skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much all personal bank accounts have a unilateral termination clause. I would be surprised to see a mortgage where the bank can't totally wreck you if they feel like it.

Anyhow, you still need a bank account to get paid. If you can only work jobs that pay you in cash and don't need any access to bank accounts or the Internet themselves, that rules out 99% of businesses that could employ you.
Lots of Work but Little Utility Germans Disappointed by Coronavirus Tracking App
Posting again since this has had updates since we wrote it originally as a collab with Azure friends.
> There is such a thing as objective reality and the history of the past forty years of conservative politics is a history of conservatives abandoning objective reality in favor of delusions they find comforting.

Again, "the other side" has the exact same concerns about your tribe.
Because huge chunks of are broken in the new browser engine, and could leave your browser in an unrecoverable state.
Because it is easy to do and takes away the argument that he was extradited without even a hearing. Even though he really did not get a hearing.

Soon the US will lock this man where he can’t talk with anyone. In a few years this judge will probably be promoted. Everyone is happy.
Looks like Chinese manufactures already sell hearing aid devices in the 25-50 USD price range. https://www.banggood.com/search/hearing-aid.html
Unlike the device from the article (which would cost more like 10 USD than 1), these are rechargeable and fully integrated over-the-ear units.

Would love to see a low-cost open/hackable hearingaid/hearable though. For example BOM of 5-10 USD. But then it should use a reprogrammable chip for the signal processing, so that one can make improvements in software. Even the cheapest and simplest hardware is harder / more expensive to improve than software.
Considering freeze dried food can last for 30+ years, it might make sense to bulk purchase a few years worth of supply. Couple that Starlink and a homestead and you could be set financially for a long time.
I know I'm comparing apples to oranges, but I own a Logitech MX Anywhere 2S and the battery seems to last forever, even with constant use. It works on any surface, too! The best mouse I've ever used.
It’s paywalled, but based on the blurb it’s an irrelevant comparison of absolute dollars of profit from a health insurance company versus a non health insurance company selling health insurance. One would expect a grocery store to have more absolute dollars of profit from selling groceries than a gas station would.

The profit margins of a health insurance company are ~5% per the SEC filings of the largest insurance companies, which is not a large profit margin.
Bromoform & co. is rather volatile and toxic. The nice feature about seaweed in this case is it has bromoperoxidase pathways, so the halomethanes are produced in low concentrations and bound in (I presume) cell membranes until digested, releasing it right where it's needed, in the fermenting stomach.

You'd have to engineer a digestible slow release halomethane source. Or just...grow it.

How hard can it be to scale seaweed farming?
> Anyway usually anything below 10ms is random.

I don't think you realize how much time 10ms is for a computer. Games need to render an entire frame in under 7 ms to hit my monitor's max refresh rate.
The pdf shows a MAX98306. Curious where you saw the MAX9814.
The majority of Ruby jobs is on Rails.
All I need, personally, is a server like Puma, a router like Roda and the pg gem really. Then of course it depends on the application you need to develop.

I would probably need some library to coerce string values to types (boolean, integer) for forms, and a mapping mechanism of some form to convert a pg result in a data shape I control.
Does freedom of association give my employer the right to fire me because I'm black? Is the Civil Rights Act of 1964 unconstitutional?
The U.S. can build reactors as well, we just put them in boats.
I was told I could benefit from hearing aids, but was told they would cost $5K to $8K depending on which ones I wanted. I've decided for now that I'll put up with the issues associated with not having them for now. I was also told they blue tooth doesn't work very well if you have an android phone, so I'm hoping that there can be some real innovation and competition in this space to drive the prices down and also improve the technology!
Facebook faces lawsuit for spying on Instagram users with camera
Very nice!. Do you have support for free form so I could use a stylus or apple pencil?
> Even though the current version may not tick all the boxes from the company's point of view

Sure, clearly the company is not primarily serving the users. So the question is, who are these people that Mark is invoking?
To reword: basically, you're right in that if you own the code, you can license it under GPL with an exception to allow linking to anything you want. If you don't add necessary exceptions and distribute binaries, you've provided an invalid license to code you don't own, and those binaries aren't lawfully redistributable.

See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLib...

(Would have edited my post to this, but the noprocast timeout got me)
I have difficulty imagining this level of international news attention being brought to any other anonymous online social media account.

