skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not clear on how this will make things easier. The default "environments" are just docker container defined in this repo: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/
except that you can leave them suspended when not using them. (For the non-GitHub version this is literally a VM provisioned by way of running a single pre-specified docker container. Suspending is presumably just suspending the whole VM. In the beta the GitHub branded version will not persist processes, so it would be more like stopping the VM when not in use rather than just suspending it.)

As for the pricing, it will likely be in the same ballpark as the non-github branded version of this exact same service (modulo any included time with a paid github subscription): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/visual-stu...

The estimated costs for full time development for one user with only one environment is ~$23.30/month.

Each environment you leave in a suspended state for a whole month would cost $6.40. OF course, if you are willing to have your filesystem wiped and rebuild each time you start and stop coding, you can destroy the environments when not in use, in which case you will probably want to create a custom dockerfile to customize the environment.
Yes, and 30% is way higher than internal FOH or driver labour cost.
>but why not wait and see while you can?

Wait for how long? We've never turned around a vaccine in under 18 months, and some pathogens don't have vaccines and have been around forever. What if it takes 24 months to develop an effective vaccine? Do we lockdown for that long?
It seems ambiguous to me - my concern/question is whether the definition of 'software settings' could include the content of a web page itself.

That could lead us back to the current situation where consent dialogs are designed by advertising networks, and result in user consent fatigue.
New Zealand has had fairly strict lockdown measures even though new cases have been in the single digits for weeks. This suggests that they think contact tracing can't control even a small number of cases without extreme additional measures.
You can also compile your own open source software from outside the Apple App Store, there are some limitations to long-term use that might require a $99/year developer account, but it’s still possible. And the $99/year is not per user but per company, so if you know somebody with a dev account, you can split it with them by starting a company instead.

Not to say that the iPad Pro is a Windows tablet replacement, to me they’re still very much distinct products right now. iPad OS isn’t (yet?) a macOS replacement for developers and power users.
It's such a wonderful game, isn't it?

I got my first copy back on the Dreamcast and PS2 and played the hell out of it. I wrote my first USB drivers for the Trancevibrator around 2005, also.

When Infinite came out I still played it quite a bit (outside of the context of making that video heh), and it was like riding a bicycle. A couple of minutes of getting used to it again and I was back to near 100% on everything. :D
Notion Uses Notion – Story about dogfooding
I literally stared at godaddy for a minute before noticing “sexpert”
Whistleblower complaint: How denial, cronyism steered Trump pandemic response
> Nope, it is. I am from there and can certainly tell you that it's true.

You must live in one heck of a bubble, I'm a Romanian and definitely wouldn't describe it as "shady".

While you clearly have some issues with the way certain things are going inside the country, the generalizations you're making are definitely exaggerated.
Lenovo ThinkPad 2020 Roadmap Leak
I'm still not sold on the kickstand. I bought the original Surface Go because I loved the form factor and all, but the kickstand I dislike. I wish it was a more traditional clamshell design instead, making it more usable on the lap or when held in hand.
f you can't provide a product or service to customers at a price they want to pay, too bad but that's capitalism. Not every business is viable even if the 'goals' are.
> The EU implemented a law.

Only by using a very loose definition of "implemented" sans common implementation measures like clarification and enforcement.
Not unless they are going to send people home if they are positive or forcibly quarantine them and perform contact tracing and further testing. Thus far most western governments have strongly resisted enacting such measures.

You can't safely open up without employing either highly accurate testing + rapid testing + forced quarantine + contact tracing, or having your population immunized. It's pretty much that simple.
Interesting! I hadn't heard that.

Though I'm cynical enough to doubt if they would follow through – talk is cheap now, as they're not in much danger of Boris Johnson giving Scotland another indyref.
Hey qdot! Not sure if we've ever met, but definitely talked a bunch around the Comingle days...glad you're still working to make this happen! - Craig (formerly @ Comingle)
Why not if employers look for it?
this is just the beginning... and add nothing to do with covid.
This comment was about https://www.onlinetoolsexpert.com/godaddy-confirms-data-brea....

We switched the URL to the article that one points to (and seems to have cribbed from).
> By releasing it, we ensure that everyone is on the same page with respect to abilities and defense.

This seems like wishful thinking. Having knowledge and having the resources to do something with it are two very different things.
Look at the worst result in the anandtech benchmark. Remember what I said about converting from "lower is better" to "higher is better". It is a presentation issue.

If the 2700X is not on the source page that page either got changed or it's a combined benchmark that was presented in multiple articles. In which benchmark do you see that?
> The law itself is perfectly sane. The problem is that everybody try to apply it in the worst possible way.

