skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's too bad there's no equivalent to "one cuts one chooses" for financial modelling. For instance, if we lived in a transhuman universe and the sick old person could trade consciousnesses with the healthy young economist simply by paying the difference in their QALY values (maybe funding sources would even enable the LDO, the leveraged die out?), QALY numbers might be different.
Show HN: IHP, a batteries-included web framework built on Haskell and Nix
If the industry lacked vc's and businesses were forced by the market to be sustainable, a well run business wouldn't need to deal with sexist vc's. Instead a few guys show up, pour _oceans_ of cash on tall fit white dudes copying your idea, and now you're forced to compete with tall white dudes with oceans of cash they can waste undercutting you.
I’d rather have Mapillary’s imperfect images of a trail than Google’s blank images because they haven’t driven a Street View car down there.
How is violence in pursuit of freedom okay when it is done by the anti-colonial founders but not by abolitionists? In my opinion, everyone from Nat Turner to John Brown was a hero. People need to realize slavery was like the Holocaust scaled up by orders of magnitude, and then just be consistent in when their attitudes on violence. If violence against slaveholders isn't justified, then American independence can't be justified either.
Those should have AArch64 versions written. AArch64 is old now, it's not some niche architecture.
Reminiscent of CNN threatening the creator of a GIF that Trump retweeted with doxing if he didn't behave: https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/7/5/15922224/cnn-blackmail-...
> Only thing suspended for new green card applications.

You don't apply for a “green card”, you apply for an immigrant visa. If you get and enter on an immigrant visa (including getting one while already present on another type of visa), you are then issued a permanent resident card (a “green card”, though it's not green.)

What was suspended April 22 is essentially all immigrant visas.
It's probably not a great example, because we spend more for health care across the board, not just publicly. Doctors and nurses here make more money, and we deliver more procedures (especially outpatient procedures) than the rest of the OECD.
Which is the result of AMD not having been able to compete for close to a decade.

Expect to see these numbers change drastically over the next years as Zen 2 finally turned the ship around on that by not only making AMD CPUs competitive, but in many cases the straight up better, yet still more affordable, choice.

Which is already reflected in current trends: Barely any consumer-level hardware outlets still recommend Intel builds, which is down to lack of PCIe 4.0 support and only very expensive Intel CPUs being able to outperform AMD CPUs in fringe-use cases like single-core performance in gaming, while still demanding a hefty price-premium.

A premium that many people are simply not willing to pay for anymore.

As a small data point just look at the top 10 CPUs on price comparison websites, like German pcgameshardware [0]: 8 out of the top 10 CPUs are all AMD.

Which will not mean that Intel will starve, but it very much puts them into the position that AMD has been in these past years, that of the underdog fighting an uphill battle to regain relevancy in the consumer sector.

[0] https://preisvergleich.pcgameshardware.de/?o=4
Intrigued. Why ‘shocking piece of technology’?
This is fantastic. It takes the idea of "vs" queries and adds a graph to glue together the various "vs" relationships. Props.

I only have one nitpick. The graph with dogs didn't include boxers (which everyone knows are the coolest dogs).
Dear Browser Developers
I don't care if there any pre-defined quicklaunch icons on the starting page in your browser after install, but could you stop adding/readding unwanted elements to it? I don't have facebook, why on earth are you adding it back after every update? Is this normal? What would you think if i would always mess with your stuff without asking just because i can? No, you aren't supposed to mess with my stuff, so please leave my startpage alone.

I am not searching for workarounds, i can always put the browser onto RO disk or use an own, handcrafted html startpage, but do i really have to use workarounds just to be able to use your product without frustration? What about not using your product at all?

(Image is just for reference to know what i meant.)
Florida Man
Switch to a Paypal method of payment, and then remove the card you chose to add. Your NYT subscription will fail to renew.
If the employees are doing it right, it’s not “that bad” of a burger. So, just pay the employees enough to actually care about the burger and it comes out decent.

