skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep it does indeed, Ansible also can talk to AWS, GCP etc, but that is not the point ;-) (And Terraform can SSH in to machines and execute commands just fine)

If someone is new to this, having a strong boundary makes it much easier to process how those systems are intended to be used and how they are built. There are certain assumptions made in both that make them work differently, i.e. being command centric vs. resource centric. That's interesting when someone is up to the point where you can apply what you know in a more general or generic sense, because then he systems themselves matter less.
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They all have pretty much the same basic 1x zoom camera. The 11 and XS have an additional telephoto 2X zoom. The XR and XS are lacking Night Sight so night pictures will be worse. The XS has an OLED screen instead of LED.
There is a Rust idiom that works a little bit like that overloading case:

fn eats_a_string(s: impl Into<String>) {
dbg!(s.into());
}

fn main() {
eats_a_string("foo");
eats_a_string("foo".to_string());
eats_a_string(&"foo".to_string());
}

In that case, eats_a_string() will allocate internally in the first and third cases, but it won't allocate in the second case, because the caller gives up ownership of its own allocated String. I wouldn't say this is a super common idiom, and "provide only the argument-eating version and rely on the caller to `clone` at their discretion" is often preferred to be simpler and more explicit. But you see it occasionally in the standard library, for example here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ffi/struct.CString.html#method...
I agree with your points, but I've also found another one that is far more common:

They sell products at a loss to gain income in other places. For example, if you are a content producer you are competing with a company that sells "ad-free" video (Prime Video) attached to a low-cost service (Prime) so that they can sell more goods online.

Amazon is killing content producers by running a negative margin content business to do sell-through on e-commerce.

Amazon is killing video encoding business by selling a negative margin video encoder to sell through AWS compute.

This is extremely common in every "field" Amazon is in. They run at negative margins in one huge sector of business because it drives massive income in another.

That is a strategy only available to... monopolies. You can't afford to compete with them, because they are not _even trying_ to make a profit in your sector.
This makes me wonder:

1 - Since this device can control this person's own movements, could the movements of somebody else be controlled?

2 - Can the sense of touch this person feel be transmitted to someone else?

3 - Could the sense of touch be "filtered" (like applying a Photoshop filter)?

4 - Could these sensations be recorded and replayed?

At least in principle, all of these should be possible. It seems we're rapidly moving towards a world where we can control each other's bodies and radically change or even induce perceptions.
India going all Wuhan on the virus. The difference between India and the US particularly is that it's lockdown lite in USA while it's full on there. You can't take a walk, you can't drive farther than 3 KM, cops will kick your butt and impound your vehicle. And the population by and large listens, while we have morons here who want lockdown eased to get haircuts.
I really like this app, and I like the fact you're pulling in potential customers through the 200 database schemas (I found it quite fun to just look through them). Unfortunately I don't work with databases anymore but if I do I'll remember to try this out :)
XBox live used to have a similar thing, may have changed since GDPR. When I asked for my account to be deleted they sent me instructions that said basically unfriend everyone i know and change my name to deleted - this was after several days of them looking into it for me :/
Nice use of grafana.

I wish it would show the number of tests. That metric is so important to understand why the number of cases move sometimes. I'm not sure if the original data source[1] includes this or not.

https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
> I go on to claim, though I'm more unsure of this, that the real numbers are not even the only way to make calculus work.

That claim is certainly true. The proof is that calculus (Analysis) exists for the complex number system too. Although I don’t think that’s what you meant and I doubt the complex number system is “more intuitive.” Just out of curiosity, have you heard of real analysis? How do you define calculus?
You’re the one who wrote the logic; YOUR code is what has forcibly collapsed the null to false. It’s absurd for you to write code and then complain when it works exactly as written.

If you want the lack of data to be acknowledged in a case statement, it’s up to you to handle it. SQL isn’t a magical fairy that does what you want without asking.
No code app to help remote teams feeling better:)
Plus, seeing the word 'auto' all over the place leaves a weird impression.
I really enjoy this paper/argument, it's fairly simple and produces an extraordinary conclusion. For anyone else who enjoys this work, he (Nick Bostrom) also released a book called SuperIntelligence regarding predictions/outcomes for various paths of AI.
You can read about this in any work on nonstandard analysis. ("Nonstandard" is just the name, much like "imaginary" numbers.)

