skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
`let` instead of `var`. No need to leak the variable into the outer scope.
I'm not replying to myself but to all who posted to confirm my suspicion. I'm amazed that I've been so blind to it. It's so blatant. And now it makes sense how many of the challenges are: traffic lights, school buses, etc.
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How many jobs do robots really replace?
Oh god, please don't encourage this kind of juvenile spamming contest.
Happy Axiom customer here. Its main selling point: absolute ease of use. Like a point-and-click selenium. Our analysts , who are doing quick analytics or analytics without the need for a long-term engineered solution, are very satisfied with it. I find it powerful enough for production use (it works with IG and even FB to some extent).

Only downside I can think of: pricing is a bit opaque, outside the “desktop” license.
> I hope you are joking and I am failing to pick up on it. Because such cases can be made for many human interest stories. Unless the boy was driving a self driving car I really don't see the significance to HN.

Well, the car features the new UWP UI. Even e 6 yo can drive it. /s
To play devil's advocate, how are companies over-leveraged during an environment of such low interest rates? Companies will optimize their capital structure for the lowest cost of capital, and if the cost of debt decreases, companies should rationally leverage accordingly.

That's why we see Apple issuing $8B of debt (at ~135bps over 30 year Treasury bonds!) despite having over $200B of cash on hand. If your hurdle rate is 2.5%, surely your profitable business can return more to shareholders than that, so you should binge on this capital source? (Or even, as Apple claims it will do, distribute this directly to shareholders via buybacks & dividends.)

Also, I would qualify your statement that people are not necessarily long the economy in the short-term, which is where credit markets have miraculously thawed; they're long the fact that they will undoubtedly be able to get credit from yet someone else (namely, the lender of last resort).
Binder needs a link to the root, like so: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/jessalfredsen/notebooks.git/maste...
The link to the started notebook is not persistent :)
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If you have a problem that manifests itself under one DE but not under another, you are doing something very wrong - unless you are doing something very deeply integrated with specific DE.

Seriously, for a normal, user-facing app, all you should care about is at the level of the framework you used.
I also work for a startup. While we have fewer instances. We have a lot of data and any move would trigger audits for security and compliance. We would have to work with each of our customers (large businesses) and make sure they white list the new IP addresses (yes something as simple as depending on your vendor for an IP address can trigger lock-in).

100-200 VMs - especially if they are all based on the same few image is easy.
What does this have to do with my point?

Let me reiterate:

Hypothesis: "If there had been mass spread outside of Asia as soon as January or February, we would have been able to tell because of unusually high excess deaths"

Contradicted by: "There are known cases of mass spread that didn't result in unusually high excess deaths"

Therefore, excess death is an insufficient metric to reveal a mass spread of COVID-19 - it could have been spreading undetected.

Whether there have been any measures to limit the spread is irrelevant to that conclusion.
it already supported uBlock Origin.
You can't not use any of the AWS services. The basics of AWS are VPC, EBS, S3. Unlimited instantly-available managed storage and networking.

A cheap VPS provider or a colo do not give you storage and networking. There is no cheap and no open source solutions to do any of that.
> While I think this is an interesting story, why are these sort of articles popping up on Hacker News?

Because people are submitting them.

> This is not the place for it.

“This is not the place for it” is what story flags are for.
Ansible gets a ton more use. Its push model is highly favored in IT organizations. Salt's event/reactor system has tricks Ansible can't do.
But cost of living was much more expensive as well. Especially for housing.
Reminds me of Ghost Mouse from 20 years ago. I remember using it to automate Connect Four and win a few bucks from iWon.com.
They just transitioned Firefox Beta over to GeckoView, so the next version of non-beta will be GeckoView too, AFAIK.
Hey, thanks!

Yeah, so pricing is opaque because in all honestly, we're still figuring things out.

We're unlikely to lift pricing and annoy users. If anything, we're extending the free trial for most users, and may introduce a cheaper tier too.
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I had this problem as well. After I cleared out my old tabs (99+) it disappeared. Might have been correlated.
Ask HN: Which public companies will do well in the near future post-Covid world?
From an investment perspective, I have been investing passively in index funds. But I think the time is ripe for stock selection, or investing in particular companies.
So something like Cython or numba?
uBO was previously and is currently available. These are newly added addons
That's a choice you don't have to make if you go to a top university in the EU though.
See e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_multiplier and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karush%E2%80%93Kuhn%E2%80%93... for the justification.

