skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention that OTC analgesics do a pretty good job at controlling fever. Don't feel well? Pop a tylenol and your fever will come down significantly for a few hours.

Now that likely won't work if you're in the throws of a Covid infection, but in the first few days when you're not sure if you're really sick? It probably does a great job of masking fever.
I don’t see why would anyone use Matlab in place of Julia in 2020 (unless one really needs one of those specialized toolboxes).

Julia does the same things, faster and better, and literary with the same syntax.

That being said, python with numpy has got really fast. If you stay within numpy, and are careful with loops, or if numba works for your code, don’t expect much improvement.
Are they cheap upfront? I would imagine that just sticking a UV lamp in your furnace manifold by poking a hole in the side risks rapid UV damage to your furnace. And, if you’re going to slice up the manifold to make it appropriate for UV, you might as well put in a proper filter box instead. A decent MERV 13 or 15 filter from Aprilaire or another major vendor is not very expensive.
Other than that one time JetBlue ran a shuttle flight from one end of LA to the other for a publicity stunt, it don’t think this comparison makes sense. An hour bus ride isn’t a substitute for an hour plane ride.
Foreign companies don’t owe the U.S. taxes when U.S. companies buy them.
This is a great argument that I'd never heard before. Never knew about the per-hour statistics either.

All that being said, it sounds like one can "control the level of risk" by taking a bus instead of driving/Uber/Lyft/taxi to the airport, but choosing to do the latter is an example of "taking on any unnecessary risk when you don't have to [which] is not a wise choice". And yet it is a completely reasonable thing to do.
The return of the audio jack is great news. I spent years hoarding 3.5mm to USB-C convertors and fight audio issues, including months without USB-C audio working for no apparent reason, and having to work around it with blue tooth headphones, which are ok when I remember to charge them...
"Goldman Sachs is pushing ahead with making Frankfurt, Germany, its key European base. This week, the Wall Street giant agreed to lease multiple floors for offices in a 38-storey building, as part of its Brexit contingency plans."

"The US investment bank, Goldman Sachs is to trial its Brexit contingency plans by making senior position transfers to Frankfurt, following concerns that the UK will lose it’s ‘passporting rights’."

"Last month, Credit Suisse revealed it was planning to move about 250 of its 5,500 London banking jobs in the first phase its Brexit contingency plans. Bloomberg reported employees in areas such as trading and mergers and acquisitions were likely to be relocated to Frankfurt or Madrid, ..."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/brexit-latest-ba...

https://qz.com/1095155/brexit-contingency-plan-goldman-sachs...

https://www.relocatemagazine.com/news/brexit-goldman-sachs-t...
Jesus Christ, that must be fourth or fifth "whitepaper" I see from the cryptocurrency community. Here's what a proper whitepapers should look like:

https://signal.org/docs/specifications/x3dh/x3dh.pdf

https://signal.org/docs/specifications/doubleratchet/doubler...

Status' whitepaper looks like marketing material for investors, not a technical description for infosec professionals. I find the content almost repulsive.
Bluetooth headphones for calls add substantial latency. I don't care about audio quality, but latency, often 1/3s round trip, makes turn taking in calls much harder.
This is outright extortion ... Shame on Trump and his administration,
It's called warm boot vs. cold boot (or soft boot vs hard boot)
Suppose someone wanted to train a model to identify which decade a photo was taken in. What would be the current SOTA architecture for that type of task? (Suppose also that you had a few million labeled examples.)

I like yolo because it’s a production grade object defector. It seems harder to find a production grade classifier.

One amusing but dumb idea would be to use yolo for this: train the model on “photo from 1930,” “photo from 1940,” etc, where the bounding boxes cover the entire photo. But I’m curious what the professional solution might be.
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The "excited about exploring the possibility of using a game engine for UI development" is fine, the "misrepresenting the alternatives" part, especially while ignoring all downsides of Godot, makes it look dodgy and detracts from the piece.
I certainly don't agree with all of the points made here but broadly I couldn't help nodding along reading this. For sure the congressional hearings were mostly farcical, at best fact-finding, at worse an effort to grab a few viral moments to use for campaigning this year. I also don't love where I see the left going with the hate on tech - for sure companies like Google, MSFT, Apple have some anti-competitive practices but the level of animosity for growth during a pandemic is mind-boggling. Of course they're growing, most of their business models are coincidentally helped in this situation and they've invested in the tools to grow further in a world where we're mostly stuck indoors, don't want to go to stores, etc. Generally, I read this and am just reminded how disappointed I am in the political situation in this country, all grandstanding and no substance, and if there is something done, it almost certainly isn't for the majority of Americans.
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TBTF.

Risk is ultimately assumed by states / CBs.
Slightly tangential, but has anyone had a chance to use PaddlePaddle? I played around with it for a little bit a few months ago, and found it to be generally a regression in use-ability when compared to Pytorch or Tensorflow V2. I’d be interested to know what someone more experienced with it thinks.
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what part of "2. UPLOAD A VIDEO FROM YOUR DEVICE" is on the fly?
How common are worms in western societies?
Don’t know why the parent was down voted for starting a fact.

