skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I write &auml; in HTML for an umlaut, I get U+00E4 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS in Unicode. It's like CJK unification all over again!
Weed-destroying bots: Kansas startup scales chemical-free farming with bot fleet
Great question, this is why many men die shortly after retirement (in the first year even!)
Deep Learning in One-Liners?
My team and I have created an API that lets you build and train models in just one line of code. It's been used by top executives like Steve Nouri and Isaac Faber. Please let me know what you think and how I can improve.

Would really appreciate stars on the GitHub, this has been a 6 month effort!
Charge pumps are still found in many places, including the high-side of an h-bridge (or half h-bridge) driver, as that allows for using only NMOS for switching.
Absolutely -- creating decks on Anki mobile is a bit of a hassle -- the UI is certainly not mobile friendly. This is too bad because the value of any spaced-rep app is primarily in the creation of decks, and secondarily in studying and repetition.

I have the desktop app too (on Linux), which I use for deck creation. The interface is really archaic and unattractive (reminds me of an old Tcl/Tk app, though it's written in PyQt). I spent a week trying to get used to it, and I did sort of get the hang of it, but the experience wasn't frictionless enough for me to feel like I want to use it all the time.

I feel that most people who use Anki do it because they are forced to (for med school, for language learning), so they put up with the interface and eventually get used to it.

Anki is kind of a weird local minimum, because there have been many attempts to recreate new "Ankis, but with a better UI" but none have managed to dethrone it.

The closest thing I've found to an "Anki, but with a better UI" is Quizlet. It's not free ($23/year) but so far I'm enjoying the experience.
Zucchinis with this chemical taste bitter.

When cooking with zucchini always eat a piece (you can eat them raw) and if it's bitter don't use it.
One of my extension appear to be blocking it because I didn't know it existed
Many potentially dangereous contacts happen inside where positioning doesn't work. Maybe in a restaurant the location could be inferred because you enter and leave through the same door. But in the subway/metro/underground? Also every high-raise building would create lots of false possitives by people that did not get close.
I think this is really nice and smart. I would suggest left-aligning the text in the edit/view mode for a few reasons:

1) It's a bit easier to read for longer text sources
2) It makes writing/reading JSON/YAML/other data sources much easier
3) lists are much easier to parse
I’m not sure that we could call the disease ‘mitigated’ in many places, it has been devastating.
Have you got any sources on the “less than a regular flu season”? Sweden seems to have had a lot more deaths than it normally does and I haven’t seen anything saying otherwise - however you clearly have.
I have taken a year off in the past and got my current job after that year off. I think I just need to transition to something else. Software is clearly not working for me. I think I need to try something pretty different for a few years and maybe I can come back to software doing something a lot different at that point
Honest question, what does this guy do that makes any of that even remotely necessary?

I mean, good for him and all, but it just seems like a post about a guy who likes fancy toys getting fancy toys.

Is there anything more to it than that?
That's wild that AL didn't give you visuals, it was the one that gave me the most visuals by far

Guess it affects people differently
Really, I bet $10 would be enough to get a high adoption rate.
>this virus simply wasn't much different from any other flu virus

It's not a flu virus and I'm not aware of anyone who thinks it is. Is this a language issue, or what do you mean?
I know this is a stupid question but I'm going to ask it anyway. How do you learn to dance?

Maybe I just have zero natural dance aptitude but ...

I've taken maybe 8 swing dance lessons and 12 salsa lessons and I found them extremely hard and worst part is I felt horrible being so bad at it because it's not fun for the other more skilled students to dance with an unskilled noob. It's that last part that's the most frustrating. One salsa instructor said to expect at least 18 months of lessons before being able to lead. That was before seeing how bad I was at it. Another salsa instructor pretty much just gave up. She didn't want to deal with noobs.

I can jump around to the music at a rave all night. I'm sure I could learn video game dance (DDR or Just Dance) but getting past the point of being a disappointment in two person dance seems really difficult for some reason.
I wish it was possible to sue them over the fake noose bullsh*t they pulled recently to fuel race tensions.
So they’re both zero sum and extracting wealth from others? That’s a neat trick.

