skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah I'll add to "anecdata".

I've trained myself to not want to add sugar to anything, after a while I stopped wanting to have things that had a lot of sugar in them.

I'll still go for a bit of carrot cake with a coffee on a weekend outing to the shops or something. but my day-to-day activities no longer want sugar in my coffee or tea or Chicroy
Congratulations - you've invented S-Expressions! Fortunately for you, there's a whole family of programming languages[0] that are based solely on this syntax!

If you want to see a mature library that uses this syntax to represent both DOM elements and code, I'd suggest checking out Reagent[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)

[1] https://reagent-project.github.io/
> See how small the number is for Alameda County?

Alameda County is worse per capita than Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan. It's also worse in absolute numbers than New Zealand and Taiwan.
SQS, Dynamo, Kinesis, Complex WAF/ALB/Lambda setups, CloudWatch, etc.
Long, but worth the time.
Yeah I had to google this one - in German IT circles, DAU always means Duemmster Anzunehmender User (Dumbest Assumable User), never Daily Active Users
One non-obvious thing I really like about WebAuthn compared to PwdHash here is what happens when bad guys trick you into trying to give them credentials. I've now implemented all this manually so that gives me more experience of the unhappy paths which obviously are hard to test on somebody else's site (if you don't want to risk getting banned).

Imagine you're signing into https://fake-google.example/ having been tricked into believing it is Google but with various different types of credentials:

* With a memorised password or similar strategy, you give them your actual Google credentials. Game over, you lose.

* With password managers you might realise there is something wrong because it doesn't auto-complete. But you might (for various reasons) give them your Google credentials, after all you've been tricked into believing this is Google. Game over, you lose.

* With PwdHash you give them PwdHash(Google Credentials). Reversing that to find your Google Credentials depends on your entropy choices. For good passwords you win, but most user passwords mean you lose if the bad guys put work in.

* With most "Second Factor" designs including SMS, TOTP, and many dongle designs you give them the second factor and again, you lose if the bad guys planned for this.

* But with WebAuthn its "cookies" (which bad guys can get from the real Google by presenting your username) are themselves site specific. Your FIDO authenticator needs a cookie, and it will implicitly need the cookie to match the rpId, your browser insists the rpId must match the origin FQDN of the web site (fake-google.example in this case) but that won't match google.com so the authentication cannot succeed. You cannot give the bad guys your Google credentials even if you really want to, maybe short of sending them the actual authenticator itself.

[ Do not UPS your Security Keys to bad guys. I think even my deceased grandmother could have figured that out, if I read stories about people being successfully tricked into doing this I may despair about our species entirely ]
> Of course, our markets are heavily skewed with negative externalities and perverse incentives, which is exactly why finance and law are over valued by any impartial measure of the functions they ought to serve in a free society.

Okay, fantastic, now we're getting to the juicy part here. So I agree with you that our markets are heavily skewed with negative externalities and perverse incentives. I also agree with you that these negative externalities and perverse incentives are present in finance and law. I can even agree with you that in terms of the utility functions they ought to serve in an ideal society, it's plausible that they would be commodities rather than this strange realm of both commodity and luxury that they currently occupy. But, I can't agree with you here:

> Finance and law no longer serve to facilitate free enterprise, commerce and national development, but as a means of escaping responsibility and legal jurisdiction.

Finance and law never served to do any of those things. Nor does it necessarily serve purely as a means of escaping responsibility and legal jurisdiction. Finance and law, much like politics, exists to serve empire. In the golden age of expansion of an empire, you see emergent phenomena such as free enterprise, commerce and national development. You may even see people express that such emergent phenomena are the goals of the empire. But I am never convinced by this. The purpose of an empire is furthering its own existence, and once it exhausts the more palatable ways to achieve growth, it turns to less palatable ways.

To reiterate it again, to argue that people would be better off if smart people worked in fields other than finance or law is, in most senses, neither factual or counterfactual, because it doesn't attempt to engage with reality. The reality is that we live in a world that in many ways is not expanding. We live in a world that is increasingly has zero-sum dynamics. When one lives in a world that increasingly has zero-sum dynamics, people start thinking about securing safety and power, which tends to stratify along the caste lines of the professional managerial class, the lines of finance and law.

When you live in an unsafe world, you don't want to try and follow the rules of the game. You want to write the rules of the game. None of this superficial speculation about whether people would be better if more Xs were doing Y actually addresses this root dynamical interaction, or its increasing chaos. And so it would necessarily miss it. That's why I don't think you're wrong. I think you are missing the point.
Learning Git from Novice to Expert
Cloudflare does not have bandwidth limits.
It doesn't bode well for our response to global climate change, either.
Archive.org shows 2004.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040507195550/crypto.stanford.e...

