skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If this is true, what can anyone really do about this type of text message spam?

Reply to it all. If everyone took 2m a day to string along spammers we wouldn't have any spam (or scams).

The reason spam/scams work is because only people gullible enough to get scammed respond, so the sender of the spam (and scam) can send out 5m emails, knowing that if only 5 come back, those 5 are good or money.

If everyone responds, then each scammer/spammer will get 5m responses, and they wouldn't be able to pick out the 5 that will give them money.
haha good luck with that, the vast vast majority of saas products are not multicloud, and nor should they be (cost / benefit tradeoff)
Which is just a perfect example of why anything "universal" is quite hard in practice when these misunderstandings happen even between English and Dutch.
What are you doing to speak to your customers?
>The pandemic already is under control in most places

This is an interesting claim. I think it's potentially misleading, and possibly motivated by a need to portray places where it isn't under control as isolated.

I suppose it might be technically correct if you count a list of "places" and divide the number where it is growing rapidly by the number where it isn't. However, the results you get are very dependent on how you define a "place".

If you divide the world into Europe, North America, Asia, South America, Africa, and Oceania, the only one that definitely seems to be under control right now is Oceania. Africa and Europe are growing much slower than the others, but not obviously "under control", and Asia notably is seeing over 60,000 new cases per day even though it previously seemed to be under control until India started reporting large increases.

If you count countries, you could claim that about 3/4 of them have it under control, but that might not be permanent. Considering Brazil (which I think people would generally consider to have a serious problem right now) and everywhere the epidemic is growing faster, it is a minority of countries, but very near half of the world population.

Source (as usual) is https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Except the Los Angeles basin is open to the ocean for a good portion of it. And the other side has a valley that leads to the IE, where pollution seeps and sits.

It’s the complete opposite of the two other examples in that list.
Turns out to be a somewhat annoying problem at the VM level. Not impossible but complex enough that maybe higher-level solutions like functions are better.

Consider memory usage -- but operating systems (and some applications) are designed to grab all the memory they can, and use it for caching etc. So it's hard for the VM host to known when it can grab memory and stop billing the user for it.

But there is this idea called memory ballooning -- you have a little process running on the VM guest OS that grabs lots of memory, but is actually in cahoots with the host, and just tells the host -- "hey I got all this memory, you can take it back and use it somewhere else".

Okay, so doesn't ballooning solve the problem? There are a few problems with it -- you can't balloon when you need the memory, because it's not fast enough. So you have to balloon pro-actively. And you don't know how much to balloon, so you have to guess: do it wrong and the guest OS will start swapping, or it might activate its OOM killer and start killing processes.

So making memory usage follow the application is kinda sorta possible but comes with hairy problems. What about CPU? CPUs usage already follows the application so you could just measure and bill accordingly -- except that nothing is gained if memory doesn't also follow usage.

All in all it's way simpler to get towards this goal with clearly-defined higher level services like Lambda.
The other side of it is that single use plastics are reasonably well accounted for in North America, so many parts of the bans are more emotional than pragmatic.
I don't think there is any chance in hell that the US adopts and of the mechanisms described in the article, but the one thing we could adopt is a culture that discusses politics. Of course our politics are such shit when no one discusses them. Three months away from a presidential election and still no issues have been discussed by the candidates. Come to think of it, we don't actually have issues to discuss. We have a ton of problems but no one wants to discuss solving them. The problems don't become issues. They just stay perpetual problems. It's just vote for this one guy who won't address your issues and maybe won't fuck shit up too badly or vote for another guy who won't address your issues and will try to make life as miserable as possible for almost everyone.

It's taboo to discuss issues, in fact, so it's no wonder things only get worse. The people have so little power, it's really just theatre. Issues with 60%, 70%, or more public support routinely get ignored by the so called representatives. And as a culture we don't use the one tool we do have: discussion of issues. I suppose it fits in nicely with our tendency to have theoretical rights that only exist on paper. What good is the first amendment when there's nothing to discuss and no one willing to discuss things even if there was?
> You know the quote. "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."

The things written down in this paper are true whether or not you agree that they lead to the conclusion that the virus was engineered (obviously, exclude their conclusions).

Maybe using proof was the wrong word.
The actual answer to your question is probably that it's better for Google if it's difficult to reach a human without sufficient effort, since it lowers their support costs. Providing a escape hatch in their support process might mean that too many people use it.

Also, the person in this case is neither a Google user nor a customer, so there's a particularly small incentive to provide easy support.

