skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but only partly. Yes, prioritization is likely the explanation for a lot of things. It's absolutely true that the responsible team cannot do everything you'd wish.

But, sometimes there's stupidity at a different level. Just because someone is making an effort at prioritization doesn't mean they are doing a good job of prioritization.

It's hard to tell from the outside (where you lack the relevant knowledge), so you're kind of forced into giving them the benefit of the doubt. But sometimes that internal tools bug which they never get around to fixing is eating up 5 minutes of every employee's time every day for 2 years, and it adds up to a lot of wasted time, and they should have prioritized it but they didn't. Maybe because they didn't appreciate what the cost was, or maybe because they had some bias toward certain kinds of tasks, or maybe some other reason.
Huh, I'd been holding out to see the new MBP but if this is how it compares to the Air I think that might be my choice. I've been using an old Air which does okay but I like the newer track pads and 4gb of RAM is painful with even a single browser window open.
Ask HN: Has anyone tried to search for new, basic machine learning operations?
E.g. primitive operations like convolution and pooling.

From Neural Architecture Search: A Survey[0], first published in 2018:

"Moreover, common search spaces are also based on predefined building blocks, such as different kinds of convolutions and pooling, but do not allow identifying novel building blocks on this level; going beyond this limitation might substantially
increase the power of NAS."

I wonder now if somebody tried that since this was written or if anybody has some thoughts about the feasibility of this idea.

We've been using these methods for years. I doubt the first few breakthroughs are the most optimal possible.

[0]https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05377
Tuition is already deductible, if you don't take it as a direct tax credit.
Show HN: Curated Online Courses – Free courses you can do during quarantine
First, understand who Daszak is: yes, he's definitely an expert, but he is also not a disinterested observer. He is the PI on grants from the NIH that funded Bat Coronavirus research in Shi Zhengli's lab at the WIV. He's also stated that he's friends with Shi Zhengli.

The sequence of the virus strongly resembles RaTG13-CoV, a bat coronavirus discovered by WIV. The sequence is almost identical, except for the spike protein. The spike protein strongly resembles a Pangolin CoV also discovered by the WIV. Shi Zhengli and another researcher from WIV are authors on a paper from 2015 where they transplanted the spike protein from one Coronavirus onto the remaining parts of SARS-CoV. They've also done "serial passage" experiments, where they infect either cell cultures or live animals, so that a virus becomes more adapted to that host. One of the animals that they used for these experiments were ferrets, for which SARS-CoV-2's spike shows extremely high affinity.

Now, it's possible that two viruses recombined naturally, but then why did the virus first show up in Wuhan? Wuhan is a thousand miles from the bat caves where they found these viruses in Yunnan. As far as we know, they did not exist in Wuhan, except in the WIV's freezer.
Mapping the Caps Lock key to Esc in the modifier remap interface is how I handled this situation (and others with essential ESC). Figured that probably wasn't coincidence that they added Esc to it when the new keyboard was introduced--was as much of a nod to mitigating a bad idea as we got.

But yeah, it was stupid, especially given that software developers are a very visible market for them in the Bay Area. As soon as the 16" came out with an Esc, I ordered one at work and bought one at home so I guess they won, but it's another step towards getting me on a Linux or Windows PC a generation or two down the line.
To make it terser, omit `outer` because it is redundant. Now it's up to whatever you find easier to type. Definitely `left` or `right` for me. (+) is a really awkward sequence on QWERTY, at least.
It is indicative to me of a certain level of intellectual laziness on the part of the patent office. This laziness has consequences. For example, everyone who wants to go into business making something that involves quantum entanglement has to at least consider the possibility that my patent is valid and that this might be a threat to their business model.

