skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this argument is that it would be self-servingly naive for the recipient of the images to assume that the source of the data had obtained the appropriate permissions. Of course, the people creating this policy are not that naive; they are simply adopting the attitude cynically, as cover for what they know to be unethical.

To be clear, this does not absolve the supplier of the data for their responsibility, but the supplier’s culpability does not absolve the recipient.
Something being a complex dynamic system doesn’t make it vulnerable to squirrels. It may be vulnerable to squirrels, but it also may not be.
That's exactly what it is. And it's why it is "important".

He's not pretending to give a message about the issue he's "covering".

He's covering the event and showing some part of that.
A correct positive PCR doesn't even guarantee infection - it just tells you that you have been infected within the last month or so. Old, inactivated viral RNA can still trigger a positive weeks later.
Sorry, I didn’t see the detail about them already being on a plan
Yup. True home automation is something that changes your life, not gadgets for rich people.
I will call true home automation for example when I can throw the trash into a hatch at my same floor in a bag with RFID tag so that it will send it down and sort out it for recycle. I recall when I was less than 10 (mid '70s) my grandparents having those hatches (minus electronics of course) in their building. They would leave the bag there and it would drop to a container in the basement that the litter van would retrieve later. Of course it was long before recycling legislation so with new laws it had to be ditched and people would have again to bring their trash bags to the bins, which weren't that close. So why the system can't be repurposed, and introduced where necessary, to be recycle friendly? That's what I would call modern home automation, not stuff like reading a sensor and opening a window, which could have been done 10 years ago with an Arduino, 20 years ago with any uC and X10 already did in the '70s.
If you could get this to run fast on GPUs you might get some converts from other APL family languages.
They do, but a lot of the social good companies are not actually non-profits but more like low-profit/high-impact, or B-corp style. In fact a few states have Benefit Corp/Social Purpose Company LLC-like structures.

So it puts you in a somewhat weird spot since you will never be potentially worth a billion dollars (which is the guideline for the for-profit track of YC) nor are you a pure non-profit.

It'd be cool if they added such a track or loosened the non-profit restrictions so it's not necessarily a 501c3 structure.
How would you make them watch the correct channel?
Many years ago I reverse-engineered scribd's SWF-based PDF viewer, and was able to get a nearly-perfect conversion to PDF (since they were both vector formats). They seem to have recently replaced it with an HTML-based one and disabled the path to the SWF version, which makes such perfect conversion impossible --- you can rasterise a vector, but vectorising an image is never going to be perfect, especially an artifacted JPEG.

Searching now, it seems someone else has written a bit of public documentation (non-English) about it: https://github.com/jrlambea/scb_file_anatomy
I think any version of a simpler web would still be 100% compatible with the full version of the web. So you’d really only need to build one version.
Hacker News: implementing an incomplete subset of Web standards to focus on things that matter to everyone, like performance and privacy, is a great idea. Also Hacker News: fuck Safari.
Apple is AFAICT the least concerned of all the major platform vendors about backwards compatibility. Programs routinely stop working on new releases of macOS or iOS, sometimes in ways that are impossible to fix. On Mac they’ve already changed processor architectures twice and look poised to do so again. That’s much more disruptive than the python 2 to 3 migration.
Ask HN: What are top retention D1/D7/D30 numbers for mobile apps?
What are world-class D1/D7/D30 for mobile apps?

Hard to find data about this metric. If you have data to share, I'm sure a lot of people would find it useful.
Most office climate control systems are still running, although perhaps at a reduced setting. Shutting them off could cause mold growth and equipment damage.
I had heard the issue was with how Windows/NTFS let a bunch of extensions place hooks into reading and writing files. Antivirus apps would sometimes put a bunch of heavy-ish hooks in that would be terrible for performance with lots of tiny files, which many Unix-y workflows expect to be able to do quickly.
Yet the Federal Reserve study whence the "$400 emergency expense" claim was sourced states that 75% of adults are doing okay financially or living comfortably. The question about a $400 expense was about how people would pay for an unexpected $400 expense, not if they could pay for it. Only 12% could not pay for a $400 expense. The news media always tries to paint a dire narrative.

