skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just followed your link to the ECS Wikipedia page, and it seems to me that ECS is a very dynamic way of creating objects and defining their behavior, almost like how you can assign functions to objects in JavaScript without defining them in a class. Doesn't this conflict with the more formal approach of using a strong type system?
You’re right! I’ll do that. :-)

I haven’t done a lot of optimization yet-probably lots of things like this. :-)
iPhone SE (1st generation) is still supported. iPhone SE 2020 is branded to manipulate consumers.
For so long manufacturing has been disrespected, confined to the dusty heap of history. It happens to be all Detroit knows how to do. Suddenly people are starting to see manufacturing expertise as useful again. Perhaps that's a bigger story for those of us in Michigan than the rest of the country.

Here's a guy who had a warehouse, a dad in Europe who manufactured ventilators so he had a reference machine but no way to get it done. So he cold calls General Motors and within 24 hours they send a manufacturing A team to him led by a woman with two engineering degrees. Few towns in America could pull that off.
It doesn't sound better.
Artificial neural networks are more similar to brain than previously thought
This is one of the more Trumpian things I've seen on HN.
Was the dancing plague in 1518 France mass hysteria or fungal food poisoning?
Thinking about Algorithmic problems II
As a liberal researcher who has been looking unsuccessfully for a job after an MS at OSU for over a year how am i supposed to feel about this.
Sinker – sync images from one container registry to another
It's like wearing clothing.

If I wear a polo and dress pants, and I'm on the train at 8am, I'm going to white collar work. If I wear jeans at the same time and have my partner with me, I'm a middle class, middle aged, probably-parent on personal business that could probably be described as "running an errand". If I'm a 42 year old man wearing bright purple halter top, with black lipstick and combat boots on the train at 8am--you don't know me! Where the hell am I going? How am I living? You don't understand how to talk to me, so don't bother unless you are a 27 year old woman with red eye liner, green air, blue lipstick and a brady bunch t-shirt on! We wouldn't understand each other!

Elaborate protocol jokes aside, it's an apt analogy. It works--for some people, some of the time. They are dreamers living life waiting for a tomorrow that may never come, but the cause gives them their identity. Chances are that Bob and Linda still have to straighten up on Monday mornings and assimilate to the general protocol. But that's the world we live in, is it not?

I like it. I don't like to deal with it when I'm at the bank or the brokerage, but Friday night, it's alright with me.

I don't begrudge their them identities. However, it's a weak, unopinionated protocol. No inline images? Just because you support them doesn't mean they don't exist.

Users will have their inline images, and they will build clients, and the protocol will be defined. If not by you, then by someone else.

That is the story of the modern web, and that is, funny enough, how we got here.

Nostalgia isn't productive. A new protocol isn't insurmountable, but it has to be native to the time you are living in. You don't need to necessarily inline videos and graphics, but you need to define how these should be handled, or at the very least, the boundaries of the protocol. Waxing whimsically at people creating readers to handle inline images in an ad hoc way... lol, why? Why are they doing this?! They were just bemoaning the current state of the web! My god, have some foresight!

Make a protocol, make a browser, define the boundaries and perhaps adjacent protocols, set your browser roadmap accordingly. Stop when you feel the coverage of the desired space is sufficient. If that's text-only, fine. But you must have answers to how an image or video should be served to the good people of this community.
Oh sorry I'm not arguing that it never happens, just that in every clinical trial I've seen that followed participants for 5 years it was so rare to keep the weight off that the average weight loss for the group was insignificant(clinically not statistically).
Welcome back to HNC News. Tonight's top story: US law makers have introduced a new bill that would require all digital displays in the United States to feature a pixel density of 96 ppi. White house officials say the new bill represents "the first step on the march to bring freedom to the cyber world". More on this after the break.
If you need to rive a 5cm length in twain and you don't like fractions. Or if you're making a website devoted to larval geometer moths.
Pure oxygen can also be used in the pyrolysis phase of gasification, turning waste organic matter into syngas (Carbon monoxide and Hydrogen gas), as it produces a more pure fuel then using air alone (which is 60% inert nitrogen).
> So now I wonder, what factors lead to that kind of city planning in US.

A car requirement (and hence minimum fuel purchasing requirement) helps keep lower socioeconomic classes out of higher socioeconomic classes’ neighborhoods. This results in marked improvements in economic performance of children in school, as the public school students are determined by the area they are in, and spacing things out results in a populace with a minimum level of financial security who can afford to travel further.

The original impetus may not have been exactly that, as people generally like their space anyway, but it’s affects are well known. Historically, I’m sure there was also a racial component to it, with white people moving to more expensive areas that non white people couldn’t afford.
Shahid Buttar, the Cheesy Silicon Valley Astroturfer Challenging Nancy Pelosi
Might be Google's but they certainly aren't Android flagship phones. Samsung, Huawei, and previously Xiaomi are packing better hardware with innovative technology like under-screen fingerprint scanners and multi-lense cameras.
Ecology of the Planted Aquarium by Diana Walstad
What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?... What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.

