skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, TAO is most likely the most minimal syntax, even more minimal than S-expressions. It has only 3 special symbols: the brackets [] and the grave accent `.

They are among the rarest to be found in any kind of text, but at the same time the most ergonomic to enter on a typical keyboard (no need to hold shift).

In this way it gets out of the way almost completely while still being a complete syntax.
If You Have Too Much Data, Then 'Good Enough' Is Good Enough (2011) [pdf]
I like the detail that Hilbert asked what a Hilbert space was. Reminded me of hearing that Planck never called it Planck's constant, either using simply 'h' or 'the constant'.
"- I have several cop friends, from a relatively geographically diverse range of the US. All of them say that how Floyd was arrested was at a minimum against procedure, and almost certainly contributory to his death.
- One cop I spoke to pointed out that his training mandated that once a prone subject is handcuffed, their training mandates rolling them onto their side, as being unable to leverage oneself up can restrict breathing, even if nobody's kneeling on you. He also pointed out that kneeling on the neck or back in order to handcuff someone is well within procedure at his department, but continuing after they are restrained is obviously not."

That's the thing I don't get and that is the most upsetting thing to me about this situation: why aren't police officers speaking out more against each other? The only voices I hear from the police are coming out in defense of other officers who did something bad. This to me reinforces the impression that it's not a small minority that's the problem, but the entire institution. Is the media just not picking these voices up?

If there had been strong voices within the police calling for reform and officers had kneeled with the protestors instead of attacking even peaceful ones, the situation now would look very different.
Yes, COVID-19 is a bad one but it’s just another virus at the end of the day. I feel they act as we rediscovering everything about viruses for sensationalism.
Nasim Taleb had a good point on the most recent EconTalk [0] about covid: We kinda know what the morality rate is, but we have no idea what the morbidity of covid looks like.

All the co-morbidities are essentially unknown and are likely to stay that way for a while. These side effects take time to suss out; more than the nine months we've had with covid.

With the unknown and potentially unbounded risks we are staring at, Taleb says that over-reaction is the best strategy. He and Russ Roberts go on to talk about the basic issues with statistics in these cases, a good trip back to the first week of any stats course that everyone promptly ignores.

[0] https://www.econtalk.org/nassim-nicholas-taleb-on-the-pandem...
>"Income numbers are negative, and Expenses numbers are positive. So if you earned more than you spent (a good outcome), the final sum of Income + Expenses balances will be a negative number"

This is kind of counter intuitive. You would think of income as being positive and expenses being negative. This is why accounting trips me up.
You are very right, especially with the challenges in making it successful. Crowd sourcing or Machine Learning are the options I guess, each with its pros and cons.
There are certainly a lot of people on this site who seem rather blind to the issue.

Foxconn's million+ workers do theoretically have a union, but only since 2007, and with actually elected leaders only since 2013. At that time they still faced the issue that most workers didn't know they were meant to elect a union representative at all and the union committee leaders were all managers. What little workers rights exist come mostly due to pressure from Apple and American unions.

And of course, as China is getting richer and the workers are starting to slowly come to resemble western workforces, companies are relocating to Vietnam.
"The biggest roofing company in my state, Salazar roofing, is American owned and operated." <--- This is a big part of what's happening.

Most people screaming about how 'Americans' won't do jobs like farming or construction will look at a company named Salazar and assume that Salazar uses undocumented labor. These people will also drive by construct sites, count the number of white workers, and use that as a proxy for how many Americans are working on that job.
How does your performance compare to Atlas? [0]

[0] https://github.com/Netflix/atlas
> Many of them save me extra clicks which is convenient. Google translate, maps and search has no competitors that even come close in terms of quality. … Build better alternatives and I'm on board.

This is why they don't have better competitors. To compete with Google, you have to, out of the gate, and with them as mediators, match or exceed on every aspect of their experience a company that, from the perspective of just about any competitor out there, has just about unlimited resources.