Maybe a lot of it comes down to Google's tendency to rely on AI, but the fact that so many companies have crappy support to me indicates that it's a harder problem than one might think.
This is amazing. Does anyone have any insight on what makes the back view possible?
> we are all curvy in different ways

How hard can it be to 3d scan a person and output a custom fitted garment? Print? Robo sew? Anyway it seems like a bounded engineering problem.
Those other processes don't require awareness of the environment.

Yes, I know Chalmers, Dennett and Searle. I got the idea that the brain is for moving from Eric Kandel by the way. No, there's a lot of work to do but I think I've answered the why: It benefits animals to be aware of their
environments to navigate them. All you're seeing is a map of what's going on. It's like a UI in the words of Donald Hoffman. Plants can do it without all this, but not as well.

Regarding sense of self: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/27/eaay8301
Not to detract from your point, but there are plenty of fashion-conscious people that do manual labor for a living too. They just look down on 'fancy' clothes. "How is that guy going to get any work done in those clothes?" And yeah, they will get offended if you tell them their Carhartt / Duluth Trading Company apparel that can potentially cost more than serviceable office wear doesn't look good.
Were you (1) using example.github.io as a CNAME with another domain, or (2) were people going to example.github.io directly?

I'm still not 100% clear on how the previous domain was configured with github pages

if it's 1) then you should be able to set up redirects for the domain using something like cloudflare to serve the 301s to the old domain.

if it's 2) then there really aren't any more "simple" solutions that you can implement purely technically. You've already added the canonical reference and the meta refresh. You could also add an A tag link to "Download the software on our new website" in addition to the other measures. Users are already sent over via the meta refresh, but the link will encourage crawlers who skip that tag to find you as well.

If your goal is to show up when people search the name of the software (example: "iterm2"), then the solution is to register on every possible social media website you can find and link them to your new domain. In addition to that it's worth using an online PR service to distribute a press release with a link to your new site announcing the new domain.

If there's a more generic term (example: "mac terminal software") then you've got a longer road ahead of you with a regular SEO campaign.
Typed Racket tends to work pretty well, and you can gradually add types to dynamic code. Probably the most mature type system of any Lisp.

And if you feel like types are too constraining for a part of your code, you can just leave them out. You get the best of both worlds!
"dime kind of safe point"?

That's the whole idea of exceptions. Give up on some chunk of what you were doing, and recover to a previous state.

This works best when you have some notion of a transaction, and can get back to the state before the transaction started. This is what "ROLLBACK" in SQL does.
That's a interesting and real use case for upper pockets. I can attest doing so the same for both ergonomic and psychological reasons. Plus, there is one reason pockets in lower part of the torso is not very common, it is because the larger leg movements range make the weight in the lower pocket a painful experience in walking and running. The OP design therefore is not very practical IMHO.
2.5 billion? This is just part of the investor bubble of these startups. I agree coursera is a high value company, but 2.5 billion seems a bit inflated.
Well, kind of. The TL;DR is that I don't think people using Notion would be very happy if they had to switch to a general-purpose text editor like vscode.

General-purpose text editors are not focused on note-taking, so while apps like vscode are powerful enough that you can kind of hack on top of it and build your own note-taking app on it, it just doesn't make a lot of sense for vscode itself to support printing notes, or hyperlinking between them, or adding a tagging system, or searching all notes containing a particular attachment etc.

And vscode has been developed for way longer than most of these new apps, eventually the set of features provided by these note-taking apps you would want to use that vscode just doesn't provide, either at all or in an integrated-enough way, should grow considerably.
How do we know they didn’t have spoken language? I haven’t heard that before.
What if consciousness is a spectrum? What if consciousness is the logical end-game starting with the ability to selectively attend to and respond to stimuli? That's attention schema theory. And in such a theory, dogs are pretty far along the spectrum, because they (probably) have the ability to model others' internal states. After that, it's just a question of the complexity of the modeling.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/opinion/sunday/are-we-rea...

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/how-cons...
The site isn’t clear on it, but from downloading the translation package (http://citrine-lang.org/downloads/headers.tar.gz), it seems translation is a simple string replacement. I don’t think that’s enough to cover all languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_... has a list of languages that do at least as well (I think AppleScript tried to do better, but can’t find examples)

Of course, switching language for the programming language itself won’t translate identifiers, so multi-language teams still will have to decide on the language(s) used for those.
Right, but will the worries about sanitation fade quickly enough or will we just accept that disposables are cleaner despite the environmental impact?

In the short term I'd say it makes sense to me, but long term I really hope we find other solutions.
> Citrine is one of the first∗ embeddable∗∗, general purpose, localized programming languages (...) designed to allow every man to write code in his mother tongue

This concentration of asterixes had me laugh out loud. Anyhow, this reminds me of so-called “auxilliary”, constructed languages of communication, which are supposed to be easy to learn all over the world for as many people as possibe all over the world. In reality though, they’re almost without exception wholly eurocentric, built mostly on germanic and romance languages, which barely covers one of the main language families just in europe... likewise, this citrine promises grossly more than it delivers.

