skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would assume that when a site goes offline Cloudflare fetches a snapshot from IA only once and then serves this copy to all further visitors, unless I'm missing something?

Here's a more detailed description of the service from Cloudflare support pages: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168436
It will no doubt fall at the last hurdle.

Another attempt to 'control' the thing they don't understand, ignore any technical advisors, and play to the crowds.

Unfortunately there are a vocal group who want little Johnny protected from the big bad internet, and who have no desire to educate him themselves, so want a Gov approved scheme - and these sort of plans fit nicely into that.

Hopefully common sense prevails again.

Edit:
If it does go through, hopefully it will be a UK Gov Tech project, and will go so horribly over budget and time that it will be scrapped after declaring some allowedwords.txt was a success
> KN95 sales in the US still need FDA approval

Only for use in healthcare settings. The FDA doesn't have regulatory authority over masks and respirators for non-medical uses.
Thanks for feedback. I just included it as a picture, but you're right.
Kubernet?
What have we seen so far? In America at least, 190k dead, but over 95% of them are over 55 and >80% over 65. Only around ~6k did not have other comorbidities. People have complained the US lockdowns weren't strong enough compared to Australia, NZ; or we lacked the testing of Korea or Germany.

What do we see now? We're getting close to the same per-capita rates of Sweden, which had a much more liberal policy (although they still locked down quite a bit).

All the facts so far makes it seem like this was a gorse overreaction. Yes a lot of people got sick and died. NYC was bad, but it also showed we should have focused on isolating the elderly and high risk instead of shutting down everything.

I wrote this a few months back and still stand behind it:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/covid-19-is-two-disease...

History will not look back kindly on this year.
How India's Byju's became the most valuable edtech startup
That would probably be sufficient for light industrial use as well though. And those are the customers they are trying to "shake down". No judgement, but that's the problem with hobbyist stuff that is professional grade... cheap professionals use it.
The main security risks with smart home automation
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perhaps you don't understand the way a typical company operates. security is all but ignored. SOC2 is an absolute necessity. it's a forcing function for baseline processes and controls, that 100% would not exist by default if companies were left to their own devices.

for sure, i'm not talking about the 5% of competent companies.
I was never able to comfortably fit a PS Vita in my pocket. :(
"I woke up late and well rested today." So all in all, it's good. No?
I had a wet basement problem and I got some excellent advice from a very knowledgeable home inspector on how to fix it. He said I had to re-grade the land around the entire house so that water would drain away from the foundation, and that it should be a shallow slope (no more than 1-in-12) and go out for at least ten feet. One dump truck's worth of fill dirt later, a month of manual labor, and a large bag of grass seed, and the problem was solved, and hasn't recurred for 8 years so far.

I had contractors quoting me tens of thousands of dollars to dig up the entire basement to install French drains, put in more sump pumps, seal the concrete walls, and re-drywall everything afterwards, but all of that would've just been expensive band-aids over the real problem, which was that water was falling on the lawn and flowing towards the house instead of away from it. Fortunately I already had good gutters that drained to the street, but if I hadn't, the home inspector definitely would have recommended that too.

I have more money now so if I were to do it again I'd just hire a guy with a bobcat to do the grading instead of doing it all by hand with a wheelbarrow, shovel, and hand tamper. With the right tools it would only take half a day (and cost $1k or less).
What value is added by training a model yourself? Why don't they provide that model?

Isn't the real innovation here to give people a $4.3 million model for free?

Instead of letting people burn unnecessary compute power to train a model 2 years behind state of the art.
You're describing specs, not market share.

And comparing a 1000 dollar headset which requires a 1200 dollar computer to drive it, to a 300 dollar all in one unit.

It's akin to suggesting that Toyota haven't done well in the car market because they don't make Bugattis.

Facebook absolutely have won this generation in terms of market adoption. They've strategically withdrawn from competing at the higher end of the market. Which, at least today is a relatively tiny luxury segment.
Hah! I heard Santa dropped 120lb when he found the 'do not accept from third parties' checkbox :)
Both political parties have taken "misinformation" to mean "information they don't like", which complicates things.

There are very different levels of misinfo:

- Democrats think Trump is a Nazi/Russian collaborator

- People who think Earth is flat

- People who think Covid-19 is a globalist conspiracy from Bill Gates - so he can inject us with microchip vaccines

- People who think Brexit is an amazing/terrible idea

- People who think QAnon is a real issue

- etc...

It's simply too broad a brush to call it "disinfo", and those who claim to combat disinfo should be looked at with heavy skepticism for this reason. It will get abused for political ends.
For the time being, hub still mostly helps with git operations, in fact it can be used as a git wrapper/replacement since it supports all of git’s commands.

gh on the other hand seems to very specifically work on GitHub’s non-git features, like Issues, PRs, repositories.
>I agree that the forests should be managed differently, but if this being "California's mismanagement" is an actual thing as opposed to political disinformation, I'd love to see a couple links to back it up.

