skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know much about the intricacies of the DMCA process but my understanding is that the counter-notice will put the content back up unless the original filer (in this case, Casio) provides proof they’ve filed suit. Is there anything stopping Casio from sending a strongly worded letter of their intent to file suit if the content isn’t removed? Is there anything stopping Casio from bringing suit, submitting the docket number to Github to have the content removed, and then withdrawing after 30 (or 60 or 90) days?

Somewhat related, are there any transparency sites that track DMCA notices for which a counter-notice was filed and no suit was ever brought? To give the public an idea of which companies are most aggressively using takedown notices even where they might not feel they have much of a case.
Now that this list is on HN, these publishers are probably going to get spammed with submissions. IDK if that was such a good idea?
I strongly object to characterizing this situation as a PR disaster. The problem isn't that TripleByte is perceived as doing something unethical. The problem is that what TripleByte is doing is unethical.
Japan has pretty low rates of obesity and heart disease, that might be related to the low death rate from the virus.
Zen 2 based APUs are coming out really soon. Up to 8c/16t, 65W.
Rebelle is also quite nice. They even have an HSLuv based color picker. Super underrated software only a handful of digital painting pros know about ;)

https://www.escapemotions.com/products/rebelle/index.php
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Culturally the Japanese are more respectful. When one wears a mask, one is trying to be respectful to others. That would never fly here in the USA where people care more about their personal freedoms. Americans don't like to be told what to do.
If the virus had spread in Japan at the same rate that we've seen in Italy and New York, we would know it. We would see it in hospital admissions and the number of deaths.

If early antibody testing is correct, then we don't know the actual transmission rate or number of cases in any nation. Though Japan may be even more opaque because of their astoundingly low testing rate.
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> if thou thinkest ``it cannot happen to me'', the gods shall surely punish thee for thy arrogance

This one is a universal experience. :)
It may not be a pattern that works well in every language, but I have used and quite enjoy this [1] approach from Ruby.

[1]: https://medium.com/rubyinside/building-a-creative-fun-api-cl...
Mothers are closing their companies to care for kids during coronavirus
In my city in Guangdong we still have lockdown and there hasn't been a significant number of cases in months. Pretty much all businesses have been open since March including bars, restaurants, offices etc but the "temporary" fences erected around neighborhoods are still in place, as are the checkpoints and curfews. Occasionally you will find a lax guard who lets everyone through with just a temperature check, but the stricter guards are still asking for proof of residence, not just from me (obvious foreigner) but also from locals.

To be honest, i suspect the movement restrictions are less about the virus now and more about controlling the "low end population" and other working class people. (Middle class people tend to live in gated communities anyway so the government didn't need to put up fences to control their movements.)

In short, China is definitely still being overly cautious, and it's not just up in the north.
- Japan has one of the lowest obesity rates in the world

- Japanese people have no hangups about masks and social distancing

- There aren’t quite as many large, touchy feely inter-generational family gatherings as in Italy

- Even if people aren’t strictly following stay-at-home orders, they might have confidence that with the common wearing of masks and social distancing, they’ll probably be fine, especially in outdoor environments. You know this more than me, but Japanese people tend to have higher attention to detail. They can more effortlessly be aware of situations where they may get infected, and they won’t just say “oh well I’ll take the risk,” they’ll put in the little amount of effort to mitigate getting infected.
Well since you're in early stage in your career, if being a black box, a replacable commodity makes you feel uneasy, you'd be better off exploring alternative satisfying career path while not getting too invested in tech, time wise. Futher down the road you'll see yourself be more a commodity, more burn out, more kids replacing your job with newer skillset at lower salaries.

If the human touch is important to you, there are a lot of careers that you will thrive at, especially with your tech skills that you can apply almost anywhere.
Thanks for the memories :)
Now that I read what you quoted it does sound ambiguous. It doesn't explicitly say that the final interview is non-technical, but "skip technical screening" could be interpreted as implying that.
One-Liner Tetris
How'd you get the nice screenshots of the terminal in the README?
The rockstar's locally inflated salary goes down of course.
Did you have any audiences in mind? Were you thinking a one size fits all or just a larger niche?

Success of CSS themes depends a bit on fashion, so there's some risk that a popular theme will implode by getting too popular and then feel bland, overused. Or shifts in preferred styles making the theme look dated.

The LaTeX approach is sort of an anti-style. It's a uniform. I'd bet that this CSS theme will send the same message (I am an academic, and this content is for academics) for many years. A uniform should actually gain popularity as its used. Although you are correct that the reach of this theme may be limited to just academics who create websites.
HP and Dell made 5k monitors back in 2014, but they were both discontinued pretty fast.
Your approach is great for small teams that can work closely together.