The firm under discussion isn’t HFT. But both HFT and the firm under discussion trade with everyone; they’re not in some walled off market. As such they provide liquidity, and participate in the same trades as the entire financial system. It’s hard to claim this is zero sum by any means.
Dart feels slightly less versatile than Typescript but has type soundness.

Both feel highly verbose to me, but maybe that's just cos I'm used to something with quite minimal syntactic overhead.

Ultimately, they're very similar as languages so it wouldn't take long for a Typescript developer to picn up Dart or vice versa.
Analysis of a Commercial Browser Fingerprinting Service
You're not supposed to keep your money anyway. That's literally the whole point. Rates are so low because they're trying to get you to spend.
Amazing stats!

This is our cultural response now:
https://youtu.be/Qsqlmis2FDA
Fannie Mae buying my mortgage is different than the programs you mentioned. Often times developers buy and or build properties with below market loans which do come with some terms - per above. Otherwise it would be a free lunch.
I imagine it's more difficult to make it so every one of your different devices (Garmin has an extensive lineup) is able to interface appropriately with every other device than it is to code against a straightforward HTTP(S) server sitting somewhere in the cloud under your complete control. Fits Hanlon's Razor better, too.
HN is ok for passive discovery. But like others have said, it has a low SnR.

Textbooks and research papers are fantastic. It's important to actively read and even do problems when it's really vital locking down knowledge.
The US Surgeon General is also a mouthpiece for the current administration.
Realistically you wouldn't want to run libparsealltheformats inside your main app anyway, because that's just obvious madness in case someone uses it on files from the Internet and not just files created by their non-evil camera. Of course, everyone does anyway.
I think part of what the article conveys and I think lacking in many of the messages that just say "don't roll your own crypto" is that testing and proving things is nowhere near sufficient to write a secure crypto library.

The hard part is all the invisible things like the side channels. These are the pitfalls that you will fall into because you must know about them to avoid them.
Liberia
It was a ghost town around here.

And now, a few months later, we're seeing the affects of the lockdown. Businesses are closing everywhere.

It's incredibly sad.

The vulnerable should have stayed isolated - cleansed everything from the outside. That ensures their safety. The healthy should have been able to go forward.

Responsibility without control is cruel. Financial debt accumulates, but hey, stay inside, don't go to work.
Fair enough, but on a screen who's sole purpose is to let me type in my password I really shouldn't require a Narrator to find the one and only input field. It's nice that the problem has a solution, but it shouldn't have been a problem to begin with.
Customers that jump around for an extra basis point in interest on their $400 account are the worst customers for a bank. There is a sweet point that banks and credit unions try to hit where they aren't competing for those customers but that they're getting enough deposits to operate and grow.
Not really a default. When you start up Digikam for the first time a prompt asks if you would like information saved to the files or not. If you select no information is stored in a local Digikam DB.
Bill Gates's Nuclear Firm Collaborated with Chinese Military Proxy
You can read about Troy on his Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Hunt

tldr; he’s a security researcher and the creator of Have I Been Pwned?
Seeing that he worked with some LTCM quants, I would imagine he knows more about the situation than you do. The kinds of ineffiencies LTCM were exploiting made sense, it's just during times of stress the historical correlations between pairs start to break.

But, hey, I'd bet on coin flips all day long if I was given favorable odds.
Scrypt KDF Step-by-Step
I never understood how that works. All it takes is one person to post it publicly and then everyone has it.
Where All the Madness Began: A Look at Gang History – 1999
I found the madness unleashed by the "Cow tools" panel hilarious. No one got the joke and it generated so much confusion the strip made the news. Larson talks about it The Prehistory of The Far Side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Tools?wprov=sfla1
This might be a garbled valid point?