Though we shouldn’t stop at that; if we look away from what it claims to be, what it is seems pretty neat. For education, maybe this is great.
The grammars langauges are so different, can't imagine how this should work in practice.

Sadly the site is dead (503).
Does anyone use the term "allopathic" besides naturopaths or osteopaths? If you just say "medical school" people will assume MD program.
This is pretty outlier advice especially no.3, can you elaborate more on your points?
Copyleft and LGPL in Snaps and Flatpaks
Shameless plug. But if you don't like Jira, try Kanception.io it is an opinionated, nested kanban board built on a tree data structure.
In N Out in California has ones like this. You just squeeze this rubbery piece and it causes the sanitizer gel to come out, then you just use it on the entirety of your hands after. No big deal.
There is still runtime overhead in that you have to check whether you succeeded. The best possible scenario is if the error source knows exactly what code to jump to in the error case, and the calling code can assume that no error occurred if it is running. So in that sense it can be done better. But I'm not sure how material this difference is in light of correct branch prediction in the success path.
I've never understood this about public bathrooms. I don't need my soap dispenser to be automatic since I only use it when I'm going to be washing my hands already.

It's weird to see automatic soap dispensers but manual "hand pump" paper towel dispensers.
Sorry yep I was a bit wrong on the swamp coolers. The water can cool the air through conduction down to the temperature of the tap, but the actual evaporation process warms it. (I may still have it wrong, please correct me)

In the link you sent, it looks like even the direct evaporative cooler is effectively working as a heat exchanger because it's cooling water down (not air) to be sent elsewhere. This can cool below the temperature of the tap and doesn't add any humidity. That's basically what I want so maybe I was using the wrong terminology in the post, but it's still different than a swamp cooler.
I've heard an economist suggest that instead of tying executive bonuses to the company's own performance, they instead compare it to the performance of other, similar firms.

Still a fuzzy measure, but it would at least give them better incentives.
Reopened schools in Europe and Asia have largely avoided coronavirus outbreaks
The article states that its a reference to the steadfastness and reliability of Louisiana currency. My understanding is that that's where the term "Dixie" in the South came from. Some people believe that the shared etymology should be enough to cancel the term.

It's a bit tenuous, but it doesn't seem any less tenuous than the association between the "master" branch on git with the subjugation of slavic people.
The tiny pockets are fine for holding a single key. Where they fail is the modern keychain, with a car key and a door key and a mailbox key and key to enter the gated community and a key for the office and a security key for a computer. Like, key chains the size of a tennis ball really could be anchored off of one's belt or waist on a retracting clip.
The vast majority are inflated by "traditional" (aka sane) valuation metrics. It is literally ponzi economics dressed up in luxury clothing.

That being said, Coursera is doing a great service for humanity, and I hope they succeed.
What valuation do you think would be fair?
Hiking pants have these. I have a couple and it's great. They are usually zippered also. I think you don't see this on dress pants because "fashion".
I've personally never thought the cost of tracking mutation and IO in a type system is particularly worth the complexity and hassle. But for everything else, an advanced Hindley Milner derived type system is absolutely, 100% worth it.

I do think there might be some middle ground where you can annotate non pure functions in order to help the compiler with aggressive optimization.
Pre Facebook we were a lot smarter. (Only half kidding)
I assume you came to this conclusion after thoroughly reviewing their internal metrics and financial statements?
Survey of energy costs for comparison with fusion
Why not have the phone in a pocket higher on the torso? Like a gun holster.
Are you serious? I thought it was dad trousers?
Not really, it is more like counter-example; if the author would have been writing in his native language this might not have been issue. So it supports the claim that allowing people to work with their native languages would reduce mistakes.

Of course this also implies that the translations should be done by professional translators, instead of the authors themselves.
Can you point to anything that says they're identifying which agency they're with via "agency patches"? That's not mentioned in the article.

Also, having "police" on their uniforms is meaningless. If you want to know where they disappeared someone to, are you going to look up "police" in the phone book and give them a call? Give me a break.
That highlights a fundamental difference between US vs other countries university education system. In most countries university is vocational training e.g. you learn very deeply what's needed for a relatively specialized job with few chance to retrain once enter the workplace. The US focuses on broad undergrad education system, thus students can/should be able to adapt in their long career, even retraining and switching career if necessary.

