skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that a lot of people in the software field confuse maximizing information density with finding valuable learning materials.

Almost all books have relatively low information density. You can condense "How to Win Friends and Influence People" down to a page of chapter headings, for example, or a history book into a 2-3 page timeline. The point of all of the anecdotes and details isn't to convey more information, it's to force the reader to slow down to think about the topic and provide more memory hooks to help with recall later.

Whenever you read a book, if you think "that was obvious, I knew that already," observe if you are actually acting on that knowledge the way you want to. After reading the book, do you act on that knowledge you already knew more easily?

Even books that are outright bad can be useful if they force you to think more about a topic and re-evaluate your own opinions. For example, I try to read 1-2 general software books a year. Some of them are terrible, most of them tell me things I already learned, but the spaced repetition makes me re-evaluate my own recent choices to see if there are any areas where I have been getting lazy and cutting corners I shouldn't.
I don’t know of any VPN provider as trustworthy as DHH and Basecamp.
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I've been using a 13.3" Dasung Paperlike HD-FT monitor for a few months. I use it without the front light, and set the display to 2x magnification. I'd highly recommend it to anyone having problems with LCD screens.
http://dasungtech.com/
Respectfully, 4 years is still luck. You need to maintain that for 20-30 years (or be VERY lucky and make enough in a super short time to exit the game).
I'd argue that the chinese fans might not be the problem. Their government would be since they can just ban the NBA for their "anti-Chinese" stance.
It doesn‘t work great. I actually run it on my phone. It has silly bugs, despite the simplicity.

Additionally, for that price you could have easily have 3 independent teams develop it and take the best one and still be cheaper and better.

I hope someone will challenge this in court. I don‘t think they can get away without a call for bids which should have been done (across Europe, as the law requires).
Not webtorrent though. It's over webRTC, not UDP like most torrent traffic.
The Loyal Heights neighborhood in Seattle, named after the developer's daughter, Loyal Graef Treat.
This administration literally touted drinking bleach to fix the Coronavirus. I'm not going to self-righteously criticize people that are a now more than a bit sceptical of medical claims coming from the Trump Administration.
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I think it's unlikely people lose all their money trading on RH and take the lesson "Better trade more responsibly next time", more likely the lesson is either "Next time I've got to be more aggressive" or "I'm never putting money in the stock market again".
There's also this, which forced verbatim search on google.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unfuck-google...

Warning: bug with clicking image results on the main search results page.
How close are we to developing a vaccine for COVID-19?
I would love to learn more about your setup.
Does Reflect has built-in Roboflow integration, or it ismth custom?
International Baccalaureate students receiving algorithmically predicted grades
That's a really good point. That does happen to me when I go looking and find I misremembered some details and it turns out... yeah I'm wrong.
I've looked at tiledb a few times. I think it would make a lot of sense to use it as a serialization format for legion. https://legion.stanford.edu/

Its been on my todo list to try it out for a while. Maybe my next weekend project.
I put in the word "Saskatoon" (a city in Canada) and got back the tweet:

“Elon Musk's password: ida-qdbo-XXX-XXX-XXXX-XXXX” (redaction mine)

Should this be reported or... ?

Edit: added "redaction mine"
You can add partitions to a pool, either for storage, for SLOG or L2ARC.

Unless you're ok with data loss in the case of power-outage, you'll want to use a mirror for SLOG at the very least. You can do that by making a mirror from two partitions on separate SSDs and then adding that as the SLOG. The partitions do not have to be very large, just enough to handle a minute or so of writes, so 10GB or so should is often plenty.

Also keep in mind that ZFS does a lot of shuffling for the L2ARC. I had <1% L2ARC hits on my pool with a 128GB L2ARC partition, but almost a TB of writes per day to the L2ARC due to ZFS rotating data in and out of it.
My understanding is that the refresh time tends to increase significantly with the number of colors displayed.
Event specific signage such as 'Donner Party' in Conference Room C could be useful for many hotels and convention centers.
I’m the author/developer of djit.su - as a web developer for almost two decades I’m excited to be able to share djitsu with you!

Let me know if you have any question or comments!
Gotta love them short term gains.
Well, only because this is relevant to the bit about citations in academic papers: you may find what we're doing at scite interesting!

https://scite.ai/

You can see how papers are cited by others, see the context around the citation snippet, and whether others just mention, support, or dispute your findings.

Feedback is always welcomed (drop me a line at ashish@scite.ai if you have any thoughts)
Yes I suppose it's analysis - but doesn't all analysis include some editorial judgement?

