skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've ordered many pairs of shoes from Zappos over the past decade and have never once received a hand-written note, or anything except just the shoebox inside of their white shipping box.

I'm very curious why you get them when I don't...? :P
You know that not every possible number is used, right? It's much more sparse than that.
I think treating it as a job where 75% of the salary is experience is probably the right attitude. FWIW I worked with a lot of grad students and anecdotally saw the best outcomes from people who within 2-3 months of showing up knew exactly what they wanted to do, were in the lab 10-8 to do it, graduated in 4-5 years and immediately got top-tier jobs.

I knew people who spent (7, 8, 9, 10, 11) years as a PhD student and they sure didn't seem happy or end up particularly good places...
Original article: https://apnews.com/ce2946afbc66040260cc76ffbbe744ca

The nbcnews.com site refuses to show content in Firefox Focus on mobile.
I've been living largely outdoors and currency-free for several years. (I don't like the word homeless for many reasons.)

I've been indoors for a few months (with friends) since Corona started, since there are few places to work on a computer now.

I'm open to questions here, if anyone is interested.
Most investors are passive anyway. If you don't like how the company is run you can push down the price by selling.
Also Albertan. Maybe it's unrealistic but I agree it would be pretty awesome to see in my lifetime. Would also be cool to see Alberta get on the map for something other than oil.
With six million cases and a population of 39 million, it look like we're far from herd immunity. What makes you say that?
This is a terribly common problem with threatened languages. The vast, vast majority of Scots speakers also have native English. And for the vast, vast majority of topics, the English wiki article is going to be much more informative. Of course this becomes circular and self-reinforcing.

The really terrifying thought is of someone trying to preserve these languages - or in the future, studying dead languages - and finding this as the most accessible corpus. Imagine if the Rosetta Stone was merely an artists impression of dead languages.
Do I need one?

They're clearly speaking as a neutral source when to anyone with an ounce of knowledge they have a biased agenda.

Would you take an article from 1990's Microsoft about how Apple is evil seriously?

Also, pointing out a conflict of interest isn't ad hominem. I didn't call them nazis or morons.
TBH, I find Vegas restaurants mostly underwhelming. If you're on an extremely generous expense account of course there are lots of celebrity chefs. But I've found otherwise, even off-strip, generally pretty mass produced food.
They are not talking about flash in general, just the feature that you could bundle up all assets within a single file.
not sure if that's what their saying. my interpretation is they're not going to sell that data or the result of their analysis for advertising purposes.

they'll collect or mine whatever they can get their hands, i'm certain of that. it's a data company.
> generally far more rebellious culture.

Since the first English settlement in North America, America has had one successful regime change, China has had 3. It's rich seeing people who think standing around on the pavement and waiting for the police to come beat you is rebellion try to lecture others about "rebelliousness".
Perhaps you can keep your cat indoors?
Doubts about the efficacy of convalescent plasma already started popping up before Trump started advocating for it, with many papers being published in June and July.
Yeah, that's not how it is used though. It is an alternate system of control with its own set of rules. It is creepy and dishonest to its core even if it works at the top, it certainly does not carry all the way down.
Also that's kWh summed up over the year. Cats have constant output, but for house heating you'd want to concentrate it to just ~3-4 months. So we're closer to 50-60 cats at that point.
You joke, but that’s exactly what uuid/guid is — 128 bit identifiers. The only difference is that ipv6 is allocated hierarchically.
Deepfakes will change the entire outcome of trials the same way photoshop changed the entire outcome of trials before it.

Also you should see the type of video evidence used in court. It’s grainy 5 FPS surveillance footage that doesn’t even show their face. Deepfakes are not necessary if you want to frame someone.
It is my view that our flavor of mastery over nature is a deterministic consequence of the advantage that it gives. I think that is unlikely that European society just decided to make that a value because they liked doing it, or had less knowledge than indigenous peoples.

To clarify, I don't think this is a good process, but I think it is an inevitable one. If there had been no colonialism, societies in the Americas would have reached their own equillibrium, and competition would have driven them to 'progress' as we know it. There would have been much less death, but civilisation would run its course all the same.

And additional clarification because I phrased my position on the current situation poorly: I think we can still save things. I just think there is no way for us to have skirted the initial destruction, and we would eventually have reached this point regardless.
Massive and complete failure.
Every cpu cycle costs energy, turning into heat which the ac needs to remove. One computer is nothing but across all their computers it adds up.
Some people can pretend to believe anything for a paycheck.
Don't you already get this with Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode? You don't need new credit card numbers to do this.

But merchants don't implement it... because it's an extra step and consumers don't like it. The very last thing a merchant wants to do is put an extra step in front of someone just about to buy.
Hockey seems to be constantly evolving both its technologies and its rules.