If you do start to make it and gain some traction—again, necessarily often through Google's own services—it is well within Google's power to focus on you specifically, say, by snooping on your data on an Android phone, and make sure to drive you out of the market.
You may also want to check out NetData (a hugely popular OSS project) for ideas how to grow.
IMHO a ““related conditions” carousel leading to various new Google searches for other diseases” is an ad for a Google Search with more ads.

But on “a way we could get quick curated answers like this without deemphasizing search results”, one way to start would be to offer some instant answers as tabs next to the ones for images, news, videos etc., like the “Meanings” and “Definitions¨ tabs here https://duckduckgo.com/?q=boogie, some down among the organic results like the videos here https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+exit+vim, and on wide screens, some as side bars like the SO one at that last link.
Things Among the Biggest Economic Concerns for Working Americans
Sendgrid Is Down
You're right that governmental attempts to artificially make things more affordable ends up blowing up the costs. For example in the US, education and health care.

The "Law of Unintended Consequences". This constantly trips up well-intentionend people who support government interference in markets. Their goals are noble, but quite often the outcome is the exact opposite of what was intended.
This assumes they will buy multiple of product A? This is largely true for the type of thing Rite Aid sell I'd guess, but perhaps not for higher value items which are less frequently purchased and have higher margins.
That article puts people in 10 year bins, so it is not useful to determine what the cutoff age should be with more granularity than 10 years of age.

However, Sweden did not close school for children through 14 years of age.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/how-sweden-wasted-ra...

And their excess mortality rates for that age group are indistinguishable from other European countries:

https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps

When you go to that link, near the bottom select graphs by age and see that Sweden ages 0-14 looks like all the other countries shown there. I think that is a pretty good indication. We have a country that kept their schools open and a number of countries that did not, and the results look the same.

EDIT: in fact, the excess mortality for that age group looks indistinguishable from other years.
>Funding defined benefit pensions is very expensive, USPS wants to save money by not funding it in order to pay benefits. I’m not sure their argument other than “we don’t have that much money.”

This is their argument.

1. They are forced to prefund the retiree medical fund in addition to the pension fund. No private company is forced to do this. If a private company runs out of money for retiree medical, they will just stop paying--the post office can't just stop offering this benefit without an act of Congress.

Additionally the retiree medical fund is forced to invest only in U.S. Treasuries, so the interest rate is much lower than it should be--meaning that they need to invest more money than should be necessary to prefund.

2. They were forced to prefund over a 10 year period. When the law was passed in 1974 that forced private companies to prefund plans that had been pay as you go, they gave them 40 years to do so.
There are over 2000 workers there. That's "miniscule" compared to the HQ in California of course, but it's the biggest engineering office they have in Europe. The city it's in only has about 350,000 people, so it's a non-trivial local employer.
It doesn't, the Equity account displays a negative number if the company is in the green (it decreases when you emit stocks), the Expense account displays positive numbers (it increases when you spend money), the Income account displays negative numbers (it decreases when you earn money).

In beancount, the accounting equation is Expense+Income+Equity=0 and all signs are always left intact (there is only addition).

So you start a company with a seed capital of $5. You borrow $5 to the bank, buy an expensive apple for $10, sell it for $15 and give the money back to the bank with an interest of $1, then close the exercise and carry the profits (don't distribute dividends). Your ledger is:

Initial capital
Assets:Cash +5 USD
Equity:Seed -5 USD

Borrow to the bank
Assets:Cash +5 USD
Liabilities:Bank -5 USD

Buy an apple
Assets:Apples +10 USD
Assets:Cash -10 USD

Sell the apple
Income:Sales -5 USD
Assets:Apples -10 USD
Assets:Cash +15 USD

Reimburse the bank
Liabilities:Bank +5 USD
Expenses:Interest +1 USD
Assets:Cash -6 USD

Close the exercise # beancount does that for you for any time period btw
Expenses:Interest -1 USD
Income:Sales +5 USD
Equity:PreviousProfit +4 USD

Notice how every transaction balances to 0 just by summing it, no need to remember anything.

