skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other than the Caddy debacle, there was a short-lived attempt to run ads in the output of npm install, which also backfired spectacularly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20786981.

I think if there was a magic button to remove any and all advertising from the internet, most people would press it, consequences be damned. You really need to think hard before hitching your cart to that horse.
T cells found in Covid-19 patients ‘bode well’ for long-term immunity
Someone posted that question 4 hours before you did and it was answered 3 hours ago.
The Pandas CSV reader (Python) is one of the best and most versatile implementations out there. Also very fast.

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/p...
That's a brilliant tip, thank you!
That looks more like it's communicating heartfelt happiness or something. I've never understood it as a hugging face ...
I remember when I used to teach at a kids programming camp part of my curriculum included teaching them to finger count in binary. It's fairly straightforward to understand and some kids would write the base-10 equivalent (1, 2, 4, 8, ...) on the back of their fingers to practice.

Occasionally a camper would ask why don't computers use base-3 instead of binary. In fairness, with 10 trits you could count to almost 60k, way better than silly binary's 1024. I imagine some of those campers went on to become excellent surgeons.
That kind of alternatives help some. But then by that logic, nothing is a monopoly. Your local utility is considered a protected monopoly according to the law, even if they don't also control prices across the border in some other country. Governments explicitly claim the right to exclude "competitors" from whatever they do choose to define as their jurisdiction. If a state and federal govt disagree (e.g. drug laws) that just means you must adhere to the worst of both alternatives to avoid penalties.
I have been stating similar thing on GPU for a very long time.

The GPU hardware is ( comparatively ) simple.

It is the software that sets GPU vendors apart. For Gaming, that is Drivers. For Compute that is CUDA.

On a relative scale, getting a decent GPU design may have a difficulty of 1, getting a decent Drivers to work well on all existing software is 10, getting the whole ecosystem system around your Drivers / CUDA + Hardware is likely in the range of 50 to 100.

As far as I can tell, under Jensen's leadership, the chance of AMD or even Intel to shake up Nvidia's grasp in this domain is partially zero in the foreseeable future.

That is speaking as an AMD shareholder and really wants AMD to compete.
You could make it illegal to price discriminate on software sales. I.e, if you sell a piece of software at one unit price to someone, you are obliged to sell with that price to anyone who wants it.

Obviously that would disrupt quite a few existing business models in software industry, so do not take that as a completely serious proposal.
The Covid-19 misinformation crisis is just beginning, but there is hope
I think the only piece of software I use that’s tied to x86 is the discord native client (which is pretty dumb since it’s an electron app.) This is something I’m (hopefully) not using anymore after quarantine.

Personally I have plenty of arm machines. Part of the reason I switched from fvwm to cwm was because I couldn’t build fvwm on one machine and move it to the other.

In college they asked for x86 windows binaries for lots of the assignments and I always cross compiled from an arm machine (because that’s where I had the toolchain set up and didn’t feel like duplicating it on my x86 laptop.) If you feel stuck on x86 use more FOSS.
Which government? In the UK there's all sorts of effort in the tax system to ensure that commutes to work are not tax deductible.
Microsoft Azure Overbilling
I noticed some discussion around overbilling on Azure, I was wondering if anyone else experienced what user pedalpete (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22489584) and I have?

We have Microsoft collections coming after us for almost $10k in services we did not consume. We were double billed for virtual machines for months. When we escalate it with Azure we we are told to talk to their legal department.

The credit impact and sheer amount will close us down. Thank you all, dire time for us.
I think you need to be careful with choosing to use CSV format.

CSV works fine as long as you are not handling character stings. Character strings get messy as soon as they might introduce commas or characters outside of ASCII.

For tabular data which has character strings I prefer to used the ODF format http://opendocumentformat.org/developers/ (.ods file extension) which has good import and export capabilities from Excel, or Google sheets. If the user needs the data in CSV for entry into another application then they can convert within Excel and handle any conversion problems themselves.
My dream is a book/blog explaining historic processes with Ishikawa cause-and-effect fishbone diagrams[0]. For history, the main branches of the fishbone could be: Military, Economy, Society, Politics, and Nature. So a tentative diagram explaining the fall of the Western Roman Empire would have:

* Military: weakened army (increasing dependence on mercenaries), fights with the Germanic tribes (in turn, caused by the expansion of the Huns).

* Economy: inflation (debasement of currency), decline in the influx of slaves (end of expansion), lost taxation from some provinces (Germanic invasions), decline in maritime trade (Vandalic pirates), decline of agriculture (excessive taxes), drain of money (trade deficit with the Eastern Empire).

* Society: decline of civic virtue (expansion of Christianity), loss of ties with Rome in the provinces.

* Politics: political instability, overly powerful Praetorian Guard.

