skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A slightly different perspective of our licensing/copyright approach is there isn't confusion about ownership, so if we were ever to decide on a more permissive license, we have the clean ability to do so.

Zero plans, but this also applies if a company like ours were to ever pivot/shut down: we as copyright holders can just relicense _all_ the code to be more permissive / dual licensed / etc, which is not the case for projects where individuals hold copyright over merged contributions. (Note the opposite is not true: we can't "unrelease" versions of the code already released under a more permissive license, such as how most of our code-base in Apache 2.)

In short, I understand your point, but I think there are actually multiple sides to this issue as well.
But the website did specify a format. Like I said in my sibling comment, a lack of an `accept` attribute (which is the same as saying `accept="⋆/⋆"`) has a conventional meaning from a plethora of legacy use-cases; and that meaning is:

"Give me the underlying data, just as it is. You may or may not understand what it is, but I'm asking you to pretend that you don't, because I definitely don't understand what it is. I'm acting as a courier on behalf of a recipient who wants whatever you give me. All they told me was to get it from you. Please don't try to guess why they want it, or to prepare it for them in some way. Their motivations are beyond our understanding. They just want it. They want what you have, the way you currently have it. Do as little to it as possible, because anything you do may be counter-productive to their unknowable designs."

This is, for one thing, the use-case of file-sharing websites. If you upload something to e.g. MEGA, or WeTransfer, you're doing that in order for something further to happen to it on the other side. The other side may or may not have wanted the file in its original format, but that question is up to them, not up to the sender. The job of a "dumb pipe" file-transfer service, is to take what it's given, and losslessly pass it on to the recipient, so that further steps can happen. And, as such, it's also a responsibility of a file-transfer service to ask the User-Agent to also send the file on to it losslessly, because in this case the User-Agent is also acting as part of the "dumb pipe" transfer process.

Let me put it this way: if my photos were not saving correctly, and someone at Apple asked me to file a Radar ticket and attach such a mis-encoded photo to the ticket... how would the Radar web-app express the intent of "I want the stupid mis-encoded file that you-the-device are using to store what you think is a Photos photo"? Well, our legacy convention is that it would express that intent through `accept="⋆/⋆"`. (Or a lack of an `accept` header at all.)

Note that this is different from an `accept` attribute like "image/⋆". In that case, we know something—we know that the recipient we're acting as courier has the intent to use the uploaded file as an image—so both the mis-encoded file, and maybe HEIC files, are probably bad candidates. One should be filtered out as an upload candidate; the other should maybe be transcoded (just like a RAW camera file would be.)
None of those small, low-profit businesses are receiving benefit from this Federal reserve money.
If IBM's owners didn't want to earn money on their investments, they'd have sent their money to charity directly, instead of buying IBM stock (and would have gotten much better charitable results).

You are confusing the means to an end with the end itself.
I don't think they are digging their own grave unfortunately. The majority of people seem to be Ok with this, and the majority will continue to use these platforms. I still use these platforms even though I hate what they are doing. We really do need some alternatives...
Thanks for the pointer. I truly understand that TimescaleDB is a general-purpose time-series DB and I understand that most use-cases are unique in that it makes sense to make these decisions about what and how to downsample consciously. However, I feel that there is a large audience of people who "just" want a database that they can point their system-metrics collector at (Telegraf), point their dashboard at (Grafana) and just hit "go", much like would with something like Datadog, and have the confidence that they can still scale the database if its ever necessary. Much like ElasticSearch provides default mappings (text/keyword/date/number), this would a great 80-20 solution for the default use-case of "I want to collect system metrics from my hundreds of servers and have a few sensible defaults about granularity, downsampling and data-retention, and only then will I start to worry about whether that data will eventually exceed my one-server deployment."
Except the auditing doesn't have to be manual: https://github.com/flyingcircusio/vulnix
I believe disabling System Integrity Protection actually carries over to everything you boot off the computer.
How come you never hear the last bit from the MMT crowd
The pay in Seattle is generally about the same as bay area pay based on my exp (although people have quibbled with this). We have no state income tax, so wouldn't that be appealing? Texas is hot, Seattle is cooler and rainier, Florida is Florida ;-), everything has tradeoffs. If you just lived ~30 miles outside of seattle you'd be able to get a very inexpensive house and pass the "arguably working in seattle area" test.

