skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one thing that can be said about lockdowns is that it's not some obvious clear cut "it definitely helps a ton" type of thing. If that were true we should see nations and US states with strict lockdowns do much better than those without.

Instead some places with more strict measures (say the UK and Belgium) are doing worse than Sweden, and Sweden's curve is also flattening. The number of confounding variables just seem too large to make anything close to definitive statements about anything at the moment.
and if I don't know what ZenDesk is, then you're just exchanging one confusing name for another
> Running old binaries is absolutely routine in production systems.

But linking new binaries with old binaries, and at the same time being concerned with performance?

> You're just saying that no one would write new code to use this, and that's true.

No, you're confused - it's not about writing software, it's about compiling it. To not be using at least SSE we're talking about software from before the turn of the century. And it's not software written before the turn of the century, it's software compiled before the turn of the century, and then also linked into a modern executable.

(Hand-written assembly is an exception, but people write assembly for last-ditch optimisations, and if you need last-ditch optimisations why would you be using ancient instructions?)

So to clarify - this is only a problem if both:

1. you're after high performance

2. you're linking against a binary compiled in the last century

How many people do you think that really covers? These seem like extremely disjoint sets of people

> refusing to support that stuff means that no one will migrate their existing system running some old 32 bit code to a modern cloud system

The code does work, it's just not as fast as you may think it would be from a superficial understanding. If you were previously running on a turn of the century processor, it's still going to be faster for you.
Anyone able to run it from wine?
The reasoning I heard was - you breathe on the mask it gets moist and has some mucus on it maybe, maybe its enough for the virus to multiply, making a nice little culture dish, particularly if you wear it all day. I have no idea, this is just the reasons that I've heard put up.
Indeed. And if they're cartesian vectors, you're good. But if that second number is an angle measured in radians, you use yet a different set of rules for the addition.

The conversation with 16 year olds when you explain that their previous teacher who told them that you couldn't add points wasn't lying, but was, perhaps oversimplifying things to make their life easier, is a fun and fraught one.

I've had to reason kids through the fact that a^2 + b^2 is not equal to (ab)^2 or even (a+b)^2 more times than I can count. What's particularly difficult is that, confronted with the fact that 25 and 49 are manifestly different numbers, many still cling to the rule that a^2 + b^2 = (a+b)^2, because of the "law of distribution", which they haven't learned as the "law of distribution of multiplication of monomials over addition, and only that".
There are plastics being made from non-petroluem base chemicals. For example, biodegradable rigid 'plastic' golf tees have been around for a while. I think they can make flexible 'plastic' bags from cassava.

There are other types of materials being researched which could replace some plastics too, like mushroom packaging that can be composted or corn based styrofoam that dissolves in water.
Javascript:

console.log((0.1 + 0.2) === 0.3) // => false

C#:

(0.1m + 0.2m) == 0.3m // => true

see here:
https://dotnetfiddle.net/zVnrNQ

Javascript is such a poor language, there is no even a good way to work with currencies or exact numbers and you have to multiply numbers with a factor to avoid such problems. The worst language I ever used.
Yes, I agree with your point but this doesn't address your previous argument that a 4.6% market share in 2019 of hybrids and EVs combined out of which maybe 2% pure EV will result in a market dominance of pure EVs in 5 to 8 years. Such an exponential growth is no way possible in such a short time no matter how much you love EVs.

Hybrids are easy to justify buying as you don't depend on charging infrastructure or lack thereof but once you switch to pure EV that becomes your bottleneck which rules out drivers who don't have chargers available at their home or at work or who want to drive long distances on vacations with family or who don't have too much money to spend on a car.
In common English, I'm not sure "exponentially" has ever meant 2^x. I think it may have moved straight into English from mathematics already wrecked. I thin the majority of the time I see it, it's being used for x^2 or similar polynomials.