A law that doesn't take into account how people react to is not "perfectly sane". This was the obvious outcome before it passed.
Screw the sex machine part (heh!), I want to hear about designing your own brushless linear motors!
Hmm I tried gaming on a laptop (i7-8550U, 802.11ac) using Steam where the gaming happened on my Gigabit connected high-end desktop. It was playable but the video compression artifacts made an 11 year old game look pretty terrible (in comparison to playing it natively). So I can't imagine anyone would prefer that if the pricing on good hardware is within reason.

I have not tried Stadia so I cannot compare that to how this Steam streaming works, but it would have to be 100x better.
Not letting family members kiss your kids on the mouth and not letting your kids use other people's cups/forks etc? If the entire population did this there would be fewer herpes infections.

edit: the downvotes are interesting. If I had made the statement "We can take steps to reduce COVID-19 transmission" I can't imagine I'd get the same result. I can only assume that people really are ashamed of having herpes and are reacting emotionally.
It's really difficult to say? There's lots of media articles right now about teledildonics being the future and super popular during COVID, but I'd say the real winner here is video conference still. Teledildonics has a LONG way to go in terms of UI/UX before it'll really catch on, and I would never go as far as claiming it's a replacement for physical intimacy, much as VR isn't a replacement for actually being somewhere. Rather, it's an augmentation of it, and a way to allow us to be or feel things that may not even be possible (for better or worse).
I don't even live in Europe and these policies have still caused significant harm to me. I can only imagine it's even worse for people accessing the web from Europe.
"Get back there! I've got the Power Pasties, and I know how to use 'em!" -Dr. Flexi Jerkoff, Flesh Gordon

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068595/characters/nm0399710
As insane as it seems I imagine we'll see closed borders in many countries for a long, long time (months, maybe years?). It's going to be very hard to justify risking even a small chance of introducing additional virus cases if you've just spent the last few months trying to get a point where even minimal non-"essential"* can begin to reopen there's going to be very little support for any increased risk of any kind.

*I put "essential" in quotes here because I believe the definition of essential changes the longer services are closed. For instance, a dentist isn't really essential when they're closed for a month, but a 3 month closure is going to be increasingly problematic for people needing something more than a standard cleaning.
Not many mountains here in Auckland, lots of volcanoes plus one major (and often choked) road in and out though.
Study to determine incidence of coronavirus infection in U.S. children begins
Please don’t flame. Also don’t post from multiple accounts.
From what I can tell, most gas stations aren't set up for chip cards. I got gas last weekend at a Shell station in SF and was surprised to see the reader was chip-capable. Seems like it's still pretty rare. It's moderately insane that gas stations have been allowed to drag this out so much, considering that gas pump readers are a huge target for card skimmers.

(Then again, I guess a chip reader doesn't stop people from putting in a skimmer that just reads the card number as usual through the magstripe.)

The pump also had a pad for contactless payments, but I couldn't get it to work with either my phone or the NFC chip on my credit card. Maybe it only works with Shell's own card? Wasn't clear.

(And at the complete other end of the spectrum, I then went to top up my tire pressure, only to find that the air pump wanted quarters, and only quarters. Fortunately the attendant turned it on for me for free. I usually don't carry much cash around with me, and even more rarely have coins.)
Synchronised Video Streams over WebTorrent
I am actually doing the opposite transition now, I have been learning Go and using it a bit at work and on hobby projects for a while. I recently started working through the Rust book and I find it much more appealing at this point, and I am seriously considering converting my personal project to Rust to get some hands-on experience.
Cross-reactivity of the immune response between the common cold coronavirus and SARS-COV-2 is a really interesting finding if this research is replicated and validated. As they found 34% of their healthy/non-COVID donors had reaction to the COVID virus, that pre-existing immunity might be an important part of why the response to infection is so different in different people. One thing this could be involved in that the paper didn't seem to discuss is antibody dependent enhancement type responses (except not ADE exactly since this wasn't about antibodies, more some cellular response). This sort of "backfiring" of the immune system making the disease worse has been (Controversially) suggested being responsible for the asymptomatic vs symptomatic split. Here's a good read on it: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/15/8218
Yup, I've got a Pavlok 2, and there's multiple libraries on github for supporting it already. Feel free to hmu in the email I'm about to put in my bio if you'd like to talk more about this offline.

I get a TON of requests about estim support, it's just difficult to figure out how ethics/liability works around all of that.
it's 10 weeks (2.5 months) not 8.

