skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they can't turn a profit by reliably delivering the product that was ordered & paid then either they're doing something wrong or it's not a viable business model.

The expectation of regularly getting hot food has been set over the years by the usual pizza delivery services and others. If new competition cannot match that then banning unsatisfied customers will only be a long-term solution if the majority of customers accepts the lower standard, but they are not obliged to do that.

I'm not saying one should always refund the delivery based on any imperfection, but most customers don't do that, otherwise delivery services would never turn a profit. But apparently some people got really bad series of wrong or late deliveries, and that doesn't have to be accepted silently.
As far as I know Caffeine still works, you just need to manually enable it in Preferences.app (I remember getting it to work on Mojave, but my MacBook has been on a shelf collecting dust since I updated it to Catalina two months ago)
It's also an argument against using queues in some cases. Instead of publishing data on a queue, you can make consumers of the data pull the data. Especially if you have a 1 to many relation ship between producer and consumer of the data that moves the problem of ensuring data is received out of the infrastructure to the consumer side. Staying up to date is now their problem and they can ensure they are up to date by simply pulling regularly.

A good example would be the twitter firehose and consuming that. Other examples would be websites publishing RSS feeds. You can actually combine the two and push the information that "something changed" which would cause the receiver to pull. Caching and CDNs make publishing like this cheap and scalable.
D-Wave is building "Quantum Annealers" which are not universal quantum computers. They cannot run quantum algorithms such as Shor's algorithm and there is serious doubt whether they can achieve any significant speed-up over classical computers, even in principle.
I hear you I hear you.

I guess my main curiosity is, given a) automations that are more useful / valuable / powerful require more sophisticated techniques and concepts (loops, sessions, states, etc.) and given b) that non-expert users typically don't have them, then how can we solve this problem?

I see the following options:
1) either (pro)users limit themselves to more trivial / simple automations that are useful enough, with the skills they have, but they can't do more and that's that
2) or there has to be some level of expert involvement (IT, freelancer, consultant, or an FTE hired by the department to do this kind of automation work) - so there needs to be some level of budget
3) there's some tool that makes it possible to deliver more complex scenarios without the (pro) user needing to understand those aforementioned concepts

I'd say the RPAs of the world fall into category 2) - requiring a lot of budget, thereby being limited to the very few highest RoI kind of use cases that can afford this budget.

I'd say many tools out there (including UIPath, Axiom, and many others) try to be 3) but end up being 1) or 2).

The problem seems to be not with the tool, but with the fundamental challenge of trying to do something more complex without the skill.

For the record, I'm not saying it is an unworthy endeavour, I just haven't seen any great examples that manage to crack this.

One exception: very domain specific topics. You mention Tableau - basically 'all' the user is doing with it is to slice and view and filter data (that has been connected by experts) in different ways. So the users aren't 'creating', the way they are when they are creating automations.

What is your view?
Did anyone make any replacement login-only libraries for Facebook?
Egghead recently made this React Accessibility course free: https://egghead.io/courses/develop-accessible-web-apps-with-...
> graphical shaders are functional even if they look like C :) Many inputs one output and no side effects :)

That's not functional programming, it's just pure functions. Shaders make use of sequential execution of statements, and they don't support recursion.
D-wave has a history. They've been mostly behaving better recently, but https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400 is a good summary, which emphasizes the differences you're asking about.
Regarding Redpill:

Word. Visit it, try it out and take what you want. This dominance thing also translates at least partially to relations between any human.
https://hackaday.io/freerobuxgenerator
Free Robux Generator
> The vast majority of web usage these days happens on YouTube, Instagram, etc. Ads certainly keep those parts of the web free.

Counterpoint: Wikipedia.
Regardless of the bias of the piece, AFAICT the GH issues linked to weren't made by the author (to be honest, my own bias suggested, before reading the text, that the author was the only one that pointed out the mistakes) but by others trying to use the model.