As an example of this (other than the new sticks being tested in the article), prior to the pandemic the NHL was set to introduce a new puck for the playoffs that would "will transmit data 60 times per second, including location, speed, acceleration and deceleration and distance travelled." There's similar tech ready to be rolled out for jerseys. The end goal being for advanced analytics to be able to map how fast everything is going and how the game moves, as well as to possibly aid in goal review (which is difficult with the shape of a puck, unlike say soccer/football with its round ball). They tested it at the All-Star game and teams have been practicing with it, but the league decided to hold off on it to reduce the potential point of failures during their return to play.

Source: https://www.tsn.ca/nhl-s-new-puck-will-premiere-on-opening-n...
This letter is clearly written with dumb, naive retail investors in mind. Anyone familiar with Palantir’s history knows that their first headquarters was a building they took over from Facebook. The two companies are intertwined in many, many ways.
You could try a tool like Passiv(https://getpassiv.com/) and build your own index fund.
Yes, however much of that research is for formal ultrasound obtained by a professional sonographer with an expensive machine. I'm interested in bedside ultrasound performed by an emergency physician with a mediocre machine (eg butterfly).

It seems the primary way to detect regional wall motion abnormalities is with speckle tracking, which requires way too much post-processing for a clinician.

A system that segments the left ventricle and finds akinetic regions in realtime from a parasternal long axis view or an apical four chamber view would be pretty nifty.

If you know of a paper or system that does this now then please let me know. I would love for someone else to have solved this, haha.

My email is Davidm.Crockett [at] Utah.edu
Posted in 2019 but all references are from 2010-2011. I assume many things have changed by now.

Anyways, even at that time, why not start at Lisbon instead of starting in Porto to go to Coimbra and add even more time and distance to the trip.
He socialized with Epstein (post conviction? looks like he did![0]), ran in the same circles (publishing in that that ridiculous "Edge foundation" thing[1]) and threw him under the bus only after he was safely declared dead, apparently seeing nothing wrong with Epstein's grotesque antics as long as the spice was flowing[2].

It's not the worst thing I can say about him, and in fact isn't the worst thing I said about him above, but, well SOMEBODY is a little sensitive. I think "social climber" is a pretty accurate, even generous description for this sort of behavior.

[0] https://www.edge.org/events/master-class-2011the-science-of-... -and a snapshot Edge tried to remove: https://imgur.com/fVs3jSp

[1]https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-ep...

[2] https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/08/jeffrey-ep...
> I very much want to see WebBundles succeed to solve many problems with asset distribution

I’m wondering what those are. The use cases I’ve seen seem pretty tenuous to me (people don’t want to send web bundles to each other. They want to share a link. They don’t want alternate transports in general, really, or the complexities that come with that.)

I guess I may not know what the use cases are, but right now it looks like a complication with little upside.
Or in an outside enclosure. They're not very hard to install around your fence.
So it bothers you that during a global pandemic, people weren't wrist-slashingly depressed for five minutes and you felt it was important they return to that state to gratify you in some way?

I'm not someone saying climate change is a hoax, nor am I saying that concerns about it are mere fear mongering. But I see nothing to be gained by concluding we are clearly doomed already and should just throw in the towel now.

That's called self fulfilling prophecy. If we make zero effort to find a path forward, you can bet dollars to donuts we won't find a path forward.
Sounds intriguing. Would like a (anonymized, if necessary) writeup.
I too am a fan of Corningware. The shapes and weights suit me. It practically defines the concept of a bowl for me.

But I note you said "borderline indestructible". Not just "indestructible".

Which means I have found a fellow victim of ceramic shard explosion! They take a beating, but when they go, they go big!
Done. Appreciate it!
"...The company plans to launch a satellite antenna bundle by the end of 2020 for $1,000 a month..."

What does it mean?
Is there an argument against indoor cats? That is now the recommendation in the US, as far as I know.
“I have proof” should be followed by the posting of said proof, not an angry response along the lines of “oh, sorry, the proof is too long to actually post; how dare you ask! You ignorant fool!”
Typeset in the Future: Star Trek: The Motion Picture
As god is my witness, I really assumed this was going to be some kind of metaphor until I was a couple paragraphs into the story.
Underappreciated No More: A Free Edtech Platform Shines as Schools Go Remote
There's a risk. Have you ever had your credit card number expire? If a merchant has repeat billing, you don't even need to update with the new date and cvv. Code changes must now be made to make sure I don't end up responsible for someone's else bill because my card expired and someone issued the same card number with a different expiration date and cvv.
Im not catholic, so I dont believe in redemption through third parties. The courts dont either. Jus ex injuria non oritur. Just acts do not follow unjust acts. Even if we do good with our ill gotten gains, we are still accountable for our own actions. The sentence for tax evasion is not "Donating to malaria research" and anyone else who had microsoft's numbers would have been destroyed.