You won't be able to "solve" this until the general population is aware of the differences between those two functions, which is probably pretty hopeless.
Maybe a middle ground, like what Louis C.K did. He was selling his videos for $5 at one point, if I remember correctly - directly from his website, cutting out the middlemen. Yes, one can buy it and send it to all their friends, but the price is low enough that many people would just buy it..
> He just added the word 'coronavirus' next to SARS in an existing sentence to emphasize that SARS is a coronavirus.

That isn't what happened.

He copied a wall of text about Holland, the US, the UK, the CDC, influenza, H5N1, bird flu, Ebola and specifically snipped out the part about SARS/coronavirus and China. (The text he edited in just last month, in bold.)

He basically did the opposite of what he lied about doing.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190331190550/https://dominiccu...
Also, one more question: are there good communities you'd recommend around product managers or those focused on building products?
I learned to always have one database with every custom schema change in, and run my database unit tests (tSQLt is my favourite) on that one database.
I wonder if it's to support the fact that Windows 1.0 bugs were tracked in a text file.

Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200317-00/?p=10...

> The history of defect tracking in the Windows team goes back to Windows 1.0, which used a text file.
> Lightsail: Amazon’s hosting provider (vps, dns, storage)

Doesn't feel like accurate description for Lightsail, nor a useful one. Maybe something like "simplified deployment and billing for some AWS resources, including VPS, databases, DNS, and load balancers"

(listing "storage" as something Lightsail does is kind of weird; of course, it does instance-attached block storage, you couldn't have a VPS without that. critically, it has no S3-like blob storage product, and I think that's what most people would associate the general word "storage" with, but maybe I'm wrong about that).
It sounds somewhat similar to a supercharged two-stroke design like the formerly very popular Detroit Diesels (8V71, 6V92TA, for example). None of those engines were very efficient though.

Also, glow plugs are only used for starting.
I'm always amazed at the complexity of AWS billing. "Why does this cost so much" turns out to be an incredibly hard problem to answer the moment you don't have 100% perfect discipline when it comes to resource tagging.

The fact that there are consultants who specialize in figuring out AWS billing was, in retrospect, a warning sign.
Don't they realize that people will just generate euphemisms?

Idiotic.
Thanks, yes those seem like possible algorithms that would work great with today's technology.

And yes, every time new traffic appears at a 'core' router, entering it into a cache would be another great algorithm. But they do that now, so no patents for us.

I love it when somebody 'objects' to a plan, then proceeds to describe the solution succinctly.
> DUID-LL in DHCPv6 usually doesn't work, except with special configuration, for which I have to boot, configure the PXE firmware (if it is even configurable) and the OS (which isn't even installed yet). This doesn't fly in an enterprise network, where I don't want to unpack, boot and manually configure each and every device.

So again, this happens when you're using products in an enterprise network that don't "fly in an enterprise network". Instead of addressing these products directly for what is obviously a flaw in their implementation that concerns you, you say that this is DHCPv6 at fault. If PXE and your OS don't offer defaults that would make them fly in an enterprise network, they're to blame.

> This is totally different from home networks, where manual configuration is acceptable and usually easier.

Regardless, when a host connects to my home network and starts talking DHCP, v6 or v4, it gets a name assignment corresponding to its hostname. Thanks the RFC 6939 option this could just as easily be based on the MAC address. Whether manual configuration would have been acceptable in my home network case is completely irrelevant to the point.
The Costs of Isolation: German-Chinese Trade Balance
The article fails to address the bigger issue: if enough data is provided and the information becomes clear, what then is the resultant?

Without a genera A.I. (which we are a long way from) how can the process work be done and what will it mean if it can be done? We’d like to think that we’d be more productive... we’d create new and better “things”... but if history is any guide, we’d simply focus on straightforward profit generating bullshit...
Some ideas about this: I have seen more than 200 dbs in rds with around 100 tables each working and migrating just fine. The author explicitly says he didn't dig up what the cause of the slow down was.

