skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends how fast you use them. Are we using biomass at faster than replacement rate? Probably. And cutting down forests for biomass does irreparable damage to forest ecosystems.
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> Discussions live in your project repository, so they’re accessible where your community is already working together. Their threaded format makes it easy to start, respond to, and organize unstructured conversations. Questions can be marked as answered, so over time a community’s knowledge base grows naturally.

I can imagine "GitHub Discussions" [0] cutting off a significant number of Stack Overflow questions.

[0] https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/104
I think there is enough information/data to be gained from the virus itself to determine if it has the same or similar characteristics of other corona viruses (like influenza) to support seasonality or season-less continuity.
In comparison, the GitLab Roadmap: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/
You want me to explain the concept of law enforcement? Or of fines? You're the one making a strong claim here.
Not disagreeing with you, but I'm sure we can all agree nukes in the hands of Nazi Germany would have been an unmitigated disaster.
This is eerily similar to today's world, where countries like India banning apps because it started in another country..
I have this vague idea, which can be completely false, that porting software that runs on ARM64 Linux (which is what cloud servers use) to Mac ARM64 (which I think is BSD derived?) is not trivial. Or is it?
I didn't dig too deep, just googled and found this 538 article:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-americans-feel-abou...
earlier thread - 2014

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7305097
"That is why an average of 11 years pass between when a teenager first needs mental health support and when they eventually start receiving it in their 20s or even later."

As a medical student interested in psychiatry and rehab, that is mindblowing and touching.

I really with you the best with this!
I set up a react project recently using parcel, typescript, reach-router, and emotion css. I was surprised how easy and painless it was. In saying that, Next provides good value to a team with it's conventions and workflow.
@learc83 it just shows that when you have a dual citizenship (US- CH or European one) the IRS issue is a real problem in a country where the median salary is just under 85k$ per year (no need to be a rich guy). The point is a US passport is great to live in the US, that's it.
(personally know 3 ex US citizen that where tired to pay a US accountant when they already had to go through Swiss tax system).
I have coworkers who do minimal work to just get by and show up in meetings with strong opinions and argue endlessly over slack. They are generally smart but very lazy and very disorganized, so much so that people have brought it up the manager a few times but the manager shrugs and does not want to do much since it requires a lot of effort on manager's part to have difficult conversations and fix things.
Hard to say, nuclear weapons have also prevented WWIII so far.
American here, I've been to a number of the countries on that list that you say are not "worth traveling to," along with many other countries that you think are probably worth traveling to. I've really enjoyed the ones to which I've traveled and plan to go back. I won't pile on with the top tourist destinations, but check out the other responses for those, I'm just providing an anecdotal response from a tech worker.

> edit: not sure what the downvotes are about. maybe hn thinks that all countries are equal, and thinking otherwise is racist?

Your edit is bad by the way and a gross mischaracterization.
There is an OCaml interpreter that does run a bitcode, is that what you're referring to?
Google used OCR for routine indexing for at least a decade.

I found it how it was ridiculously good at finding car number plates, airplane numbers, and even yachts! https://www.google.com/search?q=рпв+2396&tbm=isch

In 2017 they did something to it, and it is now nowhere near as easy to find people's cars now.
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I generally agree with your motivation. But spam/fraud and even semi-legit SEO gaming have basically made ignoring the "subjective" infeasible. There needs to a be some sort of "semantic" filter that returns results not just based on PageRank/TFIDF information but also some modeling of likely intent behind the query.
TIL. Thanks for sharing.

I also didn't know Chrome could emulate different levels of slow network.
Hmm, is it not a bit early to determine that?
That said, I'm struggling to understand how/why a they could possibly need to raise now a total of $153MM.

Gotta make the work of those digital sharecroppers pay off somehow: https://blog.codinghorror.com/are-you-a-digital-sharecropper...

No, the fact that the blog post was written by a SO founder is not lost on me.
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Haven’t used SO at all for over five years now. Eventually I’ll look up some weird edge case answers, but the trust I had on the site and it’s content is long gone.

This smells like a corporate move to get more money on executive’s pockets, nothing more. A shame that SO was allowed to get to this state.
Before I respond any further, I'd like to offer you the chance to speak with me more privately. HMU, https://philosopher.life.
Not really. In double entry bookkeping you have to always add every entry "twice" (I'm not sure how prevalent it is to have split entries, $20 in one and $10+$10 in another - I've learned in school that you don't do that).

I'm just suggesting a different entry format where you enter the number once and the computer creates both bookkeeping entries. Yeah you have the chance to make a typo, but I guess preventing that kind of error is not what this is about, is it?