Are there any unverified Twitter or Facebook accounts that have merited such broad examination?
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Caveat emptor. It says a lot about people on social networks that they can't see through a fake account. Either they don't have the intelligence to discriminate between fake and real or they are so easily led about that anyone -- even fake people -- can sway them one way or the other. The latter is what scares me the most, especially when they vote. The naive and easily swayed are the very people who elect and empower persuasive dictators and tyrants. Social media isn't "the problem" but it's accelerating an existing problem.
Eargo lets you calibrate yourself, but the devices themselves are still fairly expensive.
FWIW here's my take:

- No one voting for Hillary in 2016 is voting for Trump in 2020

- People voting for Gary Johnson or Jill Stein in 2016 are either not voting or voting for Biden in 2020

- Democrats who didn't vote in 2016 out of protest for Bernie Sanders not getting the nomination are either not voting again or they're voting for Biden in 2020

- People who voted for Trump in 2016 fall into three camps: they're either voting for Trump in 2020, voting for Biden in 2020, or not voting at all.

All in all it looks like Biden is going to get more votes than Hillary did in 2016 and Trump is going to get fewer votes than he did in 2016. Trump's incredible campaign gaffe in Minnesota has cost him that swing state and is swinging the rest of the swing states of the U.S. Midwest, which is where I live, to Biden.

Bottom line - Biden's path to the White House appears to be less shaky than Trump's path to the White House. However, Trump has made comments indicating that he's willing to make this election cycle very ugly and we may be looking at our first non-peaceful transition of power in American history.

I'm no political science expert or anything, that's just how things appear to me.
> Not necessarily at the same price though. The US healthcare system is crazy expensive because US salaries for high-skill individuals are crazy high (because tuition is crazy high?....). To fund an expansion might be more expensive.

Cut new grad salaries in return for halfing their student loan, otherwise the outrageous cost of education is being subsidised by the sick and elderly.
Blackhole is a planet with enough mass to bend light.
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Web accessibility is a legitimate issue that every front-end developer needs to care about.
And then nobody else benefits from the discussion
Only these two, as far as I know.
The Republicans, being politicians, lied about their motives in 2015 by reflex. Nobody was ever fooled by what they said - what they believe, as evidenced by their actions, is the best option is for them to choose who is on the court. That doesn't require any intellectual contortions to understand or support for Republican voters.

It isn't like the Democrats would behave much differently. There is no way Trump would have gotten any Supreme Court appointments with a Democrat Senate had they got a controlling vote in 2018 and a vacancy arisen. Any candidate would have been declared a raping bigot and the investigations would stretch out until around 3 days after a Biden inauguration. Incidentally, that was probably the strategic plan behind the Kavenaugh business; if they'd delayed the process until after the November election there was a real chance he could have been entirely borked.

It is routine politics. Distasteful, naked self interest, low on scruples. But nothing special to the Republican party.
> There are also deers

Deer are ruminants, too. There is no a priori reason to assume that their digestive system should produce any less methane than that of cows, when they break down cellulose.
Yes that is what anti-GC crowd tends to sell, except that it the same set of capabilities that languages like C also offer, with the difference that use after free and leaks abound.

The future is pretty much GC with affine types, even Rust has to deal with crude RC<RefCell<>>, without the corresponding tracing GC performance, when doing GUI applications.
The situations where I've seen something along these lines is where you have senior people with the background/skills/etc. to basically parachute in to help with some specific project. They can add a huge amount of value with a day or two of work here and there. It can be an "Oh yeah, you just need to turn that screw over there" sort of situation.

It probably doesn't really work for a more generic mid-level developer sort of situation where there are daily standups etc. (Or really any job that requires a lot of day-to-day communication and work.)
Yeah most of them are easily avoidable. Polar bears are scary, they'll hunt you down for sport.
> the scientists anticipate that LoCHAid’s parts will wear out after about a year and a half.

Why would that be, I wonder. Anyone know?
Certainly, but none of the things you mention seem all that scary.

versioning stored procedures and triggers?

Procedures and the like get their own .sql files and live under source control like everything else. At build time, they all get blown away and rebuilt.

What if your dev envs don't use partitioning but your QA / prod envs do?

SQL still works though, right?

How do you rollback?

Nobody has ever needed to rollback. It's the scary ghost story that convinces people to build big ugly database build systems.

In short, most shops just plain won't ever need any of the stuff they're paying for (in dev hours) to run these big tools.

Hopefully somebody will build this small thing as a tool, so that people can download it and therefore be "using a tool" and thus not running up against Invented Here Syndrome.
California looks to eliminate gas guzzlers–but legal hurdles abound
This is a pretty good article with many nice graphics explaining the various types of vaccines and how they work.
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Politics aside, many Facebook employees come across as rather childish, incapable of taking care of themselves. The big complaint is about lack of snacks! Zuck has to scold them by asking rhetorically whether they joined the company for the free food. And one employee asks if they can go live on an island by themselves, apparently like Lord of the Flies.