* Nature: population decline (Antonine Plague, Plague of Cyprian), soil erosion (deforestation, excessive grazing, soil salinization).

Improving the diagram and making similar diagrams explaining other events and processes is left as an exercise to the reader.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikawa_diagram
A long way to go for LGBTI equality in Europe
I think the “Public money => public code” is a stronger (and arguably more interesting) piece of content in the article.
indeed contagiousness is different from mortality, but think of it like this, if more humans are infected at the same time, it'll overload the hospital capacities,
this will
1- make it impossible to ensure proper care, since the hospitals will be overwhelmed.
2- also impact patients who require treatments for other illnesses, since systems will be busy and overloaded with the covid-19 patients.
Can't we do both? Like, the content of the UDP packet is the output of `date -uIs | gpg --sign`.
Could lab-evolved algae help save some corals from bleaching?
Wow that's great, I wonder how they modify the PET polymer, as I've been researching it's not an easy polymer to print with atleast not without the glycol modification which is usually sold as PETG.

Any idea how they are doing it?
it's a great technique, one I used a lot in the late 90's, had a port sequence would ping and that was S/KEY and could run on an nokia or anything that could run java to get the key from the seed. then dydns and could get ssh open and connect. Probably a bit para, but hey, with security it's only paranoid in hindsight if nothing bad happened. Also added extra layer against any zero day upon ssh.

Had it on a openbsd box, firewall script deamon would monitor the firewall logs, pick up the sequence and open ssh for that ip if matched and as sequence was S/KEY, it was always changing. Still cool effective solution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/KEY
I could not find whether this integrates with NFPA etc. to help interpret blueprints (or simplified diagrams). While determining capacity is relatively easy, it could definitely be easier.
How to use Google Places API and get an API key
New law protects US Federal officials from Patriot Act surveillance
“(G) if the target of the electronic surveillance is an elected Federal official or a candidate in a Federal election, that the Attorney General has approved in writing of the investigation;“
Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Wrong on Open-Source
Thank Jobs my Mac does not need Acrobat to display PDF. Besides, Acrobat has become more of an malware virus than a PDF reader.
This is one of the best threads here!

I created a tool that lets you create ebooks from RSS feeds and send them to your Kindle.

I follow several long-form blogs, and I really prefer to read them on the kindle, so this was my attempt to solve this problem.

If anyone else has the same problem, I'd like to get feedback and feature requests!

https://github.com/mcouthon/r2k
Less faithful replica of the Altair, but much more affordable: https://www.adwaterandstir.com/altair/

There's also a very affordable (< $100, including the needed Arduino DUE) workalike that pops up on eBay every now and again...I bought one: https://imgur.com/a/qntqSMG
> They mention Northern Italy right off the bat

They do.. without pointing out that's where the outbreak first originated, or comparing with Southern Italy by offsetting infection dates.

With epidemics the originating location (and the dynamics around it) is the key factor, and their failure to note that is what I'm calling out.
Tutorial: MySQL Change Data Capture with Debezium and Hazelcast
doesn't seem insanely difficult

dont be scared of coding guys, just differentiate between environments: do it for your 4fun project, not prod.
> a) 95% of severe covid cases in Indonesia had vitamin D deficiency (n=780)

Indonesia is a developing nation, with most people still laboring as rice farmers and making $1 - $2 per day.

I'm sure they're deficient with any vitamin not found in rice, which they eat 3 times per day. (Rice is packed with calories, not vitamins.)

Also, due to corona, there is starvation in the cities. In the West, we use automation to ship groceries, but in Indonesia they unload trucks using manual labor. So the lockdown means they can't unload food trucks, or it gets delayed.

Additionally, many people have no income, or 50% of their former low office salary, and Indonesia is not a welfare state, so people cannot afford food at this time. Very tragic example of lower-income group receiving the worst treatment during this pandemic, basically famine.

It's totally unrealistic to expect them to hang on until 2022.
I think the most fun I had parsing a CSV file was when I found out it switched from UTF8 to UTF16 after several thousand lines, as differently encoded CSV files had been concatenated together directly into a single file...
Indeed. I had this argument with some of our non-tech staff countless of times. They absolutely prefer Slack, Basecamp & Co. as separate app. Doesn't matter if it's just an electron container - to them a browser tab/window is a subpar experience compared to an icon in the dock and its own exclusive window. Hardware requirements and the fact that each app needlessly runs itws own browser obviously aren't a concern to them.
A piece of the action: what equal pay means
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Dynamical bias in the coin toss (2007)
How to train a Neural Network to identify objects using your webcam and browser
I finally published a small ML article that I have been working on for the last few months.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-train-neural-network-identify-common-objects-using-sean-dark/

Part 1 should allow anyone with a web browser, a webcam and 15min to do a simple ML project. No coding required.

