skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a problem yesterday where I had so many docket images laying around from builds that starting a new container pegged my CPU at 100% and slowed everything in a docker container to a crawl.

A colleague predicted the problem and I learned about one more bit of random fragility that exists in today's ecosystem.
It'd be interesting to find out what sort of impact the COVID situation had on chargeback rates. I don't have the data, but it's rational to assume that the numbers grew across the board. Stripe doesn't have any obligation to hedge for that risk, but having a quarter of income staked so they have no downside probably erodes infinite amounts of brand value in the long tail of their customer base. Hope somebody at Stripe is still able to reflect and see this perspective because it seems like their mission was always to make payments accessible to those who can't secure a merchant account. It'd be a shame if this type of approach to payment processing proved radically inferior to the old ways.
There used to be a difference in the WHO definitions but they changed the definition of pandemic at the time of swine flu, the new definition didn't require the virus to be deadly anymore.
There are many ways to do it, like you said. Over time, the most popular options have shifted as new support from the standard library arrived. How you handle the errors can boil down to whether or not you really care about what kind of error it is, or just if an error occurred.

Two popular crates for handing these situations are thiserror [1] and anyhow [2], for handling errors by type and handling all errors, respectively.

There are additional ways, like just returning a Box wrapper around the stdlib error type [3], or just unwrapping everything. It depends on what your program needs.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/thiserror

[2] https://crates.io/crates/anyhow

[3] https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Seems like you're exaggerating and overly bitter, for some reason.

I'll just move on, this is nothing.
I have Levi's and Dockers have pants that have a very similar pocket.

Levi Denizen 231; https://www.target.com/p/denizen-174-from-levi-s-174-men-s-a...

Dockers comfort cargo; https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Q8HM96
Oldschool PC fonts, release v2.0
In this context, what's a very dry area? I get 11-12" of rain annually; generally none May through October.
This is not exactly revolutionary. I have multiple pairs of bike shorts with slim elastic pockets in that spot. (Actually, a few inches higher, which is easier to reach without bending, and doesn't get in the way any more than the proposed location.)
Ah thanks for the link! I didn't know the term for "natural hugelkultur."

I don't mean to denigrate hugelkultur, rather just point out it's a folk practice based on mimicking a well understood natural process. Since it's largely used for hobby farms and gardens where enjoyment is far more important than yield, it hardly matters whether it's a folk practice or the latest agtech discovery. Just be careful not to cause drainage issues with all those berms slowly eroding! Nature can take advantage of that process optimally while in your yard it might just cause a damper basement.
Well in this case he offers the binary app for free anyway (he only asks for voluntary contributions), so I don't really see how making it closed-source would affect this.

I often support open-source projects financially and I would be a lot less likely to support this now that it's not. It's not just a matter of giving anything for free. It's about continity: That someone else can carry on with the app (and the data I've put in it!) if he decides to give up on it.

But like I said I don't like this particular app anyway for the reasons I mentioned so I don't use it. It would however be a big detractor for me when looking for a new app.

Especially this thing would put me off:
"I've decided to figure out how to make it sustainable first before figuring out potentially how to license it, in order to make this less risky for me."

So in other words, there will be monetisation coming later, but no indication on what kind of price or payment model (think monthly, lifetime etc) he will go for. This would be a big uncertainty for me if I were to consider spending time to put my data into this thing. Who knows if I'll find the upcoming price acceptable. This and the continuity thing would make it a non-starter for me, and I assume many others too. Don't forget the market of notetaking apps is very crowded.
Swales, maybe?
Germanic Substrate Hypothesis
When I broke my Android and had to use an old iPhone, the background audio feature in NewPipe was probably what I missed the most.
Cleaner code, maybe if you can ignore that Vue and React have superior support for error handling.
I live in SLC and work in the Silicon Slopes and as a non-Mormon and latino I'm positive I've been passed on promotions because I can't relate enough to the management which is overwhelmingly white, middle-aged and Mormon so you can guess that they pay attention to the other white Mormon's accomplishments because they see each other on Sundays too.
Google Meet supports noise-cancelling in outgoing audio (for business customers), but the user needs to enable it once in their settings. In my experience this last bit is already a hurdle ...

(disclaimer: I work at Alphabet)
It seems like the gist of it is that taking a startup public is a pain in the ass on account of regulatory complexity, so you just create a shell company with a charter that says that if it goes public with enough money it will buy your startup in a private transaction. Then you IPO your shell company, which is easy because it has no operations. If it raises enough money you sell your startup to it, and if not you return the money to the shareholders.
The build quality and display quality of Apple computers has kept me coming back for years. To this day, the colour and crispness of my 2004 17” iMac G4 beats the crap out of my 4-year-old Lenovo.

Thermals are super key, too. The author is completely ignoring a massive subset of features that just doesn’t make sense to me.