Oh and that "computer in every home" crap? That's the monopoly! Microsoft is so big it competes with its own products. That's why it's untouchable. How are you going to audit microsoft when the IRS runs office 2010 on legacy copies of windows 7? This humanitarian stuff is just smoke and mirrors. A glamour cast on the american people.
Huge variation in cat food costs. Cheapest food can be under $100/year, most expensive can be 10x that.
FYI: neither of those three well known individuals were regarded as what we now call citizen scientists. They were a politician, inventor, and an academic. This is very very different to citizen science.
but you have to download the whole bundle so you don't get the benefits of blocking at the loading stage, which is quite impactful.
The original page is interesting:

https://archive.is/WWKu2
I bet other botnets have been pwned.
Hey HN!

I'm Scott Moss, CEO of Tipe (YC W18). We actually just saw that someone posted us on HN. So here to just drop a little bit about Tipe. Tipe is a headless, open-source CMS with a focus on Jamstack apps. Our goal is to have the quickest setup to allow your team to edit, preview, and publish content. We also want to enable you to customize and extend your CMS to fit your team's needs. You can even reuse components you already created in your app to customize tipe. The sky is the limit. We handle the API and infrastructure. We're currently in a Private release and are looking for teams who are using Next.js. If that's you, please sign up!
At Segment we manage clusters which are both on ECS and EKS. We didn't want to tie our Kafka management to the container orchestration.

If I'm right the Strimzi operator is also managing the brokers. Here we only focus on the topics.
Oh man that sounds great, I've always been disappointed that I missed out on the era when smoking in the office was okay.
I was once desperately poor. Too poor to turn on the heat. But I did have access to friendly cats, so I've been through this experiment in real life.

One cat stuffed under the blankets at night is a significant improvement. But as you add more and more cats, the improvement becomes only incremental.

I eventually learned that two cats was really the best one could hope for. Best positioning is between the legs, and with the blankets pulled up over my head with a little crack for breathing. After that, adding more cats doesn't help much.

If I was still cold after two cats, I had to break down and turn on the heat.
Except there's other ways of doing this. For example Firefox does the same thing and doesn't do this. https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-d...

> The root server system is, out of necessity, designed to handle very large amounts of traffic. As we have shown here, under normal operating conditions, half of the traffic originates with a single library function, on a single browser platform, whose sole purpose is to detect DNS interception. Such interception is certainly the exception rather than the norm. In almost any other scenario, this traffic would be indistinguishable from a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

> Could Chromium achieve its goal while only sending one or two queries instead of three? Are other approaches feasible? For example, Firefox’s captive portal test uses delegated namespace probe queries, directing them away from the root servers towards the browser’s infrastructure.
And before you say “you’re just a cynic, you have to believe in the power of disruption”, I want you to study the vast cost overruns and cost-disease of every public transit project of note in Canada in recent memory, and then tell me how magic startup fairy dust will cut through sclerotic governments both municipal, provincial, and federal.

We barely made Presto cards work.
Is there a digital analog to environmental (ie, water, air) pollution? Are we (professional and hobbyist web designers, backend developers, db admins, entrepreneurs, etc) "polluting" the web in some sense, and what ethical constraints and responsibilities ought we consider and tackle as enablers or producers of such pollution? How do we qualify or quantify such digital pollution? Are our sites and apps analogous to cheap, readily disposed commodity goods? Are we using too many resources to produce too little value?
Depends on the job.

If you've got a simple, mechanical job that a trained monkey could do if monkeys were more intelligent, then, definitely, you'd want folks who'll slavishly adhere to whatever task is assigned -- the folks who'll spend all night doing SAT prep problems would be perfect hires.

But if you want to train innovators who'll actually advance their fields -- whether we're talking mathematicians, scientists, engineers, doctors, or business leaders -- then you'll want the folks who'll pursue such things on their own initiative along with the talents they've developed due to that intrinsic motivation.

Elite non-innovators can have their place. In science/engineering/math, they won't be leaders, but they can still be effective researchers with strong publication records, reliably churning out decent-quality papers. In medicine, they can be great practicing doctors. In business, they'd be reliable middle-management types.

Still, it'd be weird for a top institution to only have middle-management types.
History of Lossless Data Compression Algorithms
In isolation, "last read page" could surely be E2E encrypted. Amazon would know that I'm using a Kindle app or device, but everything else could be opaque.

There's no motive on Amazon's part to do it this way, it would be a hassle to implement, possibly not great for battery life, and I expect that users don't care much.

Frankly, I don't care much, in practice. In principle, yes; everything which can be kept private, should be. But Amazon knowing what page I'm on just doesn't discomfit me, the way the prospect of some company being able to read my messages does.
I think the point is that you describe what John does, or how people think of John, rather than what John "is". The Wikipedia article (which constitutes all I know about E-Prime) says:

> [The authors of E-Prime] describe misuse of the verb to be as creating a "deity mode of speech", allowing "even the most ignorant to transform their opinions magically into god-like pronouncements on the nature of things".