About the rails problem he says activerecord always check all the tables in the schema and create a huge 500MB object with its properties. Apartment wasn't able to come to some solution, but that's a rails specific problem.

About the joins, he should have use a reference to current_schema just as he needs to do it to tenant_id in joins

About the serialization of IDs, it all depends on the business and whether they need unique series of referable short IDs and whether uuid is acceptable for them

About migrations, of course, you need to use migrations with dbs on production. You cannot rely in a dev file to match the current state of production db. Been working with a huge amount of production dbs in my life without issues, just by using it

Thinks I don't see mentioned and are important, the need to have a connection pool that allows schema switches, i.e. pg_bouncer

About db_migrations, actually this method works. there are some rules floating around about how to do non-blocking of migrations, but let me tell you. At some point you will need them and it's way easier to do it incrementally one schema at the time, than just do it on the 500GB and failing for some records at some of the last GB

What about two versions of the db running in production? That should be possible. You should be running v1 and v2 and automatically switching down v1 when no dbs are using it
At least you need a Windows OS I guess
Very title of the article has an error. If it has DRM, you're not buying it, you are leasing it.

Agree or not with the use of DRM, I object to buttons that say "Buy Now" instead of "Lease Now" on web-sites.
My favorite was an in depth website about farts. It explained how it was impossible to fart while you sleep because your “don’t pee myself” reflex keeps everything sealed shut. This is why you often let a big one rip soon after waking.

I believed that shit for 20 years ... then my girlfriend moved in and lemme tell ya, humans definitely fart in their sleep.
But why some disciplines have a solid body of knowledge that's used as a foundation to build new things, yet this discipline is just wild cards after some point?

It's not like there's lack of records of knowledge.

Maybe it's like you said, out of ignorance/thought leadership/etc, I dare to add arrogance.
Strange they didn't mention RPA in the article. In fact I think that most of their examples could be addressed with advanced RPA.

I also believe that the leading edge RPA systems do take advantage of some real AI techniques. And that more AI will be deployed in RPA as time goes on.
The story doesn't say, but one could imagine electrically copying the communication in real-time on another wire back to the bunker or something.

Or if the test is deep underground, just walk up to the PDP-11 and load it onto a truck.
I've written two novels, formally published in the UK, self-published in the US. Books available on Amazon, and DRM-free on my website https://gavinchait.com.

Both novels were stolen and uploaded to ZLib within the first week of release: https://b-ok.cc/s/gavin%20chait

Here's how I - as author - experienced it:

- Within the first week someone buys the book via Amazon using a stolen credit card;

- Book is uploaded to ZLib;

- I complained to Amazon, raising both the issue of the stolen work and the stolen credit card;

- No response from Amazon, although they were quick to reverse the charge (I'm assuming as soon as the card is reported stolen);

- I complained to ZLib using their DMCA reporting tool;

- ZLib care about as much as Amazon, and my novels are still up.

I made it as easy as possible to read my work on my website and pay me direct. I released it as a DRM-free epub for use on any device or platform. You can even buy anonymously. Still doesn't matter. Folks like the OP won't support writers.

And, while this won't stop me writing, it makes it impossible to afford to write as often as I'd like. Two years after my second, I'm still trying to save up enough to afford to write my third.

Thanks OP.
Just thinking through this, but if it's an entirely separate environment, just host it on a separate subdomain and the account id becomes irrelevant. If you have a functioning staging environment, you already have the ability to run an isolated environment without issue, this is just a different application of the same idea.
For transportation that's the pivotal interesting measure. Efficiency is for grids etc. For moving energy around, the weight is critical.
Absolutely terrifying. How did he communicate with other peer mathematicians?
I'm surprised to hear this organisation is successfully doing ML speech to text. Is it running 100% of volume in production? Or is it more of a pilot type thing? I know of a French multinational bank that just tried for 2 years to get a ML speech transcription up and running, for transcribing conversations with customers, but due to unreliable results, recently put the project on ice. Their experience was much along the lines of everything discussed in this comment thread.
I used to go with decision trees where possible for exactly this reason. It's easier to explain than a solution that uses PCA, but has roughly the same results.

