skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first cut the cord I immediately returned the DVR and cable modem, and replaced them with firetv and my own cable modem, after a year I had saved the cost of those items. I canceled the TV service and instead got Hulu and Netflix for a fifth the cost. In the end I think I was saving $1200/yr. then they started raising my bill by $3-5 every month or two so it’s gone from a low of around $35 to around $75 now. I’m pretty sure they are not supposed to do that but NY Department of Consumer Affairs basically finds any excuse they can to not investigate complaints, I gave up after trying to complain for a couple months.

Very interesting is that when I first started streaming 4K video the cable company seemed to suspect I had started running a business or something and they would bounce my connection and change my IP 2-3 times a day. They gave up after six weeks or so and my address has been stable since.
One thing I never understood, how drone attacks were a scandal. Yes, he ordered the killing of people. And the legality of these killings is indeed arguable, in the sense that the legality of the whole war is arguable. But I don't see huge protest marches against those wars.

Yes, sometimes the missile strike killed the wrong people. Again, horrible. But do people really think that bomb strikes performed by other presidents killed only "bad guys"? If anything, my interpretation of the situation is that Obama was more transparent than previous administrations, and that drones and drone strikes have reduced the human cost. Both through precision, but also because it is "better" to kill the leader in his bed, than his 50 soldiers in a gun fight.

No-one objected when he ordered a team of soldiers to fly in and kill Bin Laden, why does it become a scandal if you do the same thing with a missle? For those that say "but it was Bin Laden", as the military personnel responsible for the strike explained at the time, they flew missions like that every week.

Would it have been better if Obama had lauched indiscriminative airstrikes on anonymous coordinates, with no camera footage and analysis? Just "we killed 3 bad guys yesterday"?

As an aside, your original statement was that all presidents were involvd in a corruption scandal.
> Also, I think recovery will be highly sector and company dependent.

If that’s your hypothesis it sounds like there is supporting evidence, as not all sectors have shared in the recent post crash recovery. Eg a lot of retail still trading near lows.
Thank you so much for your encouragement, understanding, and support, demarq! I feel a bit better now :)
One thing that I’ve learned from the Kubernetes community is to have a list of “Non-Goals” right next to every list of “Goals” in documentation, and of course to have a list of “Goals” at all.
School board removes famous books from curriculum for 'controversial' content
An interest read on the subject is plant intelligence and the imaginal realm by stephen harrod buhner.

Also the biography of barbara mcclintock.
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Studying physics taught me perseverance and frustration tolerance. Giving up on particularly hard exercise problems happened often at the beginning and this changed massively with time when we increasingly just tried another and another time until we eventually made it.
I agree with you here. Reading the article he disclosed his position with the nhs multiple times to multiple people. It reads like a smear campaign by a journalist looking for clicks on a polarizing topic and demonizing the idea of making a profit. Hope this guy comes out alright.
He likely escaped to Israel with that money, good luck getting it back.
I have a rather cynical prediction for these apps: they will be mandatory for us to have to use various public services, and they will cost absurd amounts of money. This will be regardless of the efficacy because the goal isn’t safety or surveillance, but extracting rents for the politically-connected people who will be “approved vendors.”
I can't make it through these millennial-style edit every second and imma meme-lord videos. I suppose there is pearls of wisdom hidden somewhere in there (I mean front page of hacker news?).

Sadly, Joshua Weinstein has also evolved into this style.
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That moment that you realize a neural net does a better job than 90% of random bands.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)
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Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.

Searchers: Try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.

Don't miss these other fine threads:

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They..were bought by Google and are wildly successful by most metrics. I'm not sure I get your point.
And I thought ML people have no humor...
I much prefer Cs solution to this problem; you can write multiple literals in sequence and they will be concatenated:

char* text = "hello" " dear"
" sir";

This is great, because it doesn't make leading whitespace significant on the lines which the text block spans.

The Java approach, which seems similar to the Python approach, looks really silly when you are defining a literal in a nested scope;

def hello():
def world():
text = """hello
world"""
print text
This is by far the most Australian thing I've seen in years (expat :)). This is legit 'Straya.

As an aside, Capsicum (peppers / bell peppers), I struggled for years overseas with the terminology until I finally broke the habit. Same with using Eggplant and Zucchini in the UK (Aubergine / Courgette).
Does it integrate with other systems, like Wordpress? Instapage has a plungin for Wordpress that makes it really easy to use their landing pages within your website/blog. Does oneprofile have anything like that?
What percentage of the population should install and use this before it becomes useful?

