skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Native gaming isn't particularly cpu-bound these days. I wish I could take the overall performance of a 3700 and divide it between four cores instead of eight. IPC is king when it comes to game console emulation.
The retirement home mess is... beyond tragic.

Your info is interesting. I'm in Luskville (just West of Gatineau, a quick 15 minute drive to Ottawa). I've been running my own consultant business for 20+ years, and mostly remote.

Like you and your wife, I am lucky. I still have my income, and in my case I live on a 1 acre rural lot. Almost nothing has changed in my life, even trips to my (remote) grocery store, at worst, tend to have a 2 minute wait to get in.

One thing here ; I don't have cable. I don't read Google News, or News websites. It's been... well, a decade since I've even seen more than a glimpse of a 24 hours news channel.

I've checked a few news websites, but I wonder how I'd be thinking, if I too was 80, probably not extremely mobile, bored, and watching some/a lot of news.

Maybe the real virus, is the News.
Hyper-nationalism is a backlash to globalism due to the recently realized risks of opaque governments exploiting transparent governments.

The intentions were good: Reduce the risk of global nuclear war. The globalism outcome is good for trade and relations with nations that have transparent governments, bad with the opaque.
I'm really starting to despise most OS's for having such an overbearing security policy. I think it's really why I've stuck with Windows for so long. For sure Windows is not as user-stupid as something like macOS, iOS, Android, etc... but for me as a power user it's just about as powerful as I need to be.

I'm not even considering *nix distros here because honestly the market for every day users for something like Ubuntu or Mint is really small, and those are possibly the most end-user friendly.

I hate that macOS is starting to go the iOS route of only letting me run applications that are Apple certified. No, I do not want to open system preferences every time I want to launch something. I am a power user. Put it behind some shell command or something... but have it easily documented and marketed towards people like me.

At least we can still sideload with Android. Some changes to the API like this those are just so annoying. Yeah there's going to be some apps that just need pretty much unlimited access to my device. But that's OK. I've accepted that.
That's basically saying that anything that's not a 100% original idea can not be considered a great idea. There are plenty of things that are built on existing ideas but the execution is part of it.

An idea is useless without good execution and there's no real reason to credit people on ideas, lots of people have good ideas but almost none execute well on it. For example there were plenty of online mapping companies available, but when Google Maps came out they completely dominated because their execution was so good. It's crazy to just reduce that down and say it wasn't a good idea just good execution.
Last time I checked Facebook, Whatsapp and fake news outlets were being used by bad actors to manipulate elections in various countries. If Google holds monopoly in public communication channels, this shouldn't have even happened?
Or a well chosen brand of non-disposable gloves that survive disinfection with it well. Nitrile and butyl don't and are good for incidental contact only, they will swell; latex, vinyl, thick PET and norprene do work for more extended time. You have to be thorough in rubbing so mechanical resistance to that could be important too, making norprene the material of choice closely followed by PET.

(The latter three depend on the brand, some might start to slowly dissolve or harden after many applications due to plasticizer leaching. Always check with manufacturer.)
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
...what would "feature parity" even mean? There's no universal checklist of api frameworks "required" features.

Short answer: no, bc FastAPI makes no assumption about your ORM (bring whatever, use none... your responsibility, your choice - I use sqlalchemy core + databases module for async support, no ORM, but but full use of Pydantic for enforcing schemas, just "divorced" from persistence layer, maybe you don't even need any), or your anything else.

I actively dislike DjangoREST and tbh Django too... but I admit that in combination they can save A TON of time when prototyping something.
It's not pragmatic, its just the bare minimum. It turns out that if you want good support you have to scale your support to the number of users.
In lieu of my final in control systems class, the professor allowed anyone to make a PID controller and present it to the class instead. All the EEs went this route (seems unfair to the others in retrospect LOL) and it was a great experience. Many did it digitally, but I opted for purely analog with op-amps for P, I and D with a summing op amp circuit at the end. This was connected to a pair of power transistors to drive a DC motor (from my lego mindstorm) and some gears to move a stick on a board. The input was a potentiometer with a nice metal knob. Each of the PID also had a pot to control it's own amplification before going into the summing circuit so you could adjust and see the behavior of each element. This was one of the most rewarding projects I have ever done I think, so cool to see it in action.
> The Federal Aviation Administration has said that shooting down a drone is illegal under the same federal aviation laws that make it illegal to shoot down a crewed aircraft.