They are probably not what most people would call ML, but they are simple and solve a number of common problems.
Show HN: My Thesis on Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled Representations
- Not really that hard, and wearing still reduces face touching for most people

- Virus needs a host to replicate. Bacteria may be, but we haven't seen an epidemic of bacterial stuff in South Korea, Taiwan, or Singapore

- really?

- you can make your own masks from old clothes.
Fair enough and I agree there aren't that many of them.

I have a lot of respect for people like your father. That's why I wanted to represent the small town devs who are similar in many ways. I personally am a little sick of the whole scene and constant newness.

I'm learning C++ in my free time because I've become disilusioned with life as a JavaScript developer. I know there are C jobs in embedded systems and OS dev but I didn't know there were still a lot of C++ jobs around outside of games.
...and even in a safe way.
Came here to say exactly this.

There's a level of complexity and nuance in AWS that casual users or those on the outside do not quite comprehend. And honestly it takes quite of bit of experience and interaction to fully understand some of these things. It's not that you're getting charged "twice" for S3, it's that there are separately line items in the CUR for S3 data transfer, S3 storage (and S3 API, S3 inventory, etc.). It's confusing to a layperson but this level of detail is actually quite powerful. You can tune your application to use just what's needed.
The Collapsing Leviathan
Publii 0.36 was released with tons of features and improvements
> we don't help ourselves by using the term as a clumsy proxy for 'substantially bigger'.

I thought about it too and I noticed more unfortunate conflicts in colloquial use. For example "weight" when we mean mass and "phenomenon" when we refer to remarkable events or people. I recognize languages evolve, so I'm not upset about it.

I wonder how prevalent it is in other languages.
My intuition is the same, but I have not found any substantive confirmation for it.
3 seconds for a virtual machine (wsl2 under the hood is hyperv) is quite good.
> CloudFormation (as you should)

A lot of people use Terraform (my shop does) and I've found a good terraform setup way better than CF templates. You can do tags in Terraform too. You should be forced to use their already bad tooling just to get correct cost estimates.
That sounds like something is wrong.

I'm a heavy Ubuntu and Mac user, and wake from sleep is much quicker on Mac (as in it wakes before I open the lid completely).

Multiple Macs, multiple Ubuntu machines (although I've given up trying to get a perfect Ubuntu laptop, so that's desktop only these days)
Your biggest advantage is actually a disadvantage, you have literally enabled your individual customers to boss you around and fork your codebase into a mess of different functionality per customer. Are you a contract shop where you get SOWs to expand your software? This seems like a terrible idea for both product team and the development team, who now need to know what bastardized version of the software each customer is running. What happens when a customer goes "I don't want that update"? Unless you can guarantee that each customer ends up on the same software quickly, this will get messy.
The image thing is big for me. You can literall tell when I switched from a handwritten site to a CMS as soon as started to include images.

I definitely wanted to use srcset to serve a performant website, but i was too lazy to do that manually or to make a script for it.

Now it doesnt matter anymore :)
The human cost of Instacart’s grocery delivery
What part of the Snowden revelations showed that the US government has "direct access" to Facebook and Google data?
It's a stupid headline, but I followed the link to the article and it was fascinating. I was aware of QAnon as a thing after the pizzagate incident, but wow.
China warns U.S. against taking the countries to 'the brink of a new Cold War'
The scary part is that there is a significant contingent of people in tech who believe Youtube is morally justified in doing this because it's a private platform, and therefore and not subject to human rights standards like freedom of speech. Want to criticize an abusive regime? Build your own Youtube clone!
About "being more careful with pets and cattle", I have an example that's more literal than you think: In Germany there have been several Covid-19 outbreaks between workers at meat processing plants, which highlight their bad living conditions. One satirical TV show promptly came up with the idea of also having food labels for the living conditions of the workers, besides the labels for the conditions in which the animals are kept...
I mean, even a mass shooting like that doesn't trigger the paradox of tolerance. It's a terrible tragedy, and a law enforcement issue, but society as a whole is not less tolerant for it -- we all agree, don't shoot up a synagogue or mosque, that is extremely bad form in our society.