Even if my patent is not valid, I can still use it to extort money from them simply by asserting that it is valid and that they are infringing on it. Once the patent has issued, the burden of proof is on them to show that I'm wrong and it may well be cheaper for them to buy me off than pay a lawyer to defend themselves against my lawsuit. This is what makes patent trolling profitable.
Hi Matt,

Thanks for the nice piece of software. I like Caddy a lot. I would like to better integration with docker in terms of automated exposure of docker services based on labels for example. Similar how traefik does. That would be really nice to have.
Very cool! I'll save this link.
The real takeaway from this:

Do your threat models include your staff?
Of course, nobody has admin access.

Do your threat models include your staff accessing restricted information that they need to access?
How do you stop somebody from doing their job?

IME this is a great interview question to ask potential employers. The rabbit hole that you are required to go down will open eyes.

The answer is: you can't.
But how you mitigate damage (with data silos) and engage in disaster recovery after the fact puts you in excellent condition to weather any storm.
You miss the applicability of the saying because you drastically overestimate the capability of the average American.

Hell, ignoring the deplorable level to which standards have been lowered by perverse incentives to pass students, the US only has an average of 80 HS graduation rate.

These are your voters. People who struggled to make it through high school have just as much of a day over your governments, your legislation, as you do. Do you expect uneducated and/or ignorant voters to make good decisions?

https://www.publicschoolreview.com/average-graduation-rate-s...
Qt-Based Smart Home Simulator
No, they are in "move fast and break things" camp.
This really rocks, man, can't wait to use it. I used to use 'Clint', but this is even more robust.
Ask HN: I want a *small* desktop computer with 2 screens. Intel NUC or ...?
Yes. An edge GPU is required to run inference on high resolution sensor data for many robotics applications. Running inference is faster than training but it’s not all “fast”. Inference on CPU can take many seconds with large image operations. Not useful for certain robotics applications.
Maybe a bit tangential, but still interestin:

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69354-a-few-billion-li...
Eva Theme Inspired by Evangelion Unit-01 from Neon Genesis Evangelion
> Pay raises, more time off, better benefits.

And those are bad because?

> A newly hired employee has very little to lose by supporting unionization.

And yet, most don't. The mind boggles.
I worked for a small, mostly-remote company that had regular DOTA breaks. The boss would be in a heated phone call, then stop mid-sentence and be like "shit, I have to leave for DOTA."
I think almost everyone can get 1,000 real followers in a month, if you put some effort. If you did something interesting in real-life, and you intend to keep doing it, just share your story where people interested in that topic already hang around. Promise that you'll keep sharing more, and people will follow you.
Ok.

I don't think a picture of laundry is worth a single god damned word.
I'm so happy that you appreciate it!

This is typographic patriotism on my part (I'm Polish). This typeface [1] is a design of the late Andrzej Heidrich, who also designed the banknotes of the Polish zloty.

One of my two favourite Polish typefaces. The other is Antykwa Toruńska (Torunian Antiqua) [2], a 1960 design by Zygfryd Gardzielewski.

[1]: http://bonanova.wtf/?lang=en

[2]: https://jmn.pl/pliki/AntykwaTorunska-doc-en.pdf
The traditional view that the bottleneck for query performance is overwhelmingly disk throughput, which has become slightly less true with the advent of SSDs.
Would S3cmd cli work as well?
There's also lem, which is more portable: https://github.com/cxxxr/lem
The Air and the mini.
It's entirely possible to run separate Kerberos realms for test and prod.
Wow that sounds awesome. You can do this with just BetterTouchTool? Could you share your config?
It's often used as a reverse proxy and static file server, but oh, so much more is possible. Today, if you're using HTTPS, you should almost certainly be using Caddy. Maybe tomorrow if you need to set up a memory-safe SSH server, you could be using Caddy. (Just an example.)
As I understand it, the 8000 people that signed the petition of support to organize were not hourly workers but corporate white collar workers with high pay that have issues with climate response and worker protections for blue collar workers. Like Tim, the guy who wrote this essay.
Ask HN: What game(s) should I install on my phone?
This might look like a silly question, because maybe it is.

So, as someone who didn't learn to enjoy fun stuff (and I assure you, that is a real skill), my time is split between working and/or fiddling with some side project.

