skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost nobody pays for anything with cash in the UK anymore.

I think this is an illusion.

Sure, if you're going into almost any shop it will accept other payment methods and most people will use them, particularly at the moment. Similarly, ordering anything online isn't likely to be cash-on-delivery.

However, there are still reasons people might need or prefer to pay or be paid in cash, only one of which is "I'm a dodgy tradesman evading tax". For example, we've used a few local services for things like cleaning or gardening. They often like to be paid in cash, at least for the first visit or two, so everyone immediately knows it's all above board. This is common IME even if they might be happy to be paid (or even prefer to be paid) electronically once they get to know you.

Is the use of cash declining here? Certainly. Is it negligible? Not even close. Is it still useful or even essential? Sometimes, yes.
That's classic subconscious fear of failure.

Just do something stupid that goes in the right direction. Do it this weekend. You know you want to.
Backdoor-ed successfully?
The great thing about Go is that you don't need to think about allocations or lifetimes until you care about performance. Memory management is optimization in Go, while in C, C++, Rust, etc it's required to get a program to compile (of course you can "opt in" to easy memory management in those languages by using some kind of GC library, this is vanishingly rare--presumably developers would rather just use a language that was designed for GC). If you're at the point where your Go code is so performance sensitive that you're optimizing memory more often than not, it probably makes sense to be using Rust, but these cases are rare for the kinds of applications I tend to write (which is sad because I actually really enjoy using Rust).
PWAs are crippled by design.
The problem with superresolution is that by design, they focus on details and textures for upscaling, and avoid adding in any large-scale structure. So if you train it separately (ie there is no backpropagation from the final highres 224px image through the superresolution model all the way back through iGPT), you cripple the original model.

There is only so much about objects and the world you can learn from 64px thumbnails, and they mention that this is probably a reason iGPT wins on the tiny images like CIFAR but loses to the semi-supervised CNNs on ImageNet: because the CNNs are compute-efficient enough that they can train at the standard 224px and see all of the details and structure that disappears at iGPT's 64px, and learn end-to-end.
I don't think I could live permanently in a rural area, but I would love to have a place where I could go down once every couple of weeks, with a big backyard, am sure my kids would love it.
Electroboom!

YouTube guy. Funny and does electronics basics.
How is ClearView.ai still active?
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No because that’s not what the trial was about.
What does it feel when YOUR game gets over ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS?
So instead of repealing bad legislation we should invent a whole new system from scratch using technologies the very inventors barely understand? Eesh.
Countly [1] is another open source alternative to Google Analytics - suggest you try it on Digital Ocean [2] or deploy on your own [3].

It is self hosted, has support for desktop apps, mobile apps and web apps at the same time.

[1] https://count.ly

[2] https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/countly-analytics

[3] https://github.com/countly/countly-server
Nice screen. Seems to be quite expensive UK side unfortunately. Almost 750 usd on amazon
It wasn't even really about justification, the court refused to allow the law to be rescinded because the administration's executive order did not address the potential effect on the 650K DACA recipients already here.
I have this problem as well. I actually run my 27-inch 4K screens downscaled on MacOS because the tiny font at native-4K gives me a headache.

The worst thing about it is that scaling seems to use more CPU than running natively and the OS has some noticeably additional latency when running scaled.
>GDPR is the European privacy law. It protects European citizens

The GDPR does not discriminate based on citizenship.

It applies if the organisation providing the service is in the EU/EEA* OR if the user of the service is in the EU/EEA* (to the extent that the data reference their activity in the EU/EEA).

And the UK, but thanks to brexit there's a parallel UK GDPR in place so... take that in to account.
Thanks for this—easier to digest than other posts I’ve seen. The ability to restrict interfaces to specific types is pretty cool (unique?) but otherwise seems like generics as usual, but with a distinct Go flavor. Looking forward to using this and cleaning up some boilerplate!
I'm sure it's a better service but at $14 per month (or $140 per year) for a low traffic blog it's too expensive. I don't need anything that fancy.

I moved to Netlify analytics from Goat counter because I liked the idea of having server side analytics, but at $9 per month these are extremely overpriced.

I think I will just go back to Goat counter.
Actually the 40000 also includes people who were never tested but showed symptoms similar to Covid.
Depends where you are (like most of these things.) Where I've lived, card-only isn't uncommon because cash is an expensive hassle for smaller businesses to deal with. Also a potential security risk if it has to be left on-premise overnight.

However, this doesn't necessarily mean credit card, usually it means Maestro or EFTPOS or whatever. These tend to have low fees and function roughly like a near-enough-to-immediate direct credit.