Now, you're at the beginning of the next exercise. To know your accounts you just compute a sum of every operation to it, again no special case. So your accounts are:

Expenses 0 USD
Income 0 USD # as expected at beginning of exercise
Assets:Apples 0 USD
Assets:Cash 9 USD
Liabilities:Bank 0 USD
Equity:Seed -5 USD
Equity:PreviousProfits -4 USD

And yet again, the sum of all of that is 0.

Personally I like it, not having any special cases. Yes, it may confused an accountant (because they learned the special cases by heart ! Somebody coming with a fresh mind has no reason to be confused, it's all just conventions !) but it's simpler for me and just as consistent.
>In my case getting those shoes with too much shock absorption was actually dangerous because it prevented the feedback loop of auto-correction from being built. This led to some habits that I didn't notice were bad and later on led to a pain in my knee that has, despite my best efforts and much rest over the last 8 years, entirely prevented me from the freedom of running.

It seems like you're drawing a direct causal relationship to what is a very complex chain of events over a long period of time. How can you be sure the problems would not have arisen regardless of what tool (shoe) you originally bought?
Awesome!
Could you share a bit about business model?
You can't just "clear" a big airport. There's also no way to guarantee that the emergency signal would be received.
Sometimes using less-than-the-best tools directly leads to better products with smoother development cycles. I'm an indie games developer and I develop on a machine that is the 'Minimum Hardware Requirements' for my games. So, if you visit the Steam page for my current game, the Minimum Requirements are just the specs of my computer, which would be considered mid-range when I built it in 2016, and now is very underpowered.

The plus-side to all of this is I know my game runs well on lower spec hardware. There's a confidence that I have that it'll perform decently on 99% of computers and laptops/macbooks. If something runs slowly then I know I can't fudge things in the release build by assuming/hoping it'll run okay on the majority of computres, but I also know that if I do need to optimise something then it's not premature, unnecessary optimisation, which helps me use my time properly.
Amazon top search results? Surprise, Amazon-made products!
Density raises $51M Series C led by Kleiner Perkins
What companies are behind the development of these camera+software solutions? I reckon it's just a couple?
For the record, this is what the consolidated balance sheet looks like: https://imgur.com/a/i8q0Fa2
I agree. The reason I still use google is most of the times I don't have to open another website to get my answers. I don't have to load the slow javascript heavy sites and saves me time. Google is not just links to websites but also serves information directly. Obviously if I need better understanding and deep knowledge I open the links, but I don't need that often.
please try http instead of https
http://try.questdb.io:9000/
That's what happens when you have a monopoly.
That's the opposite of what I'm hearing, which is that Intel placed a large bet on a risky basket of technologies in order to stay ahead (specifically cobalt wiring and contact-over-active-gate) and burned enough time trying to get them working that TSMC was able to get their own relatively safe basket of technologies working in the meantime.
Ever seen the digital price tags at Kohl's?

I am in Wales, we don't have such things here. I think I'd be reluctant to shop anywhere that did this. What would be the point of working hard to earn more money if all the prices went up around you so you were no better off than before?
I always wonder if they really get much value out of all this surveillance or if they just hope to get value.

It seems that a lot of companies are these days are trying to hack their customers instead of treating them right. In the long run I don't this will work. I already am getting a very bad taste dealing with a lot of companies because they seem to view me, the customer, as something to extract money from instead of a customer to be respected. You notice that for example with a lot of search results where the company places stuff they want to sell in the results instead of allowing me to search for what I need.

Either we are going into a very dark future or there will be massive pushback. Not sure which way it will go.
That's a reasonable concern. IMO, a tool like Skeptic would add a lot of value to the ecosystem if deployed widely. It would be really cool if something equivalent was integrated into cargo.
I have often used footnotes in my own reading. For things I want in the text for completeness, but do not consider essential to the story.

