skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Europe is big. You shouldn’t generalize that easily. Most of well paying jobs still are located in expensive cities.
The headline is misleading in my opinion. You can't just write workers in Python now. Instead, they are providing a template for how you could call an existing Python-to-JavaScript transpiler to convert your Python code into JavaScript. They still only run JavaScript.

So instead of writing your worker in JS, you get to write it in a Python syntax except all the functions you calls are still to JS functions, some of the syntax is non-standard, and most of the Python standard library is missing.

I don't think many people are going to be terribly excited by that. You just get more headaches with very little upside. It's more like a neat demo than something you would want to seriously use.
Coupons, upselling, personalized-proactive-ads. JC Penny showed people would rather pay MORE with a 70% discount than less with no discount. Jack up the price, get everyone to download your sh*tty little spyware app, and give everyone the thrill of "I got a free doodad!"
> if they had a mobile app with a text selection action on Android to highlight text and see a popup with the translation

I've had the same frustration, so I've written a simple script/app with Tasker (and AutoShare plugin) to select text and translate from DE -> EN. I use it quite frequently to learn German.
nevermind!
As long as there are no laws there will be companies who will provide these services. There may some companies that still have some ethics and won't serve that market . But the result will that companies with even less ethics will move into that space.

I suspect the companies you are mentioning didn't pull out for ethical reasons but because they have other products and don't need that market.
Likewise. I wonder how much of that recognisability is the general shape and surfaces of the buildings, how much of the height of the buildings, and how much is the street furniture and the trees?
>This is an issue in aircraft with heavy automation - everything seems normal until it isn't and then the pilots need to quickly figure out exactly what happened, how they got where they are and how to get out.

This isn't flying though, and you can stop a train by slamming the breaks, and this is perfectly fine in 99% of scenarios (and which is exactly why each train car has an emergency break cord/button).

I can't really imagine a situation where a possible derailment is better than stopping the train. If your on a narrow bridge, surely stopping is better than the possibility of being unable to stop when the bridge is out.
Benchmark results has been published (https://github.com/gogearbox/gearbox#benchmarks)
> both of those prices are always shown

This isn't necessary. There could be a public price and a private price.

> there is an option for forgotten card which lets you bypass the need for an account

Neither is this.
>some kind of efficient approximation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...

> how good is it at extrapolating

can't be very good (abstract says bounded time domain) because the system is chaotic (i.e. sensitive to small perturbations in initial conditions).
Google does not force companies to implement ReCaptcha on their own Web properties.
I used to have them too. They are rare now in middle age.

Though even in youth they were not as long as yours.
> demanding charges against the other officers present that seem extremely hard to justify legally speaking, and calling for Minneapolis to burn until that happened

Demanding a moderate response in polite terms has been demonstrated to get you nothing. Nobody making those demands realistically expects them to be met. There is a vague hope that some incredibly watered-down version might come about.

It's rather like pushing at a stuck door that's become stiffer over time and ultimately locked. If you shoulder-charge it, maybe it will budge.
Offhand guess: commuters aren't stopping for breakfast/coffee and people working from home aren't stopping for lunch.

I heard a similar story. A neighbor works accounts for a fire/security sensor service. They said the local McD franchises were the only ones who paid their balance in full, but said their revenues were down 30-40%. They were doing the best of any other food service companies that were customers.
Undetectable Linux Malware Targeting Docker Servers with Exposed APIs
"Because you can damn well guarantee it won't be corporations abusing it, it will be politically oriented groups who will exploit it. You think the cancel culture is bad now with their name and shame combined with using sycophants to leak records if not outright court challenges to sealed records, wait till they abuse this
"

I am very worried that there will be a lot going on behind the scenes. Public cancel culture is bad but secret cancel culture is even worse.
The State of Elixir HTTP Clients
> Fuck little startups, most of them hawk bullshit and don't get interesting until they grow into big companies.