Of course one may fairly ask whether Facebook's hiring process produced this result. The staff skews... young. As an outsider, I get the sense that Facebook is more like a college dorm than a workplace. No coincidence I guess that Facebook started in a college dorm.
Looks amazing, it is generally very difficult to find well-maintained, open source web scraping/robot process automation tools. Thank you for building this and congratulations on the successful execution!
The HearingAid.sch PDF says MAX9814 on the JP1 connector on the left side. So are they actually using both?
So it sounds like the games were probably doing too much in the re-implementation (60FPS isn't necessary for a DOS game).

To answer the question:

>Is there any hope of actually getting the promised performance out of modern hardware without having a CPU/assembly expert on your team?

The answer is: it's complicated. Let's assume you want absolute maximum performance, so you use a uni-kernel design (quite a few super computers basically do this). Even without the overhead of virtual memory (minimal on modern hardware), the removal of multi-tasking (expensive but mitigatable) on a single core; you would still have to deal with all the complex things you need to do to run modern hardware. Modern hardware is complex, it's complex because we want things to be fast or have high bandwidth (usually both).

Ultimately you can usually get 90% percent of what the hardware can do with a good compiler, decent software architecture, and tuning to encourage vectorization; probably 95% with a great compiler. Even in user mode, even in Windows. So at the end of the day it's about what's more important: Using as few cycles of a CPU, or as few cycles of your time implementing it. I think the re-implementers chose the latter as they chose to let SDL follow its default FPS instead of tuning it downwards.
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I am going to respectfully disagree with you. Sure, Google and other corporate backers of schema.org are acting in their own self interests. However, having machine readable metadata is a rising tide that floats all boats. I fail to see how small businesses are prevented from using metadata.

There is a lot of valid criticism of large tech companies like G and FB. However, it is up to us as individuals to control our own use of technologies, limit ourselves in our interaction and data sharing. Off topic, but I am a happy customer of freedom.to that lets me place what are effectively parental controls on my own use of social media and other digital time wasters.

Digital media is dehumanizing unless used very sparingly. I use G and FB services but in a very controlled way for what I think is my own benefit, not theirs.
False, obviously. The resolutions were about promoting family values, things like making towns family friendly environment by building kindergartens, etc. There's not a single word on LGBT, homosexuality, etc in any of those resolutions.

You can read the whole thing here:

https://v.fastcdn.co/u/ff8eca37/50262470-0-SKPR-commune-ENG....
Actually, I do.

But that wasn’t my point. My point was that Adblock existed before brave because publishers+advertises got stupid greedy and made the UX of their users terrible.

Brave wouldn’t exist without the idiocy of those two first.
But the US system incorporates a political viewpoint deliberately as part of what it considers justice in the public interest.

We, the UK, don’t decline extraditions on that basis - the prosecution has to be manifestly unjust in the sense of no real case to answer, or the destination has to literally be a banana republic.

Supporters may hate this, but it’s not actually what’s at issue at this point in the legal process.

Yeah, obviously “he’s going down” but not because of bias - he’s simply not exceptional (or motivationally pure) enough to be above the system.
The MAX9814 is the microphone.

Here's the BOM which shows the full breakdown coming in under $1.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... (Table 1)
Creators are not customers for youtube. They are bountiful, free resource.
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I routinely encounter people who believe it is not possible to live healthily as vegetarians. I hired a developer who was a Hindu a couple of years back and half my team could not believe that he had never eaten meat, in part because he was very active and healthy.
There's a circuit breaker designed specifically for that. In English I think it's called "residual current device".
I can do all those things with linux. Why bother with macOS and it's lock in . I believe a lot of macOS users don't appreciate the competition.

Windows is stable and convenient, and ubuiquitous. It gets out of the way.I like it
Outstanding! I hope that this is available via my Home Use Program; the change to a discounted subscription wasn't very welcome so I never updated past 2016.

I'm trying to leave Office, but for one of my primary roles it's absolutely necessary, and being able to use it on my personal devices is a huge time saver. HUP lets me leverage that case without spending a ridiculous amount of money (I use Project and Visio often).
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You know what would help, Google? Slightly incentives early adopters somewhat, with perks in the same product if you sign up early enough.

Google Apps (precursor to G Suite) effectively did that. Free plan was 100 users at first. Maybe even higher. Then it got reduced to 15 or something. Then 5. Then they removed the free plan, for new signups.

I am pretty happy to be on a 100 user plan, I know I would easily pay $15-25/month for a few containersed Google accounts with my own domain names.

But because I signed up early as a Google adopter, and I get a little discount in a way. That's cool, and made me happy to be an early adopter.

You should try to do the same for new products. Maybe for the first adopters, offer them 10 paid seats for lifetime of their account, for free.

The future revenue cost is small because early adopters are just viral advocates (you want them!); and the developer/techie market can set trends.
This is a really cool use of browser history data. I'm building ActivityWatch [1] and have been thinking of building something similar on top of it.