That's the oldest it goes for this site.
The Big Kahuna (1999) ("the majority of the film takes place in a single hotel room, and nearly every single line of dialogue is spoken by one of the three actors.")
All of them.

Just for example in the PRMan 3.9 release notes from 2001, it says under 'Miscellaneous Changes': "Some parts of the renderer now use double-precision floating point arithmetic, to avoid round-off error."[1]

Your model-to-camera to camera matrix needs to be only single precision, usually.

But your model-to-world matrix needs to be double precision to avoid jittering.

So to calculate the former you use double precision and then you can truncate the resulting matrix to single precision for use e.g. in shaders. Everything dandy by then, even for GPUs.

But first you need to get there somehow.

So if you have a gazillion instances in your scene, particles, blades of grass, leaves of tress, spaceships, whatever, you need a gazillion matrix multiplications with double precision to build your acceleration structure and to actually start generating pixels.

It's one of many reasons why GPU based renderers performance goes to shit, particularly on time to first pixel, when scenes of such complexity get thrown at them. Contemporary GPUs have comparatively shitty f64 performance.

Edit: added example PRMan changelog backing up the claim in the 1st sentence. This was most likely considering just xforms. For ray-tracing specific issues and f64 see e.g. the PBR book on solutions to ray intersection precision challenges.

[1] https://renderman.pixar.com/resources/RenderMan_20/rnotes-3....
Don't forget to factor this breaking through to long term care facilities. From the last I looked at this, if it had not hit long term care, the number of deaths would have been low enough that it may have gone undetected longer. (In WA, 92% of the deaths are still folks over sixty! I don't know the numbers for how many of them were in long term care.)

Which is to say, you can't just look at the population death rate and really appreciate just how dangerous this is for older populations. The CFR for over sixty is a staggering 15% in WA. That is ridiculously high and completely masked if you look at all cases.
New construction is more needed?
What a refreshingly simple and wholesome announcement.
I am also just interpreting the copy on the OP, but I don't think it's just a replay -- I imagine they record all HTTP requests and responses, so can echo back the recorded response for any given JS query to server, when it's triggered.

The page linked says:

> Webrecorder takes a new approach to web archiving by capturing ("recording") network traffic and processes within the browser while you interact with a web page. Unlike conventional crawler-based web archiving methods, this allows even intricate websites, such as those with embedded media, complex Javascript, user-specific content and interactions, and other dynamic elements, to be captured and faithfully restaged.

and:

> Webrecorder creates an interactive copy of any web page that you browse, including content revealed by your interactions such as playing video and audio, scrolling, clicking buttons, and so forth.

I think they record whatever HTTP transactions you trigger, so they can be played back when triggered in the replay.
Rent expense is already a tiny fraction of labour expense. I don’t think companies will make a different decision if market lease rents decline 50%. It is tiny on the income statement. They will make the decision based on the impact to labour, as a tiny shift in productivity or retention/turnover could easily wipe out the relatively small rent expense.
> Sure, that's something I _could_ do. but that's drastically more expensive then if I run everything inside of AWS.

oh no! engineering tradeoffs!
I'd be interested to read and talk about an article on Allen Ginsburg's work, I don't think his actions should disqualify any discussion around him.
Cloudflare expands its cybersecurity business in China with JD.com
I think Hacker News needs to believe that bullshit and lying are different things.
And editorconfig
I like the measured and thoughtful response of the Alameda County Sheriff's office. Letting the situation de-escalate instead of making it worse. https://twitter.com/ACSOSheriffs/status/1259974251286683648

Makes you think how come such measured response is made to Elon flagrantly breaking the law, but wasn't shown to Oscar Grant:

According to court testimony and video of the incident, [officer] Pirone pulled Grant and his friends off the train so aggressively that other riders loudly objected. Pirone got physical at least two more times with Grant, kneeing him and pulling him violently to the concrete platform. At one point, apparently angry at being called a profane name, Pirone leaned in close to Grant and shouted back at him, “Bitch-ass n—, right? Bitch-ass n—, right?”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/10-years-since-O...
Would there have been a path of honesty at Theranos such that they would thrive in the age of covid-19?
As far as get it, yes, he does, but currently not everything is at mainline Linux, according to this gist:

https://gist.github.com/mntmn/c1005bd9f4cbc53e71058f0a45084d...
Nice. Thanks to the author for providing this.
The example of 5g is used here to illustrate a whole vast range of conspiracy theories that can be expressed in nearly infinite permutations. If you really can't understand the role that the 5g example is playing to illustrate a class of examples and insist on arguing against just that example specially, you are completely, and boy do I mean completely missing the point and wasting both my time and yours.
Brave in his stupidity?
"It's not illegal" is a shitty ethical basis.
Heterogeneity in secondary infections and [Covid-19] epidemic forecasting [pdf]
People shouldn't be allowed to be too tall either. No one deserves to be 6'3 when the average height is 5'7. The extralegal advantages that come with such height are considerable and worth correcting.
This is like saying I should get to speed because I have evidence that I can probably drive at that speed safely. Even if that was the case, and even if the county was willing to give me special treatment, does it seem right to demand special treatment immediately and deny any requests for clarification? Even if I was a special snowflake how should this policy apply fairly to others in the county so as not to invoke any lawsuits for favoritism?