But let's say, for the sake of arguments, that US adopts the requirement of having highschoolers applying straight away to medical school. Then suddenly you need a very different selection criteria. High school grades are off. SAT is jokingly too easy, so you need a much more difficult national exam (and enforce that nationwide). Students either grind in high schools for high grade or they'd rather drop that early to go for "normal" universities. And finally, you need better schools across the board to provide students with such opportunity, because if left unchecked, you'll have 10-20 percent of students from California, and only a few spots from Tennessee, thus not ensuring rural area having enough doctors.
Late emergency declarations and school closure associated with Covid-19 deaths
Previous “discussion”, just a decade ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1826002
Nice site clam Free BTC
The Swiss Confederation is, in spirit, a confederation of citizens, and not of states.
> The whole thing is bullshit, which is why more tech companies are looking for ways to cut bankers out of the process.

Google IPOed with a dutch auction. I have absolutely no idea why other companies trying to "cut bankers out of the process" don't follow suit.
I’m guessing this was trained on images and their 3D scanned models so it kinda fits the unseen parts of the body.

I can nearly guarantee you that if you try to to use an image with something on the back it won’t be able to fit it, backpacks don’t work and probably something like the Victoria’s Secret angel wings won’t either.

You can also see where it really fudges things like the shoes on some of their examples, their examples are also the best case scenario (similar to the StyleGAN2 results) and not necessarily representative of what the model achieves regularly.

I’ve tried using some pictures of my partner in order to 3D print her but it didn’t really work well I’m guessing you need a really clean background.
I have a theory that we actually domesticated ourselves. Yes, the first animals humans domesticated were humans. We became less violent, more amenable to following leaders.

Is that a known theory or did I just think of it?
Non-Mormon in Utah. I grew up here. In high school, I felt excluded. I felt like all the social activities centered on the Mormon Church, and I was left out. I resented it, deeply and for a long time.

Eventually I realized: Maybe it was just because I was a nerd. Maybe it wasn't the fault of the Mormon Church at all.

As a non-Mormon, I haven't been unwelcome anywhere, ever. There still is a bit of a feeling of being an outsider, but it's not like "no promotions for you" or anything. I've been treated fairly everywhere I've been. (Disclaimer: I'm male, white, straight, and cis. I don't know enough to speak for the experience of those who are not.)
Having spent 10 years there, I can say this is true. There’s not much innovation, just solid business execution and sales, sales, sales. The proliferation of ambitious former missionaries is a driving factor for this cultural element.
Ask HN: Should I open source my product?
Convince me to open source my product. It's a project management tool called Kanception.io
There are still "dumb" Blu-ray players. Bought one for my parents a few years back. It does have an ethernet port, but they've never needed to connect it to the Internet, works fine. I guess if you're watching a movie that has Internet-enabled extra features, then you would need an internet-connected one, but are there really that many anyway?
Definitely sounds like synesthesia.
What do they define as older children? Apologies can’t get passed to the pay wall.
This is really great!

A couple of anachronisms:

the Macbook inside the robot (!!!)

the TI calculator (that one looks to me like it's from the 1990s)

the mojibake on the printouts (looks pretty Unicodeish to me)

Can you spot any others?

P.S. an explanation of the importance of doing this according to HPMOR:

> Every time you spend money in order to save a life with some probability, you establish a lower bound on the monetary value of a life. Every time you refuse to spend money to save a life with some probability, you establish an upper bound on the monetary value of life. If your upper bounds and lower bounds are inconsistent, it means you could move money from one place to another, and save more lives at the same cost. So if you want to use a bounded amount of money to save as many lives as possible, your choices must be consistent with some monetary value assigned to a human life; if not then you could reshuffle the same money and do better. How very sad, how very hollow the indignation, of those who refuse to say that money and life can ever be compared, when all they're doing is forbidding the strategy that saves the most people, for the sake of pretentious moral grandstanding...

https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/82

The video seems to agree -- doing the calculation allowed OSHA to justify the regulation, in part because there are still other safety regulations that wouldn't be justified under the same method (it's not a blank check for OSHA to impose every safety regulation it can ever think of). (The cost-benefit robot saying that it now understands the value of human life might sound ironic, but it didn't understand how to account for them before the calculation and it did after the calculation, so, kinda?)
That's more or less how a direct listing works. Historically direct listings have been rare, but recently Spotify and Slack have successfully done it.

The main downsides (aside from it just being unusual and therefore a bit risky) is that for regulatory reasons the company can't sell new shares this way, so it's just a means to go public and doesn't raise any money.

However, once the company is public (and has an established price) nothing is stopping them from doing a secondary offering.
Ask HN: What front-end framework do you love?
DOTS is exactly what I said, as a matter of fact.
exactly - 2 spaces was correct for anyone that learned to type before say y2k. Back when typing actually involved a typewriter :-)