skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we're being honest, you have. The future is here, just not evenly distributed.
Save your spot at the Azure Data Explorer online event
Just tried it out on minikube, so far so good... On question though, are you planning to support EKS like Digital Ocean? Or am I just missing something on how to get that working?
There is yet no evidence that explicitly ties the use of a face mask to lower rates of SARS-CoV-2 transmission. A lot of the published evidence is either inconsistent, or indirect (measurement of droplets, but that doesn't take physical barriers like nose and mouth, or the viral load required to overcome the non adaptive immune system). In fact, it has been argued that non pharmacological interventions should be evaluated with better evidence [1].

A Danish clinical trial enrolling 3000 people will probably give some more concrete answers.

OTOH, hand washing and distance are definitely useful to reduce spread.

P.S. Feel free to state your disagreement explicitly instead of downvoting.

[1] https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/08/28/margaret-mccartney-we-n...
Often times the ratings, bonus and "calibration" is done at a senior manager / director level. So if you have no visibility in those circles, you'll not fare well. Often times, your direct manager won't have any say in this matter and the top bosses will need to take decisions based on politics and retention and other considerations. Another thing to keep in mind is that your manager might not want you to move around and giving you average ratings will help.

I'm onto my third big project and each of them shipped with my solo effort (but on the backend). It's wildly successfully and impacted 10s of millions of people but the ratings always make it seem that what I thought was exceptional contributions were "expected"! Thankfully the bonus/money is decent.
In the README it mentions that mDNS candidates break things[0]. This should still work if you are in the same LAN though, the mDNS name just needs to be encoded properly? Maybe the author was trying to connect across networks that don't support Multicast?

However mDNS candidates made this even easier! I stumbled upon this pattern and been trying to convince people that real use cases will be unlocked.

* https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication

* https://sean-der.github.io/webrtc-uri/draft-seaduboi-webrtc-...

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mdns-ice-candidates-00
> There is no reason

> there are a bunch of emotional people

> or some nonsense like that

> Easy for especially weakly socialized young people that many programmers are

It's amusing to watch you call others "weakly socialized" when reading the rest of your comment. Social awareness is not exactly exuding from it, what with the judgments and the confident assertions.
Calling your users leeches while being leeches yourselves, how ironic.
Listen, if it popularizes the phrase “Viking excursions into Oklahoma“, I think we’re all in a win-win situation
There’s a great type of Swedish salty liquorice called “djungelvrål”, or “jungle roar”. It has a screaming monkey on the packet. It’s a bit like licking a battery, and once I got used to it I found it delicious. I recommend it. The first bite is rough.
I also like Sourcetree visualization, great way to explain someone .git (on high level) and great way to quickly have an overview of project/repos history.
There are tons of innovative companies coming out of Germany. What you're saying is something like

"Not a single legit innovative technology company coming from Silicon Valley, a place which literally brain drains the world. Theranos, Zenefits. What a miserable failure and waste of human potential."
Even if legally you're in the clear, you'd still run the risk of getting all you electronics confiscated until the police figure out that you were just sharing your bandwidth, no?
> It's just a reminder that you need somewhat eccentric people in the world if you want good open source projects like Calibre.

I'm not sure if you meant it this way, but your statement is saying that good open source projects require eccentric people - which is likely false.
Those seem like great reasons to focus our efforts on things that are very close to us in their mode of being first, and expand from there as we learn more examples. Plants and fungi being broadly sessile means that their cognition, if they have it, will be expressed in radically different ways from ours. Whereas birds or dolphins are a lot like us: brains and bodies.
Obligatory- this is one of the unsung hero open source projects.

Truly amazing, useful work, run by a nice person, for valuable purpose. Author should be getting Medals of Intellectual Freedom or whatever plaudits a non-trashfire society would have to offer. And should be drinking/eating free wherever he goes.

Cheers.
Don’t eat too much of the stuff in one go and you’ll be fine.
I'm guessing because it has extensive support for connecting and communicating to eBook readers like Kindle and the likes.
would’ve been much more likely to read the article if the title indicated it was an interview with the ceo of whole foods. not some random quote calling people fat
Writing a Modern HTTP(s) Tunnel in Rust
When the Chacoan ruins were originally discovered by Anglo-Americans in the 19th century, the initial hypothesis was that they were Aztecan. By the mid 20th, early archaeologists had shifted somewhat and recognized that they had primarily Puebloan populations, but many still insisted on a lingering belief that the sites were ultimately founded and/or governed by exiled Toltec nobility or that of various other mesoamerican groups. This was significantly motivated by early 20th century beliefs about the "essential natures" of certain ethnic groups. For Puebloans, it was believed that building a society like what was evident at Chaco was fundamentally against Puebloan nature (too much hierarchy, political complex, use of violence, etc...). Needless to say, this is both racist and also incorrect. Mesoamericans have not been found at Chaco.