My question is still what's the limit on 'claiming to work in <big city> area' when I'm fully remote. If I was working in a vacation house 30 miles away and my company is fully remote, then my tax situation is the same. I'm not moving there, it's my vac home say. Facebook et al need to define what working in the big city means? 50.1% or 183 or 4 days in the city? I know someone who was commuting into Seattle for 1.5 hours each way every other day, working at a seattle company. He's happy working from home now. Would he be working in seattle if he was at facebook?

I want the freedom to live in a cabin in the woods for a month with good internet.
>>They should have had an emergency fund of 6 Months of expenses for emergencies.

Well, many /most don't. Now what do we do?
"We included patients hospitalised between Dec 20, 2019, and April 14, 2020, with a positive laboratory finding for SARS-CoV-2"

It may be the end of the road for hospitalized patients with heavy viral loads but, considering the fact that zinc is mentioned nowhere in the full text, it is not the end of the road for prophylaxis. Early action before hospitalization is necessary... see below.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Zinc does the hard work of inhibiting viral replication; HCQ is the zinc ionophore that lights the pathway. "First used in 1967, the term ionophore refers to the molecule’s ability to bind a metal ion and facilitate its transport across cellular membranes." In order to inhibit viral replication, zinc must enter the cell... HCQ and other zinc ionophores can facilitate this.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4896753/

Pasting my previous comment below with slight modifications:

Hydroxychloroquine is just one of several zinc ionophores that inhibit viral replication. "Zinc Ionophores Pyrithione Inhibits Herpes Simplex Virus Replication"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23867132/

"... the virus replicative cycle can be divided into 10 steps (Fig. 52-1): (1) adsorption, (2) penetration, (3) uncoating, (4) early transcription, (5) early translation, (6) replication of the viral genome, (7) late transcription, (8) late translation, (9) assembly, and (10) release of new virus particles."

If using HCQ as a zinc ionophore which targets replication, "antiviral drug treatment should be started early, before irreversible tissue damage occurs. Such timely treatment is not possible without early and accurate diagnosis, which is difficult for many viral infections (such as infections of the respiratory tract)"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8119/
agreed, seems like running your own server just for a blog is really overkill and has a lot of overhead for no reason
Yeah, I had something similar happen to me with a Swiss bank :( No loans they just emptied out my accounts and stock portfolio (I had lots of FAANG stock)
We Lose a Lot When Podcasts Go Closed Instead of Open – Techdirt
For all of the pearl clutching about the fear of inflation or the devaluation of bonds, I don't see enough consideration of what happened the last time the money printer went brrr for TARP.

CPI stayed relatively stable, the bond market recovered, the money got (mostly) repaid. TARP ended up being a really smart move, even though it would have been better structured if it included a small business / consumer package.

It'd be interesting if this crisis taught us that the harmful effects of monetary creation aren't as harmful as we thought. Looks like it's time to see if this Modern Monetary Theory thing might hold water. It's terrifying but also kind of exciting.
Indeed.

PKD gets IoT,EULAs, and contact law in one shot.

It's similar to when that engineer was investigating his purchased Tesla, and Tesla called and threatened him to not 'tamper with their car'.
Businesses and people are different entities. There is little reason to expect that good advice for one would be good advice for the other.
Ok, we've put printers up there.
I am not complaining about elegant use of language; Use of rich language to express complex and nuanced concepts is a good thing. But presenting the whole matter as "Story" is what I find uninteresting, and oftentimes misleading. Give us the facts, the theories and explanations; but telling it as "Story" does really a disservice to readers, and even seems against the spirit of journalism.
Free multi-node TSDB solution sound cool! I wonder if someone tried to use TimescaleDB as remote-storage for some heavy-loaded Prometheus [1] setups.