However, thinking about it, they are completely nonfunctional for me when reading. Unless I am skimming a text, I will immediately look up any foot-note I come across. I suppose that, if it is a quick explanation of something I already know, or don't care about, it is easier to skip the footnote in full. Whereas an in-line explanation is harder to skip because it is part of the text.
Héma-Québec study shows Covid-19 antibodies gradually disappear
H1B Covid policy is anti-immigration.
The new batch of Substack fellows
The (?:stuff) part is for a non-capturing group which I didn't add support for. Maybe in the near future. That would be one of the easiest features to add since the tool also doesn't support backreferences yet.

Edit: Actually, since the non-capturing group part doesn't add much here, you can just remove the '?:'s and this works:

https://blog.robertelder.org/regular-expression-visualizer/?...
> I mean use your judgement, say you want to do npm install X, do you call your lawyers all the time or use your judgement?

Before starting to use code for my business, I'd check the license, yes. Almost all the time it's a standard one, so I know approximately that yes BSD, MIT, GPL, etc… means. Though I have to be careful about BSD with advertising clause.

Before starting to depend on code for my business, yes I would make sure that I am not violating a license.

Your "only if you decide you need a lawyer" seems to be saying that your opinion is necessarily right. You don't decide if you need a lawyer, you either do or you don't. And you make the right choice or you don't. (and their guidance is right or it isn't)

> Don't do X because Google is doing it, think for yourself and if you consider that you are not sure then ask for an expert.

Sure. You can peruse the AGPL, and if you think your amateur interpretation of this legally untested license does not add unacceptable risk, then you can choose to go ahead with it.

Google got sued for reimplementing an API. And they may lose (currently awaiting the supreme court).

People have been suing much smaller companies for GPL violations. It's a matter of time before someone sues for perceived AGPL violation due to what Google's lawyers are describing.

> My point is if Microsoft says GPL is evil and you believe that and later when MS is open sourcing stuff and contributing to Linux you will have to admit that maybe MS had a giant interest to say that.

Yup. That doesn't mean they're factually wrong. But yes there's the aspect of "It's hard to make someone understand that they are wrong when their income depends on them not understanding it".

But just because someone has a reason to do something, doesn't mean they did it. It's not an argument about correctness.
But both of those prices are always shown and you don't usually have to be a member of anything to get them as the clerk will just use the generic code. At most self checkouts there is an option for forgotten card which lets you bypass the need for an account.
Absolutely, eg. the woods near my house have trails mapped out in OSM that don't exist on Google Maps.
> If there were a secret conspiracy running the liberal media, they could all decide they wanted to raise awareness of racist police brutality, pick the most clear-cut and sympathetic case, and make it non-stop news headlines for the next two months.

Yes ...

> Then everyone would agree it was indeed very brutal and racist, and something would get done.

No, because there's an entire counter-news faction out there insisting that absolutely every person killed by police deserved it, that it is unacceptable to ever hold police accountable for deaths of anyone under any circumstances, such as shooting a handcuffed guy on the floor or firing blindly into a darkened apartment, and that everyone complaining about racism is some kind of Maoist.

Recently I watched some of the Live Aid 25th anniversary coverage. The huge charity appeal was sparked by Michael Buerk's famous report on dead and dying children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYOj_6OYuJc

I couldn't help thinking that if you filmed that today it would vanish from the social media melee in a couple of days. It was shocking then. It might not even be the most shocking thing somebody scrolls past today.
Those are really all one variable, object on tracks.

And I got some bad news if you think 140 car freight trains stop for a deer on the tracks.

>people throwing things at the train from bridges,

I'm not too sure what you think an operator does today, besides maybe calling their dispatch/911.
Curious, what kind of workloads do you find valuable to be out on the edge of a CDN?

