skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This won't be the end of it. It's just one of the many battles.

And iOS isn't for everyone. Yes it's great for protecting privacy but it's also extremely restrictive for the users. The fact that they don't even allow real third-party browsers is baffling in this day and age. I also can't use my Yubikey in OpenPGP mode which I really need for my password manager and SSH access. I know it supports U2F now but that's not enough (and was way too late as well).

But I agree the advertising industry has to die. I don't believe in the 'working together' approach of the EFF with their plugins that stop blocking cookies when they see the privacy policy file. I mean, if you're not tracking me, then why need third party cookies in the first place?

It'll never happen though. They'll always find a way to track us.
> That's really impressive psychoanalysis on your part. NOT. I've considered that and looked at it from a number of angles and the conclusion is that they are biased.

Not? Haven't heard that one since the 4th grade. Keep on "owning the libs" man.
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“This strategy would kill over half a million Americans” isn’t even really a smear, it’s an accurate description of why the herd immunity strategy is bad.
According to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1291071 it should be under Addons -> Themes, at least in previous versions? But it was kinda buggy as of last month.
Show HN: HabitCat, a simple mobile app to track your habits and routines
Hi HN crowd,

In collaboration with my significant other we took advantage of the past few months of lockdown and reduced work to create a simple little mobile app.

It's called HabitCat, and is a quick tool to manage your routines and build new habits. We were a bit annoyed by existing applications and thought that would be a neat project to do and get some experience building products together.

Release announcement: https://sam.elborai.me/blog/habitcat-release.
The android version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details.

It's nothing too fancy, and we aren't building a company here, but we are looking for feedbacks :)
In some ways this is a nice feature - it's a neat accomplishment for contributors to be aware of, and something that they can be proud of.

But I don't entirely understand why it has been enabled on public profiles by default.

As a regular user I hope that GitHub doesn't continue down the path of becoming a popularity contest at the expense of fostering co-operative work on equal terms.
Retargeting is the worst.
More anecdotes: I live in the suburbs. Both my neighbors have sold due to suddenly-rising demand in housing. There are for-sale signs everywhere. The people who have already moved in are all from the city (NYC).

Coworkers who live in the city are finding it much less workable to live there when they have to stay in small apartments. You can buy a nice, large house in a nice town for the money you spend on renting a small apartment in the city. When the lease is about up, you can close on a house rather quickly (I sold my last house in NJ in 3 days, closed on the new one as fast as both us and the seller could move our stuff) and suddenly be able to walk around and have a backyard. That kind of fairly-quick life improvement is important. Also, now people will worry about "the next virus" when they're in the city.

The protests outside their doors didn't help.

With employers suddenly becoming rather adept at work-from-home and remote work, the work benefits of stay in the cities have diminished permanently.
Ask HN: What are the best intrusion detection algorithms?
In regards to maps...

I would like to actually see number on that. I personally use Apple Maps almost exclusively and don't look back. It does everything I need.

Apple Maps had a very shaky start, but its just fine compared to google maps (with the added benefit of not being a privacy nightmare)
Groningen, the Netherlands. Some other cities in the Netherlands do this too, but AFAIK it's not (yet) universal.
I'm no doctor, but during this period I've experienced anxiety, and some of those symptoms match physical symptoms of anxiety. Nausea, headache, difficulty breathing, tight chest and neck (hell i've noticed even the fucking tongue was tight being pressed against the teeth and I didn't even realize that), tingling of hands/feet/arms, and during a spike you get confusion and you make poor decisions, heart bpm goes to 120 while sitting/laying down.

So, just to mention to not discard that.

In fact a lot of people are experiencing several degrees of anxiety during this period.

None of us experienced this level of stress and anxiety before, the glimpse of uncertainty and the lack of control fucks our mind.

One of the triggers I had was allergy (clogged nose), and other was when I saw news of people acting irresponsibly after me doing my part and giving up a lot of things to try to contain this (I'm not from the US, I'm from the EU).
Only a single anecdotal observation in this article, and not speaking directly about the vans: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/portland-protests.html

"""One of the people detained, Mark Pettibone, said in an interview that an unmarked vehicle stopped right in front of him around 2 a.m. on Wednesday and four people in camouflage jumped out. Given the lack of markings or identification, he had no idea who they were.

One of the officers said, ‘It’s OK, it’s OK,’ and just grabbed me and threw me into the van. Another officer pulled my beanie down, so I couldn’t see,” Mr. Pettibone said.

Mr. Pettibone said he was terrified and that at no point was he told why he was arrested or detained, or what agency the officers were with. He said he was ultimately held for about two hours before being released.'""