[1] https://prometheus.io/
Too bad they went straight to 'blackface bad', withoug exploring what Al did for race reltions in his day. While it is a bit off color now, minstrel shows were a unifying force in a very torn america.

So much history is being lost to those 'reporters' deaf to the nuance that makes our world interesting.
Hi JeremyNT: We've never "changed" any Apache-2 licensed code to TSL-licensed code. And in fact, we've recently basically eliminated most of our enterprise features (read: paid only) and converted them to community features (read: free under the TSL).

So I'm curious: Why do you use only the Apache-2 version of TimescaleDB rather than the Community version?

https://www.timescale.com/products/features

(I realize that I'm saying "TSL-licensed" versus proprietary, because I'm not sure what it means to think of the code as proprietary when it's all source available on github, people can contribute, and 99% of companies just use it for free.)
I had a boss, Joe Chan. My wife is Jen. A nonzero portion of the time, I'd say something like "Hey Siri, text Jen I love you" and would get back "OK, texting Joe Chan I love you".

I've texted Joe approximately never. I've texted my wife 8 times this morning. If there was any ambiguity at all, could you, uh, optimize for the contact I actually contact?
I'm talking about all 'digital assistants' - Google's and Amazons. All people use them for is timers and weather.
You could also look into Sourcehut depending on what your needs are.

https://man.sr.ht/installation.md
Historically / has been reserved for the use of the Unix system (the distribution that packaged it, not the computer you're running on). Local programs were installed to /usr/local. Packages installing themselves in /packagename are making your root directory like Windows' Start Menu. Furthermore, if your, say, Physics department has 20 machines, your sysadmin would install everything on an NFS share, which probably got mounted at /opt. Your sysadmin definitely did not want to mount /this, /that, /theother.

So while /nix is no problem from the filesystem driver, it is completely flaunting established Unix norms.
I don't think they do the notarization for shell scripts and program you build from source. I've been doing large scale software development on my Catalina for quite some time and I observed zero performance degradation compared to previous OS X version.
The UI is way worse than either Aperture or Lightroom, but the editing is powerful, and you can download the full version for free if you have a Fuji or Sony camera, IIRC.
The Steam version is available on Linux
How much further do we let them dig? What line do we point to that they don't erode like the rest?
> Brew never had this problem because they chose a sane path

How so? Taking over /usr/local as Homebrew does is guaranteed to cause conflict. Using a dedicated file hierarchy as Nix does is quite reasonable and there's nothing magical about rooting it at /.
Where do you think the money for PPP loans is coming from?
Zoom Publishes Draft Design of End-to-End Encryption Offering [pdf]
This headline is very misleading. They didn't delete the file from the user's Google Drive - they disabled public sharing for the file.
Gnome gets big open-source patent win
He needs to be, because Apple Developer Technical Support is chronically understaffed.
Because the root directory might be on a very small partition (perhaps only a few hundred megabytes), while other mount points like /usr might have more space; the only things which should be in / are the things which are necessary to mount the other filesystems (perhaps through the network using NFS).

(Yes, nowadays hard disks are much larger, we have things like initrd, and we now make /bin and /sbin symlinks to within /usr, but the parent comment did mention the 90s...)
Businesses optimize to produce goods and services and sell them to the world.

People optimize for health, happiness, and personal utility.

(1) It's reasonable for us to guide society towards different financial goals for people vs businesses. Business failure is part of life (not that we should try to make it happen). Personal failure is catastrophic. The risk/reward tradeoff is different.

(2) You'll notice I'm also not advocating for letting people starve in the streets, if they don't have savings. Help people. Help businesses. We're adults, we can do both.
> It's already largely a charitable service to the community.