~ Fredrick Douglass
What I got from that is that Americans are price-gouged more.
Delivery drones could hitch rides on public buses
What fraction of c is achievable in near future (say next 20 years) with humans and w/o humans?
A quick search indicates that BBC Basic had a LISTO command that could add indents. I should see if I can add something similar.
The Roman Empire had a pretty thriving and developed usury economy, so I'm not sure why you think it's a modern thing.

Also, just FYI: the term "capital" as used by economists doesn't mean money. It means ownership of means of production.
Location: EU

Remote: Yes, have six years of experience working fully remotely. I have my own company with VAT-EU.

Willing to relocate: Yes - for interesting offer

Technologies: mainly mobile - android sdk / ndk / kotlin, swift / ios, CI/CD, DDD, TDD, BDD, OWASP, mobile security. I know python, c++, java, and i have very strong algorithm background.

Résumé/CV/References: on request

Email: nomad.tech.lead [at] gmail

I am polish nationwide math contest finalist, CS graduate. I had possibility to continue my master thesis related with multidimensional optimalisation as a PHD in Australia. I have eight years professional experience. I worked in Munich, Palo Alto, Amsterdam, Barcelona and remotely.

Some projects i worked on:

a) one of the most popular VoD application in the world - more than 15mln installations

b) in USA i worked on fitness tracker that was preinstalled in China on 50+ mln devices

c) Amsterdam and remotely: application that was selected by google as one of the best AR application and it was highlighted on their blog.

d) mobile consultant in EU unicorn: responsible for process improvement, cooperation with design, management, developers. Improving KPI / OKRs

I like lean / pragmatism approach, automatisation. I wore project manager, ios / android architect, principle developer hats. I like to apply holistic vision and do multidimensional optimisation in the project.

If you are looking for best in class mobile developer - ping me!
iPhone SE has one camera, no night sight, latest A series chip, Fingerprint ID.

11 has a wide angle camera, night sight, larger screen, latest A series chip , Face ID.
It can't do that on other sites, it's a technical limitation. Part of the reason why they push AMP and provide every website with free CDN hosting is exactly to enable caching. If the "purpose" of AMP counts as cheating, then sure?

Once signed exchanges become a thing, that may change, but as seen in this thread, there's a lot of push back for that.
My secret sauce to make GitHub repositories that get noticed
Why would I want to drive to a fueling station when I can plug my ev in at home?
Use them together. Use them in peace.
Metric inches or survey inches?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_(unit)#International_foot)
Some of that is obviously excessive, I wonder about duration though - a day or two of solitary vs 17 years of solitary.
> If you need to rive a 5cm length in twain and you don't like fractions

125/127 is as much of a fraction as 1/2.
I had two semesters of databases at university. I wonder why they wasted so much time. I mean, you don't really need university education to understand the SELECT statement, right? /s

The problem with computer science is that it may take a lot of time to understand something thoroughly, but it only takes a while to find a tutorial, copy some example code from web, and build a simple version that only contains a few bugs and will be a nightmare to maintain and scale, but hey, it mostly works, as long as you use it in the predicted way and don't put in too much data and don't type or click too fast.

And because this works most of the time, and can be sold, this became the standard. People only capable of copy-paste development still get jobs. Design patterns, that's just some academic nonsense for nerds, right? Hey, my teenage nephew made a simple application in PHP over the weekend; how much more difficult can your job be, seriously? Java and JavaScript are the same thing, aren't they? Okay, one of them has optional semicolons, but now you are making a mountain out of a molehill, just admit it. What database design? Just make some tables and put the data there; if it's not fast enough, add some indexes. Web page design? Just put the button on the top; if it doesn't fit, put it on the bottom; if it still doesn't fit, put it on the side or maybe in the header, whatever. What's all this talk about technical debt? I am paying you to add new features...

Yes, software developers who don't have deep knowledge in any field, and who do mediocre work, are quite interchangeable. No need to invent specialized job positions for them. If your company develops 10 products, all the wheels will be reinvented 10 times and most of them won't rotate properly, but that's life. The advantage is that replaceable people are cheaper and more obedient.
How efficient is electrolysis compared to making hydrocarbons?
Setup Dev Env on Windowns with WSL2
I was in solitary for 3 months this year. Not even criminal, a contempt charge by a retaliatory judge for reporting him to the Iowa Judicial Qualifications Commission. My ex wife had her assistant go to the jail and talk to a drug dealer ... hours later I was viciously attacked and asked for protective custody. Spent my days monastic reading a lot and working out. Happy to answer questions.
Intel SGX - allows you to run your code on a someone’s hardware fully assured that owner can’t get nor your code not your data.