It's actually not like a checksum, but more like the DRY (don't repeat yourself) principle. Where one framework requires you to define a constant, say a SQL table name, in multiple places, and another lets you type it only once. Like handrolled SQL vs- an ORM. In this case, I think less typing is less error prone.
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The fatality rate from COVID-19 in the US is still well below many European countries.
Investors are a pretty big signal for this. For example startups that raised money from YC is pretty much guaranteed to be successful.
I worry that you're just tossing insults at the wall. A poor pandemic response is surely not a good thing, but it's hard to see how it constitutes irrational populism or intolerance.
Typically the bodega is within a couple minute walk, while the large name brand stores in my area are more like a ten minute drive
I believe the Bing API can do this.

"Use smart identification of image content to recognize celebrities, find products, or search for related content."

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
I feel like you fixated on that part of the sentence and ignored the first part:

>I'm sure those countries have interesting places to go to and the people there are nice

The reality is that for most people, their time and money budgets are constrained, and they're optimizing for more than just "gaining perspective and empathy" (eg. they might just want to party/relax). As such, those countries are low on most people's list.
There are four concepts that we are testing to mitigate risk to the general public:

1) We have a screening committee with deep operational experience (we have 50 founders that ran companies collectively valued close to $4B) to identify the founders most likely to be successful. We have more operational experience and industry insight than your general partner at a venture fund.

2) We attracted exceptional startups to broaden our applicant pipeline by making it open to the global community and guaranteed a $50k pre-seed investment.

3) A three month period where startups were mentored, stress tested, and cleared for launch.

4) Finally, as with all investments on Wefunder, company risk and financials risks are made transparent for the public.

Successful companies often have the greatest value creation at their early stages. It is unfair to only limit this value creation to "accredited" millionaires and billionaires. In a world where payday loans and lottery system prey on the poor, we are trying to create a system of equitable wealth creation, for everyone.
Can anyone trust anything coming from the WHO anymore?
I think it's a factor of these systems being cheap. Cheap software, cheap cameras, cheap storage, cheap compute. It's a shame we don't have a better use for all that stuff.
We haven't even had one full season, so not calling it seasonal is premature, isn't it?

Look at the numbers:

We see that deaths are down and that illnesses are less severe (ICUs are not overwhelmed), even though daily infections are at all-time-highs in some regions. Coincidence, or perhaps due to seasonality?

We also see that the virus can not be brought under control without permanent lockdowns. As soon as you open up, the virus starts spreading again. Countries that now have the virus "under control" have had a significant amount of uncontrolled spread beforehand.

I've read several headlines along the lines of "resurgence of cases after opening up" or "second wave under way" in Europe. Then I look at the graphs and it's just not true. Cases are stable, you just have some daily variance.
Are you on Windows 10's 2020 release? That doesn't resonate with my experience at all – macOS has been vastly more frustrating to deal with on 4K displays in my experience, constant reflowing and forgetting window states, takes forever to recognize the displays when plugging in or resuming from sleep, etc... I even have all of the pointer and icon problems you describe with the top bar. Sometimes, with a 4K display plugged in, it takes 10+ seconds to figure out how to use it. Meanwhile, none of that on my Windows machine!
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> has no revenue model

Half the smartest people in the world are working on the revenue model

Ads. Ads everywhere.
Doesn't seem to have external user auth mechanism than "declarative user management"?
To be fair, DeepL doesn't support all the languages Google supports.
Eh, I think it has a lot to do with how people discover a cartel can be a pretty handy thing. NIMBYism is all over the place; Ireland has terrible sprawl and ridicuously strict rules about maximum building height even in the absolute middle of the capital, which has no tall buildings and also an utterly unremarkable skyline.
The WHO has been wrong many times.
Presumably tourists breaking quarantine...

Which months ago was something even Hawaii was doing to American tourists, so I don't think it's particularly interesting to note.
Would be great to be able to "upvote" features.
Automagic shell tab completion for Python CLI applications
“Goldman warns the next big crash is around the corner”

“Gold warns about the end of QE in terms of effectiveness”

“Goldman warns about the rise of China”

It goes on and on. It’s all marketing, they have to say something.

The dollar has no risk, the demand for dollars is massive.
All depends on what it's worth to you, I guess.