And I think that's appropriate here.
This makes sense to me, as I had the same impression; my theory is that it is the diversity and the individuality of the letters in the text that makes reading easier, and slight imperfections and irregularities only add to this.

The "brutalist" digital version, on the other hand, seemed to me more of a demonstration of how far one can go using tricks without anyone noticing.
Yes, but getting a spate of RTFA was a badge of honour. Also responding RTFA meant that you didn't get it either. To a flood of RTFA you got to be allowed to be quite pithy in response with outrageous indignation and generally still be onside.

My /. id (JSG) is ~18K but is only so large because I lurked for a few years before signing up. sigh

Even back then I have always used identifiable IDs on forums, those are my initials and here I use surname + initial and do so on everything internets these days.

Am I mad?
This isn't Elon's Hyperloop for those wondering. The term Hyperloop's been misappropriated and applied to different technology to piggyback on the hype Elon caused.
I've been doing exactly this for years with Revolut premium (and I'm sure many other "online banks" have the same service). It's like using a password manager, you don't have to worry about how your card details are stored anymore.

It is very neat although I got into strange situations a few times when I needed to prove I was the card owner for a refund or for insurance claims.
No, what's being asked for is evidence that the system being developed does not result in an increase in inequity in the real world. That's testable, and achievable. The list of promos/booster articles posted is not any form of demonstration of that.
>Obviously when the CCP controls the law, they are free to re-interpret it or rewrite it to place themselves clearly in those bounds

That's the case with every state. Every state has absolute power. Every state, as the union of the legislative, judicial and executive branch are free to re-interpret, rewrite and judge according to how the state apparatus best functions. You seem to be confusing the issue at hand with your objections to the political structure of China. You know, the CCP has 90 million members, they have proper political processes according to Chinese law too. This is just the way politics works in China. Don't let your prejudice cloud your judgement. I get that you are dismissive of a one-party system, but I don't think that for example the union of the Democratic and the Republican party in the US shows any less totalitarian traits than the CCP at all. Given how there is practically zero correlation between votes in congress and the popularity of policies that are approved, I think they actually reveal a much more totalitarian form of government.

https://www.upworthy.com/20-years-of-data-reveals-that-congr...

The US two-party system is essentially next to useless in this regard. Given that the CCP is extremely popular among Chinese citizens, this shows that a multi-party system is not necessarily a more democratically legitimate form of government.
Fast.Ai is incredible. Love it. I've bumbled my way through it and was able to make a unet learner trained from this dataset -- https://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/Challenge/camus/ -- in order to segment the left ventricle from an apical four chamber view. It's a start, but I still have a long way to go.
Ask HN: Impressively Responsive Modern Software?
Even though modern computers are thousands of times faster, many modern user applications respond to user input fairly slowly. Just typing text into Word or OpenOffice can feel sluggish, Photoshop lags out processing input, many applications run on embedded web engines, etc. Often this results in tens or even hundreds of milliseconds of delay before responding to user input.

There's reasons for this. Modern software is doing a lot more, and we now have plenty of resources to waste...

I'd like to learn from the stand-outs in the field right now, so I'm wondering, in your anecdotal opinion, what are some pieces of software that exemplify "responsiveness" -- quickly loading, editing, saving, or otherwise reacting to users?
Well, my first question is, why? Why do you choose to live that way?

[Edit: Or do you do so not by choice? From your post, I gathered it was by choice, but maybe I shouldn't assume that...]
@dang - maybe worth considering adding the last name to the title, so it doesnt look like we are supposed to know who this Eric is
All I am saying is that FINDING the right answer for my particular case is. I guess is the classic problem of too much information vs curation
Which data? Where did you get the data? What was not included in the data? Did the participants know they were observed when the data was collected? How biased is the data? Is this data specifically prepared in such a way so that a person without a statistical degree would not be confused by the numbers?
Indeed, good suggestion.

The tension is with standing out, culturally and otherwise. If what you do is outside the norm, you are “different” and “difficult to work with”.

But yea, doing the right thing is more important!
The new tab button will stay at the bottom; so if you put your toolbar back to top, you will travel the entire height all the time.

Great for tablets /s.
> sha1sum style passwords

The question is more of how they got those high quality, completely bruteforce safe passwords. Were they targeting sysadmins of major Co's?
I was going to agree it's a lot... but then realised every one of my grocery gift cards has a PAN attached, which means I'm going through 2-3 numbers a month myself. (Not in Japan) Then again, I expect the shop to recycle those faster than Visa.
Yes, Fennec for Android had "classic" add-ons. Eg. Adblock+ was a port of the desktop version.