An infinitely small number is zero when projected onto the real number line. If you introduce an infinitesimal quantity to the reals, then for every number there is a unique real number to which that first number is infinitely close (that is, the difference between them is infinitesimal). You can use that real number as a (good) approximation of all the nonstandard numbers in its halo. (As long as you're comparing it to other real numbers.)
I’m not sure what’s going on with Amazon recently, but they’ve on multiple occasions told me that an item won’t ship or arrive until well into May, only for it to turn up next day. (edit: this is over the last 3 weeks for context)

I wonder how much of their slow delivery is them under promising and how much is them actually not being able to get things out in a day or two. None of the other vendors I’ve worked with, except Nespresso oddly enough, have been able to match Amazon’s actual performance.

I wonder if it’s just because I happen to be close to a lot of warehouses? Still very weird for Amazon to be sandbagging themselves regardless.
These prices are horrendous. I bought some GoNovation Demi buds for $40 and they are ipx7 with aptX and sound amazing with great battery life. No way in hell these pixel buds are 4.5x better. Apple Google and Samsung are using propaganda to spread the lie that $150-200 is the price point of earbuds. Look at GoNovation, MEE, Anker, and other companies doing amazing work delivering quality under $50.
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>as John Gruber put it on Daring Fireball, “Amazon isn’t hurting for revenue (especially now), but they are hurting for trust.”

This is empirically false. Amazon is the second most-trusted brand in America.

https://morningconsult.com/most-trusted-brands/

It's wild how easily SV types will tweet things like "No one trusts Amazon!" when the reality outside the Bay Area is so radically and demonstrably opposite.
I think whether UTC or wall clock time is binding is a problem in the legal and planning (so the business) domain and has to be treated as an external input to the software engineering problem.

Although you are of course free to advocate for UTC. I remember Swatch trying to establish something similar and it never took off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
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Most sites can and do already do this without Google or AMP. You have missed that point entirely.
The (rounded, white, shiny) charging/carrying case is definitely heavily inspired by the AirPods. While the headphones, visually, don't look a lot like the AirPods, in terms of functionality they're very similar, as they're wireless earbuds that don't have a wire even between the earbuds, and they feature noise cancellation that adapts to the environment.
I used to have the same annoyance about group and category theory; learning some about the type-theory-as-foundations work (particularly homotopy type theory and cubical type theory) has helped w/ this; in that setting, you have several distinct but well-developed notions of equality: propositional equality, which group theory and most math cares about, vs judgemental equality, which is the one that's "obviously true" by the rules of the system.

e.g. 5 = 5 is true under judgemental and propositional equality, whereas x + 2 = 2 + x is only true under propositional
I think this is spot on, at least for me personally.

I am not very good at mathematics, so I never questioned my professors when they said that "You cannot treat infinites as regular numbers".

Perhaps due to that statement, I did not really pursue these kinds of equations. For instance, I do not really see how the algebraic argument on the Wiki is any different from:

2 * inf = inf
inf + inf = inf (subtract inf from both sides)
inf = 0
To be fair it looks quite different in shape.
You can always challenge yourself to create "something" in 32 bytes or 16 bytes. That is soo small, that sounds and graphics are rather abstract and it comes downto: does it produce something not random, noticable. For example, here is a paint program in 16 bytes : https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=62025 (the objective would be : create a program that allows painting on a canvas with the mouse)
There have been ASM competitions with clear objectives in the past (http://www.hugi.scene.org/compo/) but these are long gone and seem to be replace with something like https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/ now
I'm taking the limit of any convergent infinite sum of terms each weighted by \epsilon. Although \epsilon itself equals zero, of course the limit of the sum isn't necessarily zero.

So if we go and define some other funky "infinitesimal" \epsilon != 0 in the surreals, we have to be careful. Apparently people have done that kind of thing successfully, but it took a long time after Cauchy for that to happen.
It has nothing to do with Steve Jobs or Apple. I've never owned an iPhone. Every single Android phone I've owned, I used a case. Same with pretty much everyone I know who has moved beyond the flip phone. It's just a fact of life for pretty much everyone.
How come noone is considering these to be man made phenomena? I.E projections designed to look like solid objects? I saw this phenomenon with my own eyes in the 90’s and it’s very real but space aliens over made made projections? And before this projection idea gets debunked by the fact that this was caught on radar. Recent advancements have enabled the detection of projections via radar.

https://books.google.com/books?id=AZoSALzL3V4C

I talked to someone who has a relative that flys high altitude spy planes about this and he said, “I’ll put it this way. There is nothing flying in the air that we don’t fully understand”.
You'd have to have communities, though. From what I can tell, cities in the West don't have the kind of communities you're looking for. The kind consisting of people living and working in the same area, so that they know each other and have some level of personal relationship to each other, who own enough of the area they live in that they can meaningfully self-govern. In a modern Western town, people living in the same area work all across the town, never see each other, and most of them only rents the places they live in.
>America seems to always skew to the extremes of over-indulgence or prohibition.