I get the logic, sort of, but I think this law lacks nuance. No one died, unless the drone fell on them; statutes about property damage and/or manslaughter would cover anything else.
I don't know the context behind "communist bandit", but the idea that a term can't be hate speech simply because it doesn't contain any words that are obviously bad when stripped of cultural or historical context is wrong. The recipient of these slurs likely does have that context and will take that into account when interpreting it.

Calling an African American in the South a "cotton picker" is profoundly hateful even though the term itself seems innocuous.
I'd agree with you, if there were 0 upvotes. Otherwise you're just being subjective and picking a side.
Ask HN: Do you like your desk chair?
I'm in the market for a good home desk chair.

In order of priority, my concerns are: Comfort, Build Quality, Price, Style.

Do you like your chair or do you have any insight into the product category?
Do you really think the world's poorest countries are doing better?

Or is it more likely that they just can't afford to do rt-PCR?

I'm pretty sure their numbers are just massively under reported.
I intend to productionize text generation, and this is a necessary intermediate step. (gpt-2-simple had too many issues in this area so I needed to start from scratch)
What makes it unethical is the "quid-pro-quo". If he didn't expect to get free food for life it would be OK.
My Uber experience in London is never seamless you always end up calling them as they can't find you or wait on the wrong side of the road. Suddenly cancel when they are nearly where you are waiting. Black cabs is seamless with the right app
I wish that people who use the "a few bad apples" quote as a defense (especially when it comes to the police) would realize the full quote is "a few bad apples spoil the barrel."
State your case that the opposite is true. How is the United States doing "much worse" than the UK, for exmaple?
Yes, pretty much: https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960x0/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs...
Try Model predictive control (MPC) and linear quadratic regulator (LQR)
Not all restaurants have menus that are able to easily translate to takeout, and restaurants don’t currently coordinate with producers on what food is backing up in the supply chain.

For example, say that the chicken supply has outgrown its demand. A coordinated food production effort between suppliers and restaurants could ensure that supply of chicken is sent to a restaurant to be processed and sold directly as a raw ingredient, which isn’t something you typically see in a takeout situation. Or the processed chicken could go to a community kitchen or something. Either way, the food is successfully processed and sold/donated instead of being wasted.
It is relevant to remember Kuhn's philosophy of science. Science is often thought as an institution that converges to truth. Kuhn, however, argues this is not true just like an organism gets away with evolving "good enough" features to ensure its survival, science merely evolves into "good enough" state that explains phenomenon of interest. Therefore, it is not necessary for science to converge into something that's close or even relevant to what is actually "true". Read: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/#DeveScie
I don't think it's very alarmist or an overstatement though. An android 10 app is no longer allowed to do what termux does.

I guess with more reading they are saying they need to declare themselves as targeting android 9 or lower until they find a solution. At some point, I imagine, that will not be an option.

To some degree it should also be on Google to ensure that tightening security (or perceived tightening of security) doesn't break valid use cases.

edit: Ok, for some reason I can't reply, but I see the workaround is to write to another directory.
The left invariably requires censorship in order to give the impression of prevailing and being strong. Those who’s interests are in line with their values implement it.
Mine is not comfortable. Will check here for responses.
Exactly. Imagine how much criticism Apple could avoid if they allowed side loading. Heck, make it complicated and require a Mac desktop/laptop.

Even then at least power users would be happy. At least I could load up apps that aren’t approved without having to jailbreak.
Oh yes there is. For one, thinking "desktop" is very very different than thinking "web".

Dealing with "state" is much better/easier/clear in desktop than in web.

An app on desktop, if well made, will be insanely more responsive than a web app. That's one thing - the other thing is there are cases where speed/resources will dictate that the app should be desktop. A simple example is a video editor (such as, the one I'm developing, but that's besides the point). Sure, you can have a video editor as a JS app, but that will be incredibly trivial compared to a desktop app.

I'm not saying that you can't match any desktop feature on to web. I'm saying that some will take 10x+ time and resources (and thus, an insanely higher complexity) than desktop. And some features, they are simply not feasible to do on the web. Let me give you an example: time-remapping for a video editor (one thing that I'm gonna implement soon). This is such a complex issue, requiring advanced caching + lots of RAM + fast rendering, that implementing it in a browser is simply unfeasible TODAY.

As things become feasible on the web, lots of them begin by being 10x+ more complex than desktop (this gets lower in complexity in time), for one thing. And for another thing, that basically means more things that were unfeasible for desktop will now become feasible there (but still not feasible on web). And this cycle continues.

