skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you’re feeling is what real scientific research feels like in real time.

We spend so much time in science classes learning what past scientists have already proven correct, and people come to believe that that is how science is in general: correct.

But working researchers spend most of their time not knowing what is correct, and sometimes not even knowing how to measure correctness. They wallow in uncertainty; that’s what makes it research.
I am firmly in the "ugh" camp. I strongly suspect that the fawning that occurs over pipelines is because of sentimentality more than practicality. Extracting information from text using a regular expression is fragile. Writing fragile code brings me absolutely no joy as a programmer - unless I am trying to flex my regex skills.

If you really look at how pipelines are typically used is: lines are analogous to objects and [whatever the executable happens to use] delimiters are analogous to fields. Piping bare objects ("plain old shell objects") makes far more sense, involves far less typing and is far less fragile.
> Since so few of them are, I assume that it's not beneficial.
> If the government wants this, it should pay station owners to do it.

Cause and effect. It would be profitable if there were enough BEVs, and there would be enough BEVs if people weren’t afraid they might not be able to find somewhere to recharge.

At least, that’s the logic.
This is also where it is important to point out German culture.

Germans are extremely law abiding and rule following. People are also generally worried breaking social norms.

So while it is technically possible for photographers to digitally alter photos before upload, there will be very few who would dare to do that.

Photographers rely on the revenue from passport photos for their businesses to survive. Initially the plan was to exclude professional photographers too but the government backtracked on that after outcry.
I've tried this feature out and found that it doesn't do as good a job of blurring faces as I'd like, especially when those faces take up more of the frame. I posted some pictures here:

http://lelandbatey.com/projects/signal_blur_comparison/

Basically, I think they're using a constant blur size which fails to adequately obscure faces that take up a lot of the image because when a face takes up a lot of the image then the features of that face become large, which would require even MORE blurring to obscure. And they're not doing "more blurring" when the area which needs blurring grows, or at least they aren't doing enough additional blurring.
Well, I do run possibly unencrypted smtp on port 25, because I want to receive all my email, not just a tiny fraction of it. Most mails will use smtp and starttls, some plaintext smtp. Nothing uses smtps on 465...

Oh, and the smtp submission port 587 of course still uses starttls, which, together with mandatory authentication on that port, also makes for wonderful misconfiguration opportunities on the server. Of course in addition to clients stupidly sending auth over plaintext on 587.
As one data point, I run small online retail business and saw sales utterly rocket worldwide during this event. At the peak of the lockdowns, I saw a 200% increase in sales. I’m in the musical instrument accessories business. My wife has a retail business as well (photography accessories) which also saw large gains. In the last week or so, things have nearly normalized.
They really should have offered dollar-for-dollar grants to landlords who forgave rents. (Or dollar-for-dollar property tax discounts.)

I own commercial property in 94089. We didn't charge our tenants rent in April and May. They received $44,000 in stimulus and grant money--each. We received zero. Weren't eligible for anything.

Fortunately, we have no mortgage to cover. But we do have a $50,000 property tax bill coming due. There's no relief for property tax.
As mentioned it's most likely more tests, especially in Västra Götaland where almost half of the new cases came from yesterday. The hospital metrics such as patients in the hospital and patients in intensive care are slowly going down, in that region as well. You can see that in the first graph here. https://www.vgregion.se/covid-19-corona/statistik-covid-19-i...
The value is that even given this, they're much more reliable than preprints, and much much more reliable than sensational Twitter threads or public forums. They manage to filter out a tremendous amount of crap, but a sufficiently crafty and dishonest author can still sometimes slip past -- as is possible in any system.
>Apple supported their devices with software updates for longer than the majority of other vendors

The situation is exactly the opposite when it comes to computers/laptops. I can still have latest version of Windows on my father's 2011 laptop.