Most articles I've found are citing statements from one or two individuals (Pettingbone): https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unm...

I haven't seen enough authoritative evidence to truly say that there are "unmarked vans driving around portland kidnapping protestors"; if the federal government is doing that to nonviolent protestors who are obeying orders, they put themselves directly at risk of being sued for civil rights violations.

I've noticed that WaPo is especially prone to rumormongering/anecdote amplification in a way that makes it sound like the problem is far worse than it really is. I find it necessary to read a wider range of news to get a fully informed view.
The Jupyter development team is doing an excellent job gathering resources and thinking through the foundations for implementing Realtime Sync for computational notebooks, all very publicly and collaboratively...
Opening up without restrictions would kill somewhere between 500,000 and 1,300,000 Americans, assuming that the CFR doesn’t rise above 1% (an optimistic assumption). If you think lockdowns will kill that many Americans, then provide your sources.
In Iceland, they did extensive testing, and genetic tracing of infections.

Children infecting other children was extremely rare. In almost all cases, it was adults infecting them.

There was only a single case of a child infecting an adult.

https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/hunting-down-covi...

Now that we have actual experience with the disease, hospitalization rates for children with covid is 5x lower than flu.

As pediatricians have noted, focusing only on covid risks leaves a whole host of other more serious risks with no management.
It's also good to remember that new devs make up something like 50% of the developer population each year (I forget the exact number, maybe it's every 2 years). So while this may be basic information to someone who's been doing this for at least a few years (and I'd argue it isn't, particularly since the site isn't aimed at Front End Devs, per se, but others who have to do front end development), it is valuable information for the target audience.
until you realize the antibody wont last more than a couple months.
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/studies-report-ra...
Time to sell? Rent for a year or two?
How do you install pi-hole for the cellular modem on a smartphone?
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Can I get in touch with you to discuss this a little further?

Pointedly: If there were organizations that reproduced their modules independently, and integrated into them well enough to "stay on one system" at the finance level until they're able to slowly pick away at replacing each one and data collections into a main db in a sane, nonconvoluted or expensive way? (Unlike SAP)
He personally benefited by the increased share price of the company, which would have been vastly less if the policy choice had gone with fiber, which is the obvious choice for an infrastructure _upgrade_.

Personal financial gain by abuse of power.
Eh, I use Wipr. Exact same thing. PiHole if you want system-wide.
The parent comment I replied to was about Saudi Arabia burning oil for domestic energy needs. My point is that switching their domestic use to solar is going to have almost no impact since it's a drop in the bucket compared to their export market. Unless you think they should stop exporting their only commodity and turn into Yemen.
This would require an impractical amount of wires. For an 8 core, 64 bit cpu with differential signaling would need something like 8(64+64)2 = 2048 wires, and the length of the wires would mean the latency would be much worse then an on-die cache.
Inflation is about 2-3% per year, so that brings the real appreciation down to 2-6%.

That doesn’t tell the whole story, however. The 2008 stimulus plan basically printed money in the form of increased stock valuations and cheap mortgages. Stocks and housing have inflated well over 3% per year since then, while consumer prices have not.

Eventually that has to unwind. One option is for the federal government to claw the money back. That will lead to deflation and immediate economic ruin, so they can’t do it.

The more likely option is that we eventually hit a patch of high consumer price index inflation as workers start charging a living (housed) wage for their time.
What do you want to imply by that?

"Only" is quite cruel btw considering that those kids will never grow up to have a life and how many other people sick kids infect and probably kill.
1. Why? Money. Works almost always. 2. Scary how little you can be killed for. 3. Scary how big of a risk to their own life people are willing to take for money. 4. Is it really money? Criminals are usually spendthrifts. All that stuff really doesn’t improve life much. Seems like status signals must be the real insatiable desire. 5. Rethinking, this seems like the work of a drug addict. The person has reasonable executive capacity (dopamine drive), but lacks empathy for others or their own future.
Pretty much. It's incredible the mental gymnastics the adtech industry has gone through to believe it's important, or even fundamentally important to the world.
> it seems to me that even the experts do little real math and lots of guesswork