There are two narratives here. The Democrats want to blame Climate Change. Republicans want to blame California's mismanagement. Both are correct but there is no policy that any government could implement that will solve climate change in the next few decades. But you literally have Biden going around and blaming Trump for these fires when there is no climate policy that United States could have implemented in the last 2 decades that would have made any difference.

On the other hand, regardless of climate change, California has implemented policies that created this problem and California can implement policies that will prevent future wildfires from spreading out of control. But California is a mess. Controlled burns are constantly challenged in court by activists and NIMBYs and bogged down by environmental regulations. California needs to perform controlled burns of around a million acres of land, but is doing something on the order a few thousand even with a backlog of 20 million acres[1]. Logging policy has clear-cut forest replaced with dense bush[2]. And bad vegetation management policy has been the mantra for decades in California.

In this case, the Democrats are wrong and are engaging in outright lying in order to deflect blame. Climate change is an important issue, but climate change policy is not going to result in a solution for these wildfires.

>Some quick googling suggests that it's mostly a Federal problem

How? How is this a federal problem?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/why-isnt-california-...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-14/newsom-clea...
I can promise you Nintendo won’t do this.
For someone like me who would use it for a week, wait two years, then use it for another week, $8-$10 per month is prohibitory. I would happily pay for quality software, and I do pay for the Jetbrains tools which I use daily, but for software that I use very intermittently I need a buy-once-use-forever model.
yeesh. I'd have just thrown it into the freezer, or if that didn't work, I'd have filled the bath and put it in there!

I've had my own "alarm from hell" situations, mostly with smoke detectors (one was in a room with vaulted ceilings in a house with only stepstools. I had to build a mountain of furniture at 4am!) I understand the frustration and rage.
I don't know how do you get into them but some stores actually sell ebooks directly, guessing by your nick here's one from Sweden:

https://www.bokus.com/e-bocker
Because people shouldn't have to increase their risk of death significantly just to have the privilege of having housing and food. The comparison is ridiculous. It's like saying, you already have a low risk of death by colon cancer, so why not eat things that dramatically increase your risk of cancer. Do you want them to die?
Thanks for the write up! I too think like openscad. But wow cadquery looks like quite an improvement and I’d prefer to work in python anyway.

Any warnings before I invest time learning it?

(Btw what’s the best way to edit an existing stl? I want to cut out the middle of a piece and pull the two halves together.)
If you are hiring someone who does not know how to tell how long it will take them.
> While it's true this seems like a strong US thing, I haven't heard many happy long-term stories of folks living intergenerationally.

That's really depressing. I'm sorry your social circle has such poor family dynamics. The majority of inter-generational families I know quite like the arrangement. Grandparents love having grand kids around, parents enjoy the extra help of the grandparents, meals are a lot more fun, etc.
As someone working on Solvespace, what was the dealbreaker for you? I know it has shortcomings and different people would give different answers to this question.

Actually, what are your deal breakers for each of the programs you listed?
I'd go the other way for big organizations like Apple and Google -- they need to do public testing, because the bug that impacts 0.1% of their users will impact hundreds of thousands. And no QA team, regardless of how they're empowered or resourced, will find every 0.1% bug (or even every 1% bug). You need broad beta testing in those cases, just to get enough hands on.
People are trying to pay minimum wage or below, always have always will. That’s why I’m unemployed.
Not on this issue in Europe. Almost every party feels powerless and blindly tries to get power over content. Many parties are even afraid of democracy by now.
I think you have a very rose-tinted view of how these restrictions would be applied, and by whom. The power to decide what counts as "disinformation" would be the most valuable political real estate there is.
Back in the day TF and CS and other goldsrc and source games allowed custom sprays: square textures you could decal onto a surface and share with the server.

Most of the time it was benign or hilarious, but enough of the time it was pornography or gore that Valve disabled that feature on its managed servers.
Thanks for this, will start using it.
Moderna Shares the Blueprint for Its Coronavirus Vaccine Trial
So if you help someone build a $3M empire the fee would leave them with $2.7M ? Not bad. Seems to be a more astute way to charge for services rendered because the client will actually have revenue to pay you, and the cost/benefit is fairly clear from the get-go. Do you typically both [client and creator] agree on how much value the work will bring in, and is it based on time? (This much in the first year, etc)
The 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 number disregards the orientation of center tiles. You'd have to multiply it by 4^4 or something to do the faces. (I can't remember if there is one face or two that are determined by the others, but they're not independent.)