Secondly, this whole 'loss is image' is a giant smoke screen. Consider that you can repair a BMW in a random garage with unauthorised parts and incompetent repairmen - and you might even die as a result. Does BMW's image suffer? Is their brand worth nothing?

The consumer can comprehend the consequences of repairing his device where he chooses, this is not medical equipment. Using copyright to restrict repairs is a bastardisation of copyright law - it's intended purpose is wholly different.
> So the guys who built golang did it because they had this cool idea for creating coroutines using channels.

Communicating sequential processes is an "old" idea. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proce...
But a bad blur doesn't. That's why your parent comment asks what kind of blur they use.

Edit: Turns out it's a 25px Gaussian blur. There's some downsampling beforehand, but not much, and no color discretization. In other words, they use a bad blur, but compensate with a large security margin. I wouldn't be surprised if this was vulnerable to "if I have a thousand photos of faces and I think one of them matches the blurred face, I can figure out which one with high confidence", and they can get basically the same aesthetic effect if they heavily pixelate and discretize colors before blurring.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23415600
It's not that they're good at picking their government, but that this is the best of awful alternatives. And everyone is capable of being taken in by sufficiently convincing lies. Do we give up and give the liars free rein or do we try to improve the situation? The simplest rough cut to improve the situation is to remove the voices of parties whose interests are clearly aligned against the citizens' making a wise choice. Does Putin want America to be misgoverned? Then maybe he shouldn't be free to spread lies during the election.
Sorry for not responding sooner. Dog demanded attention.

I was honestly hoping something a little more detailed so you will need to excuse me for relying on publicly available data. I am focusing on IL, because some that data was already pulled by other posters and it happens to be my state.

Share of taxpayer debt in IL as of 2014 was $28,600[1]. It did not decrease since then, but we will use it for calculations. As you can imagine, that starting point is not exactly conducive to suggesting tax increase of any kind without some details regarding where exactly those funds are coming from.

Now, CPD funding in 2018 was $1,600,000,000.00. In 2018 CPD had 13,500 employees. Median salary for officers in IL is $75,720 ( and higher in Chicago, but we will run with it ). Based on that employee cost was $1,022,220,000.00

You are proposing starting salary of $300,000 with a difference from 2018 median of $224,280 resulting in almost tripling employee CPD cost to $3,027,780,000.00

That number adds $1123.91 per resident using 2019 Chicago population of 2,693,976 ( sourced from wiki ) or $2,698.77 per tax payer ( I could not find good info on net payer vs net taker, but maybe that would needlessly complicate it ).

So your proposal puts the tax payer further in the hole with share of tax payer debt in IL rising to $31,298.77

Again, not an easy sell, but maybe there is a greater good to be gained. So what does the tax payer get out of this deal? It is an honest question for you. Be as specific as you can.

Now onto your larger point, that "logic of defunding them is literally the opposite of what we need." How so? Please elaborate. I have cops in my family so I am definitely not unbiased. But I am looking at where we are and cutting the police force down to size is almost exactly what we need right now.

[1]https://www.truthinaccounting.org/library/doclib/FSO-Chicago...

[2]https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/obm/supp_info...

edit: almost to tripling; it was a little off
I have used Emacs as my e-mail client for two decades now, namely Gnus. Gnus is no longer the best choice for many people, inasmuch as few still use Usenet (Gnus was conceived primarily as a newsreader), and you can get RSS feeds through the much more straightforward Emacs package Elfeed. If all one is using Gnus for is e-mail, then Gnus is slow and overcomplicated.

I myself thought about switching to Notmuch. The problem is that after 20 years, Gnus’s key bindings are burned into my muscle memory. It feels like it would be more hassle to switch to a different package and learn its interface than continue to use Gnus with all its flaws. Others here may have their own Emacs packages that they feel they can’t switch away from because these packages are so second-nature to them.
Quite often the same person wants different things depending on how it's framed and whether it supports their preconceptions.