In general, places that don't accept cash will also accept credit card for non-locals, but it's not at all uncommon for (usually smaller) places that accept cash to not accept credit card, even if they do accept the local debit card system, due to the extra expense.
Same with the hand washing/wearing masks inversion regarding COVID19 - people made fun of you two months back for preaching the obvious, and now nobody will even go as far as admit they were wrong, let alone apologise. Human nature. ️
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No, the court's opinion specifically stated they never weighed whether or not DACA was legal. The decision was purely based on the fact that the administration failed to address the effect on the 650K DACA recipients already living here. The ruling also stated the administration could try again.
If they're anything like college me starting a paper the night before it's due, it'll all go flawlessly.
Rolling it out anytime between mid March and now would have been pointless. Early it would have helped, late it helps. In the middle there was so much circulating virus here that it would have made no difference.
It increasingly seems like the Supreme Court of the US is becoming a political theatre because Congress can't get its act together. Supreme Court shouldn't legislate but it is forced to as lawmakers in Congress can't do their job.
I think number of people killed by a sometimes fatal illness is not an unreasonable thing to track and use as a metric of success. And many more than 1/1000 of UK citizens have had it already (where did you get that number from) - that would be 60 thousand people, whereas 152k in the UK had it at the end of April [0]. There are many benefits to pushing back the peak so that we have improved capacity, learnt better how to treat it and moved closer to an eventual vaccine.

[0]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
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It's as much of a slam dunk as possible. The executive branch has to have some power to rescind policies it created.
Sorry, I missed that you had specified 7 days. I was looking at the post you were responding to, which was referencing overall death rate.
I explicitly excluded the big Go projects of Docker/K8s.

I think I've heard the name darcs, but have no idea what it is or does. I may have heard of postgrest but I think the whole category of a thin layer over the DB is dumb, so I refuse to learn about it. :-) (If you want to talk to your DB, use the native SQL drivers. Don't just invent the same thing but as REST or GraphQL for no reason. Backend system should connect SQL to SQL. If you want a browser to be able to talk to your DB, then you will need auth and want bundling of calls and object translation and suddenly the thin translation layer isn't thin anymore.)

Anyway, the point is that Haskell has been around for a long time and is very popular with HN/Reddit users, but unlike Go and Rust, it has produced a very small amount of OSS.
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What was legislated here?

They ruled that the White House didn't follow the existing legislation.
In Clarence Thomas’s dissent;

> Today the majority makes the mystifying determination that this rescission of DACA was unlawful. In reaching that conclusion, the majority acts as though it is engaging in the routine application of standard principles of administrative law. On the contrary, this is anything but a standard administrative law case.

> DHS created DACA during the Obama administration without any statutory authorization and without going through the requisite rulemaking process. As a result, the program was unlawful from its inception. The majority does not even attempt to explain why a court has the authority to scrutinize an agency’s policy reasons for rescinding an unlawful program under the arbitrary and capricious microscope. The decision to countermand an unlawful agency action is clearly reasonable. So long as the agency’s determination of illegality is sound, our review should be at an end.
I think the more plausable explaination is a FBI agent watched a few videos online. Ran a cellphone location/time query. Looked through the results and referenced owners drivers license photos. Then tried to find some way to explain it without tipping off rioters to not carry their phones with them.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/02/07/google-location-pol...
If you follow the mantra of 'code is data' then you have arbitrary and difficult to debug execution anywhere you have data. Mixing the two intentionally is a blunder of creating software that seems to be repeated over and over, maybe because people keep encouraging it without realizing the cost in non trivial projects.
For me this is a point in favor of anti-multitasking techniques such as Pomodoro that force you both to focus and to take clearly delineated breaks. That has the cumulative effect of sparing cognitive load and using your precious cognitive resources on the things that need it most.
The is no disorder that causes you to be disorganized unless you're using a computer.
Roberts is trying to run out the clock on Trump. This decision comes out differently with another President.
1. Yes.
2. No, you just loose the ability to rollback to an arbitrary position in that window. It might also be more expensive to re-start, but it's been a few months since I looked at the code.
3. I am aware of multi-column-families not working (but that should get tackled?): https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/28667

I know PG is easier in that respect, but the performance ceiling is much lower.
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The Story of Electricity - BBC Documentary FullHD 1080p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUUeGianTKM

Its sn excellent 3 hour documentary on how electricity was discovered.
> What's the "12+" next to the date? Does that imply gov.ru also has NSFW subdomains?

Might be a timezone? The most eastern part of Russia (cities such as Pevek, Anadyr) observes UTC+12.
Surely any mitigation is better than no mitigation.