The number is derived here (with computer assistance), by considering the permutations of the non-center tiles:

https://www.gap-system.org/Doc/Examples/rubik.html
Going native: SwiftUI from the perspective of a React developer
> And when production finds equilibrium with market demand, the price is back to normal (or even cheaper than before if there is too much product in the market).

Are you citing any data for this or are you just assuming this will happen? In my experience when production equals demand everyone continues selling at the ridiculously high prices for months. In a pandemic like this one that's months of watching the death toll climb.

There is a very real cost of sticking to a free market ideology when people are dying.
n=1 case here. When it comes to life-critical goods and supplies, I'll pay that premium and more. Globalization-sourced 3-ton jack stand is about $30. From US Jack Company, way more than 250% of that.

If there was accountability and an actual, real probability of collecting on judgements internationally, I'd have no problem with globalization. The reality is unless you are a deep-pocketed (absolute minimum 7th exponent club) actor, odds of actually getting all the way through the other side of collections are less than slim. It's still bad odds when sourcing with an "isolationist" bias, but you can knock a couple exponents off, and I'll take order of magnitude differentials all day long.

If there was a way to secure non-gamed reviews, then I'd be much more open to globalization-produced goods, but I haven't found that yet. My current rough proxy for quality is to source commercial-rated duty cycle goods if they are available, research on trades discussion forums for discussion about the manufacturer, and work up an evaluation from there. But that's really time-consuming. No way do I now "trust the market" to shake out shady players.
Is there an advantage to using this over the standard git cli tool?

It seems kinda like making a cli tool for a web interface for a tool. I guess I'm just missing something.

Edit: Spelling.
I'm starting out. How can I make recruiter contact me?
I worked for some time at a former nuclear weapons research facility where a number of Transite composite asbestos Quonset huts were built in the 50's and used through the 2000's.

Checking google maps, it appears that they've finally remediated these structures, but they were in fine condition up until then.
makeself (https://makeself.io/) is a generic way to do this for Linux that works for any Erlang/Elixir release -- meaning no use of mix or rebar3: https://gist.github.com/tsloughter/d62aad6d67b263e69275376b1...

Maybe something as simple is possible for Windows as well?
How to Commercialize Open Source
We hosted a virtual roundtable with execs at big companies and founders of startups all commercializing open source, sharing what we've learned about:

- Why you should build a freemium product on top of open source
- Product strategy for open source vs commercial product
- Who should be your first go-to-market hires

What do you think?
Right now, this seems to be the best explanation for a lot of the unexpected observations we made so far:

* few children seem to be sick from that virus
* geographical disparity in Europe (compare northern Germany vs. northern Italy), even considering population density
* the high number of reportedly asymptomatic cases
* uneven distribution of infectiousness ("superspreaders")

My pet theory so far is that one or more very similar viruses have been in circulation for a while and that "asymptomatic" carriers of COVID-19 are in fact at least partially immune due to exposure to these similar viruses.

Note that this also means that COVID-19 is much scarier than it looks. Because if you are not among those with prior immunity, you are much more likely to suffer from the bad effects of that virus.
Thanks for posting. It lends credence to collecting more data from everyone to better determine T-cell reactivity to a number of pathogens (virus, bacteria, etc) and then let the patients own their data with the freedom/incentive to share that data for research and education. I prefer trying to gather data to identify levels of pre-existing immunities and who is higher risk. The higher risk people could opt for an immune hammer (vaccine).
I don't fault the guy, I'd basically be like "Sure, how many do you want per month? 5 year contract, early termination = full payment"

If you want to "save money", then go ask the Chinese factories to sell you the masks now.
I got a cat about this time last year. I haven't needed an alarm clock since.
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> removes agency from those who choose to react in a negative way.

"I order you to kill this person." Just a combination of words, and yet....

I think there is a continuum between this and non-violent+non-inciting speech and your comment does little to tangle with the difference.
Lithium explorer makes 'globally significant' discovery in Cornwall
The only way to get developers and builders to build more resiliently is more strong regulation. As it stands, developers have zero incentive to cut into their profit to build a fire resistant structure since they immediately sell it and it doesn’t matter what happens after that, at least to them. In fact, If they are a follower of the perverted philosophy of the past couple decades, if have shareholders it would be their duty to maximize profits by not spending extra.
Can vanilla Elixir releases, for that matter? Not from what I've seen - would love to know if I'm wrong.
>Can’t remember where you parked your car? You were a zombie when you did it.

Usually that happens when I'm thinking about something else. Also, the visual input walking away from your care is totally different from the scene you see walking towards your car.
It can go the other way as well. Originally power companies like PG&E were also streetcar companies. They found that power generation was profitable, but main line transmission wasn’t. But if you’re going to do the work of building a main line into a city... why not run a streetcar underneath it and sell fares? That combination turned out to be profitable, and to be a great win for the cities.

