skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All American public health officials I've heard have been pretty clear about their goals: we're trying to titrate our social distancing, finding the least severe restrictions necessary to keep cases from spiraling out of control and then staying there until a vaccine. There were some early proposals to drive the pandemic extinct before reopening, but they've been uniformly abandoned in the US because they weren't working.
Lessons learned from (almost) failing to deploy a simple ML model in the Cloud
Do you think we should lay out spike strips to stop car drivers from running over dogs too?
He's a fascinating tragic figure. Many of his own relatives were later killed by the Zyklon B pesticide derived from his work.

With that said, I think it's appropriate to focus on Clara's life in this discussion.
Show HN: Sicarii – Zero dependency Node.js http2 framework
You don’t know what state actor is running it though.
> and at that point traffic can be captured/modified.

Always on VPN on the phone beats this, imho.
Apple might not want to promote this to an architectural guarantee. It is only needed for the few years required to transition away from x86, but if applications start relying on it it will need to maintain it forever.
Good article. I find the reaction of the “private citizen” symptomatic of a larger rejection of the idea that people can be multi-faceted, and that different facets can be valued while others not.
What's the horrible meaning of the phrase 'joy division'?

Do people just not like that band anymore?
Pretty sure the main answer is that he's not actually engaging in rent-seeking in any pejorative sense.
What's New in SwiftUI
> Currently I run it in VMware Fusion

That’s how you’d do it on an ARM Mac too.

Rosetta is about executing Mac apps on ARM Macs. For Windows apps you’re still going to go to a third party, most likely the same third-parties as before.
If the language is boilerplate and the algorithms/data-structures derive from the physical constraints, was the OS course you completed mostly about hardware ?

As to the inciting question, there is a Stonybrook OS course [0] designed around a java simulator that students implement modules for. Springer published M Kifer's book [1] about this OSP2 system. (The binaries are accessible via the link 'Students: Software Download'.) I'm of the impression that the course involves examining the trade-offs of each module. So the thread section spawns a bunch of request events per process for a module to deal with, whether with round robin or priority queues or whatever.

[0] https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~kifer/Courses/cse306/

[1] https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781846288425
The article [on curbed.com] you link to doesn't seem to focus on people who move for work. In fact the chart titled "The reasons people move" doesn't even include "for work"! I don't see what you think is the "it" that "doesn't seem that large". I mean, yes, the fall in the number of people moving for work, but what is the source?

[Edit] It seems to say the proportion of people moving for work has increased, while the total has decreased. I can't see there's enough information to figure out the net change. When I ask for a source, I mean, I don't see it here.

Maybe looking on a .gov site for census data would be more fruitful, but you could also be candid about where your opinion comes from, which doesn't require doing a lot of research for the benefit of anonymous strangers.

Something that I try to remember when I feel defensive about possibly not having a good argument for something is that I can defuse it by simply explaining how I convinced myself and letting go of overthinking what would convince others.
> “Instantmonogram.com; letsfacethebook.com – in each of these cases, the domain name contains the whole trademark separated by additional characters ('Insta[…]gram' or 'Face[…]book') but bears no relation to any infringement of it,” the Tucows post noted.

EA is gonna be rich! Lol.

> Its representative continues to claim that being a registered trademark holder is sufficient to be granted full access to the Whois database, and that all other routes are unduly burdensome.

Do they literally mean Facebook could ‘whois ...’ and get registrant info? If so, that’s ridiculous.

Even with legitimate requests via the dispute mechanisms, I think they should have a CTLog type system in place where we can see who’s requesting what.

> “You don’t know who to sue until you’ve got the Whois information,”

IE: The proper process with real lawyers and intermediaries that will put up a proper legal defence when warranted is too expensive compared to getting names directly and stomping on people that don't have the means to defend themselves.