I think the better solution if you can afford it is a Bluetooth receiver (Fiio make a nice one) for your old headphones.

If you are getting new earphones get some of the cheap Chinese BT earbuds. They are really cheap these days and work quite well for the money. I got a quite nice pair for ~$35AUD from amazon. Surprisingly good.
I really like the workflow GitHub uses for this: https://github.blog/2020-02-14-automating-mysql-schema-migra...

(It makes use of skeema, which allows you to track your schema in a declarative way vs. ALTER TABLE statements.)
So all Tok Tok has to do is not sell and it’s scot free?
If you're planning on doing away with public police, private home security is going to be BIG business.
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Hell is on Earth, and it's disguised as children's park building game.
See above, Goldman Sachs already forced senior positions to move from London to Frankfurt for "testing contingency plans".
There might be some confusion about Qt the runtime (ie: compiled binaries) and the Qt SDK for development. Last I remember (admitedly, >8 years ago) the Qt SDK certainly was a multigigabyte download.

In this case, you need the SDK to develop a UI with Qt, so I think the author's comparison is fair.

> Consider Qt Creator IDE which is quite minimalist, without Qt which it requires to run, requires over 200 MB Actual fact: 108.03 MiB

Probably depends on the platform, I wouldn't be surprised if it was > 200 MB on OS X. But either way, 100 vs 200, same order of magnitude
I tend to agree about the waste of space, but using it on the desktop it's good for discoverability by lazy scrolling, I think.

At least I discovered many articles that way, lazily switching categories, which I'd have missed otherwise.

There are other HN-frontends which do similar things, but with the exception of [1] https://hckrnews.com/ none stuck with me so far.

This one I liked, bookmarked, and intend to use more often until further notice.

edit: What is missing for me is the ability of simple "click-through" to the original HN for voting/commenting without having to give my user/password to another site. That won't happen!
This is the U.S. We have a constitution, and individual rights. The president can’t tell you what apps you can have on your phone.
Godot is an incredibly good piece of technology, made by fantastic people.

But I'm not sure that I can echo the sentiment here exactly. I took the time to read the entire article.

This is what it boils down to for me:

IF you are going to build a native desktop app with a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG editor, I think it's arguably a solid choice over QT or whatever else you might do it with.

But the latter part of the article focuses on the argument against using web technologies:

> My discussion of Web technologies needs some disclaimers. I have little experience with web technologies, and I am not very fond of web technology. I am an old school GUI toolkit guy, who did his first GUI stuff using the Intuition toolkit on an old Amiga 1000.

There are a couple of really big problems I see however:

2. It was made for web pages not applications. When trying to make a GUI for an application I found that I so often hit on the limitations imposed by the assumption that we are in some scrollable webpage.

3. It is not made for reusable components, like real GUI toolkits.

From time to time, I hear this argument about how because web applications are run on the web, they're somehow fundamentally different from an application that might run on your phone or desktop natively in terms of appearance or UI capabilities.

It's all pixels on a screen. Any design asset you can whip up, with whatever animations and effects, can be rendered identically on a web, or native mobile/desktop app.

And modern web applications are entirely made of reusable components and the principles behind them.

I like to think I don't say without some perspective -- some of the first applications I ever wrote were VB.NET apps in Visual Studio 2007 using Windows Forms.

But today the idea of saying "An app made with web technologies cannot look or function quite like a native desktop app, and it lacks reusable components" is a bit wild.

Can you imagine trying to build <insert omnipresent application>'s desktop client with a WYSIWYG.

Finally, will conclude the rant here -- author talks about how Godot's 30MB compressed/70MB uncompressed size is fantastic, but with Tauri you can build native desktop apps using HTML/JS in 1-2MB.

https://tauri.studio
I think I have a 0% success rate with secret questions. They always ask things that don't apply to me, so I have to make them up. Then I forget them. (Sorry, Charles Schwab, I've never owned a car.)

I have learned the hard way that these are just easy-to-guess extra passwords that let attackers bypass my hard-to-guess password. I dump them in my password manager so I don't get locked out, but I know they're a ticking security time bomb. Every site asks the same questions, so if the database gets compromised, it lets someone compromise other accounts. And, they're probably not even one-way-hashed, because customer service people ask for them on the phone and can probably see the answers. I don't even know how it's legal to use these things anymore. They set the field of information security back two decades.

