skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the Wikipedia:
The painting is famous for three things: its colossal size (363 cm × 437 cm (11.91 ft × 14.34 ft)), the dramatic use of light and shadow (tenebrism) and the perception of motion in what would have traditionally been a static military group portrait. The painting was completed in 1642, at the peak of the Dutch Golden Age. It depicts the eponymous company moving out, led by Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (dressed in black, with a red sash) and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburch (dressed in yellow, with a white sash). With effective use of sunlight and shade, Rembrandt leads the eye to the three most important characters among the crowd: the two men in the center (from whom the painting gets its original title), and the woman in the centre-left background carrying a chicken. Behind them, the company's colors are carried by the ensign, Jan Visscher Cornelissen. The figures are almost life-size.

Rembrandt has displayed the traditional emblem of the arquebusiers in a natural way, with the woman in the background carrying the main symbols. She is a kind of mascot herself; the claws of a dead chicken on her belt represent the clauweniers (arquebusiers), the pistol behind the chicken represents clover and she is holding the militia's goblet. The man in front of her is wearing a helmet with an oak leaf, a traditional motif of the arquebusiers. The dead chicken is also meant to represent a defeated adversary. The colour yellow is often associated with victory.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-anatomy-of-the-2-trilli...

Also noteworthy is the corporations mostly get loans, but individuals get free cash. The a lot of the small business loans are really grants, but only if they spend it on payroll, which is another win for the "small guy."
> My gripe with the antagonistic "work is not your family" approach is it sends the signal that the people I meet at work will never be my family.

This seems like a safe assumption? I guess you can marry a couple coworkers in the course of a career but how else are they going to become family?

I don't see that as antagonistic. Work isn't your family. The purpose and circumstances are entirely different. It doesn't mean throw all your coworkers under a bus but the relationship is fundamentally different.
a direct transfer of this concept to text isn't possible because the SotA for text generation is based on transformers, which do not work using latent space sampling. The directly analogous version of stylegan in the nlp world would be vq-vae, but currently it doesn't match transformers in generation quality.

There are other ways to do generative writing though, mostly with prompts.
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That isn't relevant to the parent's question. They were complaining about the lack of open source alternatives to DynamoDB. Cassandra qualifies.
> How are you so sure people will stop complying? Is the risk of opening everything up just to shut it down again really worth it?

I live in California and I can tell you that people are already extremely over this shit. Go out and about and hardly anyone is wearing masks, hardly anyone is social distancing. Some people are trying ... but you are only as strong as your weakest link. It's tough to keep up stringent personal standards when everyone around you has said fuck it and given up.

So I completely 110% agree with the parent commenter that people have already been demonstrating they don't want to comply. I mean, it's human nature. No one wants to be told what to do.

The hospital boat off the shore is completely empty (it treated a total of 77 patients). Most of our hospitals are significantly below capacity.
We've all been sitting around twiddling our thumbs waiting for the apocalypse and nothing is happening. Just crickets. Unavailable unemployment funds, closed businesses, lost jobs.

The one thing everyone is learning from this is that the government will not help you. It doesn't matter how liberal or conservative your state is, or whether you believe most in federal or state governments ... everyone is doing a shitty job in one way or another.

So if the government is not going to do fuck-all for me, why should I do fuck-all for the government?
> but we agree that I should not _stare_

In the radio spectra, we do not. It is generally neither punishable formally in US law nor considered informally to be bad form to hook up an aerial and see what you can hear. There's a whole hobby space around amateur radio, and in the US, it's never been considered the fault of the listener if they hear something the sender would have preferred they not.

Your analogy breaks down because your neighbors aren't sitting passively in their homes while you stare at them; they're having a rave with all the wall-penetrating radiation emitters they've installed. They could cease doing that if they wanted a bit more privacy. Or, more practically, they could take the basic necessary steps to encrypt their inter-device communications.

If I pop my laptop open right now and look at the SSID list I can receive from the dozen houses on my block, am I being rude?
You're describing the status quo before the crisis. We weren't suffering from excess happiness and satisfaction. It's time for something new. The new things are yet to be determined.
REAPER has a great workflow. Its like the vim of DAW.
Ever hear of the term speakeasy? The high school kids are going to be kicked out of their basement bars by their parents who will want it for themselves.
This is a reasonable and necessary response because testing still hasn't ramped up yet. The lockdown's purpose is not only to flatten the curve but to get to a point where trace and test is a viable strategy. It is unfortunate that the US is still only at around half the absolute minimum of daily tests (300k vs 500k) so we still have a long way to go before reopening is actually viable. If authorities wanted to open earlier, they should have increased the testing capacity. Unfortunately, that was not done. It doesn't even matter why at this point and that is a debate for another time and place. The fact of the matter is, we don't have enough testing to reopen in the US. I'm glad at least one county sees that.
I try to learn new things with the goal of:

(1) attaining an intuitive sense for them

(2) memorizing as little jargon as possible (only the amount necessary to look up things later).