I can’t imagine “we’re already drowning, no need to worry about that leak” is really a viable public health strategy in this scenario.
A bit unrelated but as it's hn, I wonder about which tools they used to write these documents. The metadata says they used Acrobat Distiller, but that only converts .ps files into .pdf. What creates the ps files?
>Jury verdict (legal liability) against the seller of the gun

A jury verdict in a different case with different particulars doesn't immediately imply that walmart is guilty. The particulars of both cases matter. Being sued and settling does NOT imply legal liability, and someone else winning a different case is also not legal liability for walmart.

>Jury verdict (legal liability) against the seller of the gun which was used in a murder by someone other than the person they sold it to.

Case particulars matter.

>FYI: Walmart doesn't settle for cost or PR, they settle because of liability.

This is just not true. Walmart does things for PR all the time, including settle lawsuits they know will make them look bad.
Maybe you can sell your invention to a company without patenting it first…?
It was pretty much my introduction to circuits, and had it not been used in a class with a significant lab component I would have also been discouraged. Great reference, but not good for teaching yourself unless you're very comfortable being confused or have had prior exposure to the material.
> They often like to be paid in cash, at least for the first visit or two, so everyone immediately knows it's all above board.

Paying people in cash seems like the exact opposite of an indicator of everything being above board.
tbf, everyone went for their own custom solution initially since apple/google only really announced their plans for a joined effort some time early/mid April or so
It's used in medical anesthetic ventilators, so not sure where you get your worries from.
Wouldn’t the people mainly work on other projects?
Do NASA utilise a lot of consultants or are they mainly permanent employees?
There is no means to do this in the US, debts cards have the same fees as credit cards (maybe more?).
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This could be very useful. Will he be writing? It could give us a chance for him to lead.
I wouldn’t say the _whole point_ becomes moot. As you have to have a legal basis for each type of data that you are storing or processing, relying on different legal bases can add complexity to the problem of a deletion request. Just because you have to retain some information does not give a free pass to retain everything.

Also, remember that data subjects have a right to limit the purposes for which their data is used – systems need to be able to cope with that.

This is where a well thought-out and documented approach to personal information makes everything easier, for internal users of that data too. For legacy systems it can be a nightmare because nobody seemed to care, but with a clean sheet, _why wouldn’t you_ address data protection and privacy from the outset?
Checking the source, the element has the id "age". Not sure what it implies one way or the other though.
As a software engineer under the DACA program, who just sent his renewal yesterday, and should arrive at the USCIS lockbox by noon today. This is a relief.
Who else is on Medium’s board?

EDIT: per Crunchbase, it’s Ev, Ben Horowitz, Josh Elman, and Judith Estrin.
My understanding is that DACA originally was entirely created out of an executive order, ie: there is no legislation backing it. The main argument I've seen is that it was created out of the executive, so any future executive should be able to come forward and revoke it, assuming they follow the proper comment process and notices.
I can see how it could be read that way, but are content providers really buried in litigation in practice? I actually don't have much insight here personally, so I'm quite curious.
The PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide (1996) [pdf]
Simplicity goes out the window. Oh well it was nice while it lasted.
Curious to hear other's successes in getting better sleep. My wife and I have terrible, terrible sleep. Restless, wake up for hours in the middle of the night.

We regularly exercise. We eat well. We've stopped most of the alcohol due to noticing what it does to our sleep. We are regular with our schedules (bed around the same time, start the day around the same time). She insists on the TV being on or fan to have some level of noise to block out other noise that might wake her (light sleeper). The light of the TV is a pain for me, so I cover my eyes and ensure the volume is very low (if I hear it at night, it can rouse me as my brain hears a conversation and starts listening in). But we've done that for, literally, decades. Something else has been plaguing our sleep for the last couple of years. It comes and goes, but more and more, what ever is causing the lack of sleep comes and stays.

Lacking quality sleep impedes on every other aspect of life.
I don’t think this description of Ulysses is accurate nor perceptive. The first time I read it, I felt confused for the first 100 or so pages, and then it clicked. Once you get it, it’s crystal clear; and, in fact, you realize that it’s carefully plotted, with everything fitting together beautifully. Don’t deny yourself the pleasure of this book just because of other people’s lazy takes. If you would be more comfortable with a companion, look up Nabokov’s lecture. But ignore 99% of the other Ulysses criticism, especially anything that talks about Homer. Nabokov understood Ulysses, as he understood Kafka, the way very few other people have.
You are right in that security is a trade-off, but a security vulnerability should be considered almost as a failed system from a business perspective imho, because sooner or later it will turn into one. If you architect your systems to fail when not secure, you should detect the problem (and fix it) even before going live in production. It’s the fail fast, fail early strategy.
To put it in perspective:

