skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would you say to a consumer buying a pack of cigarettes? Not every business is benevolent. Tobacco knows 50% of its consumers will die from its product.
GDPR is all about user data AFAIK. If I understand it correctly it avoided the trap that is to single out specific implementations.

Also it seems either I or someone else misread the context. I'm in the broader GDPR context while someone else seems to be in the older cookie law context.
> so if you don't drive the car long enough to recharge the battery to at least where it was before the trip, you'll have less charge than you had before. If you repeat that cycle enough times, the battery will eventually die.

I've not tested the low threshold, but a 20 minute drive seems to be more than sufficient.
Although they've at least said they've been working on music for decades, they've released so little in the last few. Perhaps we'll be able to listen to what they've been up to.
I use uBlock (and some others) and have no problems clicking either buttons
Your small companies hire up to 500 people which is nowhere small.

Also, it's not because a company is small that the owners are small time business people. The owners might be independently wealthy.
I like to think in terms of a "lens" for seeing the world through. My favorite advice has often given me a new concept or tool for understanding what I see in the world.

Sometimes it's a simple as giving a name to a phenomenon you've already experienced but failed to understand, sometimes as complex as a series of interrelated concepts that are totally new to you.
This is that page:

https://www.pc-kombo.com/us/benchmark/apps/cpu/compare?ids%5...

This is the Anandtech benchmark that it links to from the first Blender graph (you can click on the graph):

https://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU-2019/2247

The numbers on that page for the 3900X and 2700X bear no resemblance to the ones in the graph that links to it.

Compare to their first 7zip graph which links here and contains the actual numbers for the 3900X and 2700X, because they evidently scraped that one correctly:

https://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU-2019/2240

This is the page they link for the second Blender graph:

https://www.computerbase.de/2019-11/amd-ryzen-threadripper-3...

The numbers in their graph don't match what that page has for the 3900X and the 2700X doesn't appear on that page at all.
> Section 2 is how to see if you are infected and Section 3 is how to remove the infection

That's much worse. That implies there is a reliable way to detect and remove the infection. That's not the case. This website included some known attacks and such. There's a high chance that there were attacks of this vulnerability with additional payloads.

There's no way to know if you were hit with a rootkit that persists itself in the bootloader or other parts of your system. There's no way to know if you were infected or not.

The only way to be sure is to nuke the machine, as they said.

Security advice should always err on the right side for a naive reader.
>GrubHub and some others operate on a flat rate service fee

GrubHub charges the restaurant a percentage, it just hides that in the cost of the food on it's platform rather than making it explicit.
Splitting (also called black-and-white thinking or all-or-nothing thinking) was debilitating well into my adolescence.
Another impressive startup in this area is nomagic.ai. From what I know, they are more advanced than covariant, had been in production for more than a year and recently raised a decent Seed round.

Good luck to both teams!
America is very protectionist actually.

And what you call fluid employment I call bad jobs.
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

— Ira Glass
That article is of Deus Ex and is written by Warren Spector, pretty much the only guy pushing it until 2017.
26 million workers have lost their jobs in a little more than a month. The labor market might well be worse than the Great Depression. It doesn't seem to be a hard problem to solve.
I think it's called a train...
degenerates
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience. (p.9)”

That whole book by Mark Manson:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/48297245-the-subtle-ar...
Sounds like extortion to me.
Adaptation == Learning

This was at the early stages of a lot of agent based modeling, genetic algorithms, etc., etc. And John Holland wrote a book called Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems[1]. The universality of the idea that "simple" adaptation is learning applied to a lot of different domains was crisp and very powerful.

1. (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/adaptation-natural-and-artifi...)
(offtopic/meta)

> Me and my girlfriend wanted to watch a movie on Netflix (...)I watched the film on Netflix.

I'm starting to notice this pattern a lot both in person and on the internet. How long until Netflix becomes a verb? It doesn't add to the story, but somehow people feel compelled to advertise the service they use.
Brussels’ Mask-Wearing Rules Are So Complicated No One Can Enforce Them
Sounds like a Matrix reference.
GitGardener appears to be for letting job applicants trick employers into thinking that have legit projects on git, while Cyberleads enables spammers to shit into the inboxes of startup execs.