And yes that person is often you or I. None of us are immune to cognitive blind spots. Smart people are sometimes the worst offenders.
Try May 24th,

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/24/doubts-abo...
Your website is returning a 502.

Edit: seems to be up now!
Is the mesh in the photo the atom network shaping the protein?
If we are going to divert into Zen koans and non-dual philosophies, then it is definitively "yes it did". The falling away of the perception of an intrinsicly-existing self doesn't change that there's still perception. It would make a sound the same way there is a sound made when one hand claps.

Back on topic though: it's too bad Apple doesn't allow licenses for running things headlessly like this.
Going with the same theme, C itself was an innovation meant to fill the space between Assembler (in this context, "A") and B[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)
My Model S charges in 20 minutes at a Tesla Supercharger when not at home (very occasionally 40 min if I’m on a road trip and am charging to 100% state of charge). One of the grocery stores we frequent has a Supercharger station. Mandate DC fast charging.
No, on the contrary, I understood his/her reply to be saying that he/she had not used Clojure, but that its influence on the Javascript ecosystem was such that a user of modern Javascript could consider themselves to have "experience of Clojure" in a sense.

We don't have to carry on debating it, but have another read of the reply in question -- I think you'll agree that it was in fact saying that they did not have any experience of Clojure; only of Clojure-influenced Javascript.
I think this feature may not do as good a job of blurring faces as people expect in some cases, especially if the faces is large in the frame. I tested it and got results that were noticeably less obfuscated than the image advertised on the announcement page by Signal:

http://lelandbatey.com/projects/signal_blur_comparison/
You should also discretize the pixel colors.

Note that if you blur the pixelated region, it'll be just as aesthetically pleasing as the reversible Gaussian blur.
> (2) everything (ish) is a file

I'm not all that knowledgable about Unix history, but one thing that has always puzzled me was that for whatever reason network connections (generally) aren't files. While I can do:

cat < /dev/ttyS0

to read from a serial device, I've always wondered why I can't do something like:

bind /tmp/mysocket 12.34.56.78 80
cat < /tmp/mysocket

It is weird that so many things in Unix are somehow twisted into files (/dev/fb0??), but network connections, to my knowledge, never managed to go that way. I know we have netcat but it's not the same.
There's still property tax. I'm a commercial landlord with no mortgage, but a hefty property tax bill.
This fits my own experience as an Australian. Nice clear write-up.

One thing I would add is that Australia had a plan ready to go before the pandemic even hit [0]. Complete with already passed legislation.

0. https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Cont...
That's not only a correct attitude, it's an absolutely essential one for anybody who takes science seriously.

I mean, now you can understand why the WHO is always putting out statements along the lines of "no evidence yet for X", while random bloggers and HN commentators are already completely convinced of X (or completely convinced against it). Real knowledge takes time. Individual studies don't settle questions.
They send their interns into those cases.
To be fair, I did downvote his initial comments...
Probably, but it doesn’t look like good API design to provide a function whose actions you sometimes have to partially undo.
Petrol stations in Germany make almost no money on petrol. I think it was something along the lines of 2-3 cents/liter. I am quite sure that they will be happy to have customers stay in their shop for longer.
Yes, but TLS downgrade bugs that revert to plaintext are getting rarer due to better TLS libraries preventing the use of NULL ciphers and the like. I would say it is possible but far less likely than a starttls downgrade, where the plaintext stuff is an integral part of every connection, and the dangerous codepath is right next to the encrypted happy path with frequent crossings...
My boyfriend manages a team at Revolut, and half of them just got laid off despite him fighting to keep them on since shutdown started, when he was prompted to fill out performance reviews. Some of them were hired within the past half year, were on a trial period, and let go the day before the end so they wouldn't receive severance packages. All of them were told it was due to their performance, even though he placed them all at high-performing in his reviews, so that the company can fudge their numbers on covid-related layoffs.
Nonsense. Competent designers with 8 or 10 years experience should absolutely be capable of architecting a solid system that is cleanly extensible for forseeable business requirements.