(I have always assumed that they exist to save money on call centers. You get locked out, you have to talk to a real person, and real people want salary and benefits. But with the abysmal success rate that the paper shows, I'm not even sure it's saving people money. It just seems wrong on every level. For that reason, I know they're here to stay for good.)
That's for probing only, randomization on connection is accessible via developer options only.
Pretty interesting that the conclusion supports a slightly worse detector with a better framework.
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It's bad enough that you chose it. When I bought my home, one of the conditions was that I take over the contract from the previous owner. I thought that was kind of BS but ADT made it clear that someone would have to pay and the seller made it clear it wasn't going to be her. I ended up paying her to do the cancellation fee so I could avoid getting in bed with ADT.
Yup, and as far as I know, the people who used to work there are now in Frankfurt. With that in mind, it would make a lot of sense for them to now try to switch passports so that they can remain there.
> I'm sure that everything running on x86 runs or will soon run on ARM. Perhaps a little slower yes, but your average consumer will be unaware of the difference

Windows-on-ARM already has 32-bit x86 emulation — and it's slow as molasses. Believe me, people do notice the slowdown.

But Microsoft has everything to gain by upping the performance to match what macOS is doing with Rosetta 2, so it's definitely a space to watch closely.
Honestly could care less if he loved or hated queen and country. I'm American, but Freddie's a legend and should be on currency. His voice was amazing.
Write Your Own Python Async ASGI Web App, No Framework Needed
Yes and no.

Yes, if you do good work/make a good product/run a good service and its fairly priced, it's more likely to do well than if your work is terrible. It'll usually be a million times harder to promote a terrible business than a good one, for obvious reasons.

But also no, because 'build it and they'll come' hasn't worked as a marketing strategy for... maybe thousands of years. If people don't know you exist, they won't become customers, and since most customers won't promote even a good business or service to other people, relying on word of mouth is unreliable at best, suicidal at worst.
I'm not sure they'll be equally thrilled to lose the legal basis for having EU customers ;)
Both of your comments are basically saying 'this is true' and saying 'this is true' again. Do you have any sources or even reasons why installing a split unit air conditioner in all of california 'often' takes a year?
>If the above don't work, we could be looking at mass unemployment, unbearable private and government debt, and more civil unrest

Given the fact that there's never been a successful coronavirus vaccine, and that there's a huge portion of the American population that regards mask-wearing and hand-washing to be tyrannical affronts to civil liberties, I think we all know how things are going to play out.
Parasite load seems to affect negatively cognitive abilities.

Decreased Parasite Load and Improved Cognitive Outcomes Caused by Deworming and Consumption of Multi-Micronutrient Fortified Biscuits in Rural Vietnamese Schoolchildren
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3144834/

Parasite load explains 67% of the worldwide variation in intelligence:
"Parasite prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability"
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2010...
See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish_National...

"Piper Gilbert Kerr (right) alongside a penguin, March 1904"

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish_National...

"Piper Gilbert Kerr (with pipes) alongside a penguin, March 1904"

Much as I disapprove of wiki vandals, I think this is a harmless injection of light humour into yet another dreary badly mangled wikipedia article (not the topic itself, just the way that wikipedians slowly squeeze the life out the written word revision by revision).
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Came here to share this - NR just redid their entire pricing structure, in my opinion it's now a much better approach for horizontal scaling.

Most everything is now part of a single product: New Relic One. You pay for data ingest beyond the first 100GB and you pay per seat for seats after the first. The AI pieces have some additional costs after a certain point as well, but from my understanding the free tier is very generous.

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I was not talking about Mastodon at all.
Working with GPT-3 on Fiction
Yes - I have to say it is a little frustrating that there isn't an easy way to find new postings. Would be great to be able to sort comments by new. Or maybe there's a way to do this with third party services?
Tyler,

I would get a job that to provide yourself a safety net such that you can continue your passions. It doesn't have to be all or nothing!
The individual rights argument is not pretty strong. Here’s a partial list of things I did today for the sake of my neighbors/community that are also government mandated:

- Wore a shirt

- Turned on my headlights and used my turn signals

- Held on to my empty coffee cup until I got to a trash can when I could have just dropped it on the ground

- Kept my dog on a leash and picked up his poop

- Parked in a parking spot instead of conveniently stopping my car in the middle of traffic directly in front of the grocery store door

I’m sure there are plenty others. Being a member of society comes with a lot of privileges and a handful of obligations but it only works if we all do our part. No freeloaders, right?

Edit: An extra word
1. I'm sorry if you misunderstood me and think that I'm downplaying his work in this field. But I'm also kindly asking you to not just argue with appeal to authority [1].

2. Why do you think that I rule out that I'm not biased? If you read my other comment [2], I actually want to finish this book someday to challenge my assumptions and because his critique seemed reasonable! Unfortunately this book seems to paint an incomplete picture of my reality. The economy in my country should be totally unstable because of its regulations according to his views in this book but that's not the case. I want to understand the whole picture and this book falls short of doing it.

3. Why do you think that I'm generally in favor of regulations? It's simply not all black and white.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24041550
Just FYI, your first link should be https://kickbackpoints.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=38, instead of https://kickbackpoints.bamboohr.com/hiring/jobs/38 (I think).
This looks super-cool! Make thing button.
So you could hack into any of their accounts by using password recovery mechanisms. Sounds like a bad idea.
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