But as we're all stuck at home, I lost the ability to do the only thing objectively fun in my life: working from a coffee shop from time to time. Such a simple change in my working environment helps a lot in boosting my ability to focus.

Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy working on projects and learning new stuff, but as of lately, my only distraction has been mindlessly scrolling through my Facebook feed. That's neither useful nor fun. It's just plane addictive evil.

Hence my question: what games can I install on my phone that are both fun but not addictive?

Thanks in advance!
True, division is the real enemy of the people and it's hard to remember that fact everyday with the assault to your senses from the media about how people are doing bad stuff. Thanks for reminding me.
I am a happy user of Caddy v1, and I want to thank you developers! It's made my life much easier, managing TLS automatically for my home server, and having a less than 10 lines adequate config for 3 web services I use behind it. I even forgot I was using Caddy, which is a proof of how great it is for systems integration.

I'll be looking forward to v2 in a few weeks, when I will upgrade to newer ubuntu and go full ZFS.

Thank you!
When I was a public defender I got assigned to defend a number of skinheads. I got a pretty heavy exposure to their racist bullshit and it's one of the reasons I'm no longer a public defender.

Everyone thinks hateful thoughts in brief moments of anger, but very few people ever act on those thoughts or express them. Their whole recruitment process was to get someone to move from just thinking thoughts to acting on them, usually by spreading the message to others. Once you cross that line from thinking to action, the bright line divider is gone--it's all just a matter of degrees of action.
"Waste what life I have left? I'll not only waste yours but also the potential of what you've got ahead of you."
Very cool, looks nice enough to try throwing it in my projects right now (since I've never settled on a proper output formatter).
I've always felt like that was kind of a hack, but with Caddy's API it's doable. I don't really use Docker myself, so... want to contribute the feature? I'll show you how to integrate it.

You might be interested in this discussion: https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy/issues/13...
@dang + HN moderators: Why did you change my link? I originally linked to the ArsTechnica article. And why was it removed from the front page?
As always, the HN illuminati give their incredibly negative hot takes to every Apple release.

(My posts are auto-flagged because dang is an alt-right, anti-AGW enabler)
Thanks, I just watched the video, and it did intrigue me enough to install spacemacs to start playing around with it.

Having "real" spreadsheet like tables within my wiki does look appealing. I do in fact already have a bunch of small spreadsheets doing some very basic stuff, and it does make more sense for them to be within the wiki itself.
consider?
i.e. it becomes ugly and annoying to manage.
I answered a solution to this in another comment, above. If the mining difficulty is set by country, it would take 51% of the countries to go rogue in order to perform a 51% attack.
Waiting to be frisked is not analogous to commuting at all.

If amazon isn't paying for your time in line, they have no incentive to make it fast. They can invest the bare minimum to protect their own interests, and fuck over their worker who have to wait in line. If they had to pay workers for their time then there is an incentive for them to make the line move quickly.

I can't imagine a setup that is more hostile to your fellow humans as forcing them to waste unpaid time.
The visible status and feedback on what pressing the bar will do isn't replicatable with just Fn keys.
I remember how in the former Eastern Bloc back in the 1990s, there was a widespread dislike of Stallman-esque ideas of Free Software, probably because idealism of any sort had been totally discredited by the failure of the socialist regimes. And yet, many of the same people who insisted that Free Software was a daft idea because “creators need to be paid”, would not think twice about using popular commercial software like The Bat! email client without paying, by downloading a cracked version from a warez community.
Ask HN: If you had unlimited money for 30 minutes, what would you do?
For the sake of this question assume:

- you don't have time to prepare and you only have access to a laptop w/ an internet connection.

- the money is in dollars so if you somehow spend $1000 trillion you'll likely crash the world economy b/c of inflation.

- all the money is coming from a magical bank that will disappear when the 30 minutes are up.

- you can't access it in cash.

- everyone (banks, stores, brokers, etc) will accept the magical bank (shout out to Stripe for writing that integration) but the normal limits for those platforms apply (read more below on this).