I’ve eaten at McDonald’s around the world, it really depends but they do have good burgers when they’re cooked right.
For the latter, there's always old Heiteres Bezirksgericht columns from the Krone. But that's probably a lot harder than reading straight Kafka. Albeit much funnier.
Monkey Patching Vagrant LXC Issue in Ubuntu 20.04
Ah, yes, I've been asked to use Microsoft Teams for a call. But only once? How is the OS manufacturer behind the curve on popularity if it's integrated into Windows 10 and Office already?

It's just quite surprising. I don't know if they did a bad job or if the momentum was just unlucky. But I have no idea how the OS manufacturer wasn't able to dominate this market.
Credit card chargebacks really hurt, and are the appropriate response to a situation where they continue to take your money.
As someone outside of this space, why do you find it shocking?
The Twitter thread linked at the very top of the page talks about it. https://twitter.com/mouthofmorrison/status/12656350684684861...
It happens. Enterprise SaaS takes a lot of capital, there were probably ups and downs, and between all of that you can take a ton of dilution. Just the cost of the enterprise game with its highly predictable revenue streams.
It's really fascinating how different is human reaction to durian smell and taste.

Durian smell is more than disgusting to me - but sometimes I do enjoy eating it. Often by holding my breath to avoid inhaling it.
> I’m not American.

Well then.

- US police are above the law, and have free union-provided legal counsel.

If a city prosecutes an officer, he will sue them right back, and the union will threaten the careers of city councilpersons, DAs and judges at the next election. A perfect circle of corruption.

- DA's and judges are elected, so political from Day One of their careers. Public unions hold 20% or more of the votes and vote in a bloc. Either play with the unions, or finish second.

- the US is the most successful multicultural large country in history, but that makes things more complicated.

- everybody who wants a handgun has one, or two. A lot of people driving around illegally have a loaded gun under their seat.
Anything with “analytics” in Settings, if it bothers you, I guess. Catalina bricked my iMac recently, so I can’t see what I did myself.
Is there any public figure on the internet who doesn't receive death threats? You could maintain a blog for photos of puppies, and some lunatic would have a deadly-serious problem with it. The web isn't working. The saner and wiser a person is, the less likely they are to contribute content. The design of the web selects for morons with neither any reputation to lose, nor foresight to worry.
I like apple for its innovation but I'm starting to get scared at the same time.
I don’t think anyone has ever posted something I’ve written to HN, let alone two things in the same day.
This is the more punitive action, and I will note that a credit card company will side with you as long as you made a decent effort at canceling. I considered it when I waited 3 hours for a chat without a response, but ended up doing the PayPal way because it required less dealing with a bank in this time of Covid-19 delays.
This thread is hilarious. It's simply accepted, without evidence, that female founders find it more difficult. The comment asking for evidence is buried. Then this comment, the only one that actually presents evidence showing the complete opposite is shrugged off as "not something decisive".

I'm starting to see that you're all just sexist. Plain and simple. You hate men.
> All of the uncertainty around COVID-19

There is far less uncertainty around COVID-19 now than there was at the beginning of the year. It is possible to see which countries are successfully tracking and tracing to eliminate, which are entering second waves and need to mitigate, and which haven't even finished their first.

https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2020/03/27/coro...
> You’re not contradicting me

I wasn't aware we were playing a game of contradiction, but you were not contradicting me before I started not contradicting you, so I'm not sure why you are pointing that out.
Is this the same as da kop farang, or are these different fruits/berries?

https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%82%E0...
> the durian would still probably have the highest grapple factor among Southeast Asia’s endemic fruits. Thai exports of the fruit are mostly destined for China, where consumers tend to be more willing to work for their meals.