(3) making my life richer

(4) making more accurate predictions about the world I encounter

How? It varies. Lots of lectures and listening with no written notes. I had a professor who spoke so quickly I couldn't take notes as he spoke so I learned to listen as learning.

Materially I make entries in a Google Doc which morphs often. The headings change and move around, entries are deleted and modified.

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Precise dates and proper nouns do not interest me. IMHO that's all dry memorization, bits that don't connect to other bits, that's stamp collecting and tantamount to hoarding (which I think is gross, a literal failure of hygene).
The problem with opening up the beaches.. are the congregation of large groups of people at choke points such as crosswalk intersections and such places.

heres an update on Florida..
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronaviru...
If you don’t think Avid / Pro Tools relies / relied on lock-in as much as Apple you weren’t paying attention. It was tied to hardware dsp boxes and iLok dongles for a long time.

Pro tools first big “unlocking” came when they bought m-audio and then would allow a crippled version of PT to run if you owned certain m-audio hardware.
Depending on where you live you might want to work on a living will, and start talking to your GP regarding euthanasia options for when you don't want to live with advanced Alzheimer's. Also consider getting in-house care, Alzheimer is really hard on your family if they need to cake of you.

My father had Alzheimer's he was in 60s and it was so sad to see such a great mind get lost. I was lucky that my mother was expert on this subject and help set the procedures in my home country The Netherlands.

Also have a look if the area where you live organise the Alzheimer Cafés and bring your close family along to get informed about the decease and meet fellow sufferers and their family. It's great, my mother was one of the early organisers of it: http://www.alzheimerscafe.com/alzheimer-s-and-memory-cafes.h...
It seems from the comments that a lot of the readers here equate "let's look at socioeconomic inequality" with "let's make sure everyone has the same socioeconomic outcome by bringing down the people who earn more." This is... a leap not found in this article. The idea is to make sure that we realize the knock-on effects of changes in the workforce / society and take measures to make sure people who have the ability to succeed aren't sidelined because of it. Seriously, some of these remedies should be fairly uncontroversial here:

-Giving people computers

-Making sure people have access to broadband

-Looking at industries with low income workers and seeing if the governments can nudge them into the WFH model, so they can start to realize some of the positive outcomes that presents, which in some cases would be far more valuable to low-income workers. Imagine if a single mother working for $20k a year at an office could do that work from home?

This topic is ripe for inventive ways to use technology to raise up individuals who have been traditionally left out. But for some reason the 6-fig crowd is reacting negative to a headline that uses the term "socioeconomic inequality."
Because they already did it in Shanghai
RDS is fine, but every time I evaluate Aurora, I'm disappointed. As for raw binlog access, that isn't sufficient for external replication, is it?

Edit: Looks like it is now possible to enable external replication.
Très cool. Thank you.
One example, when you install many applications, even automated via cli, it will open a gui progress bar.

Python used to do this, it still may.
> People have been speculating this possible acquisition for years but I don't think it will happen. So not sure what Logic does for Apple that AVID Pro Tools doesn't.

Might be a little ot. But Apple did actually acquired many top visionaries and developers from Avid to Logic team many years ago.
> it also would've been relatively easy for authorities to link a spike in deaths to those events. So far we have not seen the spike take place

What makes you say it "would've been relatively easy" given contact tracing is not widespread in the US and certainly wasn't during the weeks of US Spring Break (ca. mid-Mar)?

In any case, you are mistaken that "we have not seen the spike take place". [0] See, especially, the map "generated by Tectonix GEO and X-Mode Social" about 1/3 of the way down the page.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/florida-spring-break-c...
1. To flatten the infection curve, in order to keep healthcare systems from becoming overwhelmed like those in northern Italy.

2. Thus far, it's worked to keep hospitals functioning. We're doing worse than most other countries (https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/).
I took a drive up the coast from Monterey northbound and every beach access was lined with cars. If there was a parking space meant for cars it was closed with yellow caution tape and cones, but if there was a space to park on the side of the road near beach access it was full.

It seems they've discovered their authority extends to closing parking lots and not much further, and they don't want to arrest people and get their orders struck down in court.
A rock the size of a human head (or, say, a container of seawater) has just as many electrons, protons, neutrons, photons, and other particles going about their business and doing their little dance, following the same equations of motion as our brains do. They're certainly doing it in different ways, but if you're just looking for complexity, there's no shortage of it. The rock might lack some macroscopic structural change over human timescales, but definitely not the seawater.