As @ska pointed out, I'm not really talking about buying all of your groceries at the corner store at a 3x markup. In every city I've ever lived in, I've had the option of taking my business to an independently owned (grocery|hardware|pharmacy|etc.) store where the "10% shop local tax" more or less applied. To me this seems like a fair exchange for the peace of mind I get from knowing that I'm not being targeted by government-grade surveillance tech when I walk through the door, and that the employees I interact with are being paid a living wage. YMMV depending where you live but I hardly believe this is a phenomenon isolated only to the places where I've lived.

Also, if your local shop doesn't carry an item you want, you can always speak with management and ask for them to stock it :)
A MacBook Pro doesn't have a HighDPI 4K display, which is where it falls apart. Indeed, it works fine on a MacBook because Retina is not the same thing! :)
It provides a better search than, say, united's search. Especially if you are looking for partner-flights or more interesting layover-cities. But it also doesn't include southwest flights (most aggregators don't) which often have the best price for my home airport on short-hauls.
One thing to note is that the SEC does limit the amount non-accredited investors could invest here to:
$2,200 or
5 percent of the lesser of the investor’s annual income or net worth.
So while yeah investing in startups is risky, they can't bet the house.
Cool

2 questions:
1) Languages you plan to support?
2) Does it require a rip and replace, or can oso be implemented incrementally?
Thanks :)

Polar is inspired by Prolog, a logic programming language, and designed to express authorization policies in a declarative style. One of the main things we wanted was a language that embeds well so that Polar can use types from your application and call functions & methods directly. We wrote up some of the design principles here [1], and a (warning: pretty detailed) background on the language here[2]

[1] https://docs.osohq.com/more/design-principles.html

[2] https://docs.osohq.com/more/language/polar-foundations.html
Must be that time of the year.
Nevermind the fact that Target is basically more expensive, red Walmart. If you do most of your shopping at Target you've already self selected as someone more vulnerable to advertising and feel good stuff.
When coding in Java, I usually start with a shell script that compiles the code rather than, say, a POM or a Gradle build - I don't upgrade to a dedicated build system until a) the shell script becomes more trouble than it's worth or b) I have to share with somebody else. There's something to be said for having complete control over every aspect of the build.
I agree with you except I'd point out the promoted percentage is 67%.
possibly related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sunrise_(World_War_I...
Last time I did it was February, and it was just as problematic back then – I'm not sure what advantage it offers over WSL2 (which is containerized) when combined with all of the benefits of Windows these days, for the hassle.
This actually makes a lot of sense. Back when I worked it a lab, a lot of our chemicals had "Kodak" labels. There is a lot of chemical synthesis involved in photographic chemical production and often a massive scales.

I have no idea if Kodak still has a lot of the production facilities, but it would be awesome to be able to repurpose that capital equipment.
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> unfairly dominating other areas

Out of curiosity, what exactly about Maps is unfair? They made money, they invested it in better mapping technology. You could say the same about Apple too, they bundled their Maps application with every iPhone sold which you couldn't even uninstall for a long time. And they had more money than Google too - yet their maps application was and still is garbage.

It just so happens Google Maps is the better product here and has nothing to do with anti-competitiveness. I was in China and I tried using both Apple and Google Maps (via VPN). And guess which one lead me to a wrong railway station?
Clearly you haven't worked at IBM.
It’s well into summer in the northern hemisphere and the virus is still spreading as rapidly as ever, so that would be pretty good reason to think it’s not seasonal like the flu, which dies down a lot in the summer.
I doubt the interviewee meant "we" as in the entire adult entertainment industry, just their particular employer or team.
I tend to prefer the style GitHub has gone with. Easier to quickly identify new features of interest.
There are really two branches of Spectre defense research, and each side sneers at the other and declares their approach doesn't work.

One side says "we can block speculation at the trust boundary, especially the process boundary by having the kernel flush all caches, etc." The argument against this is that every new attack has to be explicitly mitigated. New attacks are coming at a rather fast rate and it's almost certain that some bad guys are aware of attacks that the good guys haven't uncovered yet. (It's also ridiculously expensive to use these defenses at a fine-grained level.)

The other side says "we can make it basically infeasible to extract side channels by limiting the non-determinism -- such as timers -- that allow malicious programs to observe microarchitectural side effects." The first side says this is wrong, you can use repeated attempts and statistics to get over any amount of noise. It just takes longer. Maybe you have to run the attack for weeks to leak anything of value but it's still possible.

The reality is that no one has actually solved Spectre. However, both sides have done things that raise the barrier to attack. The best anyone can do right now is try to raise that barrier as high as they can. It seems to be working -- we don't really see Spectre attacks in the wild.

Workers uses a mix of ideas in a pragmatic defense. I'll have an extended post about it on the Cloudflare blog tomorrow.
I'd hardly call visa-free access to 6 fewer countries (185 vs 191) as "fairly low ranking".