MPC - Multi-Party Computations. To protect your data and algorithms, you split data and code between multiple parties in special way that prevents them from knowing what exactly was computed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Guard_Extensions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_multi-party_computation
> pretty much none have more of a free market in health than the US,

US healthcare doesn’t have a free market by any definition. You would need a buyer and seller agreeing on a price, and without price information, there is no market.
Being a long time Elder Scrolls fan, I was disappointed yesterday upon trying out Elder Scrolls Online for the first time. The constant stream of reminders and up-front placement of things to spend money on is extremely immersion-breaking. I'm going to put more hours into it just to see if there really is a hidden kernel of fun in there, but so far it hasn't done anything to hide the fact that it's a brazen cash-grab wearing TES clothing. I really don't mind paying for quality games and DLCs, but in ESO, doing anything except for failing basically requires sending a stream of cash to Zenimax. :/
Uplifting, Edificante, Edifiant, Erhebend, Opbeurende
Do we really need long-term storage? Wouldn't it be cheaper just to overprovision production?
Probably a lot? But it's honestly kind of hard to say and I have seen very conflicting data (such as the 4% vs 60% discrepancy in what percentage of bankruptcies are caused by medical bills). I do agree healthcare in the US is thoroughly terrible, even if for no other reason than exactly this uncertainty. If you go to the hospital or have some type of procedure done, you could be out a few hundred dollars or a few tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars and there's really no way to know before you go in.

And my anecdotal experience only muddies my understanding even more. Things have always worked out pretty well for me. Even the time I got a $45,000 bill because the surgeon was covered by my insurance but the anesthesiologist was not, somehow in the end after a few phone calls to the billing department my portion was lowered to just an extra $400 on top of the expected copay. I have no clue how any of it works, but these insane numbers seem to often just go away as mysteriously as they appeared. I don't personally know anyone who has actually had to pay the absurd amounts of money that get quoted, it's like it's all some kind of fake money. (I do realize that I am probably in a very privileged bubble, most people I know are at least not uninsured for instance).
There is a big difference between latency and throughput. FPS is throughput. If you assume the entire system is producing only the current frame then those numbers are directly correlated. But most systems, especially game engines/hardware, always have multiple things going in parallel simultaneously.

The H.264 encoder on my CPU introduces >16.7ms of latency into a video stream, but it can encode hundreds of frames per second of SD video all day. Adding ~1 more frame of latency may be worth a quadrupling in image quality/resolution in most circumstances.
Nuclear power is only dirt cheap if the government/society picks up all the externalised costs for the storage and recycling of waste.

Can you tell me which nuclear stations cover all their own costs?

As far as I am aware, all nuclear power stations in the world do not bear that cost - it is always picked up by the government.

They often figure that the long term cost is worth it for energy stability - not because nuclear is cheap - but because it is more stable than relying on energy imports from another country.
Coronavirus: Air France set to cut more than 7,500 jobs
All rechargeable batteries wear out over time as they are used and recharged. And when batteries wear out, they can't provide the same voltage as before. And when they can't provide the same voltage, the electronics must either slow down or stop working entirely. Replacing batteries isn't necessarily hard to do either (you do have to be careful). You can find highly detailed descriptions of how to do it yourself if there isn't anyone in your area who can provide the service cheaply.
1852.

"It was a great thing to achieve American Independence when we numbered three millions, but it was a greater thing to save this country from dismemberment and ruin when it numbered thirty millions."

~ Frederick Douglass, 1881.

May the United States of America acknowledge what is bad, celebrate what is good, and go on to do greater things in the future.
Batteries last longer than one cycle...
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Nordstrom tells landlords to expect just half their rent until January 2021
Did you forget to end your comment with a "/s"?
> It’s common for a doctor to spend more time dealing with your insurance company after a visit than you. Which clearly means they need to dramatically raise prices to cover that overhead.

How do you know the doctor wouldn’t be billing erroneously anyway? People have no idea what doctors do or what is appropriate. The insurance company serves as an educated advocate for the patient (they employ doctors and pharmacists) to reduce over billing.

Yes, the people working at insurance companies could be over zealous, but the same applies to healthcare providers.