Probably one huge confounding factor, however, is the continual drive by juniors (or supposed seniors who think like juniors) to use the latest & shiniest technologies. These of course these are unknown to the team, of questionable long-term suitability and introduced without knowledge of the "right" way to use them.

In the article the OP describes using Elixir without A) needing it or B) being able to handle its downsides. Plus many random versions of Angular and React. Plus the overheads of an excessive focus on SOA.

My emphasis in architecture is on using simple & strong tools, and delivering great architecture in the problem space. Configurability, extensibility and DSLs are my forte. I don't need a new language -- I know how to use the ones I've got.
Relevant video: https://twitter.com/The_Real_Fly/status/1268054038744125440
It is against Federal law for the VOA to advertise to Americans, so I doubt it will be a problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Mundt_Act

There was a Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, but I can't tell if that had any meaningful impact on whether the VOA can advertise to Americans.

(I know Facebook is used worldwide. Can the entities which purchase ads say that their ads must never be shown to people of certain nationalities? Would that suffice in the face of a Federal law?)

As for BBC vs NPR, the BBC is funded by what is essentially a tax, the license fee, whereas NPR is mostly funded through fees, grants, sponsorships, and contributions; in 2012, 10.9% of its funding came from Federal sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR
T. Greg Doucette on reforming the police
Right, but the infrastructure isn't free. How long would it take a remote gas station to make their money back on the equipment alone?
Yes, exactly. When gasoline powered vehicles were rolled out, we didn't start with a coast-to-coast network of gas stations, but we did have sufficient farmers willing to sell gas to make it mostly work. This could prove the same benefit for electrics - "some plug somewhere" is enough to eliminate most range problems for long trips, and once it's there...
Spreading Mathematical Happiness
I love the illustrations on the homepage. So beautiful.
FYI on my small mobile screen (iPhone SE) the demo:

- ellipsis (good there is one) breaks between second and third dot. I think the easiest fix for that is to use an actual ellipsis character.

- break between page '3' and 'next'
Efficiency has to be integrated over a timespan.

Despite all the disruption, I'd be surprised if it were on the whole more efficient for companies to optimize for resiliency... for an event that happens once in 100 years.

Rather than fall back on central banks & governments, and expect them to throw everything and the kitchen sink at it.

Ideally, though, what the government will and won't do should have been communicated well in advance of a pandemic, so that everyone had an even investment playing field. Piecemeal bailouts are asking for insider trading.
The court system has already determined gerrymandering to be unconstitutional, how would you go about abolishing it?
And the performance of the generated binary might be underwhelming for some.
This doesn't always hold in Linux though. Some proc entries are available only via text entries you have to parse whether that's in sh or C. There's simply no public structured interface.
Criterion or Kanopy according to JustWatch (in the US) https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/i-live-in-fear?utm_source...

Kanopy is awesome - you get streaming free credits through being signed up to the local library.
Strange that there was no output or even errors.

BTW: I believe NixOS image generation can be run only on NixOS machine, because it needs to run a VM and that requires some kernel modules to be loaded. At least I never was able to made it work on OS X.

The nixos-infect code though will turn your Ubuntu installation into NixOS, so you might try to boot to your Ubuntu machine, convert it to NixOS and I'm hoping then nixos-generate might start working.

Note though that "do" didn't work either for me, and I didn't look to investigate why, I figured out that maybe it was because I was running it on machine on VirtualBox and not DO.
Probably because those language-specific IDEs all follow standard user interface conventions.
Literally nobody is trying to stop the protesters. Literally nobody. I can't find anyone who doesn't agree that George was murdered. Hell, I have old seemingly racist family members who agree with that. It's the arsonist, rioters and murderers who are empowered by this new Anarchy Trojan Horse that we're trying to stop, and we will succeed. If you can't see that difference then you'll be blind during this insurrection.
"Have an outlet on the end of a lead through the window of the shop and plugged in next to the cash register..."