Per the US government, the median household in the US has $1000/month left over after all ordinary expenses. At the 78%, this is around $3500/month. As this strongly suggests, the statistics you are referring to do not actually assert what is often claimed of them. The underlying studies paint a more consistent, and less dire, picture.
Browsers are non-issues and they will come and they will go. The web is IP, HTTP, TCP, DNS etc.
RC’s online experience just sounds poorly designed. Everything you’re saying about staff being overbooked, exceptions being intolerable, etc. isn’t indicative of an efficient and inclusive organization. It sounds like everybody is overworked, and policies like these are simply because RC can’t cope with its resources, not because RC has some great management theory in efficiency.
Pragmas are extensions to C, not part of the C language standard. You can add things to C, but it then ceases to be standard C and becomes GNU C or MS Visual C or early C++ or something else. But not ISO Standard C.

And yes, just about anything non-lexical lifetimes can do you can do with static analysis. But the set of things you can do with Rust includes things that need explicit lifetime annotations, which C doesn't have.
I’ve not really come out of lockdown since late February.

Once there was any community transmission on the continent i knew the jig was up, so we were pretty cloistered off about two weeks early.

State numbers look good but I’ve yet to substantially change my behavior since I started working from home. Big restocking food trips several weeks apart, no-contact outside activities only, etc.

We’ve only started doing any kind of outside-only-masks-except-when-eating limited contact with family in the last 3 weeks or so, and even that is fragile feeling.
Of course, the act of being filmed is already a transformation on people's "real life". You're affecting it somehow, even without a person, there's a microphone and a camera, they're the "journalist".
The only solution is having enough generation and storage capacity for p999 or p9999 events. The grid ends up being beneficial because you can pool resources rather than balkanizing them.

Your Tesla Powerwall can probably keep your AC running for a couple of hours, but it costs $7,600. We're better off using economies of scale to our advantage.
The 2000 was pretty popular AFAIK; I saw a lot of them anyway. Yeah...a lot of stuff got worked out in Solaris on the SC2000, and the journey was painful. But after a year or so of very frequent out-of-cycle patches, some hardware upgrades, and a lot of time with Sun support, they were pretty stable and scalable. Nice machines.

I don't think we ever got the OC-12 ATM cards really stable...fortunately, networking went a different direction and they had a mercifully short lifespan.
Peltier element is just about the worst solution for anything. The angel wings girl wasn't experiencing much "cooling" for sure. Form over function, I suppose - consumer market seems to prefer that, but as an EE I immediately know shit's not going to work, which robs me of appreciation of the "form".

And I'd prefer a mechanized window, myself.
That's funny, that windows 1.0 logo does look pretty modern, but it also has a distinctly 80s feel. I feel every year though, 80s fashion and aesthetics are coming back in more and more parts of life.
This my be a dumb question, but if I have solar (no power wall or batteries) will I still have power during a rolling blackout?
Yep they are marked SW1-[A-F] for anyone interested.
Math and Justice: Sheila Warren Interview
You’re right. I just meant obscure from the end-user perspective. It’s not clear what’s wrong to uneducated users, only that their text looks weird.
its worth noting the size differences of the various companies in terms of employee count. Part of this is simple statistics.
haha, yeah. who in the world treats women differently than men?
Depending on the age it's either a Cat-3 cable or just a telephone cable in a round shield. It could also just be a serial cable.
I like this comment. It seems to me that we do forget some of our learnt wisdom and to be reminded of things we 'know' that we may have forgotten is a very human and therefore valuable thing. Maybe the purpose of the whole oral tradition - but I'm out of my depth here. The lyrics of a song (from the seventies?) summarize this for me - once you exclude the sentimental aspect: "I have a friend who's going blind, but he sees much better than I".
There was a recent This Week In Virology covering the importance of tests like this:

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-640/
That’s a pretty negative take on the work ethic of non-elites. While you’re correct that the institutions you mentioned select for intelligence, I’ve seen no evidence in a life lived among working class and professional-class individuals that there is any significant difference in work ethic. I wonder if you’re even aware how many poor and working-class individuals work 2 full-time jobs.