Kudos to Namecheap and Tucows.
Trunk flow has a lot going for it. Here's a link in case others don't know of/haven't heard about it -- it starts off with a tl;dr summary: https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/

One of the key elements of trunk flow that I value about it is that "the software you released" is not a living stream. Because of that, it should not be tracked by a long-lived branch with commits that flow in in over time except in rare fix situations. With trunk flow and similar styles, you can always merge to master, and you can always deploy master. You do so by cutting a new branch, and in my opinion, you then build a static artifact. Next time you deploy, you cut another branch, build your artifact, and put it somewhere.

Need to do a hotfix, but there's other work since last release that you just can't ship? Cherry-pick onto the currently-deployed release branch, not onto some long-lived production branch. There's no weird merge-backs, no strange no-op commits in a long-lived history.

trunk-flow is also very simple. For these and other reasons, it's great.

And, some key points about building static deployment artifacts: if you build an artifact to deploy at merge-time to master, you can avoid having your production servers download and execute code for you. You can test your exact artifact before you ever send it to production. You can reproduce your builds. Left-pad-like library unavailability issues can't hit between staging and production. Deployments to production are very fast. You can keep a few artifacts around and roll back quickly and reliably to working states (barring database stuff!). You can deploy two versions to different userbases at the same time. It's very useful. :)
>Why do men chose to live a life they regret later?

I was discussing our experiences with my sister, we are only 1 year apart.

She felt very valuable since she turned a teenager and I felt pretty worthless as a guy I had to study hard and achieve the things to become valuable to people around me meanwhile she was already cool for existing (her own words when she compared herself to me) so she never felt any need to hone other skills.

Fast forward, she has less education and success under her belt and I do support her financially as she's my only sister ofc I am not spoon feeding her but I do give her soft corner no matter what she does I must forgive her.

Why did I choose this weird life where I've overworked myself to death - one reason : it's a nice escape from self doubts and insecurities.

Whenever I did choose to relax my mind wandered off to chasing girls where I got rejected 8/10 times and developed significant obsession and skill honing to bed girls, I later succeeded by increasing my chance to 50-50 on any girl I hit on. Sorry, if it sounds rediculous because this is my experience, you might think of me as con artist but it is what it is.

As I got richer I realized, wealth is not what it all hyped to be - my dating prospects definitely increased but not that much to make difference. But now different kind of people started appearing in life who just wanted things from me.

So I switched my focus from wealth building to becoming famous/important and I succeeded by getting plastic surgery + steroid for sculpted Greek god figure and also good diet and sleep this boost my success with women wayyy more than wealth.

Now I go to distant places as a vagabond hipster and get more women interested in me then when I walk out of a fancy car. So what gives?

Thing is it's not just women's attention that's hardwired in me but men also seem to respect guys with hot girlfriends and wealth and also many times people mistake being rich for being intelligent and I am often suprized that people assume this when you can become rich by being ruthless and morally corrupt.
The one I'm kind of worried about that isn't quite extinction but, some kind of mass genocide where the wealthiest hoard resources to the point most of humanity dies from a lack of resources. It gets much worse than it is today if you factor in some kind of technology that replaces large swaths of the work force. And they create a military machine largely with out humans.
It sounds like the defendants were lower-level lawyers at the firm that was initially suing Company 1. (According to one of the articles, it seems they were later fired and started their own firm.) Rather than offering to drop the case, they were allegedly offering to throw the case by deliberately botching certain tasks that their firm was assigning to them, presumably without the firm’s knowledge.
Therefore what? Are you arguing in favor of ending all lockdown-ish behavior, letting the chips fall where they may, and relying on herd immunity to save us? Because that's what I'm arguing against. I feel like I just read a template.
I did, obviously. You're either including his middle name (not common when googling your doctor), or counting a Robin Hanson essay that links to Scott's old deleted blog as "his writings", which is not reasonable since it would require considerable further delving to get from there to SSC. Or google is serving us different results for some reason.
Connecticut and Rhode Island are also part of New England. Really the tristate area is what people mean when they say New England or the North East in regards to covid. I definitely wouldn't classify NY or NJ as mid-atlantic though, it's really Maryland to the Carolines imo.
Interesting, the real crime is that they weren’t acting in the best faith for their clients. Still doesn’t make sense as an extortion case unless soliciting bribes falls under extortion.
In the US, gifts of up to $15k are untaxed.
No one isn’t saying they don’t make high margins on their App Store revenues, just that comparing the App Store to a mere payment processor is ridiculous and indicative of not even understanding what it does.
Yes, personal electric transportation is flourishing, the segway was just the not-quite-there prototype.
Sounds like David Boies looking to extort people with Epstein sex tapes. Over to you, Money Stuff:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-02/the-bl...
One how'd-they-ship-this regression is the weird double focus ring that appears when you click the search bar on https://gist.github.com/discover .
That is kind of surprising that a lawyer with so much battle experience would fall in such a simple way. Got carried away by greed?
> I see a lot of this happening in Kotlin and Rust (not too mainstream, but clearly more mainstream than Haskell).

