skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've sometimes wondered why the Hershey Fonts have such a nice set of cyrillic vectors. Maybe making things like https://i1.wp.com/www.numbers-stations.com/wp-content/upload... is something one would prefer to do on an in-house plotter, rather than sending it out to an ordinary print shop?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts

Edit: the bus stop has been replaced, and the kerbside tree is gone:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Druzhby+St/@55.7139414,37....

(it was conveniently located between an "embassy row" and a nice park with scenic overlook)

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.709541,37.5422738,3a,75y,90t...
I will definitely look at using this for some personal projects. The R API is greatly appreciated. Thanks for alerting me to it.
For me it's in the options where I set my mic and camera. But I'm on an enterprise account for work so it's possible it's not available on lower tiers.
Well, it's not happening in swift yet.

S4TF still requires either c cuda kernels or XLA. Julia on the other hand has JIT GPU codegen and its CPU codegen has been benchmarked to beat openblas
I'm not saying "people can't be managed" and "one can't evaluate the performance of a programmer" - that'd be obviously false.

What I _am_ saying is that it's an art not a science - very hard to teach, impossible to scale.

Take your example with "Documentation" - if you measure anything objective (words written, number of functions/features that have associated documentation) and tie it with the performance evaluation, those metrics will soon become meaningless.
I believe the best equivalent phrase would be "on the other hand" or "in contrast"
I believe enforcing restrictions now would be near impossible without military involvement and this is highly unlikely. The original restrictions were, from what I witnessed, barely enforced after the first week anyhow.
From my experience, writing software in 3-rd world country is a reliable way to get out of the poverty. Some example numbers for Kazakhstan: average salary for many low-skilled labour workers is around $100-$200 per month. Average salary for junior software developer is at least $500 and you would quickly reach $1000 and very skilled developers might get $2000+ per month.

The same is true for Russia or Belarus or Ukraine, AFAIK. Wages are even higher there.

And I'm talking about building software for internal clients. Outsourcing or remote work allows for even higher salaries.

I'm not entirely sure why the market works this way. It's not like any random software developer can go remote and compete with the rest of the world. But it works.

I'd really be interested to learn whether Indonesian situation is similar or not.
Maybe just a marketing failure, but WebThings to me always seemed like a project with no clear purpose in the ecosystem. Not enough mindshare and nothing unique to attract that mindshare. Open-source home automation projects is not a field lacking options. While the idea of standardization for protocols has some merit, a W3C group working silently and then tying it to another new standalone "gateway" project is not the way to get the standard attention (sadly an anti-pattern many of the more niche W3C groups fall into, made worse by time limits imposed on WGs). Projects with more impulse behind them create defacto-standards instead, and unless the focus shifts to integrating with other software more I don't see them coming out of that ditch.

(+ for my taste the standards involve to much JSON-LD complications, but I'll accept that that's taste)

EDIT: I guess part of the question is, what exactly is the goal? Bringing forward the WebThings "standard", or building yet another IoT/home automation controller? To me it has seemed like the "mission" is the former, while the thing actually done is the latter.
This is bait.

"the most untory" is probably because they're trying to spend their way out of this; but that is actually completely in-line with criticisms levied at the tories: Spend nothing on prevention, and overspend when shit hits the fan.
I don't see data for influenza alone, only for "influenza and pneumonia".