I mean it isn't literally a fact that it will definitely hit the economy, unless they've got a time machine, it's just their opinion. I'm sure it will prove to be a completely correct opinion! But it's still an editorial opinion. Sometimes you don't want any opinions, you just want the facts, thanks.
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> resulting in 3.6 additional cases of narcolepsy per 100,000 vaccinated subjects.

That is obviously much better than the current Covid situation.
This is all an exercise in hubris. I really dislike these types of things since they always forget one thing. In a world without infinite resources distributed to anyone that wants them. All of this is pointless. The second anything that has solid long term staying power it will be subverted by people's that wants a bigger share of the pie. In short all of these projects forget or ignore human nature.
First mistake: you calculate 6 weeks of dev time ignoring that SAP got 11.5M including maintenance for 2 years. Certainly amount of work in two years time is lower than initial dev work, but not zero.

Secondly you are only taking in "development work", but such a contract entails other things
- certainly there is a penalty if they deliver too late
- there is legal risk to cover, if they deliver crap in some legal sense they are liable
- probably SAP had other contracts which they had to postpone
- count in all the lawyers writing the contract :-D

And yes, they certainly made a profit out of this and yes a proper biding procedure might be better, but given the timelines and the transparency I think it's ok.
I guess my thing is that I can never find/settle on a good manual machine plus grinder that I would describe as "cheap". I worked as a barista for a few years back in the day and while not a terribly "snobby" coffee drinker, I do miss being able to pull a decent shot and also make microfoam for latte/flat white type drinks.

The problem is that at a minimum I'd be looking at $1000-1500 for a decent grinder and machine and (at least currently) that's up in the realm of luxury items I might buy someday but can't justify right now. Even the passable all-in-one consumer machines like some of the Brevilles are up in the $800+ range and I hesitate to buy anything that expensive that is not repairable.

So instead I just buy beans roasted within the past couple of weeks, grind when needed with a cheap blade grinder, and make drip coffee with a basic machine. Once in a while I do a moka pot and whip up hot milk in a french press for a fake latte but that's usually not worth the effort. When I want an espresso or a latte I go to the cafe and buy one maybe once or twice a month.

I have never considered buying any sort of pod machine. Way too wasteful and expensive for what you get out of it.
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it isn't really helpful or conductive of an interesting discussion that you are not detailing what the point is, even when the "the point is this" gets directly quoted, while not clarifying neither the point nor why the reply don't apply.
I would guess that the economics of production of a COVID-19 vaccine will be significantly more attractive than other vaccines.
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No, they don't.

More specifically, people who need to go out in public, because they need to:

1. Work for a living, and don't get sick days.

2. Can't get/afford <whatever it is they need delivered to them>.

3. Think COVID is a hoax.

4. Don't give a shit.

Are going to do that, regardless of whether or not they have masks.

The only people changing their behaviour because masks exist are employers, who think it is safe to sardine-can people in their workspaces, because everyone's wearing masks. (Never mind that so many people are wearing them incorrectly...)
I see. Thanks for sharing the information.
There is absolutely no way the government is going to force this vaccine on people. Not in the land of the free. Not in the land of "face masks violate my rights" They could write all the laws they want - it'll be unenforceable without popular buy-in.
Curious... The page I saw was actual Google Recaptcha...
Anyone bashing on this has absolutely no concept of the scales or engineering that went into this. When I look at these images, even though I've known we had them for a long time, I'm filled with a tiny bit of hope for the future, something I haven't had in all of 2020.
It's inevitable that AI research will be more and more closed. AI is a weapon which is potentially much more dangerous than nuclear. It's naive to think that the most dangerous weapon will be accessible to a general public.
Somewhat weird selection; I'm surprised it didn't include "The Circle", by Dave Eggers. That has a similar "always connected" feel to it.

I guess this kind of blog-spam/affiliate marketing stuff is quick and easy to produce though.
The solution is the Decentralized Web (DWeb), such as IPFS (https://ipfs.io), Freenet (https://freenetproject.org), GNUnet (https://gnunet.org) or Hypercore (https://hypercore-protocol.org). We should start using them to avoid centralization and embrace freedom.
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I get the point you're trying make but as someone who knows a bit about the fabric technologies involved, I can tell you that your logic is flawed.

Two pairs of durable, anti-microbial, quick-drying, warm-when-damp socks is worth more than 100 cotton tube socks in outdoor scenarios. 100% cotton socks are garbage for anything but the shortest term (1-day) outdoor use. They lose all insulating properties when wet/damp, are impossible to dry, they stink, they aren't durable, and they will lead to blisters.

The wetness (either via sweat or environmental conditions) is the most important thing. It can lead to very serious health problems. In WW1 hundreds of thousands died from "swamp foot".

There's a reason the US military (well, every military in the world) does not issue cotton socks despite them being the most affordable — They are absolute garbage for long term outdoor use.