Congrats.
I don't think I've ever laughed this hard on YC. cheers.
Thanks. I'm surprised a mod hasn't changed it by now, but I guess we're the only two people not logged into Github.
Shipt is a grocery delivery service as well. Been using them for years
One of the problems with automation reporting how sure it is of its answer is that sometimes it really has no clue even about how confident it is. It'll confidently say something is a dog and it's actually a table with some pixels tweaked slightly. It's not really an easy problem to solve.
which proves that the problem with the world is not awareness to the problems. :(
>run it through your IT operations in your own onsite/cloud/whatever to both utilise your local accessing rights but also to make sure data never leaves you.

would a docker deployment to be hosted on your public sector cloud vendor OK ?
Well, at least Michael Widenius, the most visible head of MySQL and one of two cofounders, is finnish. He also created the MySQL's fork MariaDB. Both names came from Michael's daughters My and Maria.
It would have made more sense perhaps to commission Anselm Keifer. His art work is at least as spectacular as that of Richter and much of it is directly related to the Second World War and Holocaust. And of course, he's German.
There's three broad ways to determine distribution of scarce goods. You've missed one.

In no particular order, those ways are:

1. Highest bidder.

2. Lottery.

3. Highest need.

There is no intrinsic 'fairness' to either of those three priorities to distribution - what any person thinks is the fairest method completely depends on their value system.

However, regardless of your value system, and your opinion on which of these is the most fair, you can probably agree that for luxury goods, #1 is a reasonably accurate proxy for #3... And that for life-necessary staples, it is not.

In the case of grocery delivery in the middle of a pandemic, people with pre-existing conditions, the elderly, and people living adjacent to those first two groups rank much higher on #3, than your run-of-the-mill 20-something-year-old. For the former, delivery is not a luxury good. For the latter, it is.
There is a very good book that I am reading that might change your mind: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff. Another book I really recommend is Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing - Resisting the Attention Economy.

You make good points and I am not arguing with you, but I found theses two books really convinced me that some balance is required, and worthwhile.
You might still want want "in flight" charging even for shorter trips just to keep trucks moving but I guess the world where load/unload times aren't enough is pretty unrealistic.
How did that help you or change your life?
I always enjoyed the part of the show where they'd pulled the curtains down, then when they were put up again, the entire group was replaced by robotic mannequins! Since their show was sync'd to the video in back of them, I'm pretty sure the music was all queued up too. They didn't really need to be up there at all!

I think only Aphex Twin pulled off such a stunt as well, where he walked to the stage, pressed a button to start the music, then walked off. But Kraftwerk would do it for an entire tour.
…and this is exactly what they used to do, so this isn't even a hypothetical.
Well, sure - you can still send some signals to see ads that are relevant to the _content_ as opposed to the _viewer_.

Example: you're seeing an article about devops and you get an ad about AWS instead of an ad that has followed you around from another website you visited previously.

The cookie used for frequency capping is considered to be a "technical cookie" and has no bearing on privacy, best I can tell.

The other types of cookies can be pretty much disabled at the point of calling the google tag, or enabled (along with more tracking/targeting ads) if the user consented to that.
And borrowing can be same day, same as cash. Or within 30-45 days to pay off a credit card, using it as free float.

The nice thing about borrowing against stock is not having to sell the stock while its down, unless you borrowed so much to hit a margin call. If it's allowed, you could borrow against treasury inflation-protected securities to protect you against runaway inflation. TIPS are up 8% on the year. I'd take 8% gain for 2% cost and peace of mind that my cash isnt losing value.

80K is a lot to have in an emergency fund. Borrowing even a quarter of it should be no problem, without risk of short term margin calls.

I believe pure dollar cost averaging to be a worse choice than picking and filling an allocation with low start date sensitivity and high baseline long term returns. Even averaging in over a year isnt enough time to tackle start date sensitivity, you are better off with an array of stable equivalents, and contributing into just stock allocation over time, as you make more, than holding just cash and waiting to buy stock. Cash by itself is a sure fire way to lose money over time.
https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolio/portfolio-matrix/

Some combination of total world stock market, small cap value, reits and bonds/tips, gold, cash, bitcoin. Rebalance quarterly. You'll be much more diversified than holding cash, or holding a cash plus a mutual fund with 90% stock, and cash will still be instantly accessible. It's really not that different in concept than a HELOC, except your collateral is much more diversified than your house.
The ability to play many of my existing Steam games made GeForce Now the clear winner for me. Don't have to repurchase any games and if I decided to get a better gaming PC in the future (which I did when HL: Alyx came out), I can play any games I purchased prior on that PC.

The latency for multiplayer was just barely acceptable. I tried both Rocket League and Destiny 2 and was able to notice that I wasn't playing as well in either compared to playing locally.