Pneumonia is caused by several endemic viruses and bacteria. Some of these are very widespread, yet almost everyone is immune. They circulate but only cause sickness in people whose immune system is compromised. The social distancing measures against Covid-19 don't affect these germs all that much. Eyeballing the blue line in the graph, they seem to be down about 1/3 since social distancing started.
Yeah, but if you compare them to Italy (hardly a stereotypical example of good administration), it's a pretty stark contrast. Italians made their mistakes too (last month in Sardinia, for example), their government is not even monolithic in terms of parties, but after early March they've contained it much better than we did. We had almost a month of head-start, we didn't use it, and now we're not even like them - we are worse.
As an actual Tory (not popular around here I'll admit) I'm amazed at how Boris' attempt to make everyone happy has resulted in across the board hate. It's the same mistake that Theresa May made, so surely you'd think he'd understand that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUnet

Evidently he is one of the good guys.
Advertising needs to be targeted directly. Otherwise, companies rightly reason that why should they opt for direct payments only, when they can take direct payments and shove ads in anyway?
My ISP in Japan (NTT Flets) is even weirder. They have sort-of static IPv6 (due to MAP-E[1] require static prefix) and assigns customer a /64, but don't do Prefix Delegation unless a customer also pay for a Fiber landline (Hikari Denwa) in which they will assign /56 and do proper PD. This has been a huge hindrance for anyone wanting to run their own home router their router must bridge IPv6 to ISP router (and thus not able to do their own firewall/DHCPv6/SLAAC)

The only workaround is to use ndppd[1] set to proxy to the upstream router. However ndppd is undergoing a rewrite right now and latest stable release (0.2.5) has few bugs causing ndppd to stop working after a while. So far, the only way to get everything work for me was to build ndppd from master (which was deprecated in favor for a new 1.0, which is still in development).

OpenWRT seems to include a working version of ndppd out of the box, but its MAP-E supports is somewhat broken.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mdt-softwire-map-encapsula...

[2]: https://github.com/DanielAdolfsson/ndppd
I knew somebody would make that exact comment. Congrats, that's you!

The thing is, I don't think it's reasonable to write a long and detailed reply to somebody who is trying to start a discussion without providing any arguments. He tried to start it, not me. I was inviting him to do so and justifying my lack of arguments ("you didn't provide arguments so I can't/won't comment on them") in my reply. Yeah, the one that you just copied and you modified in a manner that you thought was sarcastic or witty.
I'm a big fan of the flow package (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/flow), which defines

(<.) :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> a -> c

and

(.>) :: (a -> b) -> (b -> c) -> a -> c
Is there a market for niche TLD domains? If so, who are the people buying / using them?

"helloworld.blue" sounds completely worthless to me. Even "hello.blue" - who would buy that for more than a few hundred dollars, and for what?
The person is not a maintainer of the project but the one who opened the issue.
Could this have been prevented? China was only able to act fast because of the authoritarianism (bolting people indoors) and the global supply chain is sat in their backyard, not necessarily because they're making the right investment upfront.
Don't dance. Don't dance yet. The Federal Reverse not gonna to give you guys a reverse account and without that you would only have licence without any functionality.
Wasn't Kraken one of the exchanges involved in the laundering of USDT tokens, created by Bitfinex out of thin air? I wouldn't trust anyone involved with USDT with keeping safe cut paper, let alone money or securities.
I love this syntax, it's elegant and a big improvement!

When/ how can I use this? Do I have to wait for a new GHC release?
You can configure a ULA prefix in your router instead and use those internally.
> passive income

Just curious: is this income 100% passive?
Is the healthcare system in UK anywhere close to capacity? Is there a site with details about people admitted to hospital, in intensive care and on respirators (due to covid) that shows this?
Headlines as expected despite Vallance saying "this is not a prediction".
It's weird how there's a stigma against frozen food when it's usually of much higher quality and retains much more nutrients and vitamins than any other form of conservation.

And unless you live near to the coast, fish always almost gets frozen. It just doesn't keep for more than a few days unfrozen, even at 0°C to 2°C.

Also, fish sticks are usually made from fish, not from "remains" or "byproducts". The fish are gutted and frozen into blocks right on the factory ships. They are cheap because much of their weight is breading, and the fish used for them are less popular.
> It really is not.

You seem to be assuming we use libraries to implement the quickly changing business requirements? If you do that, then sure, you'll have a hard time using versioned libraries at all. But you don't need to do that. Doing that is just a pain.