The latest survey in my country said less than 50% were willing to adopt it and the number in the article mentions only 20% in Singapore.
Maybe the most cringy thing I have read on here.
Try installing Pop!_OS on the old MacBook, it may run alot faster
Being more specific would give away my identity, but this is one issue I ran into while moving from i3 to sway:

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1005#issuecomment-3315...

where the comment that closes the issue just says "we'll never implement this, issue closed".

I sympathize with you in that, if you had little time and other things to attend to, then just closing an issue is an instant reward of having something less to do.

But I think it would have been better to, first, don't do anything about that issue if you didn't had the time to do it properly (even if you were the one that filled the issue!), which would have been to write down the rationale why you think that feature is not worth its tradeoffs, and also, to have let other users speak up their mind, and see what others think, before making a decision.

For me, that difference in "project culture" is the difference between an open source project that's worth contributing to, and one that is not.

I've grown a couple of very large open source projects, and some of them I look at once a year, and they keep growing with dozens of PRs per week or day! The main reason I am able to just move on to other things is because I've grown and mentor the new maintainers and leaders of these projects , and I know they both carefully listen to the projects users, and are able to grow new contributors, just like I did.
Is there any other good resource on time series modeling and forecasting other than exponential smoothing and variants of ARIMA? Pretty much every tutotial on the web is on exponential smoothing and ARIMA or some lazy LSTM tutorials.
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RISC-V has a nice system for extending the architecture, either in public or with vendor extensions.
Or a PinePhone
Java doesn't add features unless they're absolutely sure they want to support it for eternity and for something like text blocks why take the risk unless you're absolutely sure? Text blocks aren't something I see myself even using frequently.
Yes, and that's barely 2.5% of the 300 million tonnes of plastic we now produce every year - half of which is single-use, and less than 1/10th of which is recycled at the end of its useful life.
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Overall I think you're correct, but I want to add some color to your comments:

Integration with other software is going to depend on a per integration basis. Some integrations are done by Atlassian themselves. Some are done by the other software provider. And some are done by third parties. Slack is a great example where the integration is owned by Atlassian, but there are also third party alternatives. The "quality" of these integrations varies, in large part depending on what your specific org needs. In the Slack example, the Atlassian integration has no support for creating issues in Jira from Slack. This is a use case that a small subset of customers want. Does that make the Atlassian integration bad? If you have specific integrations that you are frustrated with feel free to shoot me an email and I can dig into it. Especially if it is made by a third party provider, we're a really tight knit community and I can likely email their CEO and see if things can be improved for you. Or hell, it may even be one we make and something we need to fix :D

The UI is slowly improving, but yes it is not the most intuitive thing in the world. It is also a 16 year old piece of software, where if you look at the UI, the chrome has changed, but the structure has been fairly stable.

Performance is a topic near and dear to my heart. I have given a number of talks about this and for a long time our company branded itself as the "performance and scale" experts for Atlassian software. With good governance, and qualified admin skills, Jira and Confluence can be "fast enough" in terms of enterprise software. Will this be web scale speeds? No. Does achieving web scale speeds provide value for 95% of users? No. The thing to do here is to improve integrations to reduce the amount of application switching that users are doing. For example, if you're a dev, use Smart Commits[1] to interact with your Jira issues as part of the commit message. No going into Jira or BB in the first place.

The editor in Confluence has been a work in progress in Cloud, but they're hitting a lot of issues. Part of the issue here is that providing an editor that is both friendly to an HR person, and to a dev is a complicated challenged. When Atlassian deprecated Markdown from Confluence, I was working for them at the time and published the Markdown Macro for Confluence [2] as a ShipIt project (internal hackathon). This has helped thousands of orgs interact with Confluence via Markdown. At the same time, we're building a Drag and Drop editor for Notification Emails in Jira, and holy moly are there a lot of edge cases and problems that we hit. There are entire businesses that do nothing other than sell make and sell editors. I wouldn't underestimate the complexity involved in this.

[1]: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/use-smart-commits...
[2]: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211438/markdown-macr...
It's a combination of things. Java is slow moving by the very nature of the contributors to the language and runtime favouring slow methodical advancement.

Additionally Java has a longer history than most of backwards compatible software that contributes to a higher burden of testing before making changes to the core language.

Finally there is the community itself which favours high performance and reliability and prefers where possible to make use of libraries rather than change the language or runtime itself.