I’m not sure if the author just doesn’t have a job that requires them to use MacOS, doesn’t use it; or hasn’t spent a lot of time with either of those laptops.

For a professional photo or video editor, for instance - the performance gains from the ASUS would mean nothing compared to the quality of the Retina Display, the ability to work at native print resolution, colour correctness; and build quality if they’re taking it on the field.
going by firearm homicides from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...

if my maths are correct, we have 4,5/100'000 firearm homicides reported for the US.

This is less than the hot conflicts (including, per TFA, the mexican drug war), and same order of magnitude, but still less than iraq (7/100'000 in 2019).

However, it's an order of magnitude more than ukraine (0,3/100'000 in 2019).
I've seen music stores who have repurposed their hi-hat stands for this exact device.
The smell was likely from the lake rather than pollution. The lake can be famously stinky in the right conditions.
A weird justification, "Oh they show me irrelevant ads" Just say that you don't care. Or do the right thing and either pay, don't watch or use it with ads.
1980s Mercedes Benz Dealer Salesman Training VHS
Copyright theater.
It's not of course, it's chaff from the sort of leftists who don't believe anyone who believes in local government should be allowed to have any influence.
Yes, the situation is slowly changing and currently you don't have to pay a bribe (it is called a "shapka" in article) to buy a new car from a car stores.

BTW: "shapka" or "шапка" (from Russian) is translated to English as a "hat" or "cap". That means, when you buy a thing, you need to also pay for its hat too.
Learned helplessness seems like the goal here.
New species of walking shark discovered
NNs, other than being vaguely inspired by it, have nothing to do with the brain or neurons. AI as it stands today also has essentially completely abandoned any idea it may have once had of understanding any aspect of the human brain or cognition, unfortunately.

Instead, NNs and AI are entirely focused on the external world and trying to model it for strictly practical purposes (trying to predict aspects of it, in general).
>> China has 'imported' a ton of IP and many people from other countries have gone to China and made fortunes setting up clones of non-Chinese businesses.
If they included a factory reset, a good one besides being accessible early in the boot process, would erase and restore the filesystem on the flash chip to how it originally shipped. So that policy file will either be erased or a safe default.

Then you just keep it offline until Samsung fixes the file on their server so you don't have to reset it again. They fixed it a few days later so it is safe now, so even old firmware should be safe to go online.
Yup, then consider using access to other accounts as reinforcement; e.g., in this example, a corresponding Saudi account posting apparently corroborating messages.

Or, in a high-tension war scenario, not only posting tweets from POTUS, and adversary accounts, but also from varios mil commands and news organizations - think creating the entire scenario of Orson Well's War Of The Worlds broadcast...

Might not start a war (we can hope there are enough safeguards in place), but it could cause a lot of damage in a few minutes/hours...
The Mormons have been engaging in white flight from Salt Lake City proper and heading further and further south. The current tech bubble area near Lehi is a perfect example, just ten years prior they were all moving 10 miles north to Draper and Riverton towns but now those are too diverse too.
Just heard, from this article, that FAA is still moving towards approval of the MAX. Given the current massive overcapacity in airflight capacity, and the many problems regarding crossing borders, I cannot really see why anyone would be wanting to buy the 737 MAX this year. Maybe even next year? If they cannot even sell all the 787 Dreamliners they've made, I really don't see why they're still trying to get the 737 MAX approved.
panopticon is correct that this talk is sort of off-topic, because it's about game-dev gameloops, not game-design gameloops, which are not the same thing at all.

And rishav_sharan is correct that it's nonetheless lovely, so thank you for linking it.

It's interesting that, being from 2014, it uses a lot of patterns that would be completely imprudent (though still possible) in modern post-2015 Javascript, so on a line-by-line basis more than half the lines are not how I would recommend doing this today, while the approach is still totally perfect.

Hard to believe, though, that that video has so few views/likes/comments, because she really nails it.
eBay initially did not prohibit the sale of human remains. I've often wondered what precipitated the change of policy.
They __are not__ using QR code for storage as has been misreported by a few media outlets.

See https://earth.esa.int/documents/1656065/3222865/170922-Piql-... for piql's storage method.
>> Utah is literally less than 2% Black

Non-Mormon whites are treated quit differently in SLC. You don't even have to be brown.
Do you have examples to illustrate the Datomic Peer API ergonomics you described? This is really interesting to me, and I’m still struggling to grok it.
> Proc-3 Observes: W(x),W(z),W(y), R() => y

> Proc-4 Observes: W(y),W(x),W(z), R() => z

Sequential consistency implies a total order on writes, not just that processes see the writes in an order consistent with the order each individual writer used. This history is not valid according to sequential consistency. It _IS_ valid for the two processors to see different values, if one read is stale, but it wouldn't see a different order of writes.
Put up your old domain with content and then do a rel canonical from each page on the old domain to the corresponding page on new domain.