Have a single code base with separate modules by all means, but don't pretend the modules are versioned separately and independent.

In other words: don't make them libraries unless you MUST. A library, by definition, is a re-usable software component. Something can only be re-usable when it's stable (if it keeps changing, it's by definition not re-usable as consumers would also be expected to keep changing, and that's not the case for everything as you seem to assume). Things like base64, encryption algorithms, data structures... even spec-backed things like OAuth and HTTP libraries don't just change every month.
I'm saying it's the website's fault for not being on the PSL. If they have different trust for different subdomains
and they're not on the PSL they're broken for other reasons (like cookies) anyway.
Boris was handed a large majority and could have played to his side only. Choosing not to do this was an obvious error but, in a age where the media are setting the daily narrative, I can understand why.
For all the possible reasons to hate this job, adding a RSS feed to anything is very low on my personal list.

I'd even say I enjoy adding a RSS feed to anything. There are not enough RSS feeds out there.
No, it's a full dimension. That you can't see it in the GUI is because the GUI is already scoped to the currently-active url, and you can only control the specificity of the rules, as you say.

But if you view the rules, you'll see its three dimensions spelled out:

* * * block
* * script block
* 1st-party * allow
stackexchange.com sstatic.net * allow
stackexchange.com cdn.sstatic.net script allow

This is full [source domain] [target domain] [request type] flexibility. The GUI will only show the stackexchange rules above when you're actually visiting that site; it doesn't mean the third dimension is fake.
Yes, that is surprising to hear the first time, but it's true.

Space saving is one of the primary advantages of relational databases, the other being tracking complex data relationships

Nowadays, it's not storage that is expensive, but CPU cycles, and RDBMS are processor expensive relative to NOSQLs

I advise clients to avoid RDBMS without a very specific need for complex data relationships
I recommend the book The Technology of Teaching by B.F. Skinner.

The main idea of the book is that teaching is all about breaking the concepts into small chunk and having the student test those chunks in a way that provides immediate feedback.

A great part of learning happens in the individual, so having him interact with the concepts is the most important thing.
Underrated comment. Laughed really hard.
> It's not like any random software developer can go remote and compete with the rest of the world

This is actually becoming more and more of an option. At my last (small) company, we hired several individual remote developers from various parts of the world that most would consider "third world".

We were introduced to them via referrals from contract work done elsewhere, and we did a paid trial period at first.

Not all of them worked out, but the ones that did were quite good, and we were paying them an excellent wage for their cost of living.
Even at CoL "corrected" salaries, a remote position usually pays very well in 3rd world countries.
> Do you think these cloud companies could get away with the abuses that they do if users did have these key freedoms?

The software doesn't run on the user's computer. You don't run Facebook - Facebook does, on their computers.

The option rests with the users not to engage with their software. Being exploited by a corporation is not a universal right.
There’s no such thing, there’s just varying degrees of risk vs leverage.
Former NSA Director Keith Alexander Joins Amazon’s Board of Directors
Nuclear power is no longer an "easy solution" because it would take at least a decade before a new nuclear power plant would go into operation. If we had wanted nuclear power, we should have started building it two decades ago.
> Do we need to cover the Nyquist frequency again? Do you think that all of the audio engineers that designed the CD audio standards were tyros who were just making shit up and guessing?

Do we need to cover the site rules again? Is it assuming best intent to try and straw man my argument to serve what purpose, boost your ego?

1) of course the audio engineers knew what they were doing who created the CD audio standard.

2) of course they also had constraints from picking “best”, cost among them, and designed something that satisfied the demands placed on them as best as they could.

How does any of these tangents y’all have went on disprove the only point I made, that CD audio is not lossless (close, but no cigar) in the audio sound quality sense.
> I'd much rather academia had ample enough funding where people could work on what they wanted and what they felt was useful without the need to appeal to large businesses or metaphorically knife-fight for grants.