Surely you don't mean that it's the act of growing into a big company that makes them interesting, but rather that only the interesting ones make it to big companies. (I don't think I necessarily agree with that—I'd think amount of capital is a far bigger determinant—and I would notice that the converse is far from true.) Well, there's nothing wrong with sitting back and letting the market make the decision—but if someone's not there trying the little companies before they get big, then that's a market decision in its own right.

> A startup won't compete well with Google for very long and using one instead of Google feels too much like pandering to a novelty.

Or, perhaps, taking a stance on a matter of principle, about privacy, or about Google's monopoly powers, or, well, pick your poison.
That seems overly dramatic. Yes, you can retire in your 50s (or 30s-40s with a good paying job) and stop working. There is always plenty to do in this great wide world that we live in if you have even a modicum of imagination.
>Musical instruments. The low-end ones tend to be true disasters.

For "hobby" items, it's mostly about developing habits. You don't need top-of-the-line equipment to "make music". Once you enjoying the art of making music, you can easily move on to bigger and better equipment.
"Is there a way we could get quick curated answers like this without deemphasizing search results?"

Yes, here is an example of how it could work: https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=myocardial+infarction

Disclaimer, I made this website.
I'd say that defer-like mechanism would help a lot with memory safety. But it's just a rumour currently.
I love the feature that allows changing words with an alternative, which triggers a new translation with the new context.
I would gladly pay for a search engine that actually did some things better than Google. Like say being better at finding [semi]exact phrases, especially longer ones. Something that focused on the long tail of search queries. Also, yes, I do feel like Google has gotten pretty bad for some normal queries. But this might as well be a function of the Internet/Web changing overall.

But I find this focus on Google's supposed moral infractions ridiculous. And then competitors popup that have a strictly worse products user-wise, but want to win by claiming higher moral ground. They don't fix any of the issues. I just don't see any of that taking off.

To date, I have not seen a single search engine that actually does something significant better. Not only that, pretty much all of them fail miserably for anything more specific. This tells me Google is still absolutely on top of their game.

I like these widgets. Sometimes I even get annoyed when I WAS expecting it to popup but it wouldn't.
VCL isn't turing-complete, and their new thing (still in closed beta, I think?) was definitely after Workers.
older discussion on why this paper isn't as cool as it appears

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/dnic1x/n_n...
Hddsurgery.com – interesting hd recovery tools and FIRMWARE
I ran into this by chance, I didn't even know there was a market for hard disk repair/recovery tools.

And they are from Belgrade! :0

The tools are not really affordable for a normal user, but still interesting I think.

Quite interesting is this too: https://firmware.hddsurgery.com
that is, a collection of firmwares for an enormous amount of HD models.
> why aren't police officers speaking out more against each other?

Fear of reprisals from other officers? (This has happened in a few cases.)
The virus is indeed pretty benign compared to many other disasters. Very benign when you take into account the various statistical distortions e.g. most COVID deaths being more like "tested positive at time of death" rather than actual additive deaths.

But the over-reaction to it is on an ahistoric scale. It's quite cataclysmic. You've had people pulling their own teeth out with pliers because the dentists were all closed [1], you have people being locked in their homes for weeks or even months without being able to go outside [2], people being welded inside buildings [3], you have half of all restaurants on Yelp permanently closing [4], you have the elderly being abandoned in care homes to die [5] [6]

So whilst I agree diseases have happened before, the kind of global end-of-days mentality we're seeing here is extremely rare. It's not driven by the actual facts of the virus, there's something else at work.

[1] https://nypost.com/2020/04/21/people-are-pulling-their-own-t...

[2] https://www.abc.es/sociedad/abci-hombre-permanece-aislado-it...

[3] https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/coronavirus-residents-welded-insi...

[4] https://mashable.com/article/yelp-restaurants-temporary-perm...