I completely disagree. You must live in a different bubble than I do and most of HN. Most of the people here support the idea of experimentation with LSD or other psychedelics.

>I simply don’t agree with the idea that everything with a supposedly negative health effect is necessarily a bad thing. Intoxication and substance use has played an important role in art and culture for thousands of years. To casually dismiss it just seems really short-sighted.

To casually support the idea that substance abuse hasn't harmed society seems pretty short sighted as well. Alcohol being a big one, it has such a negative societal impact, yet we are scared to broach the idea in a public forum.
To play devils advocate You can get catastrophic battery failures and fires in crashes etc - not very simple to put out.
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I have found this information for deaths but I would like to find it for new infections to test one hypothesis.
I have used that pattern in my apps and found it works well. But then I've watched video from respected DB experts, that I learn a great deal from, where they practically beg you to stop using nullable columns.

So I'm torn, because I think there may just be a major problem I've not yet grown my apps big enough to suffer. Anyone have thoughts either way?
Well if you believe covid is transmitted via 5G cell towers or that injecting disinfectant may cure you, they are pretty mich in the trash bin.
Doing real deletes on user accounts is a surprisingly challenging problem and I'd be willing to bet very few companies do real deletes where all of your data is wiped permanently from the company. For legal and financial reasons, companies often need to keep track of historical user activity. If a company states in their investor quarterly report that they had 1M active users, they better be able to prove it in an audit.

And in a naive relational database implementation, deleting a user would cascade and delete activity associated with that user.

The easiest way around this is to do soft deletes where the data stays in the db, but the flag deactivates the user's account. Looks like the NYT just did a poor implementation of a soft-delete.
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That doesn't appear to be true: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/em...

> Also, restrictions on your efforts to communicate with co-workers cannot be discriminatory. For example, your employer cannot prohibit you from talking about the union during working time if it permits you to talk about other non-work-related matters during working time.
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I think you are right they would have ridiculous amounts of energy like you say, to be able to cross space between stars. I don't think that's as much a penalty to detection as you, however. If you have an infinite energy budget, you could easily remove all the heat from the front of your ship via a Peltier cooler and radiate it out the back, for example. Then point your ship at Earth and you are stealthed from heat detection. Not all ships are merchant ships designed to get where they are going as efficiently as possible, after all. Some are designed to get somewhere as quietly as possible.
Here I thought you'd be doing photogrammetry or something to produce 3d maps directly from 2d imagery.

Maybe title should be "making 3d maps with satellite imagery and 3d maps" ;)
Isn't that a protected workplace activity?
The Spectator gets almost all of that wrong.

1) Death certificates rely on doctors using their best knowledge and experience to say what the patient died of, and what the patient died with. Flu and other respiratory illness is mentioned on many death certificates. See 5.4 here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

2) A notifiable illness has no meaning for death certificates.

3) We don't routinely test for flu. That's why all cause mortality is the preferred statistic for flu deaths, and also for covid-19 deaths.
Why bother stealing it? All that's going to do is attract attention and get your stolen plate flagged/revoked. Copying someone else's plate achieves the same goal without the unnecessary attention.
I think that turn over happened when a new generation started to learn computing after UNIX took over the server room and teachers that didn't care to teach anything else.

So only the old generation remembers how things used to be, and those that are curious about the computing history and evolution of programming languages.
But this is not a compelling argument to somebody in this situation. While correct, it feels identical to saying "it just is".
Thank you, I read the links and yes my absolute assertion may be wrong.
Latency is such a killer for me. Admittedly android phones have bad audio latency anyway IIRC - because of this only iOS has decent music creation software available for it (I don't think my knowledge is out of date here?), so it's more a sin on iOS than Android to not have wired support built-in.
Cudos to this code and the beautiful artwork (great README file for a github repository, btw). As somebody who worked a bit in visualization in scipy and blender, I can appreciate how much hard work have been put there. I did visualization as a small side project during my astrophysics PhD, and it was a pain in the ass to get anything good looking out of the data.
The union was already set up at my previous employer, but they used work email including an Exchange distribution list and Outlook calendar events to organize it.

(This was in the UK.)
Absolutely this: nobody wants their buildings sealed. In most apartments, people have continued to pay full salaries to their domestic help and insist that they do not show up for work. In some cases where the domestic help are young migrants from other states, the employer families have even invited them to stay over until the lockdown is over. They continue with their daily chores with full payment and the additional benefits of being taken care of by a family instead of being on their own. Whenever someone requests the HOA to allow outside workers, other residents immediately express concern about what happens if even a single person is tested positive. Nobody wants to spend a fortnight confined to their houses, and not allowed to venture out of their house for even a walk.
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Actually I thought about implementing a programming language which is a bit more pleasant to work with than raw wat format, but which still translated roughly 1 to 1 to wasm. Something like in this link, actually. But that seems outside of my capabilities and I'm not sure if it's really useful to anyone.
> But more importantly, India has been contact tracing like a greedy algorithm on steroids since case #1.