That can only ever be a temporary state of affairs unless you deliberately keep the population of researchers small. Competition for scarce resources exists except in high growth domains and growth does not stay high forever. Realistically an even larger majority of PhDs than nowadays would get expelled to industry and other places academics don’t care about like unemployment.
> Speaking as a "senior" engineer today, I'm no better an engineer today than I was 10 years ago in terms of rote problem solving.

See I'm waaay better at it. Not in terms of raw problem solving ability, but because I've solved so many unique problems by now that I can start a new one half way through.

That and my skills are a lot more refined, so there are a lot of things I will do the right way out of habit which I would have had to discover through iteration 5-10 years ago.

If you're not better at what you do than you were 10 years ago, it makes me wonder what you've been doing with your time.
>How is this different than any other kind of media like TV, magazines, newspapers, etc.? All of them are trying to make their product engaging so that you consume more of their media and more of their ads. Just because those services also charge a subscription fee, doesn't change the dynamics of what they're trying to do. Social media has maybe just been more successful in doing so, partially because

I think this trivializes the problem. The issue isn't that these things have existed for ages and are simply getting better, the problem is that we have gone from mass-marketing designed to appeal to a broad audience to personalized marketing designed to appeal to just you. With that in place, the more data that gets collected about you, the more precise the message delivery can be. The more sophisticated the algorithms that input all that data get, the more susceptible you'll be to their messaging because they are designed to capitalize on human psychological weaknesses.
The UK spun up a load of "nightingale" facilities in anticipation of flooding hospitals. They're still there and empty as far as I'm aware.
It would be a bit higher in Indonesia, but not too far off. FWIW somebody earning $1500 USD/month, living in Jakarta, would be very comfortably middle class.
At least for the desktop application they fixed this 10 days ago (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-s-new-in-mic...)
Ask HN: Link Snapshot Service
Hi Hackers, what do you think of a service that would preserve high quality HTML snapshots of your links to third-party websites?
I just found that many links on my blog and also in my research notes return "HTTP Not found".
I guess it happens a lot but once you realize it - it is too late...
An option is to use archive.org but they don't always preserve all the content, i.e. sometimes styles are missing
Apple’s dongle problem isn’t getting any better
> The caveat is that criticism of any of the conceptual bodies orbiting the starry notion of "tech startup" (social ramifications, diversity and discrimination, wealth and income, etc.) are heavily frowned upon.

Perhaps in the US time zone :). I read and comment mostly when EU is awake, and I assure you, I haven't seen a place more deeply cynical and reserved about tech startups than HN (and having the reasons and reasoning to back the cynicism up) :).

I wonder if anyone did an analysis of how HN sentiments change during the day, as people from different parts of the world are participating?
Sorry to hear that and I'm very sad about the recent layoffs at Mozilla too, which included lots of people I know. What would convince you to give WebThings a second chance under its new management?
How would any of the centralized cesspools be any better than any of the other centralized cesspools?

In the end, aren't you still in a cesspool?

You're saying 4chan is healthy, perhaps because you have an affinity for it? My daughter and her friends believe tiktok is healthy, again, because they have an affinity for it. I understand that people find their communities in these centralized places. That said, having an affinity for one centralized website or another doesn't make that centralized website necessarily "healthy".

You may argue, "But Ah Haaa Bilbo0s!!! Decentralizing these sites won't make the decentralized places any less cesspool-like than the centralized versions." Perhaps not, but health and clean content are not really the point of decentralization, distributed control is the point.

We shouldn't confuse our own tribe's centralized system as the ideal of "healthy". Someone downthread here put it best:

When people mention "community-focused", they often omit that the community refers to their own community
Sounds like a humble brag to stroke his own ego. Wood working grunt work is virtually infinitely less intellectually stimulating than software grunt work. If he’s working for himself now, good for him but the comment just comes off as superfluous and pretentious
The `e.lbl = value` syntax suggests mutation to me, which would be misleading.
It was nowhere near capacity back in April when we were getting a 1000 deaths a day. They mothballed the Nightingale Hospitals with next to no usage.