[5] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52014023

[6] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/26/canada-care-ho...
>Egalitarian PC Revolution? What are you smoking? PCs were only available to the very wealthy and only the fortunate and privileged could hope to break into that industry.

Yes. Egalitarian. The prices collapsed from a level where only the rich and businesses could afford them, to a level where EVERYONE could afford them. And to be clear, there were hundreds of different kinds of personal computers at all kinds of price levels. For example, the Commodore64 was priced at a very accessible $595 ($1600 inflation adjusted) in 1982.

>The entire space also quickly became a copyright and patent minefield.

Whatever problems or issues you can point to, you cannot deny the reality of broad adoption of computers in the span of a decade, a trend which continued through the Internet and Mobile revolutions. The copyright and patent issues clearly were not a hindrance.

>We in the West have a horrible habit of only looking at the upper echelons of our society

What are you talking about? My parents, who were recent immigrants at the time, working menial low-wage jobs, bought a personal computer in late 80s for our household. Trust me, we were not in the 'upper echelons of society', unless the 'upper echelons of society' pick strawberries to supplement income from another minimum wage job.
How Morning Brew Gained over 65,000 Followers on Twitter
On Bicycles: I've ridden cheap bikes ( $<= 750 ) all my life. When you buy cheap, you probably aren't purchasing something that is designed for your height and width. They also begin to fall apart after a year (handle bar wrap unwinding, beauty parts pop off, gears start to slip, chain derails). Tuneups dont last long.

Yesterday I went to my local Trek store and rode a $2500 bike for the first time, and it was a joy to ride. I didn't know gear changes could be so accurate/seamless/instant. First time I rode with disc brakes: I feel way more in control when I need to stop at high speed. The frame fit my body perfectly. Obviously the bike will wear down like cheaper bikes, but the difference is night and day.
You can replace it with an 18mm nato strap that's never going to break on you!
Because you're owning a home as an investment property while not living in it? it doesn't matter if you rent it cheaply, it's one less house available to purchase and there's a finite amount of land and houses.
1. Can you post a link to an overview of these positive local effects?

2. Are there enough of these local effects to counter-weigh the global negative effects?

AFAICT the answer to (2.) is negative, but I suppose I could be mistaken, since I don't follow BitCoin use closely.
Ask HN How to handle sporadic project information flow?
I am working on a project where the functional specification was not well defined. I'm supposed to be expert enough to make many correct choices myself, but for many things, I still have to ask for clarification. The answers to my questions usually take a few days to return, but sometimes they take weeks. By the time I get the answers, I am not even working on the same task. The information I need comes in so sporadically that I am getting bogged down.

Some of you are probably naturally good at wrapping your minds around this workflow. I'm wondering if there is any specific project management terminology for this situation and are there organizational methods that are published that can help me out.
Apparently one thing nazis and german communists could agree upon, both in theory and in practice, during the early thirties was that the social-democratic centrist/moderate alternative to either extreme had to be destroyed.

(I left off reading Weil around this point. I'd get back to it, but find political systems without a healthy number of major parties rather depressing subjects.)
AMD's previous design was its own thing. Arm's and Apple's designs are their own things. There's still flexibility in how to build a core. Skylake is clearly not even the optimal target; Apple's approach easily outclasses it, for instance. And yet AMD did none of that; they build a core that is practically just Skylake, with no real innovation I can spot anywhere.

There's nothing wrong with this as a strategy. AMD's own designs were performing pretty badly and Skylake was a straightforward, reliable target that would lead them back to competitiveness. Their uncore is plenty innovative, given their willingness to compete on scale.

But a rose is a rose is a rose. Zen 2 is arguably more similar to Skylake than Ice Lake is to Skylake.
can you use webasm with cloudflare workers?
(triggered)

I mean, I carry my phone around in my pocket, so I kinda expect at least big Google is watching me. And probably the cell network. And probably the government, passively.