I like Tesla but the world doesn't revolve around it.
Looks great. I have have a mind to make a VOR + map combo sometime, but I haven't mustered the effort yet.
It seems to be missing items, like others have noted. The best for me was the New Fast Automatic Daffodils Peel sessions. Great session.
There is a huge difference between a book and code that I write. A book can be read once and the reader benefits. Useful software is usually useful for far more than one use. Free trials and demos are how we sell more software. A book? It's hard to have a free trial.

That said, I really have a hard time assailing libraries. Ebooks are sold to libraries at 2-5x the price I can buy the same ebook for as a consumer. Print books are sold at similar prices to consumers and libraries.
Governments do not have rights, period. They exist solely at the consent and continued pleasure of the governed (or should at least). That is to say, every human has rights, because they are an individual human. The rights of people are self-evident and stem solely from the fact that people are human.

Governments have no rights. There is nothing that is owed to them due to their existence as governments. Were a particular set of people not to form a government, no other government could rightfully enter to assert their 'right' to govern.
What the heck happened with .org?
I used always have semi-colons too, but now that my code is always transpiled, I just let the transpiler handle it (and TypeScript does a good job catching ambiguities/unintended code pretty well too).
I think the thought process is generally:

- Even if there is a risk, it’s minimal if they follow the guidelines

- without money, those workers are going to starve

- without cars Tesla goes bankrupt

- without Tesla those workers are going to starve

The reality is Elon is correct in his assessment. You either open the production in the safest way possible (minimizing risk) or you risk catastrophic loss of jobs and inevitably loss of life / livelihood.
Uber/Lyft would owe CA $413M in unemployment funds if drivers were misclassified
If they implemented 2FA, there would be a huge drop in frauds. Since the banks rely on denying blame by blaming customer carelessness and making the client bear this loss, often with high credit interest rates or loan fees, they would lose a lot of $$ by closing off this profitable aspect of their business. Doubt me? They are banks - never forget that.
I have always kinda felt that SOA seemed to be working at odds with Sega Japan a lot of the time! Now I know it wasn’t just me, thank you.
> the forced compliance of his workers

Can you provide a source for this?

I have no idea what (if any) compensation Tesla workers receive while not working during the pandemic, nor do I know if those workers will be penalized for not working - particularly for not working while the factory is open in violation of state restrictions.
How does that image link tell you which specific model they use?
Benedict Evans – Covid and cascading collapses
I think some people who have a very good grasp of physics sometimes miss on biology. That’s anecdotal though and some of the best biologists were also amazing physicists.

But a possible underestimation of the severity of the virus and an extreme desire get to Mars might explain his actions. (I am not saying the order to keep the factory is closed is justified, more in relation to Elon’s Twitter views on the virus)
Nice! I'm glad startup time is getting closer to python. FWIW GraalVM native image was 16ms for me on Windows.
> He spreads conspiracy theories about hospitals over-counting cases for profit

He didn't say that. He said there's an incentive to doing it which is a fact and hospital administrators are pressuring physicians to do it:

> Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators

> Jensen said, "Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it's a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for – if they're Medicare – typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000."

> Jensen clarified in the video that he doesn't think physicians are "gaming the system" so much as other "players," such as hospital administrators, who he said may pressure physicians to cite all diagnoses, including "probable" COVID-19, on discharge papers or death certificates to get the higher Medicare allocation allowed under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. Past practice, Jensen said, did not include probabilities.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fac...

> predicted no cases by the end of April

This was when Dr Fauci, WHO etc were all giving away wrong info. Why are you trusting them but not trusting Elon?

Dr. Fauci:

> Top disease official: Risk of coronavirus in USA is 'minuscule'; skip mask and wash hands

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/02/17/nih-di...

> Don't wear masks:

https://youtu.be/LScHAvufgfM

> Fauci told cruises were totally fine on March 10th.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/douggollan/2020/03/09/fauci-say...

People need top stop calling everything they don't like "conspiracy theories". They are often guilty of what they accuse others of 1000x.
> but the studies show that USD is used about 100x more than cryptocurrencies for crime.