This makes the criticism (although partisan) at least worthy of attention.
That's what I acknowledged with the ultrasound tracking (I was not aware of the tracking at Schiphol). But it just reenforces my point, if they would do it openly people would strongly object. Privacy invasion using technology is so abstract that it doesn't really relate to reality for many people (even very smart people).
Didn't expect to see a electron app for this.
I don't know why, but I was expecting something based in Java.

Just looked at the Github language stats for this project:

TSQL 98.5%
JavaScript 0.6%
PLpgSQL 0.4%
Vue 0.3%
CSS 0.2%
HTML 0.0%
Controversial, but get off Hacker News and get to work. Best trick ever.
> That's not it works.

In some countries your competitors or some other third parties can just directly send you a cease-and-desist letter if they believe you're violating some law.

Even if that letter turns out to be unfounded because it turns out that implementing a shopping cart using cookies without an explicit consent is a legitimate use case, they're quite a bit more of a hassle to handle than your supposed friendly ICO just "get[ting] in touch with the site owner to help them come into compliance".

So one more reason to err on the side of over-caution and just put up a popup for any kind of cookie...
We are staying on-premise for security and privacy reasons.

We can't store our data outside of the company (or even worse: outside of the EU)
So, basically, tiledb is a file format like paraquet, avro and orc are formats?

And it comes with a nice library that makes accessing the data fairly storage-transparent?
> I'm not sure who you're quoting, but it's not me.

Indeed, I oversaw that it was "yorwba" who put that comment into "our" thread, not you. My apologies.

> As for the claim that the Wuhan cdc is tight next to the seafood market, I direct you to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23096524 which thoroughly and completely debunks those claims.

That's not a "thorough and complete" debunking, that's an erroneous assessment regarding the functions and location(s) of the Wuhan CDC, based on a cursory glance at websites.

A little bit more research would've revealed that the Wuhan CDC indeed was performing experiments on bats and that it has several facilities (including one near the seafood market).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovnUyTRMERI&feature=youtu.be...

https://map.baidu.com/poi/%E6%AD%A6%E6%B1%89%E5%B8%82%E7%96%...
شركة+تنظيف+شقق+بالرياض
I think you forgot to include cost of engineers in this calculation.
Java Based Telegram Bot
And if you went with reserved instances, what does it come out to? I guess that it is fair to assume that you will need at least this level of compute power for at least a year, right?
What to Code?
Do you really think Netflix get the standard billing prices ? I very much doubt so.
Data Protection Worries Dominate the Launch of NHS Covid-19 App
I love Lynx, but unfortunately most websites don't work in Lynx these days.
> Of course it's not visitors who want persistent shopping baskets. It's sellers.

That’s not so simple. Persistent shopping baskets create problems for sellers e.g. stock changes; price changes; products may become obsolete. Some of them let the cart expire at some point, even down to a couple hours for some (ASOS). As a visitor I do want a persistent cart accross sessions because I may need some time to make (nor not) my purchase. And no, I won’t give you my email just for that.
This is just a few hours baby that needs your love.
In Windows 9x one had themes to change colors and mouse cursors, I even had a Star Trek Voyager theme where the pointer was the ship, angled so it looks like a pointer.

It seems this feature is still in Windows 7, but no longer in Windows 10.
Yeah the "Physics applies to the real world" idea.

I like its corollary. Mac-Gyvering your way through life.

I remember getting strange looks when to light some candles for a birthday cake, I used paper and an induction hob.

Using a siphon to remove the water from a washing machine.

Bending small locks open.

Pulleys and rope tricks.

There are similar epiphanies in physics, when you realize those chemistry formulas, atoms and molecules are like real object just real small. That those chemistry rules, are just statistical mathematics calculation shortcuts for modelling what's happening to large quantities of small objects.