Somewhere I read that among the reasons for ordinary people not to wear N95 masks is that the valve lets air out freely, while filtering incoming air. This would make you more likely to infect others if you are infected, than some other kind of mask.

It's not that you increase your own risk per se, but you increase the risk of your class, of civilians, by wearing it.
I feel like it's important to get these seeds and test if this is actually true.

No one has done any tests and no one has been quoted saying they tasted bitter.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8529641/Mother-38-r...
Based on the variety of tweets and blog posts this seems to me like it's being done by a real person, but I am guessing this Jay is a fake persona and made to try and make the point that it's easy to create a fake person. Having a digital presence so thin and a profile pic so like GAN creations definitely is quite strong evidence of this, so if this is true their point is kind of weak given how easy it is to spot the suspicious signs.
I'm not in Germany and I don't have compatible phone. But from all I have read the claim about turning on GPS is plain wrong.
> Well “the price” might be totally different if there were no off-exchange orders.

I'm not sure what that means, but there's no scenario in which you'd get a worse price. That would be illegal under the Reg NMS order protection rule.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/order-protection-rule.a...
I assume this isn't a joke, but rather refers to handfitted prototypes working, where a massproduced item would not without significant engineering: if you tweak it until it works, it works.
That statement is taken way out of context. The full quote is below.

>The best teachers don’t just keep teaching. Instead, they use their pedagogy as protest: They disrupt teaching norms that harm vulnerable students. In my years in the classroom since 2001, I’ve learned something about how to do this. I call it reality pedagogy, because it’s about reaching students where they really are, making sure that their lives and backgrounds are reflected in the curriculum and in classroom conversations.

Basically this comes down to teaching to your audience, not blandly regurgitating content. It's recognizing that changes in that curriculum and school materials can move too slow to reflect research and reality.
I think you only want your data files from the backup, not system files. But yeah some kinds of "data" files can be compromised too.
I wonder if the new login screen uses UWP; the appearance and speed (or lack thereof) also suggests so.

(The older versions of Windows had a native dialog box: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/startupshutdown/log...
)
Either way amazing
Where do you plan on retiring? Which countries are good for this?
I lived among a group of Mayan Indians for six months once. It was the most boring experience of my life. The next time I was in a similar situation, I packed several very dense non-fiction books to satisfy my intellectual hunger. (This was long before the Internet, even before the Arpanet.)

I should add that it wasn't the Indians' fault, they were very nice neighbors. But there's only so much I can say or hear about corn farming.
Pearls before swine, clearly. ;)
There's no mention of China in this article. China had a pretty large-scale tracing system using smartphones. Has that also failed?
For Flutter's needs (performant-enough JIT as well as stable AOT compilation for a variety of targets), TypeScript's (own) tooling is pretty much nonexistent.

Of course, the Flutter team could build the toolchains they need themselves. Or they could just...use the up-to-par language they're already using instead of rewriting things for no real reason.
I've read quite a few of these stories that seem to posit that starting your post-college life with $30k in student loans is essentially life ending. I owed about 27k in 1998 when I graduated and although I had to make some sacrifices, like driving my college car longer than I wanted to, it was okay in the end. I paid more than the minimum and applied every bonus to the principal. In the end, it was all paid off and everything was okay. Back then rates were around 5% for the loans, they are much better now.

Here's another story of someone who thought $20k was so hopeless he's fled the US and says he will not return. Frankly if you are in that situation then you picked a terrible major.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/25/they-fled-the-country-to-esc...
Yes. Lots of compounds that plants make for defense are bitter tasting.

(tasting bitter flavors is one of the ways we defend ourselves from the compounds)
Try making zucchini enchiladas. Grate the zucchini and mix it up with cheese and sauce. You can add protein if you want.
> Seems like a lot of work for something that's not really that helpful or easier to accomplish.

That could be said for Facebook surreptitiously uploading images by piggybacking them onto innocuous requests.