Now that they have a deal with Lenovo to have Fedora preinstalled on their P-series laptops, I do think they have a vested interest in creating a market-worthy workstation OS.

I just hope people won't be writing in about it, "Nice try, but palm rejection on the touchpad sucks camel's balls!"
The difference between practically the same and purely the same is minimal.

In China you can easily get around the firewall if you try hard enough.

In American you can easily distribute your video on your own website if you try hard enough.

Do you see how these two things are fundamentally the same?
It really is a great paper, the problem is when your entire field has few real applications but everyone is making too much money to admit that. Cool tech demos like this is awesome as a blog post, but not sure why it's academic...
Upscale, add frames and color old film using free AI software
In the meantime, look into the "Dark Background and Light Text" browser extension.

Solves the problem for almost every site, not just one.
The more businesses are forced to reevaluate their model, the longer and harder the recovery will be. Maybe that’s worth it, I don’t know, but the consequences of a long recovery are going to largely fall on the backs of those same workers.
Transmission v3.00
There are alternatives, but they don't have a free tier.
It will be interesting to look at this by the standard Quality Adjusted Life-Years metric, since suicide is more common among young people who have more QALY to lose than typical coronavirus victims.
That's the ideal, but the reality is that the NSA was collecting large amounts of information on nearly all Americans for years, and the public was completely oblivious to it.

A secret court issued nearly 100% of requested warrants. Some of the warrants that have come to light were blatantly unconstitutional, but because the entire system was hidden from the public, nobody could complain. Even now, legally challenging this surveillance is almost impossible, because nobody can prove standing - the list of surveillance targets is secret after all.

The very existence of this system was secret. It wasn't democratically legitimized. Nobody voted for the system, and the voters were kept in the dark about the system's existence.

This isn't to say that China and the US are identical. They're bad in different ways. You'll be spied on in both countries, but you have legal avenues to protect yourself from imprisonment/etc. in the US. Then again, China doesn't drone strike its own citizens abroad, as far as we know.
Genetic 'memory' of ancestral environments helps organisms readapt
But you can't be 100% sure that the server where the information is sent is not putting in a database your IP, the app you run and whatever else. As a power user I would prefer a prompt before anything is sent.
Looks and feels pretty solid. I would recommend changing the document title, as it still reads "React App"
This resonated with me:
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If you're searching how to do something, the first 5 answers you find are going to be out of date - and they're usually from Unity's own documentation.
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Unity seems to be going in too many directions at the same time.
It is understandable. And it is also easy to define what a "fair" cut is: if there is no incentive to migrate between the regions of different salary levels.
Thanks!

You could block it at the firewall - same as you would for any application.
I built a native macOS menubar/tray app in 2020
I’m in the process of learning some database work and an inventory project we have is using Mongo as its store.

Has anyone looked at or used ArangoDB as a NoSQL solution? It seems pretty decent at first glance with some interesting flexibility.

https://arangodb.com/
https://github.com/arangodb/arangodb
It's not that installing Nix is impossible on macOS, it's just that it has some hard-to-ignore limitations now.

1. Having to create a volume when a plain old directory should suffice is insane. It's creating a hassle for no good reason for users.

2. /nix would be unencrypted by default if kept in a separate volume. There's also the problem of how to unlock it upon boot.

3. Login items is a very common use case so not supporting it would be problematic for many users.

4. Unreliable sleep is an even bigger problem.
Because the filesystem root is the domain of the OS, if tomorrow they decide they are going to create a symlink of /dev/null in /nix because they thought it sounded cooler as a way to "nix" stuff, there goes the Nix package manager.

The OS gives you places to put your files, use them so that you prevent breakage. We have the FHS, so you even have some degree of certainty of where to do it across Unixes.

EDIT: Two downvoted comments answering a "why" but no rebuttal to either. HN is slowly but surely becoming Reddit.
Not only can you modify Linux in theory, it is actually getting _easy_ to do so.