In conclusion - there will always be a place for native desktop apps IMHO.
Austin is still dirt cheap compared to the Bay Area if you're not living in the core area. The housing around where the Gigafactory is going to be is very affordable.
communism has killed more people than any other ideology or regime:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Declaration_on_European...
QuickFIX, a long-standing C++/Java FIX engine, has a Golang implementation:

https://github.com/quickfixgo/quickfix
US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests
That's for a GmbH [1] where you create an independent legal entity. Actually it's 25k and almost 1k in legal fees. Though, you only need an accountant if you have millions in assets or plenty of employees. [3]

However, that's for an independent legal entity. If you want to start a business, you can simply register a business, even online [2] for about 25 to 100 euros. If you don't have wealth to protect you don't need a legal entity anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_mit_beschr%C3%A4n...

[2] https://www.freistaat.bayern/dokumente/onlineservice/7333142...

[3] Actually you can buy an old, empty, GmbH for about 5k but then you lose those 5k instead of having them on your balance sheet like you do when you start your GmbH with 25k.
probably not. but while doing that (takes 10 years), all the execs and VCs get rich while the investing public is left holding the bag.
No, you cannot open source a fraud prevention mechanism. You want to keep it secret.
I’ve been trying to upgrade my desktop since the motherboard is dying and I’ve found that small factor pc (SFFPC) components are rarer and at even more of a premium than usual. Most commenters in various forums chalk it up to the plague, so now I’m hoping once the next generation of CPU, motherboard, and GPUs come out things won’t be as scarce.
But easily worth it if it saves the scientist a lot of time and makes the implementation of their model more accurate and reliable.
It'd be more accurate to say the illusion of type safety.

Under the hood many[0] ORMs simply construct a query similar to my example above and then convert result set of tabulated strings to the appropriate types (usually using reflection).

This means two things:

First, that the "type-safety" portions of an ORM are really located in the "mapping" code, so not really related to querying.

And second: you don't really have type safety. A database schema could change at any time and break the code even if static analysis seems to think it should work.

[0] Notable exceptions are languages that offer type providers (e.g. F#) but I digress
I wonder what the difference would be between a national program vs state specific programs. Or maybe even a national system supplemented on a state by state basis.

I mean, right now, I live in a state that has no family leave, but I work in a state that does, for a company that does. I've got no idea what I'm really entitled to, and it's hard to get a hold of HR to get me a straight answer...
Being more aware of what you share while browsing the web comes with experience and can be seen as a journey.

No tools will help if you don't change your approach and habits.

My main motivation to be more privacy-aware was to be more coherent with my way of thinking regarding to ethical use of personal data shared with a third-party.

This is a story about my approach and tools I use, feedback and suggestions are welcome.
Encouraging violence has clear rules under the 1st amendment which is covered in my original comment.

What does "expressing hate" mean? Why does it matter what characteristics are used? Is it ok to "express hate" based on the clothes you wear or job you do? If you remove the characteristics, then it just says hate speech is speech that expresses hate. It's a tautological and useless definition.
SSNs are apples to oranges as well. I can't see a national ID not being a photo ID, so it'd be more akin to a driver's license--and those do cost money. And the cost will almost surely be higher than randomly generating a number.
> Where in my comment did you see me proposing that "being a fully experienced & knowledgeable software engineer should be a base requirement for all academic research (in any field)"

> I ask that they are qualified to do so.

You need to make up your mind on this one. Are you asking this or aren't you?
Maybe our unwaverable smartphone addictions will finally make war impractical. Unable to put down the phone, but also unable to operate effectively in battlefields because of that phone.

Hey, a man can dream can't he?
> I can't understand why ANY cell phones would be allowed in a military Area of Operations.

Yup.

> And you can absolutely download and allow similar apps with an iPhone.

The article referenced malware, is there malware that can run on an up-to-date iPhone?
You can't blanket ban terms otherwise you'd end up accidentally banning far more false positives than a few podcast apps. For example "corona" is a pretty broad term -- it would be like banning Nazi content but using the word "German" from "National Socialist German Workers' Party" as your identifier then wondering why half the German language videos disappear.

> It would be trivial for a human to find this.

Someone literate in Swedish maybe (to gather the context of those key words) but it isn't humans which do this.

Google are big into automation to the extent that they have machines doing their review. You might consider that wrong but then you have to ask yourself how many humans would it take to moderate a platform as large as YouTube. I bet you that whatever number you come up wouldn't be enough and someone else would say "I found another video that was trivial to find, Google don't hire enough platform moderators!"

Plus it's a pretty horrible job being a professional moderator and spending your whole day reviewing the dregs of society. I've read reports where people who've done it had said it's had a very real negative impact on their mental health.