- you are allowed to utilize your existing personal connections.

FAQ:

- Can I transfer money to a different bank account? Yes. The magical bank does let you do this. But, keep in mind that most banks have daily transfer limits so you can't be transferring billions! Keep this in mind as well when you think about buying a lot of stocks. Keep limits of services you'd utilize in mind and if you break the limit, your answer is nullified!

- Can't I just buy a bunch of property? Well, that's IF you find a way to lock down a bunch of properties in 30 minutes. Usually those deals can take days to close and you only have the money for 30 minutes.
Why, indeed.

In a society with a functioning safety net, minimum wage wouldn't be necessary. That wouldn't only be better for those who can't work at all. All employees would benefit, and eventually most businesses would as well. Here in USA I'm not sure if such a safety net is possible, but I hear good things about other societies.
In the example you are replying to, the employees are literally being promised they will be paid more for increased work.
Hey HN! I hope everyone's keeping well and healthy.

This quarantine period is a great time to learn new skills or just something interesting to take your mind off the news. I curated this list of some of the best, free online courses that you can take - this will hopefully help you pick a course worth doing.

All of these courses are highly ranked by Coursera/similar site and have been consistently recommended across discussion forums and social e.g. reddit, twitter, HN, etc. The courses are hosted on either Coursera, edX, YouTube or independent sites and are all free to enroll in.

If you have any suggestions for free courses you'd like me to add into this list, please let me know! Thanks :)
Every time a friend or relative asks my opinion on some tech that involves cameras or microphones I always point this out. Usually by asking How comfortable do you feel with a bored admin watching you? How well do you think the company is monitoring it?
Not in EU with a grounded plug.
Tesla makes people drive hundreds of miles and that doesn't seem to have hurt them.

Worse, Tesla is effectively a a national monopoly. And that's far worse, because it has no competition for sales of Tesla vehicles or service.
Real Vi/emac users don’t use the esc key. It’s way too far frome home row.
You don’t need DASH or HLS to seek to an arbitrary point quickly. The mp4 container format has an index which stores playhead time -> byte. This index is either at the end of the file or beginning, and tools like qt-faststart move the index to the beginning, which makes videos start much quicker when serving over http. Browsers will use the index to issue range get requests an be able to seek just fine.

Serving a 400mb video via a CDN is highly dependent on the CDN. Some will construct a cache entry from a slop of range get requests and translate them to get the missing pieces and work brilliantly and other CDNs should be avoided.
No one at Hacker News will consider this.

Here people will criticize big corporations (by generalizing few anecdotal examples) and demand higher pay while sitting inside their million dollar houses (and stopping new housing construction near them) ordering stuff from Amazon.
Not an entirely bad idea, however I t should be obvious that having an adapter hanging out the side of ya laptop is less than ideal.
If you're really only using it as a dumb datastore, it is kinda silly to not switch to Postgres. The migration in these cases is, relatively, simple.

If you're using any advanced features, migrating to anything else is going to be a risk-ridden project. Same goes for any other product, of course.
> I have never actually heard this said. Can you provide some sources or any kind of quote for this? I've heard references to this having been said, but never an actual source.

This is like asking for a source for the expression "You get what you pay for". There isn't a source - it's a folk saying. That doesn't make it either right or wrong, it's just a thing some people say.
Maybe its because scooping up 100s of people at random from the population all at once and putting them in a box is asking for trouble.

Tech companies don't understand culture. The same assumption that you give a bunch of kids laptops and they'll just automatically learn to program is the same that if you give people cubicles coffee and water they'll act like docile office workers. There are things that you needed that you didn't have a line item for.
I grew up pretty close to NUMMI, and heard a lot about it in the news in both good times and the eventual bad times. My first car at 16 was a Pontiac Vibe, a GM rebrand of the Toyota Matrix (which in turn was a hatchback variant of the Corolla), all of which were built at NUMMI. It was kind of cool knowing that the car I was driving was built just a few freeway exits over.