The biggest reason I enjoy elementary OS as a distro is that everything lives on GitHub, package releases happen through GitHub Actions, etc. Fixing a bug can be faster than merely filing a radar in the Apple ecosystem.
Yes, ordinary citizens are different. What is your point? Are you suggesting companies really should keep 6 months of operating capital in the bank? Can you even imagine what would happen to the economy at that point.

The US GDP last year was $21 Trillion dollars. The gross revenue was about $2.1 Trillion dollars. This is all back of the envelope math but imagine if 50% of the difference between those numbers was the operating cost in the US of 6 months, or about $9.5 Trillion dollars. If we take that money out of the market and put it into a bank for a rain day fund, imagine all of the people not receiving that money. Imagine how many consumers would go down. This is all just an estimation but we are talking huge amounts of money not being put into the economy and frankly, our economy runs on consumption. Consumption doesn't happen without capital.

People should definitely safe. Have a 6 month personal supply. But companies need to spend.
I started with QBASIC too.

Except I'd learned Speccy Basic from an Usborne book (Prior to getting access to a real computer) and as a result some parts of my programs failed to work correctly (usually stuff around PEEK and POKE)

It was a while before I worked out that the issue was :-)
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Note that the article doesn't say explicitly whether Google deleted the video from drive, or simply disabled the public sharing of the video. If they only disabled sharing (like they would for spam, pirated materials etc.) this may be understandable.
What is this article actually saying? Sometimes programmers copy-paste things, and that's ok except when it isn't, and something something Van Gogh? Is there more to it that I missed?
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Intel, UPenn partner with 29 health orgs to train AI to spot brain tumors
From the article, it seems like they stopped public sharing of the video via Google Drive:

> In an article reporting on the takedown, The Washington Post’s Silicon Valley Correspondent Elizabeth Dwoskin complains that after the coronavirus documentary Plandemic was censored on social media, some YouTube clips were telling users how to access “banned footage” from the documentary via Google Drive.

> She then notes that after The Washington Post contacted Google, Google Drive took down a file featuring the trailer for the Plandemic documentary.
NASA's SLS Core Stage Green Run Tests Critical Systems for Artemis I
> There are a bunch of people who can't reproduce the slowness at all, but nearly all downvoted or you have to wade through 100's of comments to get to them.

It's possible that they have certain security features disabled.

> The majority of comments are just dumping on Macs, nothing whatsoever to do with the content of the article, and seem to be blindly assuming it's true.

Welcome to Hacker News…this is common on any discussion on any topic, especially one that many people can understand in some way.
Depending on the functionality you want, perhaps a synology (commercial solution) or nextcloud or even a samba box will be a better solution for privacy than Microsoft.
Could someone knowledgeable in pchem explain how this works? I'm guessing that half of the substance doesn't deterministically decay after a specific amount of time. I imagine that the decay follows some probability distribution, which should mean some portion of the substance decays much faster or slower, right? Does some of it never decay at all?
Godot is less featured, but it is so much simpler to work with.
Show HN: Most frictionless note taking app
Using Big Data to Design Gas Separation Membranes
For the record, inflation is currently negative in the US.
Very minor, but it would be great if it changed "option" to "alt" for users that aren't on macOS. Otherwise, looks cool!
To be honest, I've been on both sides of the fence for this one, and it's a tough call:

1. The "periodically cull the bottom" way of doing things invariably leads to a toxic culture with people looking over their shoulder.
2. Conversely, I've been in tech companies where it was EXTREMELY difficult to fire anyone who wasn't outright awful. Over time that can really erode your culture because people who are on the poor side of mediocre hang around and weigh everything down.

The best solution is to always have high standards, but evaluate people against those actual standards, and don't be afraid to take action if necessary, but don't have arbitrary X% cutoffs.
I think it is telling that in Unity world, 2 years is "Long Term". I wonder what cutting edge is? Building your entire game on the unstable weekly branch and crossing your fingers?
Researchers develop high-performance cancer vaccine using novel microcapsules