Actually, Durain is not that hard to process, a chopstick or a screwdriver can do the job easily, can't be harder than opening a whole Jamón.
Because all the big players are trying to own the standard chat/call protocol, so instead we have several non-standard chat/call protocols, so consumers suffer. The market is failing to produce the product that consumers want. And I can't see this changing in the current world.
Sorry for the trouble, the issue was due to the colors key in alacritty.yml commented out or not available. I fixed the issue in the latest version.
But not the sales team! Good job guys!
I know a couple people trying to port an ML app to iOS. It sounds like the interfaces are a bit of a nightmare, and the support for realllly basic stuff in the audio domain is lacking.

I don't know the dev ecosystem for apple broadly, but this doesn't bode well for people "bothering to exploit" the hardware.
Why this font is everywhere
Hey, either this news didn't reach my community or it went without much fanfare. What is it compared to Google Earth Pro?
I think you're reading more into my comment than what I actually said, possible because of someone else's prior comment in this thread.

I was making a point less about McDonald's being equivalent to a restaurant burger and more about people's perceptions of McDonald's and how bad it is. That is, there's probably a lot less difference in the taste of those burgers than a lot of people want to admit.

The other aspect to consider is consistency. I had a $14 burger at a restaurant on Saturday that I would have been happy to swap in any single burger I've ordered from McDonald's in the last 12 months. You may not consider it high quality at McDonald's, but you have a pretty good idea what you're going to get.

All I'm really doing is making a point that there's a bit of fetishism about luxury items going on these days. Are Apple devices generally higher quality than many competitors? Yes. Is the difference in quality in line with most people's perception of the difference in quality? I don't think so.
Google Earth Enterprise is a very different thing, but is a great call out.
Captcha? This won't work for their regular use cases.
Please don’t cite national herald. This is an enterprise that is owned by the opposition political party and used to grab prime real estate. You will get the same content in some other newspaper sympathetic to the opposition parties. Please cite that.
Some nations will always be poor, if nations are rich it means their imports are lower than their exports, which means other countries have be the opposite. The whole system is rigged in that way to give the illusion all countries can get richer but in reality even though they can get richer e.g American then China etc, it is like a game of whackamole where another country will suffer somewhere else.
Linux signs its software.
As an enterprise SaaS person, you really love to see it. I spend a good amount of time in the enterprise b2b world, and I had literally never heard of them. Boring businesses kick ass.

My only disappointment: they have a fancy name. Always love it when under-the-radar enterprise companies have ultra boring names, there was a missed opportunity here to call themselves "eBank Technologies" or "Transfer Networks" or something equally mundane.
I dont think the NYT is what it purports to be.

Still run by the BBC's Mark Thompson I see.

https://imgur.com/VUdcIou

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIMxvS-WEAER49I.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CINJUoqUwAEkSip.jpg
Indeed, from people I know, working in a kitchen or as an auto parts delivery person is far, far worse for women than tech (not that tech should stop striving).
If you are residing in California, subscriptions are supposed to be cancel-able online by law.
With my experience Microsoft Teams is actually a better choice than Zoom. You don't even need to install the program and it works on the web, unlike the fake "web interface" of Zoom that just loads infinitely and forces you to install their suspicious client.
Are you sure? Packages are signed for most of the mainstream distributions.
Get client public IP address with Server Side Includes
Apple’s Push for Privacy
By stopping the mindset of "we" need to stop this. You and your peers are not the saviors.
> FOSS GIS software is pretty good but suffers from the usual lack of budget.

FOSS GIS is incredible these days. You can do everything in open source - it just sometimes requires a bit of work. Between qGIS (+SAGA/Grass/etc.), postGIS, python tooling like GeoPandas, leaflet/cesium, etc. there's plenty of tools for different things outside the ESRI ecosystem, you just have to learn to use them. This is a long way from the dark ages 10+ years ago when much of this capability was closed source or via some ridiculously complex text interface of GRASS.

ESRI's market dominance on GIS analysis is still a big thing though but only really a hangover from the days when ArcGIS had much more capability and lock in coroporate training was a thing. Now qGIS has essentially most of the same capability, but ESRI's corporate training structures etc. are still there to some extent. It is losing its stranglehold though, especially amongst GIS 'dabblers' who don't want to sign up and lock in to a massive corporate account for whom the ESRI older-style value proposition isn't really there. qGIS is even an accepted option for local government these days in many places.

