skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also just take NIST as the holy source of truth, which seems highly suspicious if one was out to get some sort of fundamental truth in the wavelength distribution of the lines.
Also, is it bad that the conflict of interest was disclosed?
it's just Ubuntu 20.04 with Unity7 https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-unity-remix-20-04/1596...
I honestly think there are 2 ways this can go. Either very badly, or very nicely.

If the airlines insist on running full planes, then things are going to suck, and its going to take a long time for them to recover. Nobody is going to want to be smashed up against a stranger for seconds, much less hours on end. And if people fear this, no amount of procedures are going to change there minds.

If the airlines decide to continue blocking off the middle seat and raise prices to compensate, then this could wind up making flying much more pleasant.
I agree, and they have no homepage or anything either. Unity was (is) a desktop environment alternative to Gnome. It used to be the default in 16.x but Gnome became the default in 18.x.

Remix is (I think) an updated, forked version of Unity that is now being maintained and advanced with the latest versions of Ubuntu. This is particularly exciting for me and other Unity lovers because I pretty much only use Unity as my DE. I have been manually installing it as a replacement for Gnome and this update is very exciting. I think Unity is a lot better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLw0Jh-Ab5E
Thank you, I stand corrected. Great idea still.
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In this context, ‘A’ is an instance of Type, and ‘Type’ is the type of types (usually the term used for type of type is Kind). So while ‘x’ could be the value 7 and ‘A’ could be the type Int, the ‘B(x):Type’ means that the value of B(x) is some Type, could be Int, Char, Bool, etc.
> I sometimes wonder if the people claiming to hate client-side technologies or disable JS in their browsers have actually ever had to build a complex website to put food on their table. My bet is the answer is often no, or they are a contrarian in general.

So, this is the kind of thing I make for my employer. But guess what? I can still do things the way I did them back when I learned Rails over a decade ago: HTML templates and a very small amount of JS to tell the server to re-render them when the user needs it.

What many of us really need is not fully dynamic SPA-type things, we just need some dynamic forms and some page elements that dynamically respond to user input. This is all stuff that you can also do without JS, if you design your site to handle that use case! Rails still makes it easy to make this kind of site with plain JS (or a lightweight framework like Stimulus, or jquery if you really want).

But all that's to say I fully realize why and how JS is useful... and that's actually why I disable most JS by default in uBlock Origin.

The problem isn't the existence of JS, it's the fact that massive tools like React become the hammer, and everything starts to look like a nail. There's no reason for the sites I am usually interested in visiting, which are either content hosting sites (no JS needed at all) or sites like my own (that could be enhanced with JS but still functional without it) to pull in so much code unrelated to the primary function of the site.
One feature that would help a ton, that would hopefully be low hanging is to refresh the "Issues", "Merge Requests", and "To Do" count indicators in the background.

They're basically useless right now because I constantly have 6+ tabs open and they all have different numbers and I just now I need to do a full page refresh to get the updated number.
Good. H-1B is an exploitative system that forces people into something resembling modern slavery, at the cost of American jobs and business opportunities.

People who are against this IMO, are mostly concerned with not appearing “racist” or xenophobic in any way. Virtue signal.
We were talking about code and IDEs, not media files.

Code completion, GUI designers and all sorts of fancy features already existed in IDEs 20 years ago.

You claim you have gained productivity, but coding a business app as a webpage or as an Electron app is not any faster than making it in VB6 or Delphi was. And the language were designed designed than JavaScript.
I think there is no cloud service for this precisely because companies mostly don't want to give out their source code. Although many already rent AWS instances for their devs :)

In many companies the build cluster runs on the developers' workstations themselves, which has the benefit of fully using idling machines. The drawback is higher maintenance due to less reliability of such machines.

Would your company accept internal hosting for such a cluster, i.e. paying for the hardware themselves?
What are the "two plots of completely different things?" You have two plots of intensity vs wavelength, where one is spectral intensity, and the other is a histogram binning.

On its face, there's zero reason why these plots line up as well as they do, this goes beyond conincidence.
The hinge is sturdy so in comparison with a laptop you don't have one big contact area with your legs but the bottom of the kickstand and the botom of the machine itself which don't move with respect to each other. The bottom of the keyboard kan move wrt the rest but only in one plane. I don't see how movement of whatever you're sitting on changes much in how the thing sits on your lap. I also don't encounter that when I'm on a bus or so.
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Sure, but the image shows a desktop. I'm talking about differences of the Surface vs a 'standard' laptop when used on your lap.
I don't have time to figure out the correct tradeoff for optimization for each tiny code section of code. Just let the compiler do everything and it might be too much but it won't be too little.