That isn't to say Java isn't evolving or that the JVM itself is stagnant.

The introduction of the Java module system allowed the JRE itself to become a much lighter dependency. Things like Project Loom seek to bring Erlang-like fiber/green thread support to the JVM and will probably land in a release soon.

Also the release cadence has been changed so new releases are now landing much more frequently which is increasing the pace of development.
Have you tried wiping down the Touchpad
Cool, thanks for sharing this!
Absence of non-essential features doesn't put a product behind other products... If Apple skips non-essential features it is seen as advantage...
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I am still getting tons of spanmy popups when I click "take a selfie".
Here's an illustration from Progressives 2019 financial results [0]:

Revenues:

Net Premiums - ~36b

Investment income (includes interest, dividends and accretion, but not capital gains on sales of securities) - ~1b

Gains on securities (capital gains on security sales) - ~1b

Fees - 0.5B

Service revenues - 0.2b

Total revenue: 39b

Expenses:

Losses and loss adjustment expenses (i.e. payouts to policies) - ~25.5b

Policy acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses - ~8b

Other - 0.4B

Total expenses - ~34b

So that's about 5 billion in net income before taxes.

Overall, about 80% of profits in this case come from collecting more premium than paying out in claims. About 20% come in from investment income. This is because they collect your premium upfront, but don't need to pay out until you have a claim. So that money can be invested in the meantime. Notably, an insurance company can be profitable if they invest well, even if they take a loss on claims.

[0] https://s24.q4cdn.com/447218525/files/doc_financials/2019/an...
I think the point of contact tracing is not that it's a silver bullet used alone, but rather a piece used alongside more widespread testing to help lower the rate of transmission. It may be reasonable to argue that these tracing apps alone aren't valuable, but once you add in greater test availability, it seems like they can help.

https://ethics.harvard.edu/covid-roadmap
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I didn’t look at your scripts, but this page is very poorly behaved on Mobile Safari — it seems to refresh the whole page after the animations complete, which scrolls all the way up and then back down. It’s extra bad under excessive server load, because the refresh can fail.
Some countries like Germany (which generally costs 500 Euro/semester, except in 1 state) give you an 18(?) month visa post-graduation to allow you to get a job in Germany. This particular visa actually puts you on the same hiring level (at least theoretically) as German citizens.

Of course, knowing German fluently would be critical to be "on the same level" as German citizens.

So, most likely you are not going to be evading the taxes, at least in places like Germany. It is almost always better to get your first job post-graduation in Germany if you have a German diploma anyways.
It's worth adding that for foreign viewers that no respectable Australian speaks like this, haha. The train station in the animation is supposed to represent Dapto, which is a lower socio-economic area located a few hours south of Sydney. In my experience, the animation captures the area pretty well.
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I am tempted to get their new lemur pro as my next machine, but I don't have enough impression of the build quality.

I am used to mac and thinkpads, and one thing I used to enjoy was the x200 keyboard along with the trackpoint and 3 mousebuttons in reach from the thumb, does lenovo hold a patent for this, or is there any reason this type of cursor input is so rarely seen?

I'd gladly pay a premium for the option to get a more ergonomic keyboard.
I'm thankful that Java hasn't become a mess like C++.

The virtual machine and stdlib continue to see innovation, while the ease of implementing JVM languages like Scala and Kotlin mean that Java can let these new languages innovate, and pick the best features when they're proven (with improved performance normally too).

You can see this with Lambdas, and now with Records and pattern matching
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Some other examples of what you are talking about: In the regular expression benchmarks, some entries implement their own idiomatic regex parsers or link to the PCRE2 library, rather than use the regex library that comes with the language implementation: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/..., https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

This is, arguably, totally fine, because these are still valid programs that run (and run quickly). BUT, it makes the benchmark programs poor choices to compare the verbosity of languages. So statements like "For a language famed for its terseness, Haskell it turns out, isn’t as terse as expected" can't be supported when comparing benchmark programs that were written to maximize speed, rather than written to minimize developer time.

Fortunately, the Benchmark Game does publish all of its programs, including the ones that don't "win" the speed race, and it's possible to find nice, concise, idiomatic Haskell programs in there.
You shouldn't use usernames in that scenario, just emails. After Signup, you just show a general message that a confirmation Email has been sent. If the account already exists, some policy to notify the account owner can be put in place.
> This is great, because it doesn't make leading whitespace significant on the lines which the text block spans.