But only at the most superficial level. It was heartbreaking to hear Kotlin ignore decades of Haskell and Scala experience when it couldn't be condensed into a 10-line example. They've adopted a fundamentally broken approach to representing absence and they'll regret it in 10 years, but it's already too late to fix it. Heck, look at Go ignoring Java's experience with not having generics.
Cities designed around it: 0
Moving away from Master as the default name for Branches in Git
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/unit...

USA desktop browsers, May 2020:

- Chrome: 58.97%

- Safari: 15.65%

- Firefox: 8.24%

Doesn't have much in common with your anecdote except that it's in the reverse order of popularity that you seemed to claim.
Sure, for source translation that's sorta fine (although I wouldn't want to be the one debugging it). The issue is binary translation, there is really no such a thing as a acquire or release barrier on x86.
BPG came before HEIF. It was a great proof of concept, but there’s little reason for it to exist now. BPG was an impressive one-man spec; HEIF is based on input from OS developers, camera makers, IC designers, display manufacturers, etc.

HEIF is just a generic image container format. It’s almost identical in structure to a .mp4/.mov/.av1 file (follows ISO BMFF) and can be parsed in an identical way using a simple tree structure. That’s a perfect fit for wrapping a single video I-frame as an image, the basis of all of these new image codecs.

Note that video I-frames can often only be properly rendered using metadata from outside the bitstream, such as HDR characteristics, color profile, or orientation. Sharing that metadata structure with the codec’s canonical video format is the only way to be forward-compatible.

A HEIF that wraps AV1 frame(s) is an .avif

A HEIF that wraps HEVC frame(s) is a .heic

Codecs will change, but the HEIF container is probably the last bitmap file format that we’re going to need for decades.
An Epidemic of Pride: Pellagra and the Culture of the American South
More like demagoguery
I think it was much cleaner, does anyone hate it actually?
So, I made two claims in the original (and unedited) comment that spawned this thread:

1) The weaker one, about link finding

2) and furthermore a stronger one, which I quote in my response.

The stronger one being, "you need at most middling Google-fu to find his real name from his pseudonym if you're motivated."

That stronger claim is still weaker than your "his real name is immediately available to anyone who knows the name Scott Alexander." That said, perhaps we have different thresholds for immediate: mine was spending ~60 seconds searching for his pseudonym and trying to find his real name from it, and I failed to find it. I think it's likely I could within 10 minutes, but I'd put that clearly in the territory of my intermediate claim.
The Link cable is totally optional & only if you want a 15ft super-light USB3 cable. You can use any USB cable you want including USB2 cables, 26ft cables, cables you already own, the in-box charging cable.

On price, the Valve Index is $999. $999 - $670 = $329. Generally a $300 price difference at this level puts you in a very different market price point targeting different users. You may also not already have a Windows gaming PC. Then the TOC difference rises to $~1329-2000 between the two setups because the Quest works just fine without any extra hardware.