I’ve disabled the FB app’s cert pinning so I can MITM it and they really don’t seem to care about minimizing the number of requests. Tons of little logging events will be fired off separately instead of being condensed. Also, there are several unofficial Instagram apps that were developed by thoroughly reverse engineering the app’s private API. Seems unlikely that this could have evaded detection.

And just data volume-wise, it’s much harder to conceal uploading weighty images/video. Facebook and Instagram mostly just download data. A long term discrepancy in upload usage between when the app has camera permissions and when it doesn’t would be easy to spot.

I have no doubt Facebook is still doing creepy things we don't know about yet, but this particular theory just seems incredibly unlikely to me.
What is contradance? Do you have any experience you’d like to share?
Depends on the definition of freedom. If one were to think that they are free to spread their infection then freedom would be an Achilles heel. (On top of ignorance, that is)
So my neighbors are trying to kill me.

I knew those zucchini lovers were sketchy.
Experience is what you need.

Find a place to get your foot in the door, hit up the local meetups if there are any and talk to folks and see what you can learn about local places and where you might get in.
What does this guy need dual xeons, 128gb ram and 900w PS for? From his site, it looks like he does powerpoints and video conferences. I understand the monitors but the rest is totally overkill, even if its for a tax break. If he wants reliability, he's better off buying 2 identical machines for redundancy and using a SAN so he can switch machines if one breaks. It would cost more and therefore be a bigger write-off.
Don't be misled; Unions procure high wages at the expense of you and me
>We have millions of people out of work whom we could be paying to do contact tracing

I was recently (a year and a half ago, time flies) out of work, and I did get a solicitation about a contact tracing job since the epidemic started. I didn't think my experience was applicable, nor am I free, but somehow they found me. Maybe they have indeed been trying to recruit pretty widely?
Public asked to report receipt of any unsolicited packages of seeds
A better term than 'economics' is just power, where money is one factor.

Putin wants more power vis-a-vis his proles and if he can strong-arm a company into doing something, he will.

Apple and Google have a certain kind of power, governments do, but most companies have very little flex.

Specifically 'up and comers' i.e. startups must have to face some weird challenges there, certainly in the area of 'content filtering' and government access we are only scratching the surface.

I can only imagine what kind of deals FB has made with various regimes, and he lengths they will have done through to obfuscate it.
Even though I would generally agree with you: what makes you think that Fauci and his colleagues did not simply not know that mask are as effective as we now know they are?
Thanks, suspected that.
> we can't draw any serious conclusions from this

Exactly. Reinfections from other viruses are not unheard of. One case really says nothing about how likely this is to occur in other patients.
It seems like a company's real challenge is preventing the escalation, more so than the initial compromise.
When you spend 15 hours a day in front of a computer every day, you want the best experience for yourself. It’s the one place where I’m totally happy to be a bit extravagant rather than fancy clothes, cars, home location etc
> Hard to get herd immunity from something you can get multiple times and which seem to be more deadly subsequent times.

what's the evidence of this?
I loved the far side and was sad to see it sort of evaporate.

Also gone were Bloom County with the banana jr 6000 self-portable computer (looking like a macintosh with legs) and Monty Python.

That said, we got futurama, xkcd and ... others?

Anyone want to share some good sources humor (that aren't too dumbed-down?)
Fleetwood Mac Cofounder Dies
Two unrelated papers in AFIPS '65 use ‘chip’ in their abstracts, in the integrated circuit sense, and neither draws attention to the term.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1463891.1464005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1463891.1463961
As good as Larson is, and he’s superb, his style is strongly reminiscent of B. Kliban, who predated him[1]. Kliban was funnier, often X-rated, and infinitely more transgressive. While Kliban was famous for his innocuous cat cartoons the adult material is IMHO as gut-bustingly funny as it is obscene.

https://www.gocomics.com/kliban/2012/03/19
I think it was actually relatively the same. Different styles etc, but there were people back then that didn't feel like distancing or wearing a mask and there were laws put in place that would land you in jail if you went out without a mask. And there were protestors against that, just like now. And they too got infected, spread it around and some died.