The reason why folks working in social services might have a different impression is that they’re primarily coming into contact with people who are in failure mode for a variety of reasons: addiction, health-issues, mental illness, etc. They are not representative of the poor and working classes in general, and their failure to maintain a strong work ethic is often impeded by their life challenges.

Also, the small percentage of freeloaders out there are very good at sniffing out opportunities for taking advantage of the system. That may make them seem more common than they actually are.

> but the reality is that social mobility (particularly in the West) is at a historic all time high

No idea about global social mobility, it’s entirely possible it’s at an all-time high. But you’re definitely wrong about social mobility in the USA. It’s been declining for many, many decades:

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/1/251

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_th...

A few studies show that the decline in social mobility may be leveling off, but if that’s the case (and even that isn’t clear-many studies show the opposite), then almost certainly the financial crisis and COVID will reverse that trend.
Gov. Noem rejects Trump's unemployment relief, healthy economy/not locking down
We import close to 30% of our electricity, which puts us in a bad spot if there's nothing to import.
New Dynamic Graphics: Whistlegraph Recital – HCI Korea 2020 Keynote
Life's back to normal here in Berlin. Won't be for long - they're already making noises about rising case numbers and a second lockdown.

Second one will be harder, I think.
They didn’t live in isolation like Western societies do today.
That just sends you an alert when your spend reaches certain points, it doesn’t stop you from exceeding it, and there is a one day delay while they reconcile usage.

Most people wouldn’t want to stop operating completely even if they exceed a budget so it’s really more for monitoring.

People who do want that are probably better off renting a server for a fixed cost - plenty of places still do that.

Cloud makes more sense if you are growing rapidly or have short term needs for significant increases in computing power.

At some point after that cloud stops making sense and it becomes cheaper again to host your own infrastructure.
For someone congratulating themselves on their deductive skills, coming up with shoes = "portable floors" instead of just simple protection isn't a very impressive display of deductive reasoning.

Then you go on to be skeptical of other theories, but not your own convoluted, arbitrary theory because it presumably has something going for it that the others do not: you came up with it.

This just isn't the paragon of deduction and reasoning that you think it is. Though the self-aggrandizing spirit of your posts is a great show of how ideas traffic on social media where we confuse our ability to come up with something as something that must then contain some sort of axiomatic truth.

With an insight like "shoes = portable floors", you must think a babbling six-year-old is a real oracle of wisdom.
Similarly, a lot of companies use systems that they believe could get the up and running on a different cloud vendor should that day come to pass. Until then, they don't maintain a full second or third environment.

This is equivalent to knowing you could get a hotel room or crash with a friend, instead of maintaining a whole second home yourself.
Here's Ethan's own explanation of why he left: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2019/08/20/on-me-and-the-...

He's landed on his feet very well. He has a temporary position at Columbia this fall, and then will be starting a tenured job at UMass Amherst next year.
> I ran the math this week on powering the house off-grid with solar and batteries.

Does this include your vehicles and winter heat?
This comment makes me feel old. The 2/3 sized cat5 jack is actually an RJ11 - what we used to call a 'phone jack'
How to Write a Game Console Emulator in Rust
> some risk-averse Java-powered companies out there