As the team size scales the additional complexity of this architecture let’s teams work More independently.

At least that’s my take on why you’d want to replace a monolith with micro service & serverless.
Seems unlikely. But if they really want to lose paying customers, that would be one way of doing it.
A friend who relocated to Japan mentioned this to me a few weeks ago. I was surprised that I had heard nothing about this in western media, since it seemed like the media was latching on to anything that might offer some hope of treatment or mitigation.

The NY Times did run this article on it in early April. From that article:

“This vaccine has saved as many lives as the polio vaccine — it’s an amazing story,” said Dr. Curtis, who designed and launched the B.C.G. trial in Melbourne in less than a month, hoping to stay one step ahead of the coronavirus’s spread in Australia.

While he described the B.C.G. vaccine as underappreciated, he emphasized that it was “not a specific Covid-19 vaccine.” B.C.G. also cannot be administered to anyone who has a compromised immune system, because it is a live-attenuated vaccine — meaning it contains live but weakened TB.

Dr. Faustman said it should not be used in hospitalized patients with active disease, because it may not work fast enough and could interact poorly with other treatments.

Not everyone is convinced B.C.G. holds much promise. Dr. Domenico Accili, an endocrinologist at Columbia University, said he thought efforts to use the vaccine against the coronavirus sound “a bit like magical thinking.”

While acknowledging that B.C.G. is “a non-specific booster of the immune system,” he said, “we should be able to deploy a more tailored approach.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/health/coronavirus-bcg-va...

I admit I reflexively dismissed it as wishful thinking that would disappear under closer scientific scrutiny. I don't know that that has happened. But it does appear, based on responses here, that there are other bigger social factors at play in Japan's success, if that word is even appropriate at this point.

Outside the odd reference here or there like yours, I still haven't organically come across any big articles on BCG in my usual Western sources (which includes wide-ranging outlets like HN, Twitter, and /r/Coronavirus). I am a NY Times subscriber, but that one slipped by me when it was published.
Google kills apps that have nothing to do w Covid without answer for 12 days
Google designed a marvelous Artificial Dumbness bot that booted my app off the Play Store (seemingly along with thousands of others) because they suspected a COVID-related content.

Spoiler : my app has nothing to do with COVID.
Spoiler 2 : 12 days after filling an appeal, nobody answered.
Spoiler 3 : I was sending 55.000 invitations to all French officials to activate their space on this app. You can imagine my reputation now. Thanks Google, continue not being evil.
Médéric
just because you didn't recieve a reply to that portion of your comment does not mean the commenter is "blind" to those issues
I have a lot of Excel-like use cases for which SQLite would be a great fit if only it had a decimal type.
Even a cursory google search is showing that many things in Japan are/were closed: https://jw-webmagazine.com/places-in-tokyo-closed-due-to-the...

This article is feeling like American propaganda trying to justify giving up on response measures in the US. The most charitable interpretation is that it's factually incorrect in a broad way.
Nah, I didn't mean it like that. I'm a big boy and can handle criticism. It was just hurtful to read a rant about myself from someone I considered kind of an idol before that. It wasn't incorrect or undeserved at all but I just wished I'd been asked my side. I'd rather not identify myself to explain more, especially since Rachel comments here. (Hi Rachel, keep being awesome and ignore the haters!)
That's what impressed me as well about the mask-wearing custom, and I really hope it catches on everywhere now. Over here (Greece) people wear masks to protect themselves (even though they aren't for that), hopefully some will realize that they need to wear masks to protect others.
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I'm surprised, speaking as the maintainer of Krita, to have a first video review already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7oFUmVfiww :-)
I was definitely concerned about this before posting because some of these sites are places that I have written for, so I'm only increasing my own competition. However, this information is all already publicly available and easy to find, so I figure there is no harm in aggregating it.

Many of these sites are major publications racking up millions of page views per month. I doubt they will be affected by a small bump in traffic from my project.
Desktop Android just got better. Now we need a touch monitor with a good pen.
Bangladesh: Ivermectin + Doxycycline Cures Covid-19 patients
Somewhat relatedly, I wonder how Facebook's approach would work in purely practical legal terms. If Alice works at Facebook right now, she presumably has a contract specifying that (a) she earns X money per year, and (b) she is expected to come into the office daily. I guess Facebook can relax (b) unilaterally, since this doesn't put Alice in a worse position than before.

But how can they change (a) unilaterally? Is Facebook just threatening to fire everyone who doesn't accept a worse offer? If it is, how will this fly outside the US, where most places have proper labor laws? Will this formally be an offer from Facebook to "relax (b) if you agree to modifying (a) according to our wishes"? Even that might be difficult in places with strong worker protections.
The difference between Netflix doing this and gyms doing this is gyms rely heavily on people who join and don't go (even specifically targeting that audience), while for Netflix it is less than half a percent of their users.

