to Brown and Armstrong’s case — first a misspelling of Patton’s first name, Damien, as “Damion” in an initial affidavit of probable cause; then, in subsequent filings, spelling Damien as “Damian” — have helped prevent the discovery of Patton’s full biography for the past 30 years."

How remarkably lucky for him.

It is striking that such luck, and second chances, are rarely afforded young men of color who find themselves on the other side of the law in this country.
Yay. Thank you.
Has this ever been shown to happen in practice? The vendor is the only one who can provide a guarantee that the distribution is genuine (i.e. not tampered with), provide timely updates, security notices, etc.
In the same sense a giant Walmart in a 5000 people town is not a monopoly
My local high school district went to online classes. The district said 10% of the students "disappeared". They haven't shown up for a single class or turned in any work, nor even answered a single email.
Dropped out of high school after grade 10 (ie missed final two years)

Went to a technical college (TAFE), studied “web design” for a year, transferred to a closer campus and changed to do Diploma of Network Engineering. Started making php web apps for family/friends in my own time (~4 years total)

Graduated, got a job working at TAFE in IT department doing support and then got involved in more advanced stuff, Novell eDir, workstation migrations from ~200km away over ISDN, etc (~3-4 years)

Landed a contract gig with Aussie federal government department (moved interstate at ~6 days notice!) doing front end web development with zero commercial experience. (~2 years)

Moved to Melbourne with nothing lined up; accepted a contract at a Telco doing more front end dev on a never-launched gumtree-wannabe. Probably the worst place I’ve ever worked. During this period, I started working on the earliest piece of software that I still maintain today (A php library/framework, that is nearly unrecognisable from the early versions) (~6 months)

A few odd freelance jobs for smaller companies, mostly focusing on php, with some front end still (~12 months)

Started contracting with a full-remote “Agency” type company, mostly doing php and JavaScript, eventually doing some infra/ops. (~4 years)

Went back to freelance work, focussing a lot on infra/ops, dev tooling and dev mentoring/leadership. (~7 years)

Apologies if anything is hard to read or has typos, writing on a phone.
US Senate Top Secret Committee hearing goes into this (p108). It mentions

(1) It is not possible to precisely quantify the effects due to lack of sufficient ground stations to report

(2) Defence Intelligence Agency estimates a 30% above the predictions for existing existing conditions in specified areas

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20090612231729/http://www.sunshi...
"But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.”
> unless you know exactly what you're already looking for.

I know what I'm looking for, but most of the products are impossible to evaluate, because there is just not enough info/data. Low res bad stock photos, terse description, no full technical specs, etc.

And many Amazon sellers don't sell anywhere else, they don't even have a real website, so ... good luck deciding based on that.

And since Amazon become so big, they set the bar for quality. So now the same shit is everywhere. (Plus there's the high-end overpriced but also not perfect segment too.)
For those who are wondering the difference between Kafka/Pulsar and Liftbridge (from the docs):

"Liftbridge was designed to bridge the gap between sophisticated but complex log-based messaging systems like Apache Kafka and Apache Pulsar and simpler, cloud-native solutions. There is no ZooKeeper or other unwieldy dependencies, no JVM, no complicated API or configuration, and client libraries are just gRPC. More importantly, Liftbridge aims to extend NATS with a durable, at-least-once delivery mechanism that upholds the NATS tenets of simplicity, performance, and scalability. Unlike NATS Streaming, it uses the core NATS protocol with optional extensions. This means it can be added to an existing NATS deployment to provide message durability with no code changes. The ultimate goal of Liftbridge is to provide a message-streaming solution with a focus on simplicity and usability."