That's awkward, given that:

* "All the bitcoins in the world [are] worth roughly $160.4 billion" - Investopedia

* USD M2 (2018): $16.1T - https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m2

So really, BTC is used at least as much, relatively speaking, for crime, as USD.
Since criminals don't want their activities to be tracked on a public ledger, how did these studies (plural) get performed with any accuracy?
This doesn't do anything to make a weak password stronger, it makes a strong password resilient to being compromised over the wire or by an errant console.log(http_request) on the server.

If the password is so weak that you can just invert the hash then there's not much that can help you.
So that's the real purpose of Starlink, eh?
How do you make sure the secret env vars are only used in server side JS and never in the client bundle? I was working on a Nuxt app and got really nervous about this and never found a good answer.
>I'm in nyc so my perspective is likely a little skewed, but I can't see anyone who can avoid doing so rushing back into restaurants, subways, or really any avoidable indoor or crowded activity. :(

I've heard multiple people in their 30s in NYC say they'd prefer to just get infected now so it's over with since it's inevitable. I also doubt the people packing every park a couple weeks back when the weather got nice would care too much. If anything after being cramped in small apartments people in NYC will be more likely to go out than in the mid west where they have space at home.
Ah, a kindred spirit. I do pretty much the same thing, and also use Terminus 9 in the terminal, where I spend most of my time these days.

I might eventually adopt antialiased fonts when I get a monitor with high enough resolution. For now, on a 96-dpi monitor, it's sharp fonts all the way. I can tell the difference after a day's work. Sharp fonts are easier on my eyes.
> supposedly secret motives of Alameda county officials?

This is an arbitrary goal post. There need not be any secret motive of the county officials to make their reasoning incorrect or the law not right. Their motives could be completely public and still scrutinized and found to be incorrect.
You argue that allowing free commerce on the highways is okay with a relatively small percentage of the population being dangerous to others.

And yet you argue that allowing free commerce in America is not okay with a population that is dangerous to a relatively small percentage of the population.
Ayn Rand wanted to go beyond creating a political ideology and was trying to create a fully fleshed-out philosophy (with political implications).

The politics of Objectivism are basically Anarcho-Capitalism though, and you could think of Libertarians as more moderate, pragmatic Anarcho-Capitalists with achievable policy goals.

Basically, Objectivists largely support Libertarian policies, but argue that they don't go far enough.
Serious question. How did you feel about Uber/Airbnb, all the scooter companies, all the e-commerce companies that were/are ignoring local laws to operate?

Is this somehow different? If so, how?
One Idea for Speeding a Coronavirus Vaccine: Deliberately Infecting People
Jollibee's also has fried chicken with spaghetti! It's a Filipino thing and it's super good. Not sure where they have locations other than California, though.
What Ground Forces Look Like to an Electronic Warfare System
A few hundred cases and no deaths seems...not likely to be true?
The 1024x1024 StyleGAN2 network can generate an image in around 200ms - 500ms. And Artbreeder may be powered by some beefy GPUs, so that might reduce the latency to something like 100ms. Throw in 100ms of server lag time, and it feels almost instantaneous. It's quite a technical achievement!
> I just could not deal with such an opinionated tool.

ESLint is not opinionated.

> ESLint would not let us adjust settings to accept some of our normal convection's and company code style guidelines.

Example?

> I switched to jshint and have lived a much happier life.

JSHint is more opinionated and less configurable than ESLint.

I have to ask, but uh...did you maybe get the names of the tools mixed up?
Newsom wants to run for President, so expect a timid response from him on re-opening the Calif. economy.

Ironically, the Bay Area has close ties to China, so we're probably the closest to herd immunity of any US location.

You can look at the local hospital dashboard and see there's no Bay Area corona crisis - the numbers have been the same for 2 months now:

https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx
This "thought process" can be applied to literally every business in America. What makes Tesla special? Other than having an outspoken celebrity CEO with a strong cult of personality at the helm who has gotten more and more unhinged over the past couple of years (I want to believe as a result of stress, but I may be giving too much benefit of the doubt).
Can't put a drone high up, just under the satellite, and capture the higher fidelity image of what the satellite would have picked up, then train a model top automatically correct the satellite's original image?
> "Trying to save lives" is the new "think of the children". It's the same mentality that gives us legislation like the EARN IT act.

Is not "but what about my freedom" the same thing? This is a nonsense argument.

> But when it comes to COVID-19, I absolutely think Musk is right. Yes he has made some absolute asinine comments/predictions but his general points about suspension of civil liberties, and statements that COVID-19 is not nearly as lethal as we were told...all of that is totally true in my book.

Forget the nonsense and call it for what it is. It has nothing to do with civil liberty. It has to do with money, power, and influence.

People actually suffering and not knowing where their next check comes from, well, we don't really care about them. But when finally the rich software engineers get a little less comfortable, the screeches for freedom would make even the largest eagle blush.