This was made illegal during the rise of the automobile, all those companies were forced to split up. This greatly weakened the transit companies and helped undo them (as desired by the oil and auto cabal).
So pay as you use. They already save all your stuff. You just can't have a lot open at once, IIUC.
Personally I think you should consider other things before you go down the road of LSD. Improvisation (in particular), psychotherapy, meditation, dance/sports classes, art are all worth going through first, particularly if you are under 25 (still a fair of brain re-wiring going on up to this age, and further its life long in a limited way).

LSD / Weed can induce severe nasty reactions in people and no one quite knows why. I do find the "you have to be prepared to face the truth" mentality of some people who take drugs to be a bit dangerous. (Note: I experimented with pretty much every drug before so I'm aware of the effects).
If the contracts are bad they shouldn’t have signed them. If you make a habit of just going back on your promise when it suits you, what is your word worth? Nothing.
Good they have the Enterprise server support now. Time to try it now. I had to some hacks to use request-pull with the GitHub's process.
How dare they design API to suit their need?

That a company wants its own API to move freely and faster is often described as evil when it is merely sensible for them. It used to cause lock-in, but nowadays there are enough tech stack that isolate you from the underlying API to make it irrelevant.

Do note that until, oh let's arbitrarily say 10 years ago, DirectX was ahead feature-wise to OpenGL and OpenGL was moving at turtle pace.
The main value is that you can choose your own training data. For example, if you wanted to train a text-generation model on purely C++ code, this would be a good way to do it.
Breaking the Fourth Wall in copywriting
It's like the old joke about the rookie cop who's too nervous to investigate a big spooky warehouse at night. He shouts into the darkness "is anybody here?"

A few seconds later, he hears a voice say "......no". So he relaxes with a sigh, and goes to report the all clear to his superior.
cli should be the basis of everything.

There can be UI and sometime that's helpful, but all action contained therein will be available on cli, just because that's exactly what the UI calls.
Would you say BLM bandits and looters are lacking in empathy when they are destroying small business? Or is that fine because some 160 years ago some black dude in Africa sold his countrymen into slavery?
Firefox 81 brings back more features, still doesn't support all extensions
On-Demand App Statistics you should know in 2020
In a nutshell, because I feel like I can. I've done this for a long time, often at high intensity, and I'm feeling like it's time to do something else. Almost everyone will get to this point sooner or later, no matter how passionate they were when younger. The relevant part is that pursuing one's possibly-non-remunerative dreams becomes a lot easier when you're sitting on years' worth of income from working in tech. Quitting too early foregoes that opportunity.
The PS Vita really deserved better. It really did so many things right.

The OLED screen is still unmatched by portable consoles IMO. Sure, somewhat higher resolution or higher refresh rates would be nice, but those infinitely deep black levels? Just amazing.

There are a few multiplatform games like Undertale for which I consider the PS Vita the best version.
I recently simplified and starting using Google Forms.

I created a form with name (text), amount (number) and category (dropdown), then opened it in my iPhone's browser and added it to my homescreen. Whenever I make a purchase, I tap the icon and up pops a blank form. Takes me no more than 10 seconds to fill out.

You can link the form responses to a spreadsheet, and from there I can categorize and aggregate with this raw data any way I want. Next step is to create some graphs on the spreadsheet and add that view to my homescreen, so I can see how much budget is remaining in a month.

I've grown tired of budgeting tools that try to link your credit cards, etc--authentication maintenance is never the smoothest, and things are more detailed than I need them to be. Best thing about this method is that I have the raw data to work on, and I can adjust my data visuals easily as my needs change (it might also be cool to one day do large aggregates over, say, 10 years of personal spending)
Scripting and shortcuts are very useful. To each their own but doing repetitive tasks in a GUI is prone to errors and boredom
From a product perspective this feels a lot like blaming the market instead of taking responsibility that you didn't build the right product. "When Gujral and other domestic manufacturers saw an opportunity to help protect frontline workers ... many of them shifted gears to make face shields and hand sanitizer, which are relatively simple to produce." Right, you built what was easy (face shields) instead of what the market wanted most (N95 masks). Now your product isn't differentiated and the market is flooded with a product that doesn't best meet the market's needs. We knew six months ago that N95 masks were the critical product for frontline workers, not listening to that market feedback isn't the federal government's fault but rather your own.
My favorite was the physical alarm clock that would launch a propeller across your bedroom. The only way to turn off the alarm was to find the propeller and put it back on the base.
Thanks so much--nsm alerted us and we have a fix in the works--an update should be available presently.
US technology embargo list gives China a blueprint for home-grown innovation
Do’s and Don’ts of Online Dating
That function really is a good example for explaining lifetimes in Rust.