Besides, little things add up even outside of tight loops. Slow code in rarely used areas is still noticeable when that rare thing happens.
First of all, if ~50% of people work in a country (from age 0 to pensioners), they continued to work, and got 2k extra 'free money', they'd have to pay more than those 2k back in taxes, to cover the 2k for people who don't work at all.

If we somehow took 2k/person/month from some nonexisting trillionaire, who has the money to finance it for everyone, then probably yes, prices would go up, because everybody has now 2k/month more to spend.
Now this is a fun idea.

I'd just be afraid we'd have to warn the guy who wrote the article not to put any of them in production.
Yes. It's subsidy for low income job creators and workers.

It should also increase bargaining power for low income workers.
Indeed. I run a IT sweat shop. We only hire h1b1’s. They won’t be out looking for better offers like Americans. If we fire them they get deported. so they do what we tell them without question. Even if it’s illegal. We designed our interview process from the ground up to favor foreign candidates.
No I think it can. There’s so many green initiatives in companies and divesting from coal. I’m not deluding myself that someone is looking at carbon emissions of their supply chains meticulously but the sentiment is there, which means something.
As a longtime germophobe, who is quite sure I have caught trip-ruining flu's and colds on multiple occasions from inconsiderate passengers on flights, hysteria could lead to some real improvements this time. Screening of sick passengers, extreme filtering of recirculated air, roomier airports rather than packing a dozen gates 12 feet apart at the end of the building (LAX), and while I'm dreaming, some social distancing between seats.

They can make everyone wear full-on gas masks the entire trip. Still working on how to deal with bathrooms.

At the very least, airlines can change those shitty change/refund policies that keep people from delaying their trip when they get sick.
This is not a replacement for someone else conveniently creating an API for you but if you're interested in running your own version of this you can probably recreate this with a combination of youtube-dl[1] (Python) and ffmpeg[2] and build an API around that. Youtube-dl handles A LOT more sites than just Youtube[3]

1. http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html

2. https://engineering.giphy.com/how-to-make-gifs-with-ffmpeg/

3. http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html

I wouldn't be surprised if this site was doing exactly this.
Wealth != income.

Gates, Buffett and Bezos are worth a combined $250bn. There are about 210mm Americans over 18. So you can wipe out the entire accumulated wealth of those three and give everyone ... $1,200, one time only.

Not life changing, is it?
No samples, no info, just a straight download link. Hmm, no thanks.
Yes, it's entire possible that the "cytokine storm" hypothesis turns out to be wrong. Here's my inexpert summary of what some researchers believe: A buildup of superoxide radicals leads to a buildup of other "reactive oxygen species," all of which cause acute oxidative stress—notably in the endothelia.

So COVID-19 attacks the endothelial structures throughout the body. Notably the interface between lungs and blood vessels, but also the heart, other vital organs, capillaries, etc. Hence clotting and "sticky blood" is a huge problem.

Unsurprisingly, bad diet messes up one of the pathways the body uses to cleans up superoxide radicals—chronic high sugar and lack of trace elements (zinc, copper, magnesium). And now it seems C19 messes up another pathway, thanks to it interfering with ACE2 receptors. This could be why we're seeing high mortality in people with diabetes, pre-diabetes, and all the other conditions related to poor blood-sugar regulation—obesity, coronary artery disease, dementia, etc.

A good summary at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj2vB_VITXQ
Politically hard most likely, instead of technically hard.
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Any proposal? They change the rules almost yearly to try to patch loopholes. What do you suggest?
It's difficult or impossible for dual parent households working 2-3 minimum wage jobs each to have time to plant a garden or do anything else but drop dead asleep every 18 hours only to do it all over again the following day.
Genuine question: Is that better or worse? I’m assuming the air gets filtered before its recirculated but can the filtering process catch respiratory droplets?
I don't know if there's context which might change my interpretation, but from the sound of it, I disagree. This is only true in a closed system. With many things (especially software), we encounter the same types of problems again and again, so we can re-use the same solutions, which allows us to reduce overall complexity.

A program in 1985 likely wrote its own routines for memory management, math, graphics, and so on. Those add complexity. A program in 2020 almost certainly doesn't. The complexity is hidden behind nice interfaces, and more importantly, it's shared among 1000 different programs on my computer.

We traded inline complexity in 1000 places for complexity in <math.h>. That's not the fair trade that "conservation" implies.

Let's say you have some physics problems to solve. Doesn't knowing Maxwell's Equations decrease overall complexity? I don't think anyone would claim you should only learn first principles, and any other formulation only uselessly pushes the complexity around.
Is there some reason it's unsuitable for that? Or is it just that it takes a long time to build that tooling with any new language?
I read somewhere, that COVID-19 attacks alveoli first, in contrast with other viruses who start with attacking bronchi. It leads to problems with bloog oxygenation, but human body doesn't control for oxygen levels, monitoring instead levels of CO2. So it leads to hypoxia which goes undetected for a some time. Damage to alveoli also goes undetected, because alveoli lack pain receptors.