Parts 2 and 3 are there if you want to go further.

Enjoy.

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#computervision
#keras #python #deeplearning #opencv
#neuralnetworks #objectdetection
China is 1.4 billion people. That's more people than the western world combined.

Once China has "acquired" the technology, it doesn't need an export market anymore for economies of scale. China's internal market is more than large enough for that.

Just a detail to keep in mind.
They are running stock Raspbian. For SD cards, they are using a mix of SanDisk, Kingston and others - consumer versions.

They are indeed using UPS', and the workloads naturally have a low write load.
Noting you can also hook up a console and use it like any other CP/M machine...run WordStar, Zork, etc.
Sounds like 1800 reverse where you could send a short 2-3 second message that’s supposed to be your name.

The other person would get an option to receive a call from <whoever> for $5, but usually <whoever> is the name or code of a location to be picked up.

I must have done this 100 times as a kid. Once an angry man clued onto it, switched my line across and told me off. This is back in the days where mobile calls were expensive and very few kids had phones.
Remember that once you try an email on a service like that, it’s no longer unique to the merchant.
Governments should develop and run opensource systems. That way different governments can collaborate to build better systems through open innovation. Not wasting tax payers money on closed source.

I bet tax and pension systems have the same basic requirements cross countries with some local specifics.
For people who care, it uses reCAPTCHA. I stopped there.
China can almost certainly win a naval war with the US already; or rather, negate the US's naval force projection tool of choice, the aircraft carrier, with anti-ship ballistic missiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-26 - range of 2500 miles
The same processors should be used, I would be surprised if different one would work together. The processor model has to support two socket operation, those are more expensive. Speedup happens only if the running system benefits from more cores. The expected speedup is <2. Operating systems work with this, but Windows may have some weird problems with many core processors.

Gaming builds usually cannot take advantage of so many cores. Even if the machine is running the game and streaming, single 6-core or 8-core processor is enough.
> The only thing preventing China from taking out Taiwan is the United States.

The only thing preventing China from taking out Taiwan is their mutual economic annihilation in case hostilities intensify.

Taiwan's relationship with the US has been at best ambivalent. Do not forget US was close to waving a hand on the island just a decade ago.
It was no single thing. Probably the spark that ignited the flame, though, was this project in 2016:

https://github.com/mewo2/terrain
Is it a sprint or a marathon? If its a marathon, the sprinters won't look so good after the first mile. Although, the sprinters will look great before that.

Aside from that Sweden doesn't look too bad - certainly not as bad as the predictions of the naysayers. They "flattened the curve" and have not overloaded their health system. Many other countries with much tighter lockdowns have performed worse.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-per-mi...

Germany and Belgium are outliers in the graph. They are each at opposite ends of the spectrum with regards to how they count covid deaths.

Note the graph is not normalized for time of onset.
Cool. I have been thinking about this myself recently, and I had a different approach in mind. If you already have a remote (which I suppose is mostly the case with garage doors), why not integrate with the remote directly?

I.e. clone an additional remote, then integrate with the buttons from a micro-controller to open/close. In addition, have some kind of way of detecting whether the door is open or closed, so I suppose the remote can be placed near the motor.

That way you can also easily integrate into your house's alarm system later on if need be, as it's most likely linked to your remote.
For anyone interested in learning more about Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro is a documentary about him that was nominated for an oscar back in 2017.
Would've been a lot nicer if they used the record and unit separator instead of commas and newlines. There are characters made specifically for storing tables like this and they instead chose to reuse characters which might appear in regular text.
> The only thing preventing China from taking out Taiwan is the United States. Europe and the rest of the world is too cowardly to even do anything

As a European, I have to agree. Here in Germany, I am sure the government would do nothing (other than symbolic protest), because it would be bad for German companies (short term).
One of my first projects with the gen 1 raspberry pi in 2013 was controlling my garage door opener by pulsing a optocoupler and that could be triggered via a simple http endpoint that would run a out script It worked well , but didn't quite pass the WAF. So switched to a commercial product that had a mobile app. (zwave/Samsung smart things)
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Like the metric system?
We Won't See Effects of the Bitcoin Halving for Years
This is great. Question - why did you use the relays and not just the GPIO pins on the ESP to short circuit the contact on the remote for a brief moment?
Mortality rate for the coronavirus is about 0.3% - the flu is about 0.002%. These are not comparable numbers. For every person who catches the flu and dies from it, 150 people who catch the coronavirus would die.

This is with the best treatment we can afford given the current contagion rate - if more people were infected, we could not afford treatment for them, and the mortality rate would climb.
Thanks! I think it's fixed now : )
Yes, and we picked a comma. You?
Ah I see, thanks!
> Another aspect of Russia taking crimea is that the people living there to a large extent welcomed it.