Geospatial is both complex and diverse though. There's a lot of industries there and while there's big easy simple 2d GIS markets in mining, government zoning and military, there's also a lot of other stuff going on and its all moving fast. 3d, temporal data, drone photography, lidar and satellite etc. There's lots of innovation happening there right now and new ESRI monoliths being built.
Earth = consumer globe viewer.

Earth Pro = prosumer Google Earth.

Earth Enterprise = private, offline globe.

Earth Engine = research-oriented massively parallelized ML-based imagery analysis platform.
> Apple has a functional corporate culture that ships; adding complete control of the hardware stack in is going to make for better products, full stop.

One word, Catalina.
This would be an interesting history to follow and summarize somewhere well documented for sure.
FPGAs are cheap compared to the initial run costs for comparable custom ASICs, though.
Apple Safari 14 will support WebP image format
You mean other Google competitors, not FB competitors, right?
> Public unions hold 20% or more of the votes

No, they don't. Public employees don’t, outside of a few localities with extremely high concentrations (which are usually military, which isn't unionized) make up 20% of the electorate, much less public sector unions holding 20% of votes.

> and vote in a bloc

No, they don't. Law enforcement and corrections unions often don't even lean toward the same major party as most other public sector unions.
My point wasn't about luck. It was about the route to wealth.

A lottery requires no specific sort of character. Making a million, often, does.

The sort of determined character that isn't going to wake up one morning and "stop doing what made them rich". Because it was never about being rich, it was always about what they were doing.

It's why Jerry Seinfeld, a billionaire, continues to do stand up. He's on stage for netflix, not "fishing".
I'm supprised no one has mentioned the fair exchange problem: if A, B engage in an exchange protocol, say A sends data to B while B paying to A, how to achieve fairness using an asynchornous protocol. Without a third party, either one of the two parties has to be in a position of advantage where it can choose to walk off without fulfilling his part of the contract.

The problem still exists under "micro-transaction" scheme, but in a less exploitable sense: because each transaction only involves a small amount of money or data, it's probably okay if you encountered with a cheater with one or two transactions. You can just block them after catching them cheating.

But the cheaters can still exploit this problem for their own gain: they just repeat this scheme with all other users on the network, until they received the whoe file without spending anything.

I don't see this protocol preventing such exploitable scenario. In fact it's a very difficult problem to solve efficiently and without a traditional trusted third party. It's even been proved [1] that strong fairness is impossible without a trusted third party. However relying on blockchain as a thrid party, it's possible to achieve this, and there are implementations [2] out there, but the challenge is throughput. Most of these solutions can only handle kilobytes/s of throughput. The computational barrier here is the vast amount of modular exponentiations.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/courses/cs395t_fall04/pagni...
[2] https://github.com/sec-bit/zkPoD-node
This is a tragedy, Scott Alexander is such a thoughtful writer.

I wish journalists would come up with some professional standards and make the title licensed, like doctor or lawyer. Right now we all recognize how important journalism is but journalists themselves run the gamut from ethical investigative journalists to clickbait manufacturers. Imagine if journalists also had to adhere to the equivalent of attorney client privilege for sources.
> For every $100 dollar going to Intel, Apple could knock $200 off its Retail price while getting the same margin.

They're not going to change their retail price. It'll be the same, but "better"/"different" ... that's how they'll market it.
Point 9? That Google could (will?) just kill it at some point?
And you can cancel a PP based sub directly in PP, no waiting. NYT would get a we hook notice.
ESRI is essentially the Oracle of GIS. To big to fail and to powerful to be wiped away. On the sweet spot of acceptably behind the trends. Yet nobody go ever fired because of acquiring ESRI Software.
Sure, I'll elaborate: video and audio quality is identical to that of Yahoo! messenger from the late 90's. As soon as I open zoom, it eats up about 80% of my CPU (without being in a call or anything). Controls work 60% of the time at best (turning off/on my webcam takes a dozen clicks), No matter what I do it won't let me remove the passwords from my rooms. It is a horrible experience.