I still struggle to see how Google plans to make Stadia successful when they're asking developers to port to their platform and players to pay for games they can't play locally. It would be interesting if they released a console offering that just replicated one of the Stadia servers but I don't see that happening.
Sounds like a form of (job?) security-through-obscurity, no? The data was always there, but not all managers were savvy enough to process it and weaponize it.

In the end, obscurity is just not a durable defense. Better to earn trust with good managers, and avoid companies that let bad managers flourish. If you don't have the ability to quit a bad manager or bad working environment, then no amount of tooling choices by GitHub/Microsoft was going to save you anyways.
Intermittent fasting. These days I only have one meal a day
I spent the beginning of the COVID-19 quarantine wondering what I could do now that I couldn't do before. Instead of focusing on the negative, what opportunities could come out of this?

Then I realized it was already happening, but not obvious. The big redesign of an automation product for a customer at the day job? Going full bore when we expected that COVID would slow it down. They're breathing down our neck asking when it'll be done.

My side project work that helps with machine tool retrofit? Same thing: my customer says by the time I'm done with the latest design change and have prototypes ready, they'll have sold more systems already.

I'm counting my blessings, but this is not what I expected :-)
Just a word of warning, the central limit theorem is a bit misleading.

Assuming the sum independent and identically distributed random variables converges to a distribution, that distribution is not necessarily the Gaussian, but a larger family called the Levy-Stable distributions [1].

Levy-Stable distributions are "heavy-tailed" in that far away from zero they behave like (inverse) power laws. This is probably why you see so many power laws in nature (gravity, "small-world" networks, income distribution, galaxy distribution density, etc.). This was one of the central themes of Mandelbrot's soapbox, that power laws were more fundamental than normal distributions. Mandelbrot gets remembered for the highly symmetric and pretty fractal pictures but those images (Koch curve, Dragon Curve, Sierpinski gasket, etc.) are like a focusing on a sine wave when talking about Fourier analysis.

The central limit theorem applies to sums of random variables with finite variance [2]. Once you relax the condition of finite variance, or finite mean for that matter, Levy-Stable distributions are the more likely result.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_distribution

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem " ... Mathematically, if X ... is a random sample ... taken from a population with mean ... and finite variance ... the limiting form of the distribution ... is the standard normal distribution." (emphasis mine)
Which doesn't cover:

A cookie that remembers your shopping cart if you leave the site and return to it later. A cookie that remembers any preference you register if you leave a site and return to it later. A login cookie that persists after you leave the site doesn't explicitly require consent, but if you don't get it, then you are technically deviating from the guidelines that "[strictly necessary cookies] will generally be first-party session cookies" and that session cookies are "temporary and expire once you close your browser (or once your session ends)". If you had a persistent auth cookie, it would be reasonable to lean towards consent based on the published guidance.

from https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

> Preferences cookies — Also known as “functionality cookies,” these cookies allow a website to remember choices you have made in the past, like what language you prefer, what region you would like weather reports for, or what your user name and password are so you can automatically log in.

> To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive you must:

> Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies.

Your stated understanding of when consent is and is not required is simply incorrect.
Little I've gleaned, HPV is a DNA virus. Those can easily become latent. Where coronaviruses are RNA viruses which don't appear too. A couple of conronavirurs cause mild colds they don't appear to stick around. So you would assume SARS-COV2 to behave the same way.

Also the flu is a segmented RNA virus. The RNA is composed of segments. Which allows it to mutate by shuffling those segments with other strains. Including zoonotic strains. Coronaviruses have a single RNA strand and so don't shuffle.
"You can use your laptop power brick as a foot warmer."

Not quite so grand as some ideas here, but still... my feet are warm.
Related from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15584124

Edit: reposts are fine after about a year, and this isn't a repost in any case. These links are just for the curious!
Similar - I use DoorDash all the time and refuse to use UberEats ever again, absent they change their refund policy. UberEats treats customers like garbage.

Just read the App Store reviews for UberEats. If a driver isn’t able to deliver successfully they just cancel the order and blame the customer by default. Contacting customer support is met with robotic replies and they refuse refund.

Last time I just did a chargeback and won’t use them again.
Wow the off-road rover is spectacular. My old roommate and I built one years ago, but out of hope, dreams, kapton tape and an iPhone running Skype (https://twitter.com/martinmroz/status/518511940675440640?s=2...).
The hardest-working person on earth will probably die poor.