But RITE AID? What the hell, a fucking pharmacy? I mean: the customer is typically just buying whatever their doctor prescribes them. I guess they have aisles of cosmetics and cold medicine and stuff, but still, this seems remarkable for its banality and at the same time invasiveness. It's the worst kind of evil: stupid evil.
Gary's talk is not exactly about the "demise of JS". Watch the talk, it's a great one :)
Spot on. This is another situation of trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist and the writer does not understand at all. There are reasons why GAAP and IFRS exist. Accounting can make a lot of sense to a programmer, I've moved between fields early on with relative ease because accounting is extremely rule based/puzzle-oriented and adheres to a structured and specific framework. I haven't touched accounting in years (though I do have a bachelors in accounting) but this is jarring and would not recommend this to anyone.
> Google's monopolistic business practices are the same: they are convenient in the short-term for you, but they are destroying healthy industries. Over time the result won't be something you like.

Amazon—which genuinely used to be a great and reliable shopping experience, and made a bunch of changes that looked user focussed—is a great example of this.
We Analyzed Google’s Search Results
Though this seems only relevant if running on lower spec hardware (mid range 2016 machines) is actually relevant to the product. If it isn't and customer would rather have better graphics at a higher cost of running it, you are developing against a metric of success which is unfortunately wrong.
Absolutely love the story. TimescaleDB & InfluxDB have had a lot of posts on HN, so I'm sure others are wondering - how do we compare QuestDB to them? It sounds like performance is a big one, but I'm curious to hear your take on it.
At Safeway (supermarket chain across the Western US) they have a thing called "Just4U". It's a set of deals in your app that are only for you.

I imagine it would be similar to that.
Does this somehow include the ROM for the game and an emulator?
When I comb through financial statements (for fun, but not much profit yet) I always feel like I'm analyzing stack traces. How I wish there was a gdb/rr/Valgrind or similar debug framework for financial accounting statements.

EDIT: Spreadsheet software helps a lot, but that's about the same as being given a hex editor. Necessary, but oh so tedious.
It's no different than browser fingerprinting. "You can just use a VPN/spoof your user agent!" It's not that simple. Just like how browser fingerprinting has evolved to the point where it's virtually impossible to get around, these real world systems will follow suit. Hair color, eye color, skin color, the types of clothes your wear, your gait, height, gender, path you take through the store, car you drive, license plate, stores you frequent, heck... even where you choose to park or which door you choose to enter could all be used identify individuals/families.

Keep in mind, just like with web analytics, these solutions will be provided by 3rd parties which will aggregate this data across multiple businesses.
But you can buy it already.

Also, I think they moved the date a bit.
Personally, I like my citations short and meaningful. Easy to skip over, but also easy to resolve if I care. That means something like [Aut19] where Aut is some contraction of the author names, and 19 reffers to the year of publication.

My issue with simpler citations like [13] is that it is hard to figure out whether two citations are to the same book. "Was [13] that reference to the horrible tome of complete mathematics, or was that [14]" "Was [15] the paper this is trying to generalize?". By creating a small amount of meaning, it becomes much easier to remember the actual reference.

My issue with longer citations, is that I generally don't care about the source of a statement. When I am trying to follow an argument, I will just take the statement as fact, and focus on the big picture. Only when the fact is surprising, or when I have gotten the big picture, will I care about the reference. By having full inline citations in the argument, the text of the argument gets very bloated. Making it much harder to get the high level point of the argument.

I can imagine this is a feature of very technical, close to mathematical proofs, kind of texts. For other fields, maybe this matter much less. Especially when 'truth' is a lot less objective, knowing the source of a statement becomes more important I guess.
I would hesitate to say that there is "cultural" pressure to evict a tenant. Landlords aren't evicting people because their friends tell them to. They evict people because they think they will have better luck trying to find a new tenant who will hopefully be able to pay their rent.
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I've found that for this to be effective you have to cut out distractions like FB, Twitter, youtube, reddit, HN, video games, etc...
Hmm, I was assuming they didn't have a concept of base 10. If they do have it I wonder how they couldn't make the connection and write stuff in base 10 as well instead of a mixed base with weird rules

Then I guess the real challenge is converting numbers around?
>Sunglasses: Very expensive.