I think you might want to go and reread the article, they are using "determining lines" to remove leading whitespace. I think I would find this approach much more readable than Cs
Ever consider a Soda Stream or similar device?

I received one as a gift and it's great. You just have reusable bottles (they do expire as the plastic begins to break down, but they last several years), and reusable CO2 canisters that you return for a refund when you need a refill.

You can also buy syrups to use with them if you like pop flavours rather than mixing with juices or citrus.
I think a big differentiating factor is how invested an insurance company is in their digital presence. Surprisingly many of them are not, and it shows.

Anecdotal example: Metlife was our auto insurance provider until last year. I dropped them for GEICO solely because their digital offerings were unacceptable. Extremely difficult to create claims and get our insurance ID cards online.
I can add you in ;)
> Assume you take the app out grocery shopping with you and it subsequently alerts you of a contact. What should you do? ...the alert is useless.

This feels like the mask debate again. It doesn’t guarantee safety, so it’s useless.

But there are plenty of things you could do.

You could carry on but avoid visiting your elderly parents, and cancel your plans to attend a crowded event. You could start walking or driving to work instead of taking the train. Or work from home more often.

It’s not a choice between quarantine or complete freedom, there are grey areas in between.

Get one of these alerts? Start taking more precautions. Get many more? Start taking more extreme caution.
I guess we can also train neural networks to do politics and brag on Twitter.

We won't need to pay salaries for politicians.
Interesting to see how Swift-inspired this feature is.
Want an open source version of Patreon?
I realize there are not too many competitors to Patreon out there and I would like to know how many in the Hacker News community would be interested in an open-source version of Patreon? It includes Stripe connect (https://stripe.com/connect) features so you could either roll your own Patreon style fund request page or offer it as a service for other niche markets. Please feel free to leave your comments or email me at titusblair@gmail.com.
Did you tell the authors about your algorithm?
There are several! Their Sample Explorer has a lot of them, but a lot of them are indeed not very listenable. I like this one: https://jukebox.openai.com/?song=787891207
Developer here - thanks for the interest in my project!

I intend to revisit it soon and make it easier to add parsers for different palette formats, as well as a bit of housekeeping (mostly explicit imports ^^)
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Thinking "its not accurate enough" should not EVER be a reason to decide not to try something that could potentually help in this unprecedented situation. It may well not work well enough but we won't know unless we try!

Each individual incremental activity, process, treatment, protection or APP that takes us a little closer to successfully fighting this thing should be done and done in conjunction with the others.
The difference between Python and Java is that the following (Python):

text = """hello
world"""

will contain the intendation before world, while in Java:

String text = """hello
world"""

will be equivalent to "hello\nworld".
Isn't that a good thing for US if it creates a breakthrough and an industry it can dominate? US has a few years of lead and it's best to maximize when it can.

Other large countries' governments are definitely funding their own research groups in this space and while previously in the 80s and 90s trade sanctions were a potent threat, it's become very clear from the experiences of India and China in the 2000s that there's nothing much US can do (short of a MAD nuclear war) to hold any moderately powerful country back.

So it's best to not fritter away the lead and throw what resources it can when there's still time to keep the lead.
Oh yeah behind patents and embedded in corporate secrecy that is almost guaranteed to be irrecoverable once the people that created the technology leave or die. I don’t think cooperations are bad and they should be reimbursed for their expenses, but our current way of handling these things leaves a lot of room for improvement if our goal is to advance the cooperative future of humanity (which it should be).
Tot it doesn’t seem like keyboard shortcuts work to go between the 8 or so diff notes? Hoping for things that are mostly just keyboard.

Thanks for the options.
Java has been inspired by many other languages... and continues to take good features and ideas from other languages...
About 25% of the way through the article they address this with an example of XML in a text block. You can have the text justified with the level of indentation where you declared it, and not have that indentation carry over into the string. Did you read that part?
...this is what Java gets instead of smth actually useful like structs/records/dataclasses with pass-by-value semantics?
Seems sensible though, the build.rs solution would require every project using rust/winrt to have a build.rs and code to load & codegen the modules (probably copy/pasted), so it'd be a lot more work for users of rust/winrt, though I guess it'd be less magic.
Read the article again. Java wouldn’t need to be aligned like your python example at all. You can align it up nice and neat with world aligned with hello.
I'm torn on if i'd even want to setup this type of anywhere connection to my vehicles. On one hand, remote configuration, updates (maybe just use uptane?), and debugging is attractive, but the other hand is now you have a new threat vector that can cause a lot of harm if exploited.