I'm not a medic, I don't know is it plausible explanation or not (I'm even not sure whether I succeeded to use correctly all the anatomical words like "bronhi" or "alveoli") but I'd like someone knowledgeable to comment on this. I wander if it was true, could hypoxia explain other symptoms, like heart damage.
> A Blocknaive's OnBoard.js Auth based Access Controller for AvionDB & OrbitDB

Sorry, what does the title of this post have to do with the link?

It looks like 1 auth project, not 16...
How are these scraper apps legally possible?
So I was looking into a possibility of writing an app that would do a bunch of operations including data scraping from a popular social network(s) and before writing any serious code I of course checked their TOS and read some legal articles.

- On the one hand, we have Terms of Services that prohibit scrapers from operating
- GDPR
- Instagram shutting Instagress down
- LinkedIn taking hiQ to Supreme Court
- A bunch of out-of-US cases that destroyed scraping companies

On the other hand we have:
- Thousands of mod-allowed browser plugins that do scraping, bot commenting, etc.
- VC funded sites such as PhantomBuster, APIfy that scrape data from Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn etc. on industrial levels using user credentials, without even trying to hide it.
- Marketplaces such as CodeCanyon selling social network scraping scripts for $$$

I don't get it.

Do people not care about lawsuits? Are the lawsuits so unlikely that one can just forget about it and just release whatever?

If I built an Instagram scraper but you're using it, who is the bad guy? You or myself?

IANAL but I think I understand a few things now:

- unless there's actual damage caused, there's no room for a lawsuit.
- TOS is meaningless, because one might as well write stuff like "by visiting this website you are obligated to pay me $5"
- Scraping policies, very much depend on a country (however if I'm in Belarus or China, can I still get sued from overseas?)

Can anyone explain if the danger is real?
>“wow, I didn’t realize you could actually do anything useful with just plain JavaScript in the browser. I thought it was like... assembly or something.”

Wow. These two sentences completely capture modern day Web Development, Javascript as assembly.

>I think there’s a lot of that in front end world today.

In modern Web development, ( and in possibly all area of software development ), instead of making things simpler ( not easier ), it seems we have been building premature abstraction after abstraction.
1. Fine. But then one shouldn't single out one company that maybe doesn't do this. I was honestly interested in knowing if they were caught red handed but so far no references to that.

2.The function (at least the parts I used) now exists as part of Google maps.
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`A` is a type, yes.

Whether `Type` is a type depends on what type system you're working in. If `Type` is its own type, then it turns out you can use that to do infinite recursion (this is called Girard's paradox). Dependent types are often used for proving theorems, where infinite recursion corresponds to circular reasoning—a big no-no. So, in many dependently typed languages, `Type` is not its own type (instead, it's common to have an infinite tower of types: `42` has type `Int`, `Int` has type `Type0`, `Type0` has type `Type1`, `Type1` has type `Type2`, and so on).

However, if the programming language is just used for programming and not for proving, then it's perfectly fine (and quite convenient) to have `Type` be its own type.
But that doesn't play as well in the court of public opinion.

Much "better" for the GOP to do this and claim, "Look, we're trying to keep the brown people out!" And it's good for the Democrats too, "Look at those racists! Vote for us instead!" Neither side has much to gain from doing the right thing.
When Unity was introduced I did not like it at all and now it defaults to Gnome 3, which also feels weird to me. I'm not sure but it feels like it all started with moving from Start Menu to Windows 8 and very large tiles, which was marketed for tablets and touch screens, and seems like Unity and Gnome followed. I never liked this trend and today go with Xfce or LXDE, where I found more practical and feels like a computere, or I am just old fashioned.
Meh. America can tax companies leaving to make it profitable to stay
> Something I would like to see is Prolog/logic programming embedded in a general purpose programming language, rather than as a standalone system.

That's super common, both as bridges to Prolog systems from other host languages and as implementations of Prolog semantics (or a subset like Datalog) as libraries in other host languages; also MiniKanren is available for many host languages.
My job interviews at Amazon (2008). [0]

[0]: https://medium.com/@simon/2008-how-i-got-hired-by-amazon-com...
That seems a bit counter to "Thunderspy is stealth, meaning that you cannot find any traces of the attack". No traces on the computer sure, but breaking apart my screen might be possible to see.
>Reverb is time invariant?

You might want to familiarize yourself with [0]. Time-invariance is a specific property of a system, where the output (for any given input) has no dependency on if the input signal happens now or 1 second from now or 100 years from now (except for the corresponding delay). Most reverb models are, to a first approximation, time invariant, because the effect will have the same sound for the same guitar line, no matter when you play the line.