Therefore: ($100,000 / 52 weeks) * 10 weeks = $19,230.
An iframe that pings Google is pointless if it doesn't send cookies.
Second this. Richard is a great lecturer. Highly recommend his lecture recordings. His winter 2019 lecture videos and materials can be found here:
https://github.com/rmcelreath/statrethinking_winter2019
You can't have your cookie and eat it, too; the browser has to store profile information or cookie information either way, so this was never about statelessness. This is about the expectation that user agents will not just consent to server tracking, but carry around papers which will identify themselves to each server so that they can be better tracked.
> It’s important that metrics do not become the objectives themselves

How do you achieve that?

I've always seen the exact opposite.

It is very tempting to measure things, use more data to better understand the world, and in this case, the state of a project.

But you can't. The world is too complex, too rich, too noisy.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation
and yet doesn't their pos terminal handle all of that already?
so where are russian words?

What you wrote is mix of Cyrrilic alphabet, the Greek alphabet, early Cyrillic/Glagolitic letters like Ѣ and Ѧ.

And why you wrote Ѧ ЗВѢР'Е', while on the picture it's Ѧ ЗВѢРЄ? Does Russian alphabet have Є letter?
If you allow users to add items to their cart without logging in, that isn't tracking them. It's just storing the information which the user wants you to store on their browser.

Many people click "add to cart" without logging in because that is the service they want. Nobody voluntarily clicks "track and analyze my activities on this site", because that is not a service people want.
remember folks, never having a vaccine is quite possible
Because it's not particularly ethical? Doesn't seem less deceptive than lying on a CV to me.
Unfortunately tourism is often what makes the environment justify its opportunity cost when it isn't an effective "local service". It isn't great for economy, workers, or the environment but it is a very workable compromise that is better off than the worst case for all three.
NASA plans to launch first two Gateway elements on same rocket – Spaceflight Now
> This is a dangerous, hurtful opinion and you need to be downvoted.

> No one is to be shamed for this virus.

Don't care. If I'm going to get shamed for walking down the sidewalk without a mask then I sure as shit am going to shame an adult that kisses their child when they have an infectious sore on there face.
This looks awesome, thank you!
Have a look at what it takes to physically set up a Rammstein show, and I think the answer will be clear.

https://youtu.be/JgGuRKgvWQ4
Ask HN: Best podcasts for CTOs/technical founders?
As technical (co)founders in small startups, it can feel like we're working in a vacuum sometimes. I'm looking to draw inspiration from others' experiences with: development methodology, choosing languages/technologies, growing/managing teams, interfacing with other leaders, etc. Not-podcast recommendations are welcome, too. Let's see what you got!
For what it's worth, this was my take on the GDPR requirements for site cookies. I had to consider them when recoding my poetry website last year (mainly for Facebook and Twitter sharing buttons)

https://blog.rikworks.co.uk/2020/02/05/The-RikVerse-rebuild-...

... and this is how the cookie consents page looks on the site:

http://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/cookies

It's not a difficult task to comply with the GDPR requirements in a nice way.
I feel New Microsoft is a lot.of about TypeScript/JavaScript. TypeScript development is dominated by Visual Studio Code.
Because if we do that now hopefully we won't have to do it again.
Will Gilead price its coronavirus drug for public good or company profit?
Hackers hide web skimmer behind a website's favicon
> Are people trying to run newer code on older VMs that they control the deployment of?

If you mean “don't control”, probably, at least, they might be given this tooling: e.g., Ruby on App Engine Standard is 2.5, not the current 2.7.
The Australian tourism minister is saying overseas travel is not likely until 2021.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/health-safety/...
Yes, they are a status symbol, just like the "blue bubble" v "green bubble" on SMS on iPhone. Blue bubbles mean the person has an iPhone, green bubbles mean the person doesn't have an iPhone. Do you honestly think Apple did that not knowing it would become a status symbol?
Yep. I had insomnia for a while but that seems to be in check now. I started intermittent fasting a few weeks ago. No big changes yet, but I'll see how it goes. I also started 750mg of NMN. I've been going back to my old supplement regimen since it seemed to work better for me(moderate dose of vitamins, ashwagandha, CDP choline, high-DHA fish oil, NAC). I tried eliminating a lot of them for several months but it just seemed to accelerate the decline.
Compiler “optimizes” memcpy into infinite recursion
There's more than one kind of fitness. Bulking and cutting optimizes for maximum power-to-weight ratio. I won't deny that there's an element of vanity to it, as there is with any effort to be fit, but that doesn't make it "not fitness".

To borrow your phrasing, someone who follows GP's program instead of yours might not swim as well as you, but they're probably a hell of a lot stronger.
Credit card skimmer masquerades as favicon
> From now on, I have no goals. Nothing. I don't care about anything. I don't care about followers. I don't care about revenue. I don't care about anything. I just want to enjoy my every day life. Enjoy the process.