Phases of matter : solid, liquid, gaz : you can transform any matter between those states. Water is not the only liquid. You can melt plenty of metals. You can vaporize away the matter you don't want. You can freeze liquids into solids by cooling them.
This isn't possible H.264 is required to start with a key frame. Having said that you can have an H.264 stream with a single key frame.
Electromagnetic Radiation Spectrum Chart
Every time we include a dependency in an application, we give its maintainers commit privileges to production. Who do we trust?
Disable home swipe and dock when playing games iOS
That's why it

> is being evaluated ... for the upper stages ... rockets

Rocket enough for me
As opposed to C++, Ada, Rust or whatever else that is safer than plain old C.

Although I am aware that outside STL like data structures, C++'s security story is just as good as C.

NVidia is doing something similar for their automation projects, they have chosen to go with Ada/SPARK.

Now that is a security story I can buy.
Here is a nice round up of the known evidence: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6419779/

TLDR: "Longer duration controlled studies of daily lysine doses exceeding 1.2 g/d are required to definitively test its role in herpes simplex prophylaxis"

EDIT: After reading through the provided table, to me it seems that most studies show little to no evidence that Lysine doses help against the virus. It looks like it's mostly placebo. (Disclaimer, I am not a virologist, this is my take on the paper.)
wow, ty, wasn’t aware of this
Sia uses reed-solomon encoding to spread files over 30 hosts with a redundancy of 3x. So Any 20 hosts can fail at the same time and the files would still be available. This does mean that you need to upload all your data 3 times. Sia also needs to monitor your uploaded files all the time to make sure the hosts behave. This means hosts periodically run checksums on the stored data to prove to the client that the data is still there.

The team is currently working hard on performance upgrades. On regular consumer hardware you can currently upload / download data at a rate of about 500 Mbps. The next release is expected to improve this significantly.

Here's an introduction article which explains how Sia works with a bit more depth: https://support.sia.tech/article/dk91b0eibc-welcome-to-sia

My own product is a file sharing website: https://pixeldrain.com. It uses Sia to store large files because it's cheaper than conventional cloud storage. I plan to make it possible to download directly from Sia hosts as well so I can save on bandwidth costs too.
Given that it's a pretty young standard, nobody for now, but there is an open ticket to support it on GitLab :

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/118496
Robinhood has more managerial openings than eng
Anyone read Stanisław Lem's 'Fiasco'?
That would be if we didn't let them successfully lobby to restrict residencies and therefore doctors. Americans with the skill and will exist but we will shut them out because we want to maintain price floors.
uBlock Origin offers just that. I am sure you are aware, but perhaps others reading your comment and agreeing with it might not be.

It is great for mobile (Firefox), because you can set the "large media element" threshold to something tiny and thus get a mostly text-only web that is very fast.
Bandwidth is the problem. You can't run a Youtube on any cloud provider.
I never heard about the ADRB1 gene before. The expressed protein acts as a receptor for epinephrine and norepinephrine so it sounds like it plays a key role in regulating the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. It makes sense that variations in the gene impact things like sleep and stress.
Capitalism isn’t embedded with anything. It’s human desire that is endless and never satisfied.

It’s not capitalism that has Leonardo DiCaprio date multitudes of models in their 20s. It’s not capitalism when Soviet citizens would line up outside of the better armory factories to get their allotment of cutlery.
Show HN: API hooking without information about function prototypes
You probably hear all the usual productivity hacks like promodoro, start with small things, constantly do it, switch off distractions, etc (which i do too in some form) but let me tell you an unorthodox technique I came up with that was inspired by this tweet - https://twitter.com/tkiramadden/status/1255516715502522370

For me, I don't always have an issue being productive when I am in the zone but I have a problem of sometimes being unable to "jump-start" into that mode. Its like the engineers/developers version of a writers block and I get the occasional mental block when I need to create something.

So what do I do to overcome this?