[1]: https://activitywatch.net
I have little evidence, but if someone asked me to risk my life on the existence of shadowbanning/post nerfing on facebook, yep I'd risk it.

They are constantly mucking with what's presented. Not long ago, my feed was pretty well distributed across my few hundred friends. As of maybe a few months ago, it's the same circle of ~20 similar-minded friends. At the expense even of showing me the same post I've seen for 5 days straight.

The people that engage my posts are always a cohort, with 90% overlap with my feed.

I swear there are also things which boost/nerf exposure based on sentiment analysis.

I'm an infrequent user cause it's kinda addicting (infinite scroll) and also this echo chamber trash.
Even if it does not happen in significant numbers, such possibility and few widely-reported cases cause chilling effect.
> There's a fine line between "strict rules" and full on dictatorship

There's a very big line between a company's silly hiring policy and a government. I doubt the company will send goons to kill you.

The fact that you can't tell the difference says a lot.

> Frankly I never understood the fuss around the so-called "offensive behavior".

There you go.
I remember being 8 knowing my parents were poor and rarely asking for anything I wanted because of it, even food. If I did ask, I felt guilty afterwards and would debate if I should have.

I played cautiously knowing that an injury could upend my family and my little sister’s future, and I didn’t partake in school sports or anything that could disturb my parents as they were already busy working 24/7 and it would have stressed them even more to have to pick me up or pay for equipment.
>Maybe it's matched in modern PHP or in Microsoft land but I don't have much experience there

Yes, Laravel has something like you're describing: https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/migrations
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When you compile stuff in Visual C++ with /arch:AVX or /arch:AVX2 setting, the compiler is using VEX for everything, including SSE instructions which can be encoded the old way. This eliminates the described problem completely. Also eliminates a few others as well, e.g. VEX-encoded unaligned memory access is guaranteed to work, with SSE encoding these same instructions might fail with “unaligned access” runtime exception.

AVX1 and VEX are supported by vast majority of CPUs made after 2011. Steam hardware survey says if you require AVX1, you gonna loose less than 7% of the audience. Maybe it’s time to move on already, and drop support for pre-AVX1 CPUs?

In one of my current projects (started as a green field about 1.5 years ago) the customer was willing to sacrifice compatibility for development cost, I told them I’ll ship sooner if we require AVX2 and D3D feature level 11.0 hardware, they agreed. Over these 1.5 years they only hit that once, trying to run my software on some 12-core Ivy Bridge Xeon, it doesn’t have AVX2 but it does support AVX1 and therefore VEX.
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Only the profoundly ignorant are supporting these wannabe autocrats. We can look to our failures in public education over the past century for explanation, but what to do about it now? Americans want the right to vote and participate in democracy, but are generally unwilling to take the responsibility to be informed. You can't forcibly educate adults, of course, so I don't know what the solution is.
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If you had to order a website optimization on WordPress, which payment option would you choose:

1. $99 one time + $20/month
2. only $30/month
3. $30/month or $199/year at choice
Datamart offers support for each step of the software development cycle
Have you thought about trying to get a job with a race team?
So this is a very simple circuit. Basically a microphone amplifier directly connected to some earphones with a volume knob. No frequency control of any kind. I'm wondering why this sort of device is not already available like loupe type glasses that we can easily find. I'm thinking this has something to do with legislation and maximum allowed earphone sound levels? Or maybe it is too crude to be actually useful?
Is shunt a thing? Never heard of that one. :embarrassed:
My mother has been wearing Hearing Aids for over 20 years. These days she has trouble with hearing what is on TV even with a powerful hearing aid. Most times she just sits quietly in front of the TV watching moving pictures.

I have always wondered why it is so difficult to make hearing aid which can be connected to a bluetooth enabled TV or Mobile phone, so senior citizens can watch TV or talk to their loved one. Whatever is available on the market is so expensive.
If you have explicit untraced reference support the GC doesn't have to guess and better algorithms can be taken advantage of.

Without it, some guessing games might happen that bring everything down, or the GC has to be more conservative regarding its guesses.

An example of this are the latest restrictions on Go 1.15 regarding pointer conversions

https://golang.org/doc/go1.15#compiler
Corporations gonna corporate.

How YT abuses creators and viewers, it would be better for all to go to a non-profit, sustainable platform that has clear, straightforward processes and doesn't ban people without a reason by algorithms.

Corporate platforms will always devolve into Kafkaesque hells because their motives are aligned with rent-seeking extraction, not promoting the arts or creativity/monetizing fairly.
Link to release notes for v13: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/release-13.html

A lot of performance related improvements. My favorite is B-Tree Deduplication - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/btree-implementation.html...