Machine Learning is a rich and varied field. Like most applied sciences, there is a spectrum from the heavily applied to the heavily theoretical, to some which try to span both sides of the spectrum at the same time (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04932).
If people are really moving out if the cities why are we not seeing a reduction is home prices?
Do you really think the adtech industry is using radio firmware backdoors to track users? It's theoretically possible I suppose, but several steps too far into conspiracy theory territory for me to worry about. Governments spying on dissidents is another story.
So only 140k died (0.04%) and with now with the death rate that is going down, its a good news, even more reason to reopen as soon as possible.
Nigerian media have more info about the suspect https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23871447
I have a serious question. Obviously if one were to choose between an ad-free experience and an ad-full experience, one would choose ad-free. But, if ads were needed for monetization, wouldn't you choose personalized vs non-personalized?
Personally, I would go with personalized because a non-personalized experienced usually has no relevancy and frankly it is inefficient use of money in this world.
From there, it really comes down to companies invading your privacy, usually they make the wrong assumptions from it. Why can't there be a way for me to tell the ad-world what I'm in the market for and have them stop trying to snoop around and guess what I want?
Most may say that making a Google search is enough to tell ads what I want but I think there are a ton of assumptions made there.
I'm not sure I understand your objection. Shelly is a programming language, inspired by Logo, and it also comes with a browser based environment.

Isn't half of the communication problem you're referring to demanding that others use words the way you want them to, as opposed to listening, understanding that language is fluid, and trying to hear what they're saying instead of tell them they're wrong?
PV cleaning robots are off the shelf products.
I would guess it does matter about the language, but likely because as the language changes the font itself may actually change. And different fonts would have different relative font sizes. But like you, I haven't investigated it enough to make a definitive statement about it.
I haven't been there, (maybe someone who has can comment?), but I would expect you need the positive diagnosis for evaluating COVID19 treatment options for your kid. Or, at the minimum, I would expect the DR. to push you to have them tested.

In any case, I would expect kids to be tested after adults in most cases during the shelter in place
Pretty sure the repos are stored plaintext in tar balls
Assuming we capture about 10% of COVID instances as actual cases, then the US is getting 770,000 new instances a day.

Stockholm burnt itself out with 20% of the population getting immunity (determined via antibody testing).

So (328,000,000 - 37,000,000) / 770,000 = 378 days until herd immunity, considering the existing cases.

What is more likely is that the case numbers will ramp up significantly though, to over 100,000 per day at some point. In that case the USA will have herd immunity within the year.

This is nothing new. Influenza hits about 20% of the population (60 million people) as well and then burns out for the season. We struggle yearly with keeping influenza out of nursing homes and with the surge of hospitalization that it creates.

The good news is that right now there are no excess deaths in the USA and that hospitals all over the country are handling the virus and not running out of space (more beds can be always be converted to ICU, ICU capacity is not infexible, same as is done for influenza).
EU Court Again Rules That NSA Spying Makes U.S. Companies Inadequate for Privacy
And we have no idea what the long-term impacts of Covid-19 might be.

Just as a for-instance, I had the Chickenpox, like most people my age. No biggie. Then I later developed Shingles, because the Chickenpox virus can be dormant in your body for decades. Shingles can be debilitating.

I highly doubt that Covid-19 will have long-term health impacts like that for children. But we absolutely don't know for sure, yet.
That would be great if children under 14 then didn't have any interaction with anyone over the age of 14. So while it is good that kids are not dying at the same rate as others it doesn't mean they shouldn't be tested or doing the same things everyone else is to prevent the spread.
Try the https://www.fast.ai/ courses, its a mix between this is state of the art and teaching how to make an actual machine learning product.

They got an upcoming book, and I think that the epub is already out and the have the draft at github publicly available https://github.com/fastai/fastbook
But... that's not a tree -- there's still no way to discover all leaves. That's just a thread/singly linked list.
Whatever they (Vlad) are going to do, they have a closing window to do it in.

Russia's population is expected to fall to ~130 million by 2050 [0]. The dual upcoming hits of reduced fuel purchasing and climate change are not going to affect Russia well. Their petrorubles are not likely to maintain a punch in a solar/wind/etc world. And as the temperate zones move towards the poles, with the grain belts tagging along, all of Russia's neighbors are likely to look at that unmanned land in a more hungry way. Their southernly neighbors of India and China are still growing in population to ~3B combined in 2050, let alone all the other countries. Whatever balance there is now will change with a hungrier and hotter populace.

In some ways, these issues with Donny and Boris are amazing feats of engineering. But they are only delaying the inevitable. Whatever they (Vlad) are planning on doing, I don't see how they get out of this hole. Sure, they bought time and space to move, but that time is limited. The next election in the US is likely to reveal more of their (Vlad's) hand.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia
Oh definitely. The flaws may well be fixed, and aren't huge anyhow. But they're real enough to consider Tesla's past claims to be super-duper safe to be misleadingly cherry-picked (effectively they were lying), so it's a little hard to take new claims at face value.
Tu-104 had a glass nose (for the navigator).
Land is maybe 20k, 25-27k at a stretch. 15-20k in sweat equity, if I had to guess.

The math just isn't there.
This article offers scant evidence that this occurred.