10 years later, I totaled it and despite being a lot better off financially than I was at 16, I decided to buy another one. It's just such a solid car, maintenance is easy on it, etc. It's sad to me that there aren't more of the solid, low-tech, low-cost cars that NUMMI was so great at churning out.

Maybe one day Tesla can get electric cars to that type of economy of scale, but I think it's going to be a while.
You'll have the same experience with CarMax if you try to trade in a vehicle that is too old, even if it is in perfect condition. It's not worth their time, but they want to be able to say they accept all trade-ins. So they offer you a flat $200 and wholesale the car for parts or scrap.
Cloudflare plugin, that does what exactly?

You mean like this one? https://github.com/caddy-dns/cloudflare

(I'm using it today, works great. Assuming that's what you meant.)
They are from Georgia Tech https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1255975503057440768
It seems he's just talking about technical signature, and not a legal one.

It's a chip, with a hard to extract private key. You give it some input, and you get an output which is the signature of that input signed by that private key. The article isn't talking about whether this signature is legally admissable.
You're probably right about the unpopularity of the backtick key, and it's too bad. I use cmd-` probably 1000 times every day. For me cmd-` and cmd-Tab completely obviate any need for Mission Control or any of the other 14 different mechanisms in MacOS that show you all your windows and let you click one with the mouse.
It's not a random source. The package is created by the release script in Caddy's repo: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/blob/e051e119d1dff75972...

There's ongoing effort to package Caddy into Debian. Until then, this is the alternative as stopgap.
Ha, oops. Thanks.
Setting Up NetBSD Kernel Dev Environment
> I've built several scopes by hand and looked at various projects

It would be cool to see comparison between such DIY microscopes.

JFTR, IBM rolled out own version of "low-cost" (~ $300) DIY motorized microscope based on Lego + RPi.[0]

[0] https://github.com/IBM/MicroscoPy
According to Wikipedia, a sweatshop is semantically a workplace with very poor, socially unacceptable or illegal working conditions. The work may be difficult, dangerous, climatically challenging or underpaid. It's true that workers in sweatshops may work long hours with low pay, but it's not limited to that.

If you read the article with the example that was asked for, you'd see the examples of how it's sweatshop conditions.
> train a language model to give textual justifications for its decision.

This doesn't work for humans. Sure, they'll give an explanation, but they don't fully understand their own decision making process so they can't reliably explain it. I am not sure which paper you're referring to, but how did the researchers address this issue?
Reports of shitty working conditions aren't exactly a new thing in Amazon warehouses.
No, the media covered it because the president of the most powerful nation on earth making a speech about a global pandemic is newsworthy, and his words and actions have national and global impacts.
I (a) remapped escape and (b) taped a piece of cardboard over everything except the fingerprint scanner, and the touch bar works much better.
Stop quoting Vox as if they are a reliable news source. They are the ones who mocked tech workers initially for taking COVID seriously: https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/13/21128209/coronavirus-fe...
Does this factor in all of the costs you can expense as a freelancer? Like your office, electronics, marketing, etc. As a freelancer, I have never paid the "full" tax because of the deductions.
I was actually looking at B2 vs S3 literally 2 days ago and went S3 for the universal API. Luckily, it was a personal project and I I can probably migrate everything very quickly. This is a killer feature, and I bet this will convince a lot of people to move to Backblaze.
> In Japan many businesses are still wedded to a fax. It’s much easier to scribble a take out order on a piece of paper.

I recall reading how noodle shops in Japan take orders [at least To Go and//or Pick Up] via fax.
"Looks like Zuck" meme debunked at http://paulgraham.com/tricked.html
I can see state indicators for various services being remotely useful. But git workflow? I have terminals open anyway and everything is easily accessible from shell using aliases and ^R etc anyway.

Is there a way to decouple touchbar from active window btw? For example if I have Skype running I'd like to have Skype's buttons on touchbar regardless of focused window. I tried using BetterTouchTool but all I found out was quite hacky ways to mimic keypresses and whatnot instead of pinning app specific UIs.