Beds data is here: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/healthcare
"We want to decentralize money!"
"Here is what you have asked - completely decentralized money printed out of thin air by 3 guys in the non-extradition offshore island. Enjoy your freedom!"
Something like that.
Amen. Modern software development is frankly kinda sucky. The old days pre-2000 were arguably a lot more enjoyable. Today it's just digital plumbing and dealing with all sorts of issues that are not creative. The sheer complexity is frankly absurd as well. I've thought about moving on from software many times, and I know many who have. Just because you can do something doesn't mean it's best way to spend your short life. Not to mention that sitting in front of a computer all day is not the best use of one's body.
Decoupling Representation Learning from Reinforcement Learning – Paper Explained
There is no old grizzled sarge because either the resume gets canned because it shows a university graduation date from last century, or because someone with a greying neckbeard and 40 years successful on-the-job experience can't be bothered spending a day doing pointless whiteboard exercises to prove he knows something that will never be used and is not applicable to anything but pointless whiteboard exercises.
Teetering US airlines face moment of truth when government aid expires in 9 days
Mastering CSS – Vertical Rhythm
Why books don't work (2019)
The thing I’m most happy about is that my employer knows that all of the time outside what’s written down in my contract belongs to me, and that I can spend it doing anything I like. Including working for other companies or on my own projects.

I don’t think it’s harmed my career trajectory either. I’ve never considered getting promotions to be a valid career path. I’ve always moved up by leaving one job for a new position somewhere else. The permanent positions recruiters DM me about on LinkedIn are mostly reasonably high level management these days.
Freedom of association, movement and commerce should never have been surrendered so willingly. Any argument against lockdown is branded as conspiracy theory or antivaxx
As a parrot owner, this is true. It's a huge scare in the community because it's one of those facts not well known by even moderately-experienced/-researched owners.

It's almost a guaranteed kill to a parrot when heated. Very dangerous stuff.
> Could this have been prevented

Yes, tens of thousands of deaths could have been prevented.

South Korea has a population of a similar size to the UK (51 vs 65 million), and have had approximately 400 deaths due to Covid compared to 40,000 in the UK.
Yeah. Obviously there are those who enjoy it, but this line of work is kinda the pits. Best you can do is try to be well compensated so you can hopefully stop doing it soon enough.

Can’t wait to do anything else.
Taiwan and Korea also managed.

In mainland China authoritarianism played a part but people made a lot of efforts by themselves, not out of fear, like in Taiwan and Korea.

I think that's one of the main problems we're having in the UK. Too many people have zero civic sense and complain about their "freedoms being infringed" instead seeing the big picture that in an epidemic everyone must act together for the group at the cost of individual sacrifices.
Ah right you are. That was exactly the problem.
The best superhero movie, Dredd, is British.

> Greeters in stores?

Quintessentially walmart. Can't say I've seen any other store do that.
Add me to the list of software developers who desires to switch to woodworking/machining.
Not at the moment, no, it's fine. The concern is for a rise in cases again right as we head into winter and have the usual respiratory cases too.

I think the 'nightingale' sites are all but unused at the moment, so there's some buffer, but the point is 'hey stop ignoring guidance/laws - the trajectory is bad' rather than 'it's bad right now'.
If I’m not wrong, can’t you just listen router advertisements to get correct subnet? I just configured similar setup using RA and DHCPv6 for my personal network.
So, basically the answer is "expensively monitor all outgoing international mail and hope for someone as stupid as to sign his spy letters".
Yes it's not about valuing age, but it is about valuing experience. Sometimes raw talent and problem solving ability is the most important quality to look for, but sometimes experience in the field is incredibly relevant and valuable, and can't be replaced by raw talent.