Granted, it's been a few years since I've worked on a Chaco project specifically, but I'm pretty confident in my understanding here.
Safari did it first, I believe Firefox is on track to do it as well.
how do I build this? (there doesn't seem to be a Makefile)?

very promising. have been looking for a pulseeffects replacement for some time.
It is okay that some tools require experience and knowledge to use them correctly/efficiently. There is often tradeoff between usability and functionality. I mean it feels good to master these tools and educate others :)
An Avocado a Day Keeps the Neurologist Away
git is pretty great.

What specifically do you find _hard_ or _complicated_?
Ask HN: What were “anonymous remailers”? Are any still operational in 2020?
When reading about "cypherpunk" community in the 1990s and 2000s, I keep hitting mentions of "anonymous remailers".

I'm trying to read more on how they worked/work, but the articles are always a bit confusing.

I am never sure what kind of anonymity did they provide (or not), and what was the mechanism, and what were the "gotchas".

And, more importantly, if any are still active in 2020 and if not, why not.
> more likely to be carrying it anyway due to misbehavior

I’m not sure about that. I’ve been pretty strict about physical distancing, mask wearing, and all of the other things necessary to help combat the spread of the virus. I’m also someone who gets a flu shot every year and I make sure my child is vaccinated.

That being said - I am majorly skeptical about a vaccine being rushed through the approval process for political reasons and how safe it will be for me and my family. I may refuse it if it seems like it will do more harm than good and/or the process isn’t transparent and the safety data aren’t made available.
I didn’t mind their analogy, but I think an analogy is a poor way to explain such a simple concept. Why not just say, “the code that the developers wrote” or something along those lines? I don’t think the concept of source code is inaccessible to laymen.
Not sure about how they would cause a bowel obstruction. More likely to cause [osmotic diarrhea](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diarrhea#Osmotic), which would be consistent with the original comment. But you’re right, they probably meant “laxative”, not “diuretic”
Does anyone have experience using one of the more formal method oriented languages (e.g. Idris, Agda, F* etc) as their "daily driver" language, i.e. using them for general purpose programming, for any extended period?

I'm dreaming that by focusing on correctness one could reduce the maintenance churn that then can lead to various other spurious changes. But I don't know if any of those languages are really suitable to "real world" use, nor if they really provide such dramatic reduction of bugs that one would hope for.
For the same effect with 1/10th the effort you should check out Osterlinds "Breakthrough card system".

It's a mind blowing achievement, well worth the money. Yes, it's cheating but as a programmer who often uses stack overflow to write code for me, I'm OK with that.

https://osterlindmysteries.com/store/index.php?main_page=pro...

Using this system is like using a sorting algorithm, but for cards.
> But that's what profit-seeking businesses do

No, it isn't: it's what everyone has to do, because you need to make enough money to at the very least cover your expenses.

Mozilla may be a non-profit, but being a non-profit does NOT mean "doesn't need to make money": they still have 750 employees that need to be paid, offices around the world that need rent paid (despite COVID), global infrastructure that needs to be paid for, SaaS for employees and contractors that collectively runs in the tens (if not more) of thousands of dollars a month, etc. etc. and that needs a sustainable revenue stream that isn't "hoping google will foot the bill".

Right now they're losing 7-8 digits a year. Mozilla absolutely puts people before profit, but they sure as hell aren't going to put people before surviving. That would be idiotic: you can't further a mission by going bankrupt.
There is a really important part here I don’t is picked up on. One reason why it’s a ‘stand up’ meeting is because you’re supposed to be doing just that - it helps keep the meeting short and to the point.
A really good example of this is the Privy Council. Queen Victoria got tired of long meetings with her Council, so she just kept standing during it, meaning everyone had to as well and couldn’t drag on. They still stand up today.
This doesn’t translate well to remote working but like others are saying, the idea is to keep things brief and on point. Longer conversations can follow after.
Is there clinical evidence for handwashing and distancing is effective? Study with a nice chart saying the benefit for each additional foot?
> You've got the cause & effect backwards. Google invested heavily in existing standards-based microformats (RDF, schema.org, OpenSocial, various rel= standards)

Mm yes, much like XMPP and Google Chat/Facebook. Pay lip-service to a standard when you _don't_ own the mindshare, drive mindshare to you, then sunset the standard for your implementation when you have the mindshare. An innocent play, for sure.

That said, of course Google was not a founding member of WHATWG. The reason the association is so stubbornly believed is because WHATWG's Ian Hickson went to Google. At the risk of an aside, one of my "favorite" Ian Hickson quotes goes as follows:

"The Web is, and should be, driven by technical merit, not consensus. The W3C pretends otherwise, and wastes a lot of time for it. The WHATWG does not."

I suspect in today's world this phrase would be out of place. But of course, this was a more innocent time.

> before ultimately concluding that web developers cannot be trusted to get markup right, and most don't want to do it in the first place

I think a massive conflict of interest needs to be disclosed here: ad revenue. Microdata and schema.org was a change from the original promise of the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web was about exposing semantic data on pages so that search engines and other data processors could compete on discovery. Microdata and schema.org took a lighter-weight approach that _specifically focused_ on fields relevant to incumbent search engines, a la Google. The legacy lives on as Microdata today is only used as a form of SEO ranking boosting.