If anyone is interesting in learning more about the economics and psychology of gym memberships, I highly recommend Episode 590: The Planet Money Workout of the NPR podcast Planet Money.
There’s so much analysis about why this happened or that happened, but I feel like these things are just incredibly sensitive to initial conditions. Some place has a million cases because five infected people flew in and went to a popular club. That place has few because one sick person arrived and just went to bed at home. There’s not a lot of evidence that policy and response is causal.
They declared emergency, they closed schools, they reserved over 10,000 hotel rooms for people with symptoms to recover etc. They use lots of masks.
It is hard to improve things when everyone is on other platforms.

I am mostly on Windows devices, and use a GNU/Linux aging netbook for travelling.

In what concerns this Asus 1215B, everything works, with the exception that the open source AMD drivers were a downgrade from the binary blobs (OpenGL 4.1 => OpenGL 3.3 without video hardware decoding).

However I still kept it around, because although I don't target GNU/Linux as part of my work, I wanted to give Asus the message that selling GNU/Linux laptops might be a relevant business.

Eventually when it dies, I will be Windows/Android and occasionally macOS only user/developer, but I am not using any of these platforms to emulate GNU/Linux, I use them for their own value.
May 27, at 4:33PM EDT.
> That's the point of it I think.

That's kind of censorship. It encourages groupthink. I really don't like it. Has there not been discussions of it in the past?
That just stops you from automatically entering the password. A security key will literally not authenticate in that situation.

Defense in depth is just as much of a thing for personal security as network security.
I think you might be thinking it is a binary choice. Educated decisions can be made to decide if a particular item is worth the lock in or not. For example auto scaling groups in AWS are much faster to set up and maintain than vendor neutral choices. But leaving asg is pretty much the same amount of work as setting up auto scaling anyway. Switching out has cost but not that much. Something like cognito... that’s almost impossible to leave. But more importantly it’s the AWS “glue” between these services that is truly impossible to leave.

I have seen two businesses fail under the weight of AWS billing and be unable to get out from underneath it before they ran out of funding. It’s definitely not something to look at lightly.
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Is there no way to use an LG 5K?

The bad thing about the 8K is needing a $500 video card which also means it's not an option for laptop users (I guess you could with an eGPU
Notmuch: Just an Email System
The bottleneck is typically CPU <-> GPU transfer. If your UI is processing data on the CPU, that information has to be shuttled over the GPU. On a platform like iOS (or MacOS) the core text rendering frameworks are built on the CPU. Text rendering, for instance, is complicated and despite a lot of experience with both native iOS development and recently with compute shader development, I couldn’t really throw out an estimate of how involved it would be to recreate something like CoreText fully on the GPU. And unless you give up CPUs, you’re still left with the problem of transferring data back and forth.

More and more gets ported to the GPU through parallelized algorithms, and smart GPU memory usage — but CPUs still offer a lot in their ability to do generalized computing.

This is why as I’ve gotten older I’ve come to really respect Computer Science fundamentals; the more you understand how to make the most of resource constraints — whether time, or memory, etc — the more magic you can make.
Wacom. The very, very best is a second hand Wacom Intuos 3, if you can get a few spare pens. That's before Wacome started adding all kinds of smart interpolation curves to the tablet hardware itself. My Intuos 3 is eleven years old and going strong. We got it back then: https://dot.kde.org/2007/11/16/art-tablets-krita
How would you know closing park benches or beaches works? Studies clearly show that covid19 is primarily transmitted in enclosed spaces with poor air circulation. This is also common sense, because if the virus was so contagious that it would spread on park benches or beaches then the virus would spread like wildfire in grocery stores. But we know it doesn't because people still go to grocery stores without wearing masks or taking any other precautions and cases are dropping rapidly.
Obesity is the top chronic condition risk factor for COVID-19. Japan has taken strong steps to fight obesity, using coercive techniques that would be politically unacceptable in most other countries. Their obesity rate is only about 4%.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2009-11-10/fat-japan-youre-break...
Ok it’s not open source, but retool is awesome, I agree
It's probably worth reporting your card as lost and to get a new one. They won't be able to charge you then.
Spoken like someone who has never worked a minimum wage (or close to it) job. There is no savings. There is no extra smartphone. There is barely food and rent.
Then then he chose to ignore the very strong point I made. Why?
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23270541
> I am writing on behalf of CASIO [...] The code the repository contains is proprietary and not to be publicly published. The hosted content is a direct, literal copy of our client’s work. I hereby summon you to take expeditious action: to remove or to disable access to the infringing content immediately, but in any case no later than ten days as of today.