I think if you take the perspective that the human brain is conscious but not a brain-sized container of seawater, you need to then look carefully for distinctions between them. "Information processing" or "response to environment" is probably not good enough; the seawater is actually doing all of those, with a unique reaction to any possible input, so you'd have to be more specific.

Probably the only recourse you could look for to make the distinction is to say the brain embeds particular mathematical patterns that the seawater doesn't, such as a compact, stored representation of its environment (or its history of inputs), or a future-looking planning algorithm, or both. I personally take this view (I think of qualia, like "the appearance of a red apple", is just precisely what it feels like to read from the buffered [R,G,B] memory array in my head, filtered through image-recognition networks).

But then if you put your hopes on consciousness originating from those mathematical functions, you have to admit that any analogous expression of those functions in other systems would also be conscious, such as animals and robots.

And worse, once you start thinking about math and how flexible it is, how information is in the eye of the beholder and almost any system that follows certain rules can embed almost any mathematical computation, just like illegible scratches to me are information-rich writing to you, you might have to circle back and that there could be very analogous computations going on inside rocks and seawater. And that brings us back full-circle.
Personally, I dropped Skype when they redesigned the app to imitate snapchat or some other dreadful social network that was in vogue at the time. The app used to be clean but then it was turned into an ungodly mess visuals-wise.
Price, as it turns out, is a signal of value. Some of the value might be access to jobs which you may now be able to access from elsewhere, but certainly not all of it.

How many places in the United States have the immigrant communities of the Bay Area, for example? And how do you recreate such communities in cheap places without making them expensive?
> which would include answering any questions you asked about their experience in exactly the same way

That's pretty much the entire definition, yeah.

> means that their "synthetic" qualia are indistinguishable from "real" qualia

And that's the purpose of the definition. It's just our good-old chinese room in a new wig.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

So if your definition of qualia involves an unfalsifiable claim, or other things that we have no mechanism for proving to be true or not true, then it taints all the arguments that spring from your first.
Ack, sorry, can't edit it now.
I object on the basis that (a) the given data doesn't support the policy conclusion, (b) the policy of lockdowns causes extreme harm, and (c) this policy severely impinges on human liberty.

The lack of intellectual integrity here is astonishing. The OP, the BBC claiming these "excess deaths" are automatically COVID-19 deaths, is just more evidence of this. If any person locks another person up, it is legally recognized as a harm done to the victim. The government is the party that needs to justify itself. The constant shifting of policy, predictions, and rationale of the government's policy itself is an indication of the shaky basis of this action.

Specifically, the justification of not overwhelming the health care system, which is chronically overwhelmed anyway, is not compelling. The policy came first, with aspirational goals rather than scientific thinking, which was then back-filled. The government has put itself into a win-win situation: if lots of people die, that provides the justification for the action; and if few people do (which won't be known for a year or more), then the credit for "saving the people" goes to the policy makers. I happen to see it the other way around: if many people die, it shows these measures are useless; and if few do, then the government has caused the people massive harm for no just cause.

The veneration of the health care workers is also disgusting, this ridiculous clapping and so on. These people aren't slaves, they go of their own free will, and there are many jobs ("essential" jobs) that are far more dangerous. The purpose of life is living, not being safe. More mind-programming for the masses.

Regarding your assumption, you didn't respond to my point at all. Nobody needs to seek shelter from me, if they've already decided to barricade themselves in their home.
that is such a specious conclusion, of course it doesn't mean that. you're arguing in bad faith.
Some companies will allow this, but only if it's a covered call or protected put on an investment that you own. The idea is that you're limiting your risk while also limiting the potential upside of the investment.
Ask HN: What's a better solution for file sharing/management in a small company
We are a small team of 10 people with very mixed skills. We need to share content daily and we're frustrated with our current file sharing solution. To date, we've tried OneDrive (ok, but grinds Mac CPUs), Google Drive, drive sync also laggy / buggy / down more often than not - with these two, I'm never sure if my latest changes did really propagate, or what will happen if two people edit the same file at the same time and overwrite each others work through sync.

I'm seriously considering pushing the team toward managing all files in a Github repo, although expect some backlash from the sales / non-tech people. Is Github for file sharing a terrible idea?
What other alternatives should we consider? How do larger orgs manage this chaos?
If you look at the bottom of the Readme in the repo, you can see that this is a fork of that one. https://github.com/200ok-ch/organice

I'm glad to see this, since I was wondering how to search in org-web. (can't use in-browser search to find items that aren't currently displayed)
Good question! No, it doesn't(; Even if you were to use GDrive or Dropbox, all communication would happen over HTTPS.