It’s essentially an example of duality in numerical optimization (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality_(optimization)#Dual_...).
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The economic consensus is that COVID growth and an underwater economy will mutually reinforce each other for the next two years.

If you accept that scenario your decisions in the present about finances, investments, and employment all radically shift. My decisions have radically shifted to accommodate even though I have two essential industry employers with virtually no risk of being laid off.

What I personally use as a thermostat on how to proceed during adjusted life is the military. How they conduct business is bound by finances not beholden to a profit stream and they do not conduct business out of political ideals/favors. When they lift travel restrictions I will feel more confident about traveling. Once they reopen schools I will more confident about going back to work in an office building. When they drop the need for face masks or mandatory forced quarantine I will feel more confident stepping away from social distancing. Until those things happen I will continue to play it highly conservative in accordance with the suggested medical guidance to avoid exposure.
Situation: There are 15 competing standards and they all have the same name.
Surveillance software & always-on webcams ensure employees are working from home
The computer isn't the tool here, the context of our conversation is about software.
There are tiling window managers for macOS and Windows.
> Forget cost of living

You can forget it when you are young, healthy and single.

Put a wife and couple of kids into the equation, a sickness here and there plus a small risk to become unemployed and everything changes.
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> People have legitimate reasons for exposing Salt to the internet. I do. It's how I bootstrap random VMs and bare metal from the internet.

I question that that is a legitimate reason to expose it to the internet.

Defense in depth is a thing and putting the keys to the kingdom at layer 0 doesn’t seem wise even if a vpn or bastion doesn’t offer perfect protection.
Show HN: Flipilizer, is it worth buying, renovating and selling that realestate?
No need to imagine, it happens all the time in D, and it's not that bad.
Because FKs on a relational model.. as an example, deleting a user/account might end up being a task on going through every reference to it, and the references to its references, etc.

This is actually the reason some companies do not delete users/accounts [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005060
Not if you count rent / mortgage, car & car insurance or kindergarten.

And you medical coverage might still cover less than the European one.
If they wrote software which should never be visible to the internet, they should have made that clearer.

It's far too easy to make something internet-visible. They could have set up a simple check to see if the service is internet, and refused to work if it was.
While true this boils down to "Apple won't support anything it doesn't have control over", as demonstrated by them using veto power to pick WebGPU's shader language (a custom one) instead of using the shader IR literally everyone else wanted. It doesn't make a ton of sense to evaluate the success of APIs and standards this way because Apple has a long track record of refusing to implement stuff or deprecating it once they had an interest in promoting a proprietary alternative.
To @yaseer -- ignore jonny's comment and any others trying to claim you're being misleading because of the ".ai" in your domain name.

You're not, it's fine, move on, focus on your customers and generating more revenue/success for yourself.

Nice looking product! Hope you get continued success with it.
NHS contact-tracing app relies on being open all the time
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FWIW the code in the post doesn't use sprites. I think it is done intentionally because not all of the engines support sprites. As someone mentioned in this thread if PixiJS would use sprites, it could be 10x faster.
One thing that seems to be missing though is slot names.

For example if the nodes are objects in C++ and the edges are relations, you want to know the names of the members that point to the other nodes.

Labels on the edges would also be nice.
Hi, interesting. Does this run in the browser or on the backend?

"All your bots live on you computer and process data in your web browser. We store the steps of your bot and data"

It seems the scripts are stored on your servers? Why? Does this mean that you can see my code or is it encrypted?

How does this compare to the more established web macro recorder tools (browser extensions) like the open-source kantu?
https://github.com/A9T9/Kantu
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We cancelled a trip to the US from Australia that would've been in full swing right about now and would normally be very keen to reschedule. However, even once restrictions lift, travel insurance is not likely to cover health issues in the US (especially a declared pandemic) and the risk of incurring huge costs is too great. That sort of thing may be a factor for many people.
The point still stands. Rental caps mean it is very difficult to find a place to live in desired neighborhoods. Of course, you can find places outside the ring, but those would have been cheaper anyway!

That’s not to say it isn’t sensible social policy. It is less disruptive to people who have lived there for a long time. But if you move for work, you will have to either pay a lot more than you would have in 2011, or get lucky.
Wikipedia articles are quickly becoming my favorite type of HN link.
That's not entirely true. Well, it is true that you can't get better chips with much higher clocks commercially, but there are specialist vendors making digital circuitry with crazy high clock speeds, and the primary market is the military.