Nothing brings joy to entrepreneurs more than the “process of building” and crafting products.

Your paragraph reminded me of Steve Jobs reply to Kara Swisher when she asked for his thoughts on surpassing Microsoft in market valuation.

He said: “It doesn’t matter. It’s not what’s important. It’s not what makes you come in the morning. Not why any of our customers buy our products.
It’s good to keep that in mind and remember what we are doing and why”

01:02 https://youtu.be/i5f8bqYYwps
TensorFlow 2.2 Released
Making or not making money is such a weird way for people to see things. That's part of why I love the Free Software movement so much and abhor the CC-*-NC licences.

Fortunately, Reddit has the exception where they can give out access to anyone they want. But I still think StackOverflow is the gold standard: CC-BY-SA. No restriction on making money. Maybe a platinum standard would be CC-BY.
How does something like this work when you have configurations not in source control? Access keys, passwords, IPs for database connectivity.
I've added two spaces there.
The most likely first steps in the UK is that ICO will get in touch and tell you you've done something wrong and need to fix it. Courts and enforcement penalties come later if you persist, or your infraction was signficant.

I run websites, and I don't feel in any way worried about it personally.
Funny thing this very page had a cookie wall welcoming me.
I would not encourage using the model for anything other than AI research -- we're still in the early days of dialogue, and there are a lot of unexplored avenues. There are still nuances around safety, controlling generation, consistency, and knowledge involvement. For instance, the bot cannot remember what you said even a few turns ago, due to limitations in memory size.

In the paper, we did explore what happens when you do NOT fine tune it on the specialized tasks (knowledge, empathy and personality). The non-finetuned bot was both less engaging and more toxic. The special finetuning is really important to getting this bot to be as high quality as it is.
Please ensure <a> tags (you know, links!) actually work on your webpages. I hate copying and pasting on iOS...

On a brighter note, I appreciate your writing style; short, sweet, and clear.
> Who came up with that structure?

Inherent complexity.

You see, it's hard to know in advance all consequences of today's decisions. A person or a political body may have all good intentions, yet with time passing, rules which seems unambiguous and good suddenly are viewed in another light. Many rules can be applied technically correctly, but contrary to the ideas there were when the rules were created.

Sometimes the consequences are seen - there's just no way to avoid them, short of skipping the rulemaking. Sometimes they are not. It seems like legislation, while on the surface similar to software making - only for humans, not computers - in reality works with critically different constraints. That is, computers are relatively easy modeled as systems with clear set of states, while human societies are not.

One may play with the idea to require to attach to every law at the moment of enacting an informal, but complete, as it is feasible, explanation for why the law is created, what its intent and limitations. This will probably won't always work; it may shift problems elsewhere with application - interpretation - of laws though.

Coming back to your question - do you see this scenario you described as visible and deserving attention at the time EU rules were made?
In this video by Brandon Sanderson [0] he talks a little bit about goals and I follow something similar. At one point he talks about setting goals that are actually in your control. So you wouldn't set a goal like "become a famous author" (although he says that would be nice). Instead you set something you can control like "get better with each book you write". Then you break those goals down into tasks.

I think he says something like "if I was 100 and looked back and wrote 100 unpublished novels, would I be happy with that?". I think using something like that as a guide for setting goals is good because it keeps you pointed in the right direction and makes the goals things you can actually control.

[0] https://youtu.be/oH9sJrAVeC0
Price for a service isn't guided by how expensive the service is to offer, but by what the market will pay.

In this case, however, I was using it as an example of setting a price you don't expect to be paid... you want everyone to pay with their data, but you are required by law to offer an alternative payment form... so you set the price for the alternative to so high no one pays it.
1. This is a topic that actually, seriously comes up often on cam model forums, and verification of authenticity is, to me, something that is just completely fucked in terms of even being an idea. Do these same customers get angry when they find out the movie they just paid to see was fiction?

2. Are you familiar with findom? Cause that's like, just straight up what findom is. Literally unbalanced trade of capital as fetish.
I totally agree :)
Funny enough I just picked up Authy a few months ago and it's leagues better than Google Authenticator. Losing my data once in Authenticator was enough pain to make a switch.
Can't control the number of cases at the moment. And New Zealand is planning to leave lockdown very soon
no because that assumes they are calculating the risk. they aren't because disease is already inside the borders. closing them is purely political
Wow, the increase in contributions to Jitsi (under theme 3) is pretty remarkable :)

As an experience in scaling organizational capacity to accept open source contributions, it'd be great to hear from the Jitsi team about how they've handled the influx.
No country has got anywhere near 50% of infections. There seems no appetite currently for 4,000 deaths per million people that reaching herd immunity levels would require, at least in the western economies.