This one is confusing. Sunglasses are 90% fashion. What exactly are you getting with an expensive pair?

I take the opposite route. Cheap sunglasses that I'm unconcerned about dropping, sitting on, or leaving behind.
Also a big fan of modding F91W's and other Casio's. My favorite is the Casio FE10-1A which doesn't look as good but whose face shows the numbers more clearly at a variety of angles and lighting conditions.

I like to replace the watch bands with a pair of elastic hairbands. It makes the watches much lighter and more comfortable in a variety of scenarios:

- Running (doesn't bounce around or get sweaty)

- Yoga/pushups (can bend wrist fully)

- Typing on a laptop (wristband doesn't hit the edge)

I do have to change out the elastic hairbands every 4 months or so as they stretch out, and there's about a week of breaking it in where the new bands are too tight. Otherwise it's so great I'd seek to commercialize it.

Photos: https://imgur.com/a/qNJ4MuG

If anyone wants to try it out and could use some tips let me know.
It was natural at the beginning. Of course once you realize how awesome it is, you try to do it as much as possible. For me this was mostly learning how to recognize the dream state and how to manipulate it without waking myself up.

I'm not sure how universal this is, but in my lucid dreams exercising too much control from the concious part of my brain would eventually wake me. It was a balance of manipulating the dream and riding the wave of what was playing out. Make a change then wait a few minutes. Don't try to fight it. No side effects of note, except for awesome memories of experiences that are quite difficult to explain.

No idea why I lost it with age. Probably declining sleep quality, less REM sleep. I doubt there's any studies on it but it's a sentiment echoed by many lucid dreamers I've talked to. It's quite unfortunate, a solid lucid dream could lift my mood for days.
I'm debating creating a rig with IR LEDs to confuse cameras, is this a worthwhile endeavor?
Terrific, thank you. I LOVE learning the history of ideas.

Stuff like Burke's Connections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)

FWIW, 5x5's Critical Path podcast has a few real gems. http://5by5.tv/criticalpath
Probably to get the job initially but not after that.
Rite Aid being national (global?), and mask use being regional, I doubt the masks had much to do with the decision. Just my two cents.
Google puts in some effort, but if it doesn't work they just purloin others’ products. See the Yelp story in the leaked FTC documents the article linked: http://graphics.wsj.com/google-ftc-report/
Yes, but downplaying the fact that it’s new and that there’s a lot of unknown unknowns about it and its effects mid/long term is dangerous. Not all viruses are the same, and it takes time to observe and study them.

This is IMO the other important reason why it’s important to stop the spread, besides overloading hospitals.
Dunno. If you'd need a slightly better tool than ASCII, perhaps Adobe would still be a ridiculous answer.
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address [video]
But he's almost never left without making an impact where he worked at, no matter how short of a sting: DEC (21164/21264) -> AMD (K7/K8) -> SiByte/Broadcom -> P.A. Semi (bought by Apple, A4/A5) -> AMD (Ryzen) -> Tesla (not sure about his impact) -> Intel (no visible impact so far).

Also, from those only his first stint at AMD can be considered "not staying long", most of the other positions were held for some years.
There's been a trend in self checkout to have at least two cameras directly on each machine, one in the screen pointed at your face, and one overhead on a mast pointed downward.

I am not a fan.
Companies use this data to raise the price of items that are mostly bought by people with a lower sensitivity to price.

A famous example is Tesco in the UK that worked out they could double the prices of certain cheeses with no impact on sales volume, because the people that bought those cheeses mostly bought the most expensive brands in other categories (they were probably higher income people).