As I said earlier, fixing problems like this at scale is insanely hard. It's one of those things that might seem easy at a superficial level but it's fraught with errors and you can guarantee that whatever decision the moderator makes (be that human or algorithm) someone will be unhappy and claim it's not fair.
Maybe they couldn’t and just sent the SMS to a lot of random numbers. Those that belonged to mothers at the frontline naturally tried to call their sons.
Actually its worse that I thought!
Google controls 91.89% of the search market [1]
G controls 68% of the browser market [2]
G's android is on 84% of phones operating systems [3]
G has 73% of the search advertising market [4]

These numbers are really scary, if you care about fair competition and a just, balanced society.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/544400/market-share-of-i...
[3] https://beta.trimread.com/articles/16433
[4] https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-gaining-google-search-a...
> Why have the hypercorporatists and hypernationalists not replaced it???

It’s not profitable.

Nowhere near as many people would donate money/time/edits/content to Wikipedia if it wasn’t a registered non-profit - nor would they receive donated/subsidised hosting services from their providers - and if it’s for-profit they would need to run ads - and there’s no money in generic ads so they have to be either content-based ads (which immediately creates a perverse incentive for articles to be edited or biased in favour of the advertiser, which devalues the content of the encyclopaedia - or behavioural/tracking ads, which won’t be here for long due to expected incoming changes in browser handling of cookies and cross-site content) - which leaves behind only paywalling the encyclopaedia - and we saw how well that worked-out for Britannica, Collier’s, and Encarta.

Wikipedia has a high-value because it’s a non-profit - as contradictory as that sounds.
This is the kind of problem that markets should be able to solve well, given a bit of time. We'll see what happens.
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> Are they implying this? Are you inferring this?

It's usually more along the lines of anxious, concerned looks coupled with phrases like, "how long will it take you to learn it", or "well, what part don't you understand", or "Have you tried asking Bob, he knows that".
Study launched into how startups will return to offices – will WFH continue?
Well... yes, but the problem with that plan is that Uber would need VC funding for 20 more year while they try to make the self driving cars work.

I feel bad for the people who got fired, but I also believe is was bound to happen, the current situation with Covid-19 just speed up the process.
The US has been "behind" many other developed countries in areas like paternal leave for quite some time and has not experienced the sort of brain drain you assert. In fact the drain has generally gone towards the US rather than away from it.

It's hard to see why this trend would reverse now.
Vast majority of these offices are small hubs in tier 3 cities occupied by regional tems, or tier 1 cities with multiple offices.
Yet most people get to buy houses just with one credit instead of the multiple morgages in US.
As a counterpoint, buses/railways are imo 100% an essential service for cities and yet they were running empty during the COVID-19 lockdown where I live. I would hate to see them recategorized as non-essential because of a situation that is clearly completely abnormal.
I simply said they were not the same. You and another commenter have incorrectly inferred that I was talking about their victims. Says a lot more about you than it does about me.
I have the 1600. When comparing it to an i7 from a few years ago, although PassMark says the 1600 is faster, the i7 with integrated graphics on a laptop feels much snappier against my desktop with an NVIDIA GPU and twice as much RAM using Manjaro XFCE.

Just anecdotal but I'm still on the fence between Ryzen vs I series.
Are we playing "what censorship is OK censorship" now?

No. It's a game that was played out long ago by responsible organizations. It's just that the tech industry is stumbling upon it these days.

For example, responsible media outlets don't publish information about rape victims or suicides unless there is a compelling public interest.
We need to end the lock downs. It's time we did what we should have done after two weeks of quarantine: open back up, encourage social distancing, sanitation, masks, temperature checks, and encourage the very old and ill to self-isolate (with financial help if needed).
Connect Android Devices with an Android Wear Emulator
You can also make a DIY cloud chamber.
I am not trying to bash Uber, but statements like:

>>Also, Rides had already reached profitability at Uber (pre-covid).

Need to be taken with a grain of salt. There are so many ways to game accounting in general, and even more ways to game the accounting of business unit. So when they say Rides is profitable, it may be true, or close enough to be true to be so. But you should doubt. If a company has $14b in revenue and $8b in losses (2019) and a profitable unit like Rides. That means some other part of the company is lost $8b+. I am sure they spend a lot on delivery, and self driving cars, but do they spend that much.

The reply to this will be "that involved a one time write down.." or some such. But when a company has never turned a profit, its hard to tell when the one time costs will stop.

That said, I believe there is a viable business in Uber. It has just been overvalued.