I gave $1,000 to a really trusted friend and told him, if I dont show him the thing I want to create by the end of the week, he can give that money to an organisation that I absolutely against with on principle (think brainwashing) and hate with my guts.

Boy, it was sure a motivator to my brain on day 5 or 6. :)
It’s not secure if you have air gap requirements or issues with employees from another company technically having access to all of your data.
Setting up a wildcard search for your domains with crt.sh's rss feeds into slack is a great way to stay alerted on certificates issued on your domains.
Alumnus here, it’s Imperial College, London. It is a university (in its own right), but always goes by that name.
But circuit sat is not equivalent to solving a multiplication table like this. If you're doing it that way, you're making it way too hard.
There are a thousand ways to suffer, and I don't know most of them.

The more I grow, the more I discover new ways people fight their own battle.

Every time I think somebody had it easy, I end up dead wrong. There is just so much I didn't know about.

I even recently realized it's very common to deeply suffer without being conscious of it, and yet being unhappy because of it. It's a terrible curse, because deep down some part of you knows there is something wrong but you cannot put your finger on it, and yet it affects your whole existence.

People just mechanically don't think about it so they can make the best out of life.

It makes you feel much closer to people, much more tolerant, and you suddenly understand a lot more about the choice they make and the things they do.
@ USD 1000:

you can try this with a bluetooth mouse using any iPad that supports iPad OS

(you don’t need an iPad Pro + Magic Keyboard w/ Touchbar)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPadOS
An open source SDK can at least be audited and locked to a particular version, with no hidden shenanigans.
Don't need the unemployed. Go for the best. Brain drain the world like America did right after WW2. Suck the best up and put them here. Don't even have to do very much, just liberalize skilled immigration and pull everyone who wants to come who has degrees in nations with equivalent systems.

Canadian medical staff, for instance, should be able to instant-transfer. Forget the small ball with licence reciprocity between states. Licence reciprocity between nations. They will come. Just let them.
I knew that; I went to Kings! Apparently I haven't woken up properly this morning. Title changed.
Yes. HTTP POST (new objects) is immediate, HTTP PUT (updates to objects) is eventually consistent.

If you want to use this to create new objects all the time, rather than update ones you already have, you now have to keep track of which objects in your bucket are "old" and should no longer be there. But yes, totally doable.
> If you search on Google Maps for the Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, you instead find a building about 1.5 km from the seafood market.

There is not just one building, this is the one mentioned:

https://map.baidu.com/poi/%E6%AD%A6%E6%B1%89%E5%B8%82%E7%96%...

Remember that Google is effectively not operating in China anymore, so their information is bound to be outdated and incomplete.

> But further, when I look at the web page of the WHCDC, it looks like they're mainly a community health institution, not a research institute. The people studying coronaviruses are 15 km away, in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Scientists at the Wuhan CDC are studying live bats and bat coronaviruses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovnUyTRMERI&feature=youtu.be...
I think both of you failed to learn from each other there. He had an opportunity to learn from you but refused it. For me, every person presents an opportunity to learn, but I maintain a filter for each person because there are varying levels of bullshit and presence of a little knowledge about certain things. I consider it one of my talents that I can quickly and effortlessly gauge these levels for people and discover what it is I can learn from them and what I definitely can't learn from them.
A generator is necessarily on the same order of magnitude in size as the motors it is powering.
> A law that doesn't take into account how people react to is not "perfectly sane".

Law is a back-and-forth process; you can’t just create a perfect law on day one then stop evolving.
I think you are ignoring a lot of the complexity and assuming it is trivial in desktop GUI development, but complex for web development.