I faced same issue couple years back. Hope it helps.

Sorry if the same answer has been given before mine.
Author here, I realize how from the user perspective if the app stayed open-source and I still kept working on it full-time that would have been better, but that scenario is unrealistic, I just couldn't justify to myself working on it full-time without getting any revenue out of it and releasing everything as open-source, and I've been working on it for about 18 months now.

If somebody else can justify that proposition to themselves they are more than welcome to fork the app from the last available open-source version and take the open-source path.

Open-sourcing it again is not out of the table, but I need to make the project financially sustainable before considering this.

By the way a lot of the interesting libraries used inside the app are released as open-source still, mostly under my profile: https://github.com/fabiospampinato?tab=repositories&type=sou...
Sounds like the person whose name it was also gave up trying to use Cymraeg, otherwise they'd perhaps be CluEllen.

Don't know how long off the boat they were, but often misspellings in UK surnames arise across generations in records. I guess because the family themselves are totally illiterate.

Also, IIUC on immigration to USA officials would record your surname on your papers and that became _the_ spelling, so that might also explain it?
This kind of website detect when you are using a mobile device or not.
They can show the spammer website if you are in phone or a different website (like Google) when you're not using a mobile device.
I was also a fan until I discovered that there is no search and replace feature.

The issue for it was opened in 2016 but the dev doesn't seem interested. Search and replace should be core functionality for any text or code based editor IMHO.

https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/issues/417
No, it is not QR-encoded.

This is the method:

https://earth.esa.int/documents/1656065/3222865/170922-Piql-...
That’s N times more expensive and much more difficult than shooting single camera though. And, digital sensors have noise, too. Try shooting low light and you’ll see.
I enjoyed his art greatly:

https://sambleckley.com/art/
The difference is that these crimes (extortion, contract abuse, gasoline theft) are actually stoppable. They have real victims who can complain; they have physical pipelines that can be protected. Drugs generally involve a happy buyer and happy seller transacting in private.

Organized crime doesn't go away overnight. It's not like all the gangs immediately disappeared after the end of Prohibition in the US. You just have to keep taking away their revenue sources, eventually they're too poor to fight back.
Perhaps. I'm not well versed in education of the times, so take with a grain of salt. As far as I know, there are no big cats native to France, so it's likely they didn't know such a thing existed, or what it looked like.

In rural Kentucky when I was a younger, there were a string of cow killings in the area. Some farmers said it was a wolf or large coyote, but they didn't get a great look. One farmer called a trapper to kill it, and it was finally killed. It turned out to be a mountain lion. These farmers didn't even know they were in the area(they aren't supposed to be, in fairness). And this was in the information age.
Why the Economy doesn't have a reset button
It's really striking that there are so many markdown-based note-taking apps out there. It seems like there's a new one on show HN every week.

Anyone have any idea why this is? I assume the ones that show up here are mostly people scratching their own itch, but are note-taking needs all that diverse?
I live in Utah and I'd gladly welcome more technical types regardless. I think it is a net win.
Perhaps you shouldn't embarass yourself with false analogies (caste system, hukou issues). Utah being majority white _is_ the issue for the author. His implied solution is to dramatically change the demographics of the state and disrupt a successful, safe, high-trust society.
Vantablack absorbs up to 99.96% and the species of fish absorbs 99.95%. They must be talking about certain cells or pigments rather than the entire fish since they do not appear ultra-black in the images I see.

Found in the paper:

> We used a back-reflectance probe calibrated to a 2% diffuse reflectance standard to measure the reflectance at perpendicular incidence from the blackest undamaged patches of skin.
It gets even worse when you talk about reverse mergers. For example the way some chinese companies have become listed in the US is just buying out a penny stock company and listing through that.
I went to a respectable state school (to the point where people comment that they like the SDEs that my state school has produced when I speak to other devs) for my undergraduate degree, and I've recently become debt free. If I had gone for CS, I probably could have expected to be $35-40k in the red on graduation. While it seems abnormally high across the Atlantic, it wouldn't have been some catastrophic ivy league 6-figure loan pricetag that's become the debt figure people like to highlight so much.

Many people that I've kept in contact with who followed the CS track were more than able to pay off their student loans because most people I know went to state schools like I did. It would be unreasonable to say that there are no failure stories as there are plenty of those, but with the salaries in the industry even for juniors who find themselves working for slightly above average companies (envision $55-65k fresh out of college in the US and they still get to live at home), the loan would have absolutely been worth it.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I just saw it.
Amazon Letter to Shareholders (2017)
Would you be willing to share what that vim/kdb plugin was... sounds very interesting!
Tradespeople generally don’t wear ‘cargo pants’ that you can buy at Kohl’s. They wear jeans or work pants from Dickies/Carhartt/Duluth Trading.