Man, are saying this in your right mind? Where do you read this stuff?

People there abandoned their property, and ran! This is what they did.

Nobody openly welcomed it in their sane minds, besides few thousands elderly ex-party members, and alt-right weirdos.

The fact that I hear sentiments like this in the West is the direct proof that Russian psyops truly work.
Nvidia Unveils Ampere-Infused Drive AGX for Autonomous Cars
Reminds me of https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...
I've seen some terrible CSV files where people tried to squeeze hierarchical data into a flat file format. Usually the customer can't provide any sort of schema or documentation because if they could they would have recognised CSV isn't appropriate. This means you are in an endless cycle of fixing the code as unexpected items keep appearing in the data.
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Am I the only who read this as Teenage Mutant?
I think "well-written" is subjective, so how to aggregate it so everyone finds the content interesting?
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One thing that has always puzzled me is why CSV exists, given the ASCII unit/record seperators appear to do exactly what the comma and newline characters are attempting to do with codes which could appear within records, and have been well defined since some point in the 60s.

And here we are, 60 years later still struggling to work out where a record ends...
A creative writing exercise. The whole site is in the same style and contains some pretty amusing stuff.
This is a problem only for unbounded utility, and can occur for both a super happy monster, and a monster in extreme anguish.

Once you make utility which is in a fixed range, Utility Monster disappears.
Anything with a condenser microphone and a wired headset would do, just please don't use Bluetooth headsets. The Bluetooth device is in HSP mode for duplex audio with worse bitrate than a landline phone.
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> US has treaties with South Korea and Japan that make it it clear that the US will defend them if they are under attack.

A quadrilateral nuclear disarmament treaty with Ukraine the US has signed has even more explicit wording, yet...
I don't share your opinion, but thanks for listing it (please do so wherever you can). The left need to remember people like you exist.
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> Do you really believe there are senior devs that are productive without even thinking about it

All the time. I’ve done it myself plenty of times over my career.

> That just strikes me as odd -- maybe they are working on stuff should be given to Juniors?

Would you give a delivery job to a brand new driver or a driver who has done the required route dozens of times and could do it without thinking?
I've noticed a related phenomenon in day-to-day life, especially regarding deadlocking. There are occasions when two parties will deadlock; the classic one is when two people walk towards each other, directly in line, and come to a point where they want to pass without colliding. It happens -- often with comic effect -- when the two parties sidestep at perceptibly the same point and in the same direction, again and again, deadlocking themselves. However, something kicks in after two-or-three failed attempts to resolve the deadlock.

I've noticed similar things at traffic junctions; roundabouts and single-lane roads, especially. Personally, I sometimes do this when I go to open a door that is often, but not always, locked: my hand will reach for the latch, then go for the handle, then back and forth semi-automatically, until my higher thinking kicks in and I realise I've just got to make a decision!

In these cases, I feel as though the cycles aren't weakened, but instead there's some kind of executive function -- that's normally asleep, because it's presumably expensive to run -- which oversees to break the impasse, when needed.
While I completely agree with you, there is a compelling argument for governments spending tax payer money on goods from local companies rather than competing with them. Of course, I don't think I would class MS as a "local company" for Munich ;-). I'm just saying that there are lots of reasonable points of view on this topic.
Everything was always better in the past

Many people say the golden age was the 60s. Or the 20s. Or the 70s. Or the 00s. Or the 50s.

Probably not the 30s and 40s.

There was certainly a change in the 90s, the fall of the Berlin Wall, but pre-9/11, was a major change in western culture, and that feeling of American superiority having "won" the cold war
It has also been my experience that it’s easier to view America from the outside. Though I find this excruciatingly painful to convey to folks that I know who have never lived any where else.
It applies to everything, dates, floating point numbers, strings, etc. What we would consider the basics always turn out to be much deeper than they appear on the surface.
If hibp started using something that guarantees k-anonymity when checking for an email, like their password service does[1], then I think it'd be possible to keep the email unique.

1: https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-v...
I've been using me+company@mymail.com ever since. It works mostly except for the real bad websites that disallow plus signs.

I got two mails telling me I cannot use the company name in my e-mail, they'd file for fraud if I would.

(got resolved by explaining how e-mail works, but still)
Reminds me of taking over channels on IRC :)
I have a similar story: parsing a CSV file that had an unexpected 0x1A byte in the middle. Turns out the file was concatenated together in multiple passes from multiple files using the COPY DOS command, which by default adds ASCII SUB to the end as an EOF marker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_character
Topically relevant (and amusing) username!

http://bash.org/?244321
Why would the US government try to avoid Microsoft? It's a well-known local company. And the government can get a good chunk of the license costs back throughout company and employment taxes.