Chorus, on the other hand, has a (perhaps subtle) modulator to get that warbly (scientific word!) sound. It doesn't feel like a time-based effect, but it certainly is and that makes it quite a lot more difficult to mimic with a system that (as others have noted) boils down to an impulse response.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-invariant_system
You're a decade behind on consoles, 50k animated triangles haven't been an issue for years. Even early PS4 games had more triangles per character, in some cases more triangles simply for hair, let alone the rest of a character.
Completely related to the article but completely unrelated to surface.... what's going on with those product pictures? The blur is all messed up... on the last picture the left side of the surface is gone.
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Use Microsoft Surface Laptop 2 and 3 for work, have to disagree that the only drawback is software. The trackpad is significantly worse on Microsoft devices than Apple fairly consistently. Even the new Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro trackpad, albeit smaller in size, is more sensitive and accurate than the Surface Laptop 3's.
The correlation between global distribution of all experimentally known atomic spectral lines to the Planckian spectral distribution associated with black body radiation at a temperature of 𝑇≈9000K is indeed "funny". The match seems close enough to be worth investigation.

On the other hand the observation that "This value coincides with the critical temperature of equilibrium between the respective densities of radiation and matter in the early universe" seems spurious and is unsupported by anything in the paper.

I would expect rather there is some quirky statistics that happen with the quantum mechanics of orbitals that gives a similar shaped distribution of frequency of occurrence of spectral lines to the Boltzman distribution.

There is probably an interesting statistical story to tell, but I don't see the connection to the early universe as a supported thing here.
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There are just too many "unknown unknowns" for me to really do a good job of contemplating any of it. We might end up like Venezuela, Hungary or Russia, with some of the trappings of a democracy, but not the real thing. If he loses the election and there is violence, who knows how that goes, how much of it there is, and where...

Feels weird to write all this. I'm not much one for "wild" sounding theories, but all this feels like it's coming to a head, and things may change a lot.
Just in case you're wondering if it's just you: no it's not. PL theory seems almost deliberately designed to make even the most mundane things insanely complicated and difficult to formulate or parse. I'm convinced much of the complexity is absolutely unwarranted and only serves to gate the field to newcomers. It makes things so much more painful than they need to be and turns what could be otherwise a potentially interesting topic into something that's more dry than cardboard.
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Unfortunately sometimes losing performance is the correct tradeoff. However it needs to be carefully considered before you just make it.
Rob Conery's A Curious Moon (https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon/) is an interesting read for a PostgreSQL book. I wouldn't say it tries to be an advanced book by design, but I learned a lot of modern SQL from it.

I think the number of people needing truly advanced books is small whereas a lot of people need to jump from beginners to intermediate, or intermediate to advanced.
Lots of tech companies have highly skilled H1-Bs.
There is one category of Knowledge Base tools where you're putting stuff in yourself: Emacs org-mode, Notion, Evernote, Roam etc. There's definitely benefit in that. You could even take notes in the form on Anki cards.

The other category, which is quite under-served in my biased[1] opinion, is the Knowledge Base that grows automatically and is maintained for you.

You learn by spend time on various different articles, some of them you upvote on Hacker News. You do a number of such things all day everyday. Wouldn't it be great if a tool compiled all that information automatically, "your history" if you will, and made it easily available to you? That's https://histre.com/

[1] biased because I'm solving this problem by building Histre.
H1B1 was supposed to be the genius Visa. Not the slave Visa
Yup. And according to the paper it means 18% of modern population couldn't sew a cloth or prepare a simple animal trap.

Sounds like bullshit TBH.
Not related to the topic: I have Firefox set to block autoplay, nevertheless the video in the middle of this article just play when I scroll down. Is it happening to someone else? How can websites bypass Firefox configuration?
I think this is quite good in a strange way. Nobody was happy about H1-B. Tech companies were complaining that quotas were too low. Skilled workers complained that this is a ploy to keep costs down, especially in academia. I've once heard an American PhD say 'I am not afraid of competing with very smart Chinese or Indian scientists. But they are making me compete with 10 mediocre Chinese or Indian PhDs and nobody can win this competition.' So, why not blow the entire H1-B system up and maybe in 3-5 years, once the crisis is over, something better emerges.
SEND THEM ALL BACK.
They write shit code. They lie about their skills. Their resumes are full of lies. Always.
We spend no less than 60% of our day rewriting their shit.
They do the minimum, only code "the happy path"
Fuckers are killing the industry.
Besides they're just slaves to their employers in the USA. Not a good thing for them either.
I was wondering if he could get access to the executive lounges. I'd work hard to find a connection to get in one. Some have hot showers
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