I actually went through the list to see what the differences were in terms of access between Japan (the top ranking passport right now) and the US passport. These are ignoring any COVID related temporary closures.

A Japanese passport will get you into the following countries visa-free that the US passport won't:

- China

- India

- Myanmar

- Pakistan

- Vietnam

- Suriname

- Venezuela

- Azerbaijan

- Iran

- Turkey

A US passport will get you into the following countries visa-free that the Japanese passport won't:

- Burkina Faso

- Central African Republic

To be honest, nearly all of the above make sense

- US-China relations are bad

- The US middle-eastern wars have pissed off:

- Pakistan

- Azerbaijan

- Iran

- Turkey

- The US currently has sanctions against Venezuela

I am a little surprised about India, Myanmar, Suriname, and Vietnam. However, it doesn't appear that European passports will get you into India visa-free either.
Ask HN: My company provides yearly bonus for self-education. What should I buy?
There is a yearly bonus (600$) my employer provides for self-education. Usually, we spend it to attend some conference, but this is pretty difficult time, you know :) Also we have monthly bonus on books and access to online resources: O'Reilly Media and Udemy.

I am a Full-stack/Cloud software engineer so it should be related to my position, but not strictly. Let's say it can be iOS/Android/Web development, Back-end development, Machine Learning, Cloud Architectures, Theoretical Computer Science, Cybersecurity, etc.

After some research, I have found most of the resources are already free. I have had an idea to buy several classical CS texts (specifically related to Math Logic and Complexity) or purchase some online courses, but I can miss something valuable. Maybe it can be useful for somebody to suggest decent resources I can spend this bonus.
Also, the US is one of the few countries where long-term minded people can move, have a kid, and then their kid will have a US passport. That is not true for most of the world, and is certainly not true for other "prized passports".
You can also just redirect receiving email from a public facing SMTP to an internal SMTP server which also runs IMAP.
>Additionally, the majority of people in the US that travel overseas are likely to be much more cultured and concerned about how they are perceived in a foreign nation than our local Walmart population. An uneducated Karen wearing a Nazi mask ranting about her god given right to not wear a mask is not indicative of the type of person from the US that will be visiting culturally significant sites of Italy.

Would really, really like to emphasize this. I can't count the number of times I was hit with a "Wow, you are nothing like the Americans I read about in the news" internationally. General perception of the US is bad but for the most part, the people that are desperate to explore the world aren't to blame for it. Unfortunately those who are to blame for it will never cross paths with the people who are disgusted with them in other countries.
Most developers, there is a lot of places to get this information but if you look at the stackoverflow survey, which is a survey large enough to be relevant, you get some data around 25% of developers using Linux.

We're talking about as their computer, not servers tho, everyone uses Linux for server
REI is a multi billion dollar co-op that is still going strong
> most countries with strict gun control still leave a loophole for rural residents

The primary loophole being the ability and willingness of countries other than the rich ones to enforce laws like that in their rural areas. People having guns (or anything really) they shouldn't per the letter of the law is like bottom of the priority list. The local police in rural South America, Asia and Eastern Europe have much bigger fish to fry.
Accurately? That’s pretty intense.

In college I needed some cash and went to a “study”. For $75 bucks you went to a mocked up grocery store and spent 45 minutes strapped up in a chair where they showed you combination after combination of (one vendors) bottle colors and arrangement on the shelf and tracked your eyes on how quickly you gravitated towards them. Always seemed super intense what retailers do.
I've wondered about the deaths being down and whether or not all the low hanging easy to pick off fruit from the virus' perspective is eaten up. The virus will then work its way through a healthier populace and not result in so many deaths.

Do all pandemics work that way more or less?
Thank you. I got mine after ~18 yrs :)
Interesting to see people opening issues for things they want when nothing in the README suggests that Github was seeking community input. I realize that this is possible due to the fact that it is an open source repository, but its possible the issues could get flooded and this repository becomes less useful?
The best descriptors are most certainly obtained with machine learning (embeddings).
Now I'm wondering if you turn the stopwatch on, if it stores the time it turned on, or if it maintains the 'elapsed seconds'.
On Android, most apps include toggles in settings to disable different notification types. It's annoying that they're on by default, but at last you can usually disable them. In Firefox, you can turn off the "Product and feature tips" notifications in settings, and I bet that would prevent that kind of notification appearing. As a last resort, you can disable notifications entirely per-app at the OS level by digging into the Android settings.
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What about companies that are in early/pre-seed stage? Any way to know?