For example, the Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) logic uses superconducting circuitry and experimental chips have hit 1 THz for simple ADC/DAC circuits, and I've heard of 100 GHz DSP chips in practical use. They're typically used for radio telescope amplifiers and digitisers, large static military radar installations, etc...

People sometimes forget that the commodity market seeks a kind of Pareto Frontier optimisation where "cost effectiveness" and "low risk manufacturing" are key metrics. If you don't care about any of that and just want the maximum performance at any cost, there's some amazing technologies out there!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_single_flux_quantum
I think there is definitely some room for AI in this space.

Once you are scrapping or interacting with external services there always is the "staying up-to-date" problem.

Ideally you want your selection rules and rules for your actions to be invariant to little change in the user interfaces. This includes various anomaly monitoring like network error, captcha, UI-changes, anti-scrapping measures. An AI can help for that.

The goal is to become fire and forget. You can also extend the technology to become collaborative and do some analytics to leverage AI tools.
I hear a lot of things. I personally believe that the net result of all of this in a few (3-5) years when the worst part of it shakes out is that a lot of people who used to have equity will now be renting, but living in basically the same areas/levels: this is going to result in a very large net equity transfer to those who have cash on hand or cash flows in the next few years, at the expense of wage slaves who get totally fucked because their employers collapse over the summer and unemployment skyrockets.

Lots of large companies are going to do big layoffs to survive. Many others are going to dump their entire workforces when they go under entirely. Large industries like travel and tourism and entertainment and gambling and the related services for same are going to get scaled back for years. Money for the non-wealthy (and by wealthy I include pretty much everyone who knows pointer math or web programming, as even having $-20k in assets if you're able to make $100k+ puts you far better off than most) is going to become harder and harder to come by. I expect this to result in a lot of evictions when the courts reopen, and lots of foreclosures about 3-6 months after the layoffs peak in 3-4 months. All of the figures I am guessing at here are +/- ~10 weeks and are sketchy guessing at best, because who the fuck knows what's going to happen the rest of the year with any potential second or third waves of disease, or governmental closure orders, or even the outbreak of another world war.

It sounds like you have savings and income. Personally, with all of this uncertainty, I'd guard both as carefully as you can. Millionaires can afford to take bigger risks right now, normal people with nest eggs generally cannot, as it's not certain that the jobs will be as plentiful or high-paying in the next ten years as they were the last.

If in doubt, stick with the index fund, and just "set it and forget it". If you want to get more actively involved (or if you don't plan to change cities much and don't already own a home), real estate is almost always a good long term investment as well.

My advice would be markedly different if you were asking about $8M or $800k and not $80k, but $80k isn't a ton of money these days (I'm guessing it's less than a year of your gross income) so I personally would go lower-risk for the first few hundred k before ramping up the potential for higher returns.
I take it you are a young person... First max out your company 401K with as much contribution to the ROTH option as you can afford... invest it in the lowest fee broad market matching index fund (Hint: S&P500) you can find. OK... now hopefully you are down with this and you still aren't eating into that 80K... If you don't need this money for a house, Well... over the long haul investment in the broader stock market "historically" doubles investments every 7 years. So, I'd suggest you open a cheap online brokerage account and first invest as much as you can into a ROTH and drop both ROTH and excess into an (again S&P500?) index mutual fund with the lowest expense ratio that you can find... and... try not to look at it again for the next 30 years except to convert as much each year into ROTH as possible. After 30 years you will hopefully look back into your account and have about $1.5M in that account with... being able to pull some significant amount of that investment out _tax free_. If you do need some of it for a house try to avoid 30 year loans and elect for 10-20 year loans.
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>Using something like Rust's serde is /much/ simpler, and is only possible due to metaprogramming.

Gotta agree here, you're shifting a lot of complexity from your code to the metaprogramming from the serde crate.

Sure it's difficult to use proc_macro style metaprogramming, but the user gets much simpler code.
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>because it's properly secured

That's what these Saltstack users thought too until this week.
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This makes me wonder how a decentralized system can grow if nobody shares their resources.
To be fair, a lot of the criticism of communism/socialism really is misguided :). But is US the most ideologically capitalist country on the planet? Or is that is just election campaign populism? Few examples: US has high barriers to enter certain markets in the form of bureaucracy and incumbent market manipulation. US has low overall taxation - 25% of GDP, (which is good) but the taxes come disproportionally from the poor. Then the portion of transfers back to the people is lover than average causing effects like #27 place in social mobility.
I think the php7.4/8 preloading stuff may address some of that sort of use case.
I have a friend desperate to get out to his overseas clients before they start thinking about not renewing his contract in favour of a local option. (He is a specialised architect working with a luxury auto brand.)
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> They have ... something here: https://dbrand.com/humans.txt

It's hexadecimal, its translates to the below (cut out the middle because it's massive)

There are no humans at dbrand. Below, you will find a list of credits for all past, present, and future robots of dbrand.

robot011
robot012
...
robot998
robot999

Never forget: The more money you spend, the richer we get.