A man claims that he was arrested "as he was walking home from a peaceful protest" and taken to the courthouse in an unmarked vehicle. This strikes me as unlikely to be the full story, but it is presented as the gospel truth. The entire thing is based on the word of this guy. What did the Washington Post do to verify the truth of this story? Anything?

The WaPo article refrences Oregon Public Broadcasting as a source, and their article[0] contains more allegations:

> Federal law enforcement officers have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14.

and

> Personal accounts and multiple videos posted online show the officers driving up to people, detaining individuals with no explanation of why they are being arrested, and driving off.

Neither article links to these videos. So, in terms of supporting evidence, we're left with the word of one man and a perfectly credulous article written in a local publication.

Has anyone seen one of these videos?

[0]https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unm...
An off-the-shelf grid system is too inflexible, and you spend more time customizing it or fighting it to get the result you need than you would have just building what you need.
I feel your pain, and it sucks. I was sent to an ER after my GP noticed something wrong with my heart during a routine checkup..that was easily the scariest afternoon of my life. There is something profoundly frightening about a doctor telling you to get your arse to hospital ASAP because your heart is fucking up.

Several stressful hours later, the verdict came back: nothing abnormal. Of course, ever since that incident, my heart as been on my mind a lot more than I'd like. Getting a single skipped beat or a few palpitations sets me on edge. But the attention only means I notice more "errors". No heart is perfect, they all skip a beat every now and again, so I "know" it's OK, but it doesn't feel OK anymore. It's a particularly unpleasant kind of anxiety.
Right, but oil as used for transportation is the far harder nut to crack.
Latvia probably. Not Turkey, way too hard and scary.
so the api is literally backwards
There are a lot of people in NYC, period.

That's going to increase the base number of those with some flavor of mental instability, but I've never seen anything to suggest the ratio is different than other places.
Much like Flash, not allowing third-party browsers could be explained as a cynical control mechanism on Apple’s part... or as their not wanting to see tech support volume shoot up as Chrome and Firefox users complain their battery life is terrible. Or some combination of the two.
Is your work open source/viewable anywhere? I've written a few (probably ToS violating) plugins for Twitter myself, and would be curious to see.
I've shared a documentary on George Boole before -- it's my comment history somewhere. I'll dig it up in a bit. Might be relevant to people.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEjzjLv-YjI
I just shared this link on Facebook and got an IMMEDIATE warning that it violated community guidelines... just because it has the word "coronavirus" in the title?
>What do you want to imply by that?

That the death rate for children is incredibly low.
> Another factor besides coronavirus is widespread civil unrest.

Also local politicians are coming under pressure to “defund the police” and some are taking the first steps toward that goal.
HVDC transmission losses are low, like 5% per 1000 km. So yes, a large, dispersed solar network could create and distribute electricity effectively.
Based on what?

This risk of an adult being infected by a child is almost zero.

https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/hunting-down-covi...

The flu is also deadly for 65 year olds. Will your parent refuse to work during flu season when the risk of getting infected from a child is much, much higher than with covid?
Yeah I came here to ask this. Using relative units for layout seems like a terrible idea. If you want to make your text a little bigger, your entire layout changes too. That's fine if it's something like text padding or paragraph margins, but stuff like border width, or dimensions of boxes? That seems weird.

Browsers have been able to zoom pixel widths for years.
Perhaps it would be better if it showed a list of contributions to projects in the Code Vault, ordered by contribution size…
I am using an old laptop as a console-only typewriter. This might come in handy for inspiration, thank you!
It's a low effort SEO technique. Google uses time spent in site as surrogate metric for quality, so Goodhart's law applies.
“This is a lighthouse. Your call.”
Pre-covid, subways were way more packed than supermarkets, restaurants, and even pretty packed bars. Covid made Manhattan much less livable.
I would assume all the other costs to fly one (ground equipment, certified pilots and engineers, etc.) will dwarf that.
Oh the nostalgia! I remember that first scene like it was yesterday. And also never making it past that first scene either. Games were hard. Or I was stupid. Not sure.
Strict guarantees of usability don't exist. Look how many technologies MS has abandoned.
Indeed, but eventually a ceiling is reached over which it would be impossible to make a profit having on-site employees.

I don't envy the locals though. I spent 2,5 months in Zurich, during which I saved so much that in pre-corona times it would be enough for the minimal allowed down payment for an apartment.

The Swiss don't have a Switzerland of Switzerland where they could pull off the same trick.
It is nice to see this finally getting the attention of national media. It was a week or so ago I saw videos of some guy get shot in the face while holding up a sign and another being kidnapped and dragged in to an unmarked car by unidentified individuals for an unexplained reason.