You might be interested in this article and video I found. The socks Bombas donates to shelters aren't "fancy", they are specifically engineered for their purpose.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90262183/10-million-homeless-peo...
I was chasing down this route a while ago with a Waveshare touch screen and a RPI3. I was wiring stuff up on a breadboard and was so stoked when things worked. The next level is that you send a schematic into a custom circuit board company and they send you back a PCB. The future is that we custom print open source PCB designs, solder our RPIs and Touch Screens on and bam we have custom brewed machines.
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> It was expensive, but that didn't particularly matter because the company made it clear they wouldn't sell to consumers or hobbyists.

I created an LLC a few years ago to route my moonlighting consulting work through.

Even if my need for it dries up eventually, I'd still probably keep it around. Single greatest benefit of having it is ease of access to the commercial and industrial supply chain and slipping through these sorts of "no consumer or hobbyists allowed" sales positions.
well if you want to raise animals, you will also need crops to feed them... nearly half of all the crops we grow are fed to livestock
Terrible. I thought the immunity would last forever.
A stronger contrast between human natural language learning and GPT-3 is that the human is an active participant, continually trying things out and getting feedback. GPT-3's training is entirely passive -- and when all humans have of a language is a corpus of fragments with unknown referents (Minoan Linear A), we don't do well.
I've seen even people who will attempt to discredit the data you've shown with kind of reasonable points like "the data is biased too, because it was collected by people who have the same bias". Well, yeah, that's possible, I guess... but if that's the case, then no discussion is possible at all and we have to rely on the feelings and intuitions of the people involved... and we all know how reliable that is.
Testcafe’s test recorder would let you create tests relatively easy by browsing and you can tweak them if needed. Ime they have great support and I like that I can buy the software rather than having another SaaS subscription. Ymmv.
Yes it has bugs, but most bugs are from the system framework ... they could have handled those better, but the cause is often out of their control
Okay, and the additional 1.5 million should suffice to „maintain“ an app that will not need or get any new features.

Let‘s assume another million for lawyers „writing the contract“. It‘s still far off.

Additionally let‘s remember the 20 million is just for the development. It does not include running the thing. That‘s what the other 50+ million are for.

I don‘t agree. I run a business myself. I charge plenty. I know how much DAX size companies charge as well. The numbers don‘t add up, and this is especially true for something that could have been done pro bono by SAP in the current situation where pretty much everyone tries to do whatever they can.
That makes sense. I'm confused by the people who are saying "I only consume long form" or "I only read books".

If they said, "I dropped facebook/twitter and now get my news in short bursts from the radio"; I would have thought them wise.
It's possible for someone to consistently beat the market just like it's possible for someone out of many to flip a coin heads 20 times in a row.

Everyone who says that they in particular can beat the market consistently year after year, unsurprisingly won't reveal any evidence behind their claim. It's always things like: "Oh, it can be done. Trust me! There are ways! You just don't know them and we market-beaters do! You just have to analyze harder, bro."
Instead of trusting any DNS provider with your queries, I recommend running your own recursive resolver with Unbound.

https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/
Hey developers of German Corona Warn-App. Just wanted to say even I have installed it, not because I'm convinced it'll help too much (the verdict is still open I guess) but because it's a good project result given the constraints, and there's no doubt an effort was made to deliver the best possible privacy, so I didn't want to be the one boycotting it or something.
It obviously takes more than $0.00 but not that much more. It’s a matter of adding a second DNS provider and making sure you replicate DNS records manually or with AFXR.

What’s really puzzling is if the same companies spend money on active/passive failover for application and database servers while overlooking DNS single point of failure.
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I'm pro-mask personally... but the experts told us not to worry about masks as early as 3 months ago. I was pro-mask back then too. My point is, "the science" is not always so clear.

https://www.clickondetroit.com/health/2020/07/03/us-surgeon-...
I used MPEG-DASH to build a netflix-party clone when the pandemic started, mostly following this tutorial: https://www.isrv.pw/html5-live-streaming-with-mpeg-dash. It could easily be adapted to on-demand video streaming.

My solution was pretty janky, but it's an interesting problem space to explore.
> Few tears will be shed for the SAT and ACT exams, even though they were once infamous for causing Harvard to be overpopulated with high-scoring “undesirables” like Jews and Catholics, forcing the school to add letters of reference and personal essays to help restore the WASP balance.

Tangential, but this is highly misleading. Jewish students are still over 5x over-represented, and non-Jewish white students are 0.6x under-represented, according to Harvard's own diversity report and polling done by Jewish organizations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23764422
> I've seen that here on HN, too.