Now get back to work.
Interesting. This is basically an early version of the phone bomb where you get a burner phone and just call the number of the sim card to blow it up. Being able to pull that off in the 40's was impressive.

Hard to say what use it has though? Normally a "mine" is something that is triggered by an event such as a person or vehicle passing. Setting one off remotely or on a timer isn't useful.

If the mines were used to rig specific infastructure such as railways or bridges then I can see the use (blow specific bridges at specific points in time, without having to send saboteurs). I remember practicing bridge destruction in the army using dozens of tank mines, simply because they were readily available and easily handled explosives.
Good questions!

This currently runs only on your local machine. We do have a cloud version coming soon, but running your bots this way will be optional.

Yes, the code only is stored, not the data it processes. We could encrypt them so we can't read, but it would prevent us updating your scripts in future for new versions of axiom.

It does mean we could run your code, but this is not something we do, unless you want us to run your script in our cloud.

UI.Vision and long-established macro-recorders like iMacros target developers; this is a complete no-code approach.

Our tool is primarily built for non-technical people. We also have and are building up a bot sharing system (i.e. templated bot app store). It will be subject to manual vetting for quite a while.
This seems such a strange thing to suggest to me. But therapy seems to be something "normal" in the US compared to Europe.
It's better to start with example. (Sadly, it deleted from Youtube).
2014. Russian Federation just captured Crimea from Ukraine. To celebrate, they invited Cuban Cossack choir from RF. When choir started to sing, everyone started to laugh. Why? Because choir signs folk songs in their native, Ukrainian language.

If you dig deeper, you will see that every folk choir in Russia has it repertoire split in two parts: songs in Russian, and folk songs in their own native language.

Yep, it's possible for folk songs to exist in Russian language. However, currently, no folk songs in Russian language are found. I spent years looking for one.
"we target geeks"
This is a weird response, especially in this community and climate. AI implies the company is making use of the users data to perform some kind of additional analysis and decision making. This privacy is a key factor in my decision to use software as well the recommendations I make to my clients.

If there is no AI/ML involved, they could simply answer, "it was the only domain name available." and everyone, absolutely everyone, on HN would laugh and move on.
Yeah, we've taught or kids those things from an early age as well, but I* think it's a bit early for an allowance. I think the biggest reason for that is not wanting to couple the idea of routine chores with the allowance.

There concept of routine chores (keep your room clean, help keep shared spaces clean, etc) should be well established before an allowance enters the picture. The allowance isn't for doing those things that are just a basic expectation of family life, and starting them both at an early age risks coupling them.

* This is my own personal opinion about our family, and not in any way a value judgement on differing approaches
Living in Florida I wouldn't trust any official numbers of cases or deaths. Also case numbers in general are dependent on the quantity of testing available which is highly variable across states and across the country. Even deaths can easily be uncounted due to people dying without a Covid-19 diagnoses before (or after) death.
You could look into investing it into crypto money. It obviously is risky, there is no doubt about that, but can yield you very good returns, even in the current crisis. There are a large variety of options depending on the risk-level you are willing to take.

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Ukrainian language IS the folk language. It was known as "folk language" ("народная молва") previously.
Even if you're a light skinned person in the North, we don't have as much forest cover as we had back in the Neolithic era.

If you only have 10% of sun exposure at a time due to trees, that's quite an effective sunblock.
Choosing to invest or not invest in Facebook does not change a single thing about whether or not society as a whole chooses to use Facebook and whether or not, via that use, Facebook becomes powerful and further erodes societal values placed around privacy. Facebook would still be Facebook (and thus dangerous) even if it were privately held.

Facebook is Facebook because they have an app that people love to use, and that gives them the power to sell and control placement in the communication between friends and acquaintances back to those same communities. They're not powerful because of their share price.

Index invest away. I have Facebook blocked at my router but I still own them via index funds.
"declining some meetings you don't care about" isn't normally going to make your family angry and your friends drop you, so I don't think that's how people are interpreting your comment.
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