Regarding the case, it was unclear to me if you're implying that the Valve Index is more robust & thus doesn't need a case?

Disclaimer: I work on Oculus Link.
And while I think that most people reading HN would understand this, it doesn't have to be an ISP, just somebody that controls a network device between you and the destination. eg, a public wifi hotspot.
Funny how this article is now considered spam on HN. While I wish this article was just the interview with the apps creator, I was actually genuinely interested in this story and think its a much more important instance of Apple's censorship.
> Some places have made total eradication possible (e.g. New Zealand)

Eradication seems possible when there's a small number of cases, and effective border control (being an island nation helps a lot). In the US it's going to be difficult to eradicate, because people can move about the country easily and the case load is high.

I haven't looked at other states, but Washington state has fairly clear metrics for opening restrictions at a county level. We'll see how well that works, I guess. Other states will be doing their own thing, as well as other countries, and maybe we can figure out which methods are more or less effective and either switch or know for next time.
But were all a blank slate!!!
I agree this is a short-term risk, but in the long term people will build (or incrementally re-build) their apps on Swift UI which is not iOS-specific. A few years from now, iOS apps not built with Swift UI will probably start feeling non-native, even on iOS, as I'm sure Apple will be adding features to Swift UI rather than building them into UIKit. (eg widgets)
> I know literally every thing you've stated.

You are repeatedly asserting the opposite: that "riots are the language of the unheard" (rather than, rioters are bad actors using otherwise legitimate protests as cover), that open-carry protests are something only white people do, and so forth.

> The question I'm asking is not whether we know those things, but if you honestly believe, after having read Tom Cotton's op Ed, that his preference is for the national guard to go in and work with protestors to help control violent groups, or if instead his goal was to quell legitimate protests.

Neither.
What is the core of the Python programming language?
No need for image formats either as an image is just a very short single frame video.
Ask HN: How to handle images resistant to edge detection?
What tools or techniques have you found useful to detect objects, that are resistant to edge detection, during image processing for computer vision workflows?

Where one object bleeds into the other gradually.

Two examples of this include:

1. Close image of Foot prints in beach sand - edge detection focus on the edges of individual grains of sand rather than the gradient edge of the track.

For an example see: https://github.com/TrackerLounge/TrackingAndComputerVision - second image.

2. A halibut (fish) half in and half out of plankton-rich partially reflective water. The color of the fish and water can be so close that it becomes very difficult to programmatically detect where one ends and the other begins.

3. Cryptic sea creatures (e.g. mussels, clam, flatfish, etc.) half-buried in mud on sea floor.

I run into this question in image processing everywhere I look.

In these "gradient edge" scenarios what have you found to work best?
It’s hard to be sure, but it sounds like they were lower-level lawyers at the firm that won the Johnson case and wouldn’t have directly benefited monetarily from winning additional cases. Seemingly, they were offering to ruin the case by deliberately botching the tasks that their firm assigned to them, presumably without the firm’s knowledge.
Justin from a .ca website: nice.
Totally second that. Just think for a moment how much of modern computing relies on his work even just looking at FFPMEG and QEMU. The guy should get a United Nations medal and pile of gold for services to (computing) humanity.
Isn't this YOUR problem you are using an infamously unsupported hardware with Linux? The problems would be same if you use Hackintosh on unsupported hardware too.
The attraction of deductions for sole proprietors working from home is not buying new stuff, it is the opportunity to pay for stuff you would buy anyway with pre-tax dollars.
I'm gonna say it: we need to not dunk on designs by being inconvenienced for like, a second, while we figure out something new. People are way too quick to say something sucks.
Passthrough in high end VR will become the early experience of where Magic Leap / Hololense should be in a few generations (AR with wide FOV, High Def Egocentric 360 SLAM, etc). That hardware is almost available (see Qualcomm XR2 specs [1]).