I do not think this is the case - e.g. just look at the two different options just for Java (Swing vs JavaFx):

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/t...

https://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/ui_controls/table-view.htm

This is not just dragging and dropping some common component - each thing is implemented differently, and so has a different API to control it (and require huge tutorials to work out how to use them) so everyone has to do it differently. They're not just different APIs to the same underlying OS-provided control. A Java Swing developer will not just be able to do the same thing they always do just in Qt, TK, Wx, WPF, WinForms, Gtk etc etc etc - it is still totally different. Sure the .net languages are all the same (i.e. same API ... but then do you use WinForms? WPF? Gtk#? others?), but there is more to GUI development than .net.
I think the objection is that for most of western civilisation, healthcare costs are paid for by taxes not employers
I'm no expert in C++ so not sure if it's meant to look like that, but that code is making my brain hurt.
Engineers cost $130,000/month? Thats a fulltime salary for 14 network engineers (salary from Indeed).

There is no way you need that many for maintaining a fleet of 50 CPUs (chance is that in OPs case they got duel socket servers as well).
Very interesting optimisations, but I would not say the author "missed" these points, since this wasn't the point of their post.
It is interesting how Apple's accessibility menu is growing to control so many aspects of UI. I still have this notion that "accessibility" are mostly settings for people with special needs, not with different UI preferences
Exception-Based Switch-Case in Python
That doesn't impact CSRF at all. If I send a request from a page on foo.example.com to api.example.com your browser will send those cookies no matter how tightly scoped they are because the destination of the request matches the cookie. It will send those cookies whether you use host cookies, add a __Host_ prefix, set SameSite=strict, Secure, HttpOnly, etc, etc, etc.

If you want to protect against these attacks with basic cookie attributes you can use SameSite and register your site (and any intermediate sub-domains) on the public suffix list to effectively shun your subdomains as being completely separate sites.
Maybe Privacy will bring sex to the internet
I thought about just letting people send an e-mail with an ID that associates it to a blog article, but I'm worried that it increases the barrier of entry too much..
Why would you assume that? SF office space goes for way more than data center space.
Since people seem to be sharing their favorite quotes, I'll share a couple of my own. It's kind of like a litany to repeat in difficult situations, replace placeholders as needed:

“What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it."

"If [scary thought] is true, I want to believe that. If [scary thought] is not true, I want not to believe [scary thought]. Let me not become attached to beliefs I may not want. If I'm living in a world where [scary thought] is true, that’s what I have to believe, I have to know what’s coming, so I can stop it, or in the very worst case, be prepared to do what I can in the time I have left. Not believing it won’t stop it from happening."

"I am not afraid. I am not afraid because if I let myself get too scared I might not be able to do what needs to be done. And I'm not the type of person who backs down. I am the type of person who does the right thing, even if it's hard. Right now, the right thing is to [x]. And even if it doesn't work, I'll just do the next right thing, and the next, and the next. I'll keep on trying until I figure out a way."
Then don't use Redux. Use a different way to manage state.
The Two Scoops book is good but I found it difficult to read due to its extremely contrived examples. Maybe that is just me though.
I think it's pretty clear that if you're not paying for the application, then you're the product not the customer. Even the most ignorant users have probably got that message by now.

If the app is paid-for, it's less forgivable to be using this kind of spyware.
That's a completely different problem than what the author is solving, which is about synchronization overhead and performance, not reliability.
In CO2 tons / sanctimony unit they certainly are the leaders. I'll gladly amend my position to condemn the US too, but the UK and the EU are on no high horse. Merely pumping out masses of people is no defence for blotting the Earth with their slime.
Too bad it’s so early in the world’s day and this thread is sinking. I think you could and should have gotten some great comments.

I’d be interested in other related tech, plus the music recommendations of us pioneers, rebels, mutineers, and so forth. (Yes, a poke at Apple ;)
it is not meant to look like that. The spacing/tabbing is all over the place.
It surely does, performance is more about just raw CPU. Prefetching data (even a DNS query) reduces the latency the user perceives.

The web similarly added the various <link rel=preload, dns-prefetch> tags, so things can be connected and fetched before the JS/CSS code is ready
The 42U rack might be only $1400 per month but the servers to put inside are $5000 upfront per U.