In the case of cloudfront I have only ever used it to hack up some auth controls for something real quick and dirty.
We'll be releasing this functionality this year—some very soon, depending on what exactly you're trying to do.

You'll be able to self-serve these in the Firewall Rules engine, which is being generalized to handle "Rules" broadly speaking (including Page Rules such as redirects, rewrites, etc.).

If you drop me an email (pat at cloudflare dot com) I'll get you connected with the right PM who can put you on the beta list.
I'd be content with resuming generous profit sharing.

Back in the day, Walmart, Microsoft, Starbucks, many others, were pretty fucking terrific with their employee stock grant programs.

I don't know how or why that generosity stopped. But if corporations (specifically, their exec team and board of directors) had continued to share the wealth, we wouldn't now be seriously considering radical cashectomies.
Schools and kindergartens were never closed in Iceland for children under 16.
Assuming what you describe is true (I don't know), you're saying the design is wrong because one implementation is wrong. It doesn't have to be free-vs-unaffordable. There are many approaches to linear and nonlinear funding and taxing.
Hey! What do you think about running this on a mobile device? What are the current limitations? Since WaveNet we are able to get really good TTS but it's always online. Why aren't there any good TTS engines yet?
E.g. for Pocket or similar services
As DDG was mentioned, feel free to come check out Runnaroo.

Similar to Startpage, the base for organic web results is Google, but it also includes additional vertical sources layered in to provide greater relevance.

It also respects literal searches with quotation marks, which is a common gripe on HN.

Still very new, but improving and growing rapidly.

Example search for React.js - https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=react.js

Existing monetization comes from the new Web Monetization API [0] standard (through Coil members) and as part of the Brave publisher program.

[0] https://webmonetization.org/
Police are compelled to do a lot of things they choose not to.
Ok. Tesla is not for you.
If everybody rolls it out within a short window of a few years, public shaming will be impossible. If there's no non-participating business that a potential customer can choose instead, shame costs nothing. See Smart TVs.
> They are the last of the major CDNs to offer this sort of functionally

Eh? Which other CDNs let normal (non-big-enterprise) users deploy Turing-complete code to the edge before Workers was launched in 2018?

I can only think of Lambda@Edge, which itself was quite new at the time. But maybe I'm forgetting some. Which ones are you thinking of?
Well, your years of study are worth much more than my idle speculation, so after browsing your paper I'll happily accept that you're right.

But my intuition is that the instructions themselves executed under such a masking system are no more able to perform timing attacks on the rest of the process than arbitrary code from one process can perform timing attacks on another.

If there's something specific I'm missing there I'd love to know what it is so I can update my mental model.
We provide rich components to use in your app to report status and progress of your jobs.

https://www.runly.io/ui/

Chained jobs/workflows is something that is on our roadmap.
Plus robes to prevent gait recognition.
OK, interesting. I'll have to look into that.
Climate Change’s New Ally: Big Finance
Which country on earth has a COVID-19 policy that is not (to some extent) anti-immigration?
Long read on this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-serverless-we...
Who other than a dilettante or a tinkerer has enough time on their hands to indulge some strange masochistic urge to use obviously-worse tools? John probably doesn't have anything in his life that needs to be done right away so he can navel-gaze like this. The rest of us need to get things done. I haven't spent thirty years in this industry just to throw away progress and the last minute and wear a hairshirt for the yucks.
In 2004 I worked with Jeff Bezos to develop the original Kindle
Exactly. We can see that in the future for the examples from the article too.

When Google started promoting Google Flights and Hotels over other sites, they did not offer close to the best information. In fact, as the article claims, they still don’t. Yet despite that competitors are losing traffic and going out of business (eg. Hipmunk).

It’s not hard to see where this leads over time. The competitors struggle to stay in business or even get the traffic needed to improve their products while Google gets to keep investing and iterating. Maybe in 5-10 years they’ll have a product better than the existing ones, but they’ll also have driven most competitors to obscurity.