Meet has been rock solid and my team switched over to it about two weeks ago - 0 issues so far.
Well, when nations that grow durian natively have signs banning durian from public transport and hotels, it's probably a good indication that enough of a majority finds the smell unpalatable.

(I've tried durian in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand to try to like them. I have failed. There is just no divorcing the taste from the stench.)
No surprise that it is backed by Oracle. The sales people at Oracle are really good at getting technology inept people/businesses into multi year contracts.

Once they started citing the list of features in their hundred slide presentation, the administrator stood no chance.
There is a very elegant way to update your DNS if you are running djbdns: You can optionally specify date ranges for every record![1] The server will automatically adjust the TTL.
By having two records with different time ranges you can switch IP addresses at an exact moment.

The timestamps are provided in
DJBs TAI64 format, use something like
https://github.com/hinnerk/py-tai64 to convert them.

[1] config file spec at https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns-data.html
Missing from the list: vifm

It's the best file manager I've used. It gives you 2 default panes in the terminal, and you can use vi-like commands to operate on one or multiple files. Especially good for operating on multiple files - for example, if you want to rename multiple files, you select the files, and edit the filenames in vi.
I started using MacBooks when they switched to Intel around 2008. Maybe this is a sign to move on. Currently using a mid 2014 model, I like the slim form factor, but I don't like the absence of an ethernet port. I don't care much for the retina display, my 2008 matte model was better. Been looking at the Lenovo T470. I need something that would be easy to replace quickly anywhere in the world. What should I get?
Can a former model predict your future? A million Turkish users say yes
The paranoia coming from conservatives right now over this is almost hilarious if not sad. There are no squads going around beating up bloggers, they are beating up protestors though. Never miss an opportunity to play victim!

And btw — nothing scientific about race science.
Because we are not smart enough to figure out how to stop being so wasteful?
iPad On-screen keyboard strikes again I'm afraid.
> The key question: how much money (or resources) should you, or we, be willing to pay to gain more life?

This whole article is based on a false premise. We can spend x dollars to stop this virus from getting to poor old grandma. We cannot stop this virus. Any vaccine will not help significantly either as it has mutated many times and will continue to do so. The shutdown and stay at home were only measures to slow infection rates, buying time to prepare hospital beds, tests, masks ETC.

This virus will continue to spread until 80% of the population has had it (herd immunity). The financial cost has been paid, we are re-opening and will not close again unless we overwhelm the measures that we have put in place. The second wave of the 1969 pandemic virus is still with us folks (it's one of the seasonal flu varieties). This one isn't going away save a miracle.

Pandemics are nothing new. We get through them and move on (sounds harsh but is the reality). We are a communal people. It isn't possible to "burn out" this particular virus. This article seems to think we somehow can buy our way out of it.
I kinda agree with you on the "bubbly" look. However, I'm pretty excited about the Widgets stuff. I really like(d) the Widgets in OS X and even built one to show weather radar. Even though it's kinda silly and not super useful it was nice to be able to hit one button and get an image of any storms in my area. I was really bummed when they removed that functionality in Catalina and it's been one of the reasons I haven't updated yet.

However, it looks like this functionality is back, albeit in a different form. You have to do a bit more work to build it in Swift vs Javascript but I don't think that's too bad. Plus it might actually work on iOS as well.
Can such assurances really be trusted?
Probably referring to the “user agent”, but this can be easily changed.
Seconded. Tracy stands out among all the startups I’ve worked for as being ambitious, approachable, and someone who seriously respects the opinions of everyone. My time at PlanGrid was uniquely more fun and productive than many places I’ve come across in my career.

Cheers, Tracy!