The code is not even for the calculator, it's for a "esp8266-12E" which is an arduino-like board. This has more to do with the plastic case than electronics or code:

If you watch the video of the modification to the calculator at the bottom of the article you can see the only thing the calculator board appears to share is a power source - this is essentially a duct tape mod that went to the effort of fitting a separate computer and display inside of the case. If you can find a fork (git links in the comments) you will also notice that it's all arduino code.

Casio simply dislikes the mod because it adds a separate computer to their exam-approved calculator case, turning it into something only suited to formative assessment while being difficult to differentiate from the original. However the repo has pretty much nothing to do with their calculator other than the fact that it was once used on an arduino board that was glued inside of a casio calculator in a youtube video - IANAL but pretty sure DMCA has no ground - their statement certainly seems to be a lie based on the fact that the code is not for the Casio, then again they probably also have no legal grounds against people using their own plastic casio calculator cases for something that's not a casio circuit... so this is quite possibly a willful abuse of DMCA processes on Github to get it illegally removed.

[EDIT]

On closer inspection it should be possible to invalidate the complaint on the spot... the full complaint is included in the article, including a link to the supposed "original copyrighted work":

https://support.casio.com/en/support/download.php?cid=004&pi...

It contains some generic example formulas in a simple looking expression language which I expect runs on their calculators. Not exactly something you could set up a http connection with, and definitely not a "literal copy" of the arduino code in the other repo.
Off the top of my head, magazino.eu and knowrob.org
There's no such thing as selfish in absolute sense, it would still be relative to some threshold. It's the only metric that matters in this case - you have a choice to have your own kid or adopt, you have your own kid. Your motivation for this specific choice is strictly selfish.

I'm not saying it's bad - it's your choice. But, don't preach about selflessness like most pro-natalists do; I climb rocks, and I don't preach about it even though it's less selfish (by harm done) than having kids.
Is anyone knowledgable on the implications of the underlying tech once it gets commercialized? Obviously things like game streaming would be improved.
I have update the README with some basic instructions on how to use the tile map editor. I'll may upload a short video later today, show each feature.
When People Are the Happiest
"Into" means it turns the Vec _into_ an iterator.

Normally an iterator iterates _over_ a Vec or other collection, without moving or destroying the Vec.

There's also iter_mut which iterates over the Vec but allows you to mutate elements in-place.

Those are the 3 big groups of iterators: Immutable, mutable, and the ones that consume (i.e. destroy) the vector.
You're right -- most people's livelihoods don't depend on staying together with their girlfriend.
Is it true that Pentium III was faster than its successor Pentium IV?
Yeah that’s a plausible theory
There is no proper market without all market participants having proper information, and salary information about your peers is typically very spotty.

Evidence: I might be just as productive as a colleague working on the same project in the same company with comparable qualifications, and I would never know if they made 10% more (or less) than me.
I,ve seen the video at the bottom and the guy uses at most the calculator plastic case to house a oled display and a ESP. How can Casio (or someone on their behalf) find any plausible argument to file any complaint at all?

I guess if people had to pay at least one dollar to file a complaint like this, you’d have less.

Also, why did github removed the repo before checking things out first?
Wow, that's one use of the gym card I never considered. Genious.
#3 sounds extremely obsolete. I don't completely understand what they mean, but perhaps they are thinking pre-C89, when it wasn't as common to list the args in function declarations, so the compiler could not always correctly convert the type?

I remember in the 90s some libraries (like X11 headers) would put the types of function arguments inside an ifdef to be able to compile in some archaic place.

Edit: or maybe they are thinking of varargs. This could still be an issue with printf today.
I’ve used a Kinesis Advantage at work for 7 years now. Started after I began to get wrist discomfort once I started programming full-time. It’s been wonderful, and removal of the discomfort and pain is worth the $300 several times over. I bought one for home shortly after. It does take a bit to get used to typing on. It took a few days to get from 6 wpm to ~35 wpm, and about two weeks total to get to ~80 wpm. I can usually type a bit faster on a “standard” laptop keyboard, but 80 wpm is still plenty fast. I’m a Vim user, so I mapped the End key to Esc (keyboard has hardware mapping built-in).

I do experience the stuck-key issue referenced (annoying, but easily worked-around and infrequent), going to look into swapping the PCB as linked.
This was suggested in the US in March and confirmed by Monash University in Australia in April.

We ignored it in the US because our medical community is almost completely focused on treating the most severe cases, people who were already vented. I don’t really believe the big pharma conspiracy theory. I do think that in the aftermath a lot of people will question why we didn’t try broad spectrum treatments like ivermectin on patients BEFORE they were severe, even if it only helped a subset it’s a lot cheaper than venting!
Either the bodies pile up or they don't. No bodies no crisis.