If doctors didn’t want to deal with insurance, they are free to hang a sign that says $50 per 15 min consultation.
By this logic murder shouldn't be illegal because most people don't murder anyway?
They might be just connected to the Euro-Powergrid in the future: https://www.landsvirkjun.com/researchdevelopment/submarineca...
EV owner here. Why would I want to drive to a fueling station when I can fuel up at home with electricity? And from a maintenance level, ev’s have substantially fewer parts and almost zero maintenance, whereas hydrogen perpetuates the ICE-engine paradigm... frequent oil changes, many moving parts, lots of service costs at the dealership. The economics of H2 may be different at the commercial scale, but we use a Chevy Bolt in a far northern climate and get nearly 200 miles of range in the winter. The future is already here, and H2 missed the consumer vehicle bandwagon.
I would like to have seen more elaboration on transmission losses in the power grid. For example, if we imagine solar cells in Sahara generating energy for Europe, is power grid transmission feasible or does hydrogen look better in comparison?
I would scream from my office. Almost no one would understand my pain.
I invite you to chill, trying to discuss stuff like these actually help broaden views.
> But, I wonder whether a huge corporate like Google can build such large scale projects without such criticism

Yes: they could at least develop large projects in a foundation with many other companies

> And them being invested in it, is a major reason for adoption by other parties and resulting in a successful open-source project.

...and the main source of pain when the projects are "pivoted" or just dropped due to a single company business needs, as it happened many times.

> such large projects have helped overall SW ecosystem and even startups economically.

They hugely harmed competing projects and competing companies including Mozilla, many phone OSes, many grassroots programming languages.

It's well known that google developed various projects to kill competitors or buy startups cheaply and drop the project afterwards.

There isn't an infinite pool of open source developers - far from it!

Any large corporation that drains the pool to create a competitor to already existing FLOSS projects is actively harming the ecosystem.

> being a complete walled garden and just asking to 'trust us' is much worse.

Closed source can be less harmful that fake-open source. A lot of people actively avoid closed source and fall for the latter.
And 1812 when I clicked just now.

This must mean something!
Committing to the United States
Screens around the world are sold based on diagonal inches. USA! USA!
I don't buy that hydrogen transport could ever be more efficient than shipping high-voltage electrons over copper.
Amen, he writes well:

"As I have said, this southern threat lost many votes, but it gained more than would cover the lost. It frightened the timid, but stimulated the brave; and the result was—the triumphant election of Abraham Lincoln."

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Life_and_Times_of_Frederick_D...
US oil consumption for transportation was 14.16 million barrels per day (595 million gallons per day) in 2018:

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...

That's 595,000,000 * 365 = 217,175,000,000 gallons per year of oil.

Using 100% of cropland producing at 369 gallons of ethanol/acre gives

434,164,946 * 369 = 160,206,865,074 gallons per year of ethanol.

That's only 74% as many gallons as oil consumption.

It's actually much worse than that, because the energy content of a gallon of ethanol is only about 65% the energy content of a gallon of oil:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Tables_of_energ...

This much ethanol would only provide 48% of the energy currently consumed by oil based transportation.

It's actually much worse than that because most crop land is already used to grow crops eaten by animals and people. If we feed all the crops to transportation machinery, others will go hungry.
That's my entire point.
But the CSS spec suggests around 1/96th of an inch for the size of a CSS pixel. So if you squint hard enough it kind of works out.
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This is essentially the iterator trait, right?
Right, this is more about a cryptographic grant of temporary emergency access to someone who doesn't have a user account or admin keys already on a machine (and ideally nobody should have persistent admin access in a well-oiled production setting) in the event that existing access control mechanisms have failed. And backing the signing operations by a YubiKey lets you physically secure the key in ways that you wouldn't an entire laptop and provides all the benefits of tamper resistant, proximity aware, hardware. Probably not something most people will want or need to bother with for personal stuff, but very reasonable expectation as soon as you're working on a team or managing many hosts, etc.
Edit: I misunderstood that it was for github. Great project for querying git repos.
That makes sense, as it makes the pedestrians closest to the road face incoming traffic. That makes temporarily stepping onto the road when pedestrian traffic gets too busy for the available width of the sidewalk a lot safer.

(Some, possibly many, countries use the same logic for setting rules for pedestrians walking on the side of a road without sidewalks)

And you likely know it, but in Japan cars drive on the left.
It must surely be a trick question because you have to ask "which country's pint and cup" to answer it?
It does also help hugely to be writing in popular languages and frameworks. Naturally, the more popular languages and frameworks will have the most potential interested users.
Gravity Storage: A new solution for large scale energy storage
Solyndra's failure had nothing to do with technology at all. They failed because Chinese manufacturers undercut them in price, quite severely. Allegations of dumping (or fraud, on the other side) notwithstanding, what this says is that solar is actually much cheaper and more readily available than Solyndra's investors expected. And that's sort of the opposite of your point, no?

Similarly the Tesla plant is doing exactly what it said it was going to do, when it was supposed to be finished, within the budget it had, and AFAIK is making money. You're asserting that it can't scale because it... worked?!

As far as the Pakistani misdesign, yeah, I'm sure that's going to happen too. Nothing works perfectly.

Nonetheless this seems like a pretty oddly constructed list of reasons why solar is "much worse in production". It seems to my eyes like it's doing much better than expected.
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