It's an excellent (sad) example of history repeating itself.

On the other hand, things aren't all that comparable. Consider the distances people travel, the amount of people that use the same space, but also the amount of single-use things we have now that we didn't have (at scale)
back then (even simple things like spoons, napkins, cups).

People love to make comparisons, but it's not always as useful or helpful as one might think (even if we went all the way down the rabbit hole and tried to find all the variables between now and then).
You might be interested in coc.nvim, which can allow vim to use the LSP servers which powers VSC's intellisense. It's a bit of setup, but I've found with coc.nvim and a good syntax highlighting plugin, I can get a really great syntax highlighting and intellisense setup going.
Growing food and subsidizing farmers that produce food is more for the National Security angle: without enough food, there will be rapid social instability and riots and a complete breakdown of society. It’s absolutely essential to produce much more food than can be possibly required by the populace.
>It would also incentivize the government to restrict all manor of activities in the name of “health.” Want to go rock climbing? Pay a tax. Want to ride a motorcycle? Pay a tax.

Okay I'll bite. Why shouldn't we do that? If you're going to 28x your death risk[1] by participating in a purely non-essential activity, why should you be able to externalize the costs to others?

>Perhaps instead of taxing food, we instead tax obesity. Put the responsibility on the individual.

That's actually not a bad idea. We kinda already have that for smoking, in the form of higher insurance premiums for smokers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_safety#Crash_rates_...
Maybe just stealth Lenovo marketing.
Back then there was hardy any reporting at all. They tried to keep it under wraps as much as possible. It’s the whole reason it was called the “Spanish” flu, as Spain was the only country accurately reporting on the crisis, which made it seem like a problem unique to them.
I kept on scrolling waiting for the price tag on this and it was never listed. Let's see. (All prices are US$)

Røde Broadcaster mic: $420

Lenovo Thinkstation P720, custom config: "As Configured $6,204.00 / Item Discount -$1,985.28 Use Coupon THINKJULY10* -$421.87 Your Price $3,796.85"

49" monitor: $2k

2x 32" monitors: 2*$540

Ergotron HX monitor arm: $280-310

2x Ergotron LX monitor arms: 2x$165

Sony a6400 camera: $1100

Lens for camera: $640, this may be AU$ in which case it's US$454

Elgato Cam Link: list of $130 but they are in high demand and only available on ebay for usorious prices, "it stung a bit", whatever that means in the context of already being around $10k in the hole for this setup so far

Elgato multi mount "modular rigging system": out of stock, no retailer partners listed, I'm gonna guess, I dunno, $100

Fingerprint reader: $140

Also some Hue lights that don't have prices on the pages he links to and I don't wanna chase those down

Elgato Stream Deck: $150

Surface Precision Mouse: $100

Surface Ergonomic Keyboard: $130

Eaton 5p UPS: "Contact us"

SO

I am getting around $10400 for this setup, plus whatever "stung" for that Cam Link, however much the Hue lights cost, and the UPS. Plus whatever shipping he paid for all this stuff.

Christ, and here I am feeling like I was splurging when I spent like $200 on some new Ikea stuff to replace the standing desk I left behind when I moved from Seattle to New Orleans. It's still not even really functional because I haven't been able to find a stool that I like for when I don't feel like standing. Talk about conspicuous consumption. Dude paid like 80% of my year's rent for this setup.
The Psychology of Envy and Social Justice
>endomorph body type

Somatypes are an ancient pseudoscience, while caloric intake relative to TDEE doesn't lie.
I seem to recall Dr Fauci on 60 minutes saying they don't really work. That they might make you feel better for wearing one but also have unintended consequences because you're always fiddling with such a thing. So he wasn't suggesting people wear them at the time.

Randomly searched YT of what I'm referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gYAka7qSnM
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What impresses me is that you have an encyclopedic memory of comments found on relatively forgettable YouTube videos! Not being facetious here, but I have to say I’m gobsmacked.
“Per capita it is still less than France”

Give it a couple days.