You're right - there are a ton of factors that contribute to poverty, but grittiness (or lack thereof) is probably overvalued among the already-successful.
Gentle reminder to those who may not know - you can remove your Reddit comments but you're not able to remove your HN comments.

Food for thought!
I'd like to propose a "does not exist" site that does not exist: This Family Does Not Exist. Generate faces and a family tree, where I can see familial resemblance and where that resemblance follows our understanding of genetics.

Related business: let me upload photos of my relatives and a family tree, and show me generated faces for other people on the family tree (e.g., common ancestors) based on these inputs and genetics. I wonder what kind of accuracy can be achieved in generating a person's face, based on how many descendants' faces we have photos of, over how many generations, with how much inbreeding, etc.
What are the most important problems in your field? If you're not working on them, why not?

From Hamming
Have you read https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html ?
The only difference between this and the web ~15 years ago is that they didn't even tell you it was a cookie issue. If you couldn't access the site, then "uhh try using Internet Explorer?"
Can you explain how you got 6.6 bits?
Hello, clearly the goal is not to replace HN, I love also reading the comments of people on global topics, but I also love reading original content
In the EU it's against E-Privacy
> New 13“ MacBook Pro51 min ago

> www.apple.com/macbook-pro-13/hn linktga

I feel like that counts as news/not original content/a popular site
The usage of "he" was most probably unconscious and due to being a non native english speaker, rather than a deliberate act.
Sonos debuts new soundbar, Sonos Sub and Sonos Five speaker
GDPR isn't very hard to understand, it's just that website owners want to have their cake and eat it too. Looking around for loopholes to do analytics that aren't actually what the user came to the site for is fundamentally the thing that the legislation is targeting, and all this handwringing about cookie popups and consent and anonymized data is "complicated" simply because it is not in the nature of the law. You do that, you need permission, period, and you need to be OK with people saying "no, I'd really rather you not do that".
> I assume that this would only work reliably for headshots/avatars?

StyleGAN works best on single centered objects which are not too diverse in shape. So heads work great if you align them to the middle, and you can get OK results with single centered figures like someone standing, but anything beyond that and it falls apart. We have a theory about that (https://github.com/tensorfork/tensorfork/issues/21) but we've long since moved onto BigGAN, which can model much more diverse datasets like ImageNet successfully.

As far as fursonas go, see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23096442 I'd say that GANs are better at letting someone explore fursonas than any human artist is or ever will be. You cannot click a button and have a human artist generate 32 variants in a second for you, toggle on or off attributes, nor can they slide a slider from 'human' to 'neko' to 'dangerously cheesy!'. You might pay for a commission of your final fursona for the highest-quality image with no artifacts, but for exploring...? And as NNs get better over time, they'll creep up the value chain, as it were. (I'm still a little shocked how good the human voices in OpenAI's Jukebox https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/ are, even if the highest level of abstraction is still very shaky and they need to tack on another layer or two to get choruses etc.)
Mandatory link for those who wonder "Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?"

http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html
For some reason I thought Vincent Van Gogh was further from us in time than the late 1800s. I wish he could have lived longer.
> You can't avoid the GDPR by doing soemthing that is in violation of the GDPR. It's like trying to avoid getting a speeding ticket by going faster.

Well, it worked for the Dukes of Hazzard, and it seems to be working well for Facebook et al so far...
Adding the accessibility in your React Apps [video]
Towing would annoying but dropping a block into the Cybertruck bed or the Y back cargo area would be pretty neat.
Everything about Github's PR workflow is killer to me, so to me personally the message I take away from this is that Source Hut isn't even competing with Github in the parts I care about.
Are they in the money? They could be worthless options. That's what happened to me. I had options but they valued them at worthless when I left.
It works but it’s quite clunky. Either you have to copy over when you play directly the video it’s not in the library. Definitely not very intuitive or simple.
Async interviews: my take thus far
I hate China more than the next person, but it's hilarious we're blaming China for our system that's fucked people over.

Our economic system is not set up for natural issues like this. I would also like to propose another question. You know how we're spending a metric fuckton of money on the Military? What if this was, you know, actually a biological attack?

Is this where all of our preparedness has come to show itself? What if this virus was actually manufactured to be even stronger than this? If we're not even able to prepare for a pandemic through spending this much money, maybe we shouldn't spend this much money on the military and spend more on social systems that would lessen the blow of such an attack.
They can spend more money to make the premium service work. Hire more delivery people etc.