This comes with all the high end VR HMD limitations like compute tethering, physical footprint, & mobility issues - but it will have early productivity applications.

The blurring of AR/VR/XR/EtcR will be felt less where hardware formats are lightweight low cost like Quest or xyzGlasses

[1] https://www.roadtovr.com/qualcomm-snapdragon-xr2-5g-announce...
There is never “no ruler”. Someone always emerges who sets the pace, etc.

True anarchy can only exist in very low density situations where population is very low and very sparsely settled. Let’s say fewer than 5 people per square mile actual (not average) on good land. One or fewer would be better. Rural Siberia -Yakutiya, Rural Mongolia. Colonial era trappers and such when they were not in town.
It’s really weird because purity and shaming tactics used to be the domain of the far right (hundreds of years ago). It’s now switched to the far left. I’m a big believer in horseshoe theory. Born in a different household or time period, these personalities would be strong advocates for the other side.
If this graph [1] is remotely accurate, shouldn't we be seeing "Police kill white man" headlines about twice as often as "Police kill black man"?

[1] https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/0...
I liked "A Fisherman's Tale", a puzzle game that takes advantage of VR. Charming.
Those methods are actually quite similar, they're all ultimately related (limited by) tensile strength of materials. So costs and specific energy densities (per construction material unit) are similar. An important figure is cost/tensile strenght I guess.

(Compressed air: limited by container tensile strength; gravity batteries: limited by strength of cables)

I suspect even the constants involved are the same (given the materials are almost uniformly under nominal load), although I don't have time to investigate right now (a good curiosity research topic!).
Highly unlikely Apple would cede the software engineering market for a competitor to step in.

If you're not specifically developing for iOS or macOS, Apple doesn't care about you. They'll take your money if you want to write Unix or web software, but they'll drop support in a heartbeat if that makes it easier to support their mobile and consumer segments.
For the lulz? Less idiomatically, to relieve boredom with no consideration that their victims are real people.
The south isn’t laissez-faire, its cheap due to the legacy of lesser working rights for workers, etc and government organization.

There’s downsides though. Toyota put a plant in Ontario because it would take too long to turn assembly instructions into LEGO like instructions. Literacy was too low in Mississippi or wherever.
Its basically JIRA. Hate it. Hoping they let users opt in to use the older UI.
a broken clock still right twice a day.
It's odd how the various smaller companies I referred to, many of which are normal enough that you may never have heard of them, get summarised as "It was Google". I only mentioned it to also include the largest org I know where onboarding onto a Haskell project was not a problem.
> the translated apps frequently faster than running native on PowerPC macs!

This gets repeated a lot and it's generally false. In fact, most of the time they were slower, and realistically you would expect this. On a clock for clock basis, an OG Mac Pro 2.66GHz was about 10-20% slower than a Quad G5 2.5GHz running the same PowerPC software. In some benchmarks, the Quad G5 was still faster at running PowerPC software than the 3.0GHz (see https://barefeats.com/quad06.html ). When the Core Duo had to pay the Rosetta tax, even upper-spec G4s could get past it (https://barefeats.com/rosetta.html) and it stood no chance against the G5.

Where I think this misconception comes from is that on native apps (and Universal apps have native code), these first Intel Macs cleaned the floor with the G4 and most of the time nudged past even the mighty Quad, and by the second generation it wasn't a contest anymore. But for the existing PowerPC software that was available during the early part of the Intel transition, Power Macs still ran PowerPC software best overall. It wasn't Rosetta that made the Intel Macs powerful, it was just bridging things long enough to buy time for Universal apps to emerge. Rosetta/QuickTransit was marvelous technology, but it wasn't that marvelous.
Inevitably, this would have happened sooner or later with Bob Ross.

He keeps popping up again and again, here and there, to the dismay of so many snobby art critics who have for so long dismissed his work and his TV shows on PBS. My favorite example of him unexpectedly popping up in popular culture is probably https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Cjsnq8kVU