There millions of them. But if anything I would expect that risk aversion to translate into not back porting discretionary performance fixes. For example, the fix I linked to improves BufferedReader performance by swapping a thread-safe underlying class for a non-thread-safe version. That could introduce race conditions and other synchronization issues into its behavior. Thread safety was never specified in the API so that's fine for prospective versions, but having this land unexpectedly in a minor version update bundled with security patches .... is almost the opposite of what I would want.
What things are not open or restricted for lockdowns in your area?
Whenever I read stuff about this I get a sense of immense jealousy. MIT certainly has its issues but man, I'd love to be at a place where people exhibit so much joy and interest in creation. I've met my share of cool people but it truly does feel like MIT has this unique environment of technical skill and creativity.
Welp, down I go the rabbit hole of looking for how one might guess the speed of a runner from foot prints
It's really interesting to see the Facebook shills commenting here, saying it would be great if WhatsApp got merged into it as well, as if it was no thing of concern that one company controls nearly all of messaging.
Use stylo for css rendering.

Stylo is also a servo component that is ready for production.
Oil major Chevron invests in nuclear fusion startup Zap Energy
The article doesn't give a lot of details. The grid shed ~1000 MW of load and delivered ~46000 MW, so the outage was in proportion about 2%. Not great but it puts events in perspective.

If you're concerned about this, don't charge your Tesla before 10pm.
When I read his books it seemed that the whole point was to indebt small countries to large ones so they couldn't be independent. But it's hard to figure out "whole point" because it might just be that's how all the individual interests play out and it's not a plan.
He and I frequented the same bakery several years ago. The poor fellow’s brain wasn’t coping with age well, but he was always cheerey, and one time made a pretty fun comment about how my pocket computer’s (phone’s) camera had him to thank. Sad to hear of his passing.
This looks very pretty. I guess there’s no option to self-host or run locally? My company wouldn’t allow internal diagrams on a 3rd party cloud service, unfortunately. Especially infra / networking, given the security implications...
It depends on how your system is hooked up. Some will cut out when the line power drops off, as a way of protecting line workers who might be working on what they think is a unenergized line, so they aren't surprised by the power your system puts on the line.

Others are designed with an automatic shunt that will still allow you to draw power as long as you are generating it.

And some require you to manually flip a switch.
Thank you, this looks amazing! I've missed perusing the shelves at my local library since the pandemic started — maybe this can serve as a replacement.
My oldest took a lot of care and I was fairly cash strapped. He was constantly on my hip or strapped to my chest while I did things all day.

You can get a lot of menial labor done with an infant in tow while giving them attention.
> Saliva-based Covid-19 test approved by FDA

Editorialized title. Title from the article is actually

> Quick and affordable saliva-based COVID-19 test developed by Yale scientists receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization
I'd imagine a OCR could probably manage to consume it, but you could also mark it up with fallback text for screen readers. Everything inflates document size, and that's okay, it's what documents are for!
Avatar: The Last Airbender – Unaired Pilot
Dangerously intense, prolonged, and humid heatwave for most of California
Preventing comment spam and fake web profiles with PKI certificates
We gave up on lockdown here. Almost 70k cases daily making up a significant chunk of the total tested people.

Specifically, where I live (India, some small part) - most have forgotten about hand sanitizer or face masks.

I don't think a lockdown would be a good option for us but people can at least maintain caution for themselves and others which they aren't.
The VAX succeeded the PDP, though the PDP was kept in production for many years of overlap. They're different generation of technology filling the same niche. The PDP-11/70 was the beast of it's day, and even came in a multi-processor version (the 11/74). Saying the PDP was a mini and the VAX was a supermini is like saying the 286 was a mini but the 386 was a supermini.
600 bigOnes at most.
Remember when MIT media Lab gave a civil disobedience award to bethann mclaughlin for some nebulous #metoo bs who since disgraced herself by LARPing as a fake Native American academic who died of covid?
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/twitter-account-emba...

Remember when they chased Aaron Swartz to commit suicide and never gave him a civil disobedience award?

Remember their extremely close links to Jeffrey Epstein?

Sorry but MIT media Lab is absolute trash and an embarrassment to the MIT name.
This is because one of our two political parties doesn’t believe that government spending should exist, and is iffy about the concept of government overall. Because of that, the only body able to respond to crises is the Federal Reserve, and the only lever they have is the money supply.