I'm assuming you're not talking about encryption on transit,though. organice can use WebDAV as a backend, so you're free to use a whole range of free software like ownCloud,Nextcloud and Seafile,but also self hosted dedicated WebDAV servers like Apache or Nginx. More documentation on that is here[1]

Just recently, something interesting in the community happened in this regard, too. qbit started to write a a simple WebDAV server specifically to run organice called gavin[2].

1. https://organice.200ok.ch/documentation.html#org7366d60

2. https://github.com/qbit/gavin
Wait until people find out that 50-70% of the population is fully expected to get infected anyway.
Apple is not in a monopoly position, so it's a perfectly legal move.

As long as they didn't become a monopoly in any specific creative field, it would be fine too.
My own worldview that people are universally people and we all deserve dignity in death? Yeah, I know, what a tragic way of looking at things. I drink myself to death over it.

Even accepting your criticism, the same exact thing is communicable without (a) the unnecessary detail about the decedent’s weight and (b) specific recollections of the event in question. Tradespeople communicate like that among each other because of how grim the work is. I know because I was one before I got thrown in with this lot, who apparently think I’m weird for not being on board with an aborted cremation being communicated in detail because it’s ostensibly a JIRA user story in waiting, if I’ve understood your almost equally distasteful worldview correctly.

I’m looking forward to your startup addressing this issue, since you seem to be so keen on the purity of the engineering discussion beyond irrelevant brain filling on an article about operating systems in the bloody datacenter.
> They might need to intervene with remote work as well.

Do you mean all boundary gateways should censor all information and knowledge, that are past without prior authorisation or a heavy tax, by default? Because that is how customs IRL work.
The human backup: minimizing the bus factor so the project can continue
Happy to hear it! Alex also put together this pretty comprehensive list of tooling in the space which is worth a look: https://github.com/alexellis/awesome-baremetal
I guess it depends on where you are (California is a big state!), but at least here in SF people are still taking this very seriously. Almost everyone on the street is wearing a mask.
>> its on the governments to provide the safety net

That's not really working out now. Plenty of people in WA state as well as NY state are waiting on unemployment claims dating back to March. Fed is backstopping large corp. losses while the every day person gets nothing. WA state is rolling out a "science and data" dashboard that looks like an MS Word clipart project from an 8 year old kid.

Our governments are mostly inept at anything resembling complexity. Something ten times more complicated and difficult like this shows how slow they are to action.

This was foreseeable. The WA state subduction zone report shows that in a simulated catastrophe due to liquifaction / earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, mean time for government intervention for aid-related activities was on the order of 3-4 weeks.

We talk about how large corporations privatize gains and socialize losses; government agencies are quick to act on authoritarian measures like lockdowns but slow to act on remedies to keep them going in an equitable fashion. The only surprising thing ongoing in the nation right now is the degree of ineptitude of our government agencies. Not even I thought they were this bad at getting aid to people.
Many of the services Azure offers run on Windows, these are probably included in the number of total machines.

For example, the managed Postgres service runs on Windows which I didn't expect.
That has zero to do with anything. He wasn’t a Nazi sympathizer, far from. Burden proof is on you and Wikipedia will quickly prove you wrong.

Why are you even trying?
> The hospital boat off the shore is completely empty. Most of our hospitals are significantly below capacity.

I think a lot of people don't realize this. My wife's friend is a nurse shift supervisor at our local hospital. The hospital is practically empty because there are no elective surgeries. They've been laying off nurses over the past month. She had her hours reduced. She's expecting to be laid off soon too.

If the whole point of this is to buy time for hospitals, doing so to the point where they have to start laying off staff members is a pretty dumb way to do it.
Show HN: FocusFH, a tool for remote teams to track their yearly goals
Some types of documents/deeds do require "wet ink" signatures by law - https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/support-services/advice/articl...
Carl Icahn may have found a way around this kind of restriction after the Lyft IPO by selling in a private transaction to someone who hedged in advance of the sale, although it's not at all clear what really happened.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-07/lyft-s...
In this case though, I think it’s okay to have the measure be the target. If people can self-regulate their behavior to fit a certain rate of infection, what’s wrong with that?

(Not to mention the infection rate is a really lagging indicator)
MineTest birthday: running a birthday party on a MineTest server on a Raspberry
For decades the cli interface on Windows was neglected on purpose, and it showed. Sure you could hobble along, but I don’t blame folks who didn’t.
>So they would live in a neighbourhood full of young people.

Do you know many young people who would love to live in a quiet suburbia over a busy city with lots of things to do? They, of course, exist, but they aren't the majority. I doubt that remote work will suddenly make every young person appreciate the quiet suburban lifestyle, and lead to suburban towns being heavily populated by young people.
Kickatarter interests are not re-sellable or transferable. So they don't meet the Howey test.