I manage tradespeople and go to job sites often.

Cargo pants to me are an unfortunate holdover from the 90s fashion worn by people who don’t particularly care about how they look. People wear clothes for various reasons, including utility.
"It's especially concerning they have no ID or agency badges"

Do you have source(s) for this claim?
> The article states quite clearly, multiple times, in multiple different ways that she encouraged and bought into this nonsense.

After he found it, and after she tried to talk him out of it.

> They say "you're right, you don't need treatment.

You must have read a different article to the one I quoted above then, that clearly states that both his mother and girlfriend tried to talk him out of it, before they all got sucked into the internet misinformation.

> Do I really need to post all of the many quotes from the article showing they were complicit in all of this?

Go for it, but you're still ignoring the article as written.
> The thing that strikes me as especially interesting about our drive for diversity is that it’s based on the premise that if you hire people who look different, then you will very likely get people with heterogeneous viewpoints

No, it's not. It's about social justice and corporate citizenship. Viewpoint heterogenity and other arguments of private benefit have always been secondary arguments.

> Notably, institutions like academia and media increasingly consider viewpoint homogeneity something akin to moral purity

AFAICT this isn't increasingly true of either, though it's perhaps slightly increasingly true (with different favored viewpoints) within individual media firms rather than the media as a whole. The argument that it is increasingly true tends to come from supporters of what was, until recently, the dominant ideology in those institutions and all of society, and is more about that viewpoint no longer being as strongly favored than increasing homogeneity.
Politics is not a zero-sum game. When parties discuss with each other they have a chance of all furthering their agendas to some extent, and have all parties mostly support the compromise.

It's also the case that if a party campaigns strongly one subject and win votes with that, its ministers will tend to get the ministries that allow them to implement their ideas. So if you're tough on security you might get the police, if you're a fiscal conservative you get finances. It's more complicated than that, but the longer they stay on the bigger the chance they end up where they want.
I always imagined that companies that have their stock price "pop" after IPO would've been better off doing a DPO instead (like Spotify) since they would've gotten more money.
Bingo. I majored in math because I was interested in it. Had I known the difficulties I’d have getting a job because of it, I would have doubled in CS.

I had people literally just tell me at career fairs, “you’re not qualified,” because my degree didn’t have the word “computer” in it. It took most of my self control not to educate them on who built the first electronic computers.
Author here, I can add Inkdrop to the comparison table.

There are hundreds of note-taking apps out there, believe it or not when I first made the comparison table I didn't know about Inkdrop, later on I learned about it of course, it should be added to the table. Adding a new app to the table isn't exactly a fun experience as you can imagine, I guess I prioritized more doing other things.
Along with agency patches on the shoulder area
>Russia used to have few car manufacturers and produced almost every car part rather than importing it.

yes and no. Significant share (seems most) of major USSR car manufacturers started as a transfer of technology deal and improvement on its own has been pretty small and incremental since then. VAZ - Fiat (196x), GAZ - Ford (193x), AZLK/Moskvich was "refreshed" by the complete factory transfer of the Opel's one right after the WWII, ZIL - original 1917 and total re-equipment in 193x - to build Italian and American cars under license (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZiL#History), UAZ models naturally trace back to the GAZ, and its most known and widely used - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAZ-469 - hasn't changed much in 50 years. KAMAZ though doesn't look like an outright transfer and is kind of local success story, yet also not much improvements in 50 years (probably for the same reason of absence of any real competition as the USSR planned economy basically segmented manufacturers into their own quasi-monopoly segments) .
Third parties tend to emerge when one party has been in too long and has a large percentage of the vote. New party tries to take 30% of the 70% and 10% of the 30%
Yeah! They're popular despite being universally derided. If someone can solve that style problem, I smell disruption.

There is a running "flip belt" that is also essentially the same thing. I haven't pulled the trigger, but it remains on my mind.
> The fact that they’re not ahead is compelling proof that this virus was as new to Chinese medicine as it was to everyone else.

I appreciate your argument, but are you sure that they are not ahead? I don't have personal knowledge, but (for example) there was a Reuters article last week with a headline that included that claim "China leads COVID-19 vaccine race": https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-.... If somehow it was proved that they are indeed ahead, would you consider this compelling proof in the opposite direction? I think I'd consider both directions to be weak evidence, but neither to be anything near proof.
Additionally, efi isn't useful for much beyond a bootloader, so you can use clang for the bootloader and gcc (or whatever else) for the OS itself. So you can depend on non-clang features.
I'm doing no such thing. Get that chip off your shoulder.

I'm condeming those that peddle false information and profit from the sick as they do so. It's a shame you take that as an attack, but that's on you.