The paradox of tolerance would be if we decided to be tolerant of a pro-mosque-shooting political party and they took power and instituted mandatory mosque shootings every Friday. We would have messed up in that case.

It's not, "I demand people who disagree with me on less clear-cut issues be silenced because they're bigots, according to me".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

If we were decent negotiators we'd earn more, as a class.
Find how much your company is spending on SaaS and save money
jaquesm said it's where skills can be "displayed". I think the latest update I made to a CRUD app is pretty slick, but I can't really show it off.
Why is having a blog important for your e-commerce?
Who's Rogan voting for now, remind me?

The truth is that Sanders cut across a different axis than a lot of Democrats.
Oh I want to add, I created an small tool called octoelephant, basically an akka client to parallel issue and merge a query result in thousands of DB. It queries let's say 2000 DBs in 10 secs for regular queries. Throw me a line if you're interested
Ug yes. This is why I always pass -m to commit, at the risk of losing the containing terminal session to forcible closure. I know quitting it is colon exclamation something or other, but it's always quicker just to start from scratch than to look it up.
Minecraft AI Learns to Escape the Simulation
When workplaces were still slowly still migrating to GIT, we had Git and SVN.

SVN rocked because you could run static sites in it, a little bit of jquery and whatever and I was building a ton of simple business productivity tool as single page apps. All with the peralta guarantee of support.
It might -- in this context (and always ;) ), I'd guess that experiment is the arbiter of truth. If they set up a few of them, perhaps with differing cable lengths in order to vary the capacitance, the extent to which they all measured similar results would give a measure of how well the method might measure the cable ablation.

There's a chance that there's a subtle systematic, but my guess is that either the method would work or the measuring device would get smoked, with not much in between.
So you're saying that the doctors and nurses who sacrificed their lives fighting SARS in Toronto and elsewhere did it in vain?
Yes, I want to do the 3rd. Where can I start getting gigs?
Ex-Apple designer targets HomePod with Syng 'Cell' speaker startup
I think this site might want to reconsider using Medium. All of the animated screenshots were covered with ads in Safari on iOS, with no apparent way of getting past them. I had really no idea what they were talking about.
The lessons here can be applied to software engineering as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=099cHWSbAL8
I love mcedit too, I mean come on, it has advanced features like undo, what's there to hate?
I can't read that paragraph as anything other than "I tried to pirate it and failed".
Hey HN!

This thesis was the culmination of more than a year's worth of fulltime research. It was a blast to do, and in an exciting area. I've currently transitioned to a research scientist role at a defense company after completing my two Master's. I'd love to hear your thoughts or discuss anything!

I'm currently working on another DL project in my freetime with some collaborators. The goal is to build large sparse networks in a scalable way: https://www.harshsikka.com/creating-managing-and-understandi...
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Former HTC CEO Peter Chou reveals his next project: a social 5G VR headset
I'm not trying to denigrate nurses (a job that would destroy me, emotionally), but there are more of them and they're in less demand (in general).
How does WFH factor into that?
Survey thousands of SF Bay Area techies found 2 of 3 would leave if could WFH
https://outline.com/uEn3b9
I have a desk with a personal desktop and a basic computer chair. I can put my laptop on top of the keyboard when sitting or put it on top of my desktop tower to stand. I have an antifatige mat for standing since the floor is not carpet.

I think a dual monitor setup could be the only thing that would improve my setup. I haven't gotten around to setting up my desktop monitor to work with the laptop.
These are just the reasons we've been told by the medical folk.
Doesn't that just mean Winnie-the-Pooh gets banned as well?