Oh yeah? Give us an example then.
question about this and vaccines in general... would this be beneficial to someone who already contracted the disease? at the early stages at least? would it help that person recover faster or lessen the effects of the disease?
I have had cancelled overall 5 flights during this time for which I got zero response from any airline, there was no option to speak to a human as “all representatives were always busy”.
All I could get is a voucher.

I’ve managed to get all refunded 3 x chargeback via credit cards and 2 x paypal. Provided basic proof of purchase. (UK)
This is an excellent article, we often get sucked into short term thinking - fighting fire day in and out not only adds unnecessary stress but also keeps us away from thinking long term. People like Elon Musk, Gates come to mind who think long term and take on projects that will benefit not only current but also future generations.
Football was slow to embrace data - now AI is eating the beautiful game
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23899838
Right, so > 75% of online shoppers...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/19/more-than-75-percent-of-us-o...
Credit card numbers I can do, but remember they're just digits. The UUID character space is a little larger and the sequence is double the length.
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So basically the problem with ZFS is that Oracle would sue someone for GPL violation?
audacity?
AIUI, mass production of the Oxford vaccine has _already_ started.
It's a bit on a non-sequitur, but I am also looking at using MinIO as a S3 interface to a ZFS filesystem. Would be interested to hear from others about this use case for MinIO and possible alternatives.
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Looks like the Atacama Desert in Chile, which is where NASA tests Mars things.
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I started the chemfp project in part to see if I could develop a self-funded free/open source product in my field, cheminformatics. (In short, storing and searching chemical information on a computer. Chemfp does very fast Jaccard-Tanimoto similarity search for "short"/O(1024 bit) bitstrings.)

The answer: no.

The section I linked to highlights some of the problems I had selling software under the principles of free software. For examples: How do I provide a demo if I always provide MIT licensed source code? Academics expect discounts, but they are also the ones most likely to redistribute the code. Which is not a wrong thing to do! But it affects the economics in a way I could never resolve, compared to proprietary/"software hoarding" licensing models.

As an HN note, I contracted a couple people to help improve the popcount implementations. HN user nkurz developed and tweaked the AVX2 implementation, and proof-read the paper. Thanks nkurz! As a result, chemfp is, I believe, the fastest single-threaded Tanimoto search implementation for CPUs available, and most likely memory bandwidth limited, not CPU limited.

(Note: the mods asked me to repost. My earlier post is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23598470 .)
We don't have much red tape but we definitely get a lot of nimbyism from the LDS church and its members. They have a stranglehold on our state that most people don't understand. I hope we're able to keep rents from ballooning, but I'm not optimistic.
Actually I have been using the special blend with a Hakko FX888D soldering station on my workbench for a few years now and haven't had any problems with corrosion with this solder/flux (mostly for through hole on headers etc).
Extremely biased of course :) But here's where I see the advantages of Reflect vs. Cypress:

- Cypress has a really nice local development experience that feels at home to front-end devs. I would describe Reflect as a nice remote recording experience that simulates an end-user. So we're kind of attacking the same problem from a different perspective. You can technically record Reflect tests against your local env with ngrok, but Cypress is certainly a better local testing experience. So advantage Cypress here.

- There are actions like interacting with iframes, drag and drop, links that open a new window, and file uploads that range from difficult to almost impossible to do in Cypress. We support these actions out-of-the-box.

- Similarly if you want to do visual testing in Cypress you'll need to integrate with a third-party visual testing tool like Percy or Applitools. We have visual testing support built-in.

- I've seen folks struggle bridging the gap between using Cypress for local testing and actually getting it set up in their build/deployment pipeline. Since we're a fully managed service it's just a single API call to get Reflect in your CI/CD. We also have built-in scheduling so if you just wanted to run your tests at a fixed schedule you don't need to integrate with anything, which I think is a nice way to ge t going quickly and prove out our tool.

- Because of Cypress's design, it's not so easy to get Cypress tests to run in parallel. This is really important because E2E tests take way longer to run vs. unit and integration tests, and the best lever IMO for reducing this is parallelization. This is also another tripping point for folks getting Cypress set up in CI/CD.

- The final differentiator I'll mention is really the difference between a code-based vs. codeless approach. We're trying to reduce the time it takes to create and maintain tests and we think the way to do that is to basically handle as much as we can automatically on your behalf. Instead of writing code that simulates actions, you just record your actions and we generate the automation for you. So for a flow like adding to cart or user registration, you might only take you a few minutes to set that up in Reflect but it'd be a lot longer to do in Cypress. Certainly as your test suite grows things like reusability become really important, and we support that as well. This also means that non-developers like QA testers w/o dev experience, PMs, designers, and customer support can write and maintain tests.
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> In Germany the app was developed by research institutes. Then canceled.

Why was it canceled?