We’ve had multiple trillion dollars worth of infrastructure repairs we need to do and nearly sub-zero borrowing rates for the last decade, but the GOP has effectively blocked any efforts to enact any kind of actual fiscal policy. If any business out there’s leadership refused to take sub-zero rate loans to perform critical maintenance on their capital stock, they’d rightly be fired and probably sued.
Risk is not a fixed number; it's an engineering problem. I'm sure humanity can design a power plant that doesn't blow up when you shake it.
I wonder if they are deleted from generated machine learning models?
You'd know if you had it, because it's an expensive design option that's very rare. If you didn't ask for and pay for it, you don't have it.
Some solar inverters can do it without batteries. But if a cloud passes over your panels you might get near zero watt.
We are pretty close to a second lockdown in France too, but I think this time might be different: more local instead of whole country (by city/region?), more tests, available masks and gel, better knowledge of the things to do, remote work already well in place, ... It might end up being smoother.
Have to agree! I mainly code Kotlin at the moment, however I still love C# and actually F# too.

I have yet to see a 'best of everything' language and C# has proven to be an amazingly versatile language. Yes, it has plenty of warts but so does everything else.
I wonder if Alibaba or tencent would benefit from funding servo
> I am really not the best person to answer this because I am still very unexperienced.

Nah, that is exactly why I asked you, and I mean that in a positive way.

Someone very experienced might have very well forgotten how it was when they started, or they might have started when online writing landscape was quite different. Or, worse, they might say "well, I just sent an email to my 5000-member email list, how else would you start a blog?" :)

What is your blog? I dug out https://duiker101.net/ but that is returning 404 for me.
Co-author here. We find it to be ok price for us.

- Quantitative evidence, we have over 150+ pre-orders in the last 3 month which is more than good for us. No advertising, no social media. We sold first book 700 times. So that's 100-120 people out of 700 who pre-ordered second book.

- Qualitative evidence. We have way more polite customers after raising price in the past ($49 -> $99) for our first book. More polite emails, more feedback and less emails asking for support.

EDIT: My co-author says that we have evidence that higher percentage of people who bought the book at higher price point actually read it.

PS: Price will go to $199 on Sunday midnight PST, that's when pre-order period ends.
Same. This article is quite negatively written like the author wants sympathy or something. 2020's a shit year for just about everyone, not that sure what else they're looking for. They should feel lucky that Australia got to squeeze in a few months of relatively normal life in between lockdowns.
Who ran as President on a Republican party ticket.
I lost power but don’t have a Tesla. Your tip doesn’t help me.
Beautiful aesthetic! Just a note, the front page has my pet peeve typo "it's" on it.
Yeah this resonates a lot with me as much as I'd like to disagree. I know of course as the author points out, there are exceptions in other domains, like video games or voice platforms in particular, and as a developer I understand that but as a consumer I don't really know what to think anymore.
The way you’re communicating is wildly unempathetic, and I truly hope your zero-tolerance faux-friendly “better for everyone” attitude isn’t ruining other students’ experiences. You’re painting the author as some sort of lazy individual who does things on his own accord. “Sleeping in” and “ignoring emails” doesn’t seem to be accurately portraying. Being online at 8AM is not “sleeping in” by most people’s standards. Perusing and participating in discussions is “not ignoring emails”. He made a mistake, RC has zero tolerance for it.

Why not just say “We have a zero tolerance policy for missing mandatory events” without all of the non-sequitur pseudo-rationalization? That’s OK. People may not agree with it, and it may hurt other people financially, but at least it’s direct and honest.
> If you're jealous, you're worried someone will take something away from you

I'm not a native speaker, but my (Apple) dictionary definition doesn't match Lisa's.

jeal·ous | ˈjeləs |
adjective
feeling or showing envy of someone or their achievements and advantages: he grew jealous of her success.