"Amazon said that between Q2 2018 and Q4 2019, the largest attacks it saw were smaller than 1 Tbps, and that in the first quarter of this year 99 percent of attacks were 43 Gbps or smaller."
It's a technology demonstration.

https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/
Old videos but they are clear, entertaining, and still my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/user/acmeschool/videos
IIRC, that's because it got mentioned on EVERY Go post. People got tired of "Go should have generics!" and the ensuing arguments dominating every discussion about Go.
Interesting, then as a workaround trackers may create an image with pseudo-random src pointing to pageXXXwebsiteYYYclientZZZ.ad.yoursite.com (yoursite.com is the site which serves the actual content), while asking the owner to point NS record for ad.yoursite.com to IP of their DNS server. So HTTP/S request or DNS request can reach them anyway. Obviously DNS caching will prevent them from knowing how many times this particular page was accessed by this particular client, but at least they will know that it was accessed at least once.
“We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies. We address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action.” - Chief Justice Roberts

Trump's justification was "creating or maintaining the program was beyond the legal power of any president."

The SC wants a better justification.
Is substituting one centralization in place of another really called "decentralized efforts" now?

1) youtube: google account, sso 2) keybase: identity, proofs minted on the bitcoin blockchain 3) satellite: identity, signatures minted on ethereum blockchain
What existing legislation? There was none to begin with
That'd be the Executive legislating, not the Court.

The Court said the procedure for revoking that order didn't follow the Administrative Procedure Act. They didn't rule at all on the legality of the order itself, in either direction.
I abused it in the past for aggregating every bitmask of CIDR, where the underlying data was by IP. So the groups were functions of the IP, one per mask level. We needed aggregations of arbitrary levels and this worked relatively well. We also tried it using it for some reporting that was tied to organizational hierarchy - same intuition - the group sets included org, parent, grandparent, etc ...
There is a certain stillborn quality to the app. I don't think the Isle of Wight has much to do with it. They got VMWare/Pivotal to write an app people could install on their phones and that was never updated. The NHSX GitHub repo of the code exists but there is little activity. A few updates to URLs in the documents is as far as it goes.

A crypto coin project from a few years ago has a similar feel to the code. Nothing is going on.

The symptoms were changed over the last few weeks to officially accept that loss of taste/smell was a defining characteristic. The app could have been updated to include this updated self diagnosis information. That would have at least indicated progress. But not even these basic updates have happened.

Pull requests are few and far between. The ones that exist are not dealt with. Again, a sign of a project far from active.

With software we all know that you can do stuff client or server side to a certain extent. We don't know how much of the server side of this app is built. I suspect they put a minimum effort app together just because. There is no evidence of it hooking up to call centres and contact tracing. The people in the call centres are allegedly idle.

The public mood has changed and people are using their common sense rather than following government guidance to the letter. The opportunity for everyone to be running this app has gone. Only a change such as a requirement to have the app if using public transport or entering shops can make it an app people want to use.
> they don't have blood at all

Then that would be an evolutionary in-spec configuration, since Cnidaria-phylum species have evolved under selection pressure for hundreds of millions of years in that "never losing blood, because it doesn't have any" configuration.

For a similar reason, you wouldn't expect most plants to be troubled/benefited by the loss of solutes (= sap); a maple tree should probably live about the same lifetime whether it's tapped or not, because maple trees evolved mostly without predation. But for plants that have evolved over eons entirely under conditions of predation (e.g. where they're a primary ecological water source, like cacti in the desert—observable by the fact that they possess defenses to predation), you would expect a difference in longevity between those that lose transported solutes to predation, vs. those who don't.
When I read Annapurna: First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak many years ago I was blown away by the story which was both a huge victory in that era of mountaineering but also a personal tragedy for Herzog. This book together with Touching the Void and Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer are very captivating books even if you are not so much into mountaineering.

However, I have later read True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent of Annapurna by David Roberts which provides a different perspective on the Annapurna expedition.

And to reply to the grandparent post: Joe Simpson has written a number of books and while they are not specifically about safety culture they often touch on the ethics and dilemmas of high altitude climbing just as Touching the Void did by telling a story where the rope was cut.
Blackmail.
and still it took how many years?
Thank you for taking the time to point this out to people who may not have known about these disgusting practices.
Boggles my mind how that company is still going after making itself one of the worst reading experiences online with the barrage of sign up forms and nag banners when you try to read anything on it.
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