So looks like India is doing in practice what they show CDC doing in the US in the movies, such as in Outbreak.
Why isn't Walmart the main competition? I rarely use Amazon because Walmart online is more often cheaper.
Let's also replace them with institutions with either strong unions, worker co-ops, or at least fair trade agreements in place. What good is it to replace one heartless empire with just a different (perhaps slightly less) heartless empire?
I have a pair of the first generation Pixel Buds in my draw. One of my most frustrating product experiences of recent years. They didn't last that long in use (~5 hrs IIRC) so would frequently have to go back into the case to recharge, if I was lucky. The connections to the charge points in the case were so flakey that it was hit and miss if they would charge at all. Sometimes I'd pop them in at night, think it was ok as the LED was pulsing. But come the morning they'd be as flat as they were the night before. This happened SO many times I really started to hate them.

And they didn't block any ambient sound, so were pretty much useless in noisy environments.

Eventually I gave up, went in a different direction and purchased a pair of SONY WH-1000XM3 over ear headphones. What a world of difference. Gorgeous sound, comfortable, noise cancelling (or ambient sound) and 30 hours of battery life. My buds have just sat gathering dust ever since. Don't want to use them ever again, and it's put me off buying anything like them in future.
If they really are dumping, then I look forward to the lawsuit from all of their would-be competitors. That would help the increasingly centralized industry figure out what can be independent and what can only be done by monopolies.
I'm not sure how that's inefficient, it's pretty normal market dynamics. If the demand for a thing is high enough and the supply is low (or artificially controlled), then the provider can just freely set the price wherever they want.

Enter a competitor, and now the competitor has incentive to undercut the original producer to capture their market segment, and then it's a battle between the two between the cost to produce, market price, and value of the good to consumers.

I suppose there's 'inefficiency' in that both producers are now providing identical goods, but very rarely are the goods actually identical. In this case there's also the surrounding product ecosystem of Apple and Google, which is a significant difference at the very least.
Amazon is successful because they allow people to order cheap consumer goods real fast, sometimes same day and have a great return policy to boot.

The typical consumer does not care about "Made in U.S.A" vs "Made in China" vs "Made in Taiwan".
They do care whether it's $9 vs $27.

The typical consumer does not care whether the workers were paid fair wages and given enough bathroom breaks so as not to urinate in a bottle to meet strict deadlines.
They do care whether it's $9 vs $27.

The typical consumer does not care whether the IP of a company was stolen and cheap copies were made that were defective and buggy compared to the original product.
They do care whether it's $9 vs $27.

If the $9 product does not work, they can buy 2 more to even break even or just return it and get something cheap instead.

Thus, Amazon has figured out how to appeal to the typical consumer.

Exploiting workers, suppliers, distributors, the country it's founded in are some of they way they deliver that promise.

Jeff Bezos is not the monster here - he's just responding to market forces.

Until the fundamental consumer model changes, competing with Amazon is not very logical or effective. It might make people feel good, but not effective.

Can the competition provide the same product at $9 while doing all the warm and fuzzy things?

That's the real question.
I think it's complete nonsense. Here's a thought experiment that explains one reason why (there are two more):

Any computer program can be executed manually by a human given that he has access to a read/write memory. The memory can be as simple as a piece of paper with pen and eraser, or a hard disk. So let's say we simulate the feeling of pain in this way. When does the simulated being feel pain, when the "human CPU" makes read/write operations? Or even when the memory is in an idle state? If you have a large enough hard disk with the right data, is there actually someone in pain?

In addition, there are different ways you can encode the memory data, you can say that when this memory location is set to 0, it actually means 1, and vice versa. This means that any data on a large-enough hard disk means that some simulated being is in pain.
I'm not sure local officials would be behind all the censorship and police abuse that's happened like this:

> Three Chinese citizen journalists have also gone missing after they uploaded videos showing a critical view of the situation in Wuhan to YouTube and Twitter.

https://qz.com/1816219/chinese-internet-rallied-to-save-a-ce...

> Cai Wei, a Beijing-based man who participated in one such project on GitHub, the software development website, was arrested together with his girlfriend by Beijing police on April 19. The couple were accused of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” a commonly used charge against dissidents in China, according to Chen Kun, the brother of Chen Mei, another volunteer involved with the project.

https://qz.com/1846277/china-arrests-users-behind-github-cor...
In calculus, yes.