"Yes sir, it's an EV charger. It takes 3 days to charge your car"
when you say "server-side" do you mean this is typescript that runs on the server? thus requiring a node-based server?
It’s on the homepage for me... I think it’s based on when the post was created and the voting activity...
Everyone who's still got stable employment used that stimulus check to DIY-reno their kitchen, I think.
Ethena raises $2M in seed funding for smarter anti-harassment software
In europe most the cars don't support proper (>100kW) fast charging, and even those that do have a myraid of incompatible standards.
It's your last argument on the other hand, given its (maybe deliberately) extreme position, that I can't find much sympathy for. How far does Apple or another manufacturer have to go to satisfy your increasingly unrealistic demands?

Do they have to sell you a replacement secure enclave chip, enable you to solder it in, provide the certificates to match it up to the rest of the phone? Sell you their source code so you can make your own patches and mix and match parts as you like? What if they only sell the main board as a whole component? What if their pricing for it is 2/3 the cost of the new phone? Do you mandate that they sell it to you for a certain cost too?

It starts to get a little ridiculous and out of sync with how electronics are built and operate, if you take this to where some people would insist that it go.
What's particularly bad is that they were discontinued an API that people had already paid for lifetime access to.
But how do you obtain the software in the first place?
I don't think many people agree with you
You freaked me out with the 20 years - I didn't think it'd been _quite_ that long.
2006 as "Google Apps for Your Domain", in case anyone else is wondering.
It's an additional revenue stream from parking spots and will likely stimulate more sales from the store during the wait.

I fully expect the future to have charging stations pretty much everywhere there's parking, power, and demand. If gas stations are clogged up by EV charging, it won't be long before charging spots are popping up everywhere to capitalize on it.
> private companies

Government entities hardly exempt from self-serving bias and manipulation.
> NEJM has also chosen to retract a Covid-19-related paper

For the NEJM paper, as for the Lancet paper, the retraction is coming from the authors (including Desai in the NEJM case): https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2021225
"numerous data sources", yeah sounds credible
His example is just something like .ToDictionary(column => column.First(), column => column.Skip(1).ToList())* .

The motivation to eventually use a Class would be to make use of static typing, e.g. when using an ORM like Entity Framework (a common usecase: reading a CSV file into a relational database). Static typing is usually considered a strength these days, but it does have its downsides (that debate has been done to death). Showing the parallel Clojure code for that could be very interesting.

However, reading CSVs doesn't require enforcing types, even if one wishes to use a library to deal with the complex quoting cases. CsvHelper is tilted in that direction of mapping to a static type, but it's not the only Csv reading library (I'm a pretty happy user of ExcelDataReader[0] for other reasons, and it doesn't enforce mapping. I'm sure there are more functional-style solutions out there). The original post picked the one place C# uses a powerful functional-like syntax, its generalized query language....

* From my limited understanding, not being a user of Clojure yet (I've been considering learning it for some time, just need to find time to do it seriously), each 'sequence' in the original example is a column, not a row. Were each sequence a row, in C# we could have used the positional lambda argument to get the columns.

[0] https://github.com/ExcelDataReader/ExcelDataReader
> there seems to be little harm in trying it

Do you have a link to that research?
Another study that was using the same data was retracted from NE Journal of Medicine:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2021225
> FAR higher resale and expected life than almost any competitors.

Possibly in mobile space, but not in PC/desktop space. My desktop has 2x the lifespan of any macbook/iMac/whatever, will be on the latest of Windows/Linux for 20 years and every nut and bolt is replaceable. Even a single component, like graphics card, can be repaired on a chip-by-chip if need be.

Gaming rigs enjoy high resale value, it roughly tracks their performance compared to whatever is currently available on the market + 10% discount for being used.
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