> Customer desires - in the form of what people will actually do, not what they claim they want to do - ultimately decide the structure of a market

I'm going to disagree here. Customer desires dictated nothing of the sort. (From what I remember (though I was young at the time), the general public really didn't have much desire or education about the net or the web as a whole at the time.) The big web companies started to understand the value of data. Even a decade ago, the FAANG equivalents (Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, et al) were already very open internally about how much of their value was in their data or in their network. It wasn't customer desire that drove any of this, it was monetary desire.

> When it became clear that there would be a few dominant companies, the priority shifted to being one of them rather than investing in (and getting screwed by) an open ecosystem that was disappearing.

What a sad sentiment. I disagree. This reads like something out of Machiavelli's The Prince.
Right, just read some logic backwards flipping through that code.
25ms is a huge ask
I wonder how this will affect other projects, such as ReactOS and Wine. Exciting.
a vending machine for crows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PXjhMzvv4M
Fiber can help form stool if you have chronic diarrhea, but it can also help relieve constipation.

You are correct that diuretic refers to peeing; what the poster was probably trying to say was "laxative." And foods high in fiber and sugar can certainly work as laxatives!
Time Zone Bugs I Ran Into
Yup. I don't get the obsession with "managing the library", just like every music player also just has to focus on managing "libraries".

I already have a perfect library management system: my filesystem. I want my book reader to just open the file I give it, and the same with the music player.
Critical Zone Science Comes of Age
> Would you believe more than 1% of computers worldwide are still using Windows XP?

Probably higher -- XP is still popular in China and supported by third party companies there.
Because some people are luddites and cargo-culters and don't see the reasoning behind the actions

"Agile mandates post-it notes" kinda stuff

Standups could be very well replaced by a chat channel, for example. This way it's broadcast, recorded and can be a bit async as no-one needs their turn to speak
Thanks for sharing. This is getting into territory that non-musically trained hearing people would probably have difficultly, but can you distinguish between a C major chord and a C minor chord? And do you have any other feelings about it, like one sounding sad or happy?

I don't think any of this is particularly relevant to understanding spoken language, but I'm just curious about your outcome.

I'd be surprised if a majority of current CI users could distinguish e.g. middle C from C# (not identify the note, but just perceive a difference between them), but I don't know that many CI users.
The SLA guarantees a certain level of no problems. The dashboard officially says there's a problem. This creates liability.
This one happened to me just once, so I decided to put it in the README just in case. After that I have never been able to reproduce it, so it might be just a false positive
"A Cynic's Guide to Cognitive Dissonance"
OMG your managers must be feeling like they are losing control and scared their importance is diminishing.

Who cares that you are getting more done.... Will somebody please think of the manager's poor egos!
Perhaps throw in a reform of security agencies that have been misused to interfere in domestic elections. You won't get rid of them ever again otherwise.
Error Found in RAND's Random Digit Book
This makes more sense with the premise that curtailing citizen's rights and greater central planning has always been appealing to some. Evidence for the effectiveness of lockdowns or lack thereof is incidental. "Climate Lockdowns" are already being proposed.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/23/commentary/w...
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/shopping-i-can-t-real...
The problem with that is that in real life transmissibility is not a fixed parameter you can keep down forever. People eventually get lockdown fatigue and/or realize the opportunity cost is not worth it for them. So the area under the curve is roughly the same in the long run. That is, unless we can get a vaccine or effective treatment fast enough.
I think a better option would be an immutable history, but pages that are loaded for less than 10 seconds grayed out in the list and pages that are inserted given a light pink background.
QMake, probably (it's a Qt program and there's a `.pro` file in the root)
Depends on agreements. Sometimes other owners can veto sale of private shares. But you can sue them to force a sale on reasonable terms to the existing owners in that case. Whether that is worth the hassle for a fraction of a percentage is unlikely.
> We are literally talking about a county that just placed a total ban on gatherings for young people, and you’re arguing that it’s paranoid to talk about?

No, I'm saying that the claim specifically made in the grandparents comment about general stay at home orders maintained for 6+ months was false (not paranoid), because much of the country never had a stay-at-home order, and almost all actual stay-at-home orders that were issued were lifted. Had we actually had a hard lockdown nationwide for even a fairly short period of time, we might still be seeing the kind second wave some places are seeing, but we wouldn’t still be in an epic disaster of a first wave, and we probably wouldn’t be seeing the kind of extreme-but-isolated orders you are complaining about now.
There’s a browser add on that fixes that
Am I missing something here? My local Kroger’s market has perfectly good android 9.0 smart phones for $30 or so. I bought one just out of curiosity and it performs pretty well, with the screen measuring over 6 inches, decent battery life, and pretty snappy performance.
I think accusation of racism are used quite inflationary and have become mainly about power.
I'm not sure if they want to go this way
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Internal_audit
https://wiki.winehq.org/Clean_Room_Guidelines
I remember seeing that and facepalming, because I was considering contributing to the project but that just put me right off. Now it's on Python 3 I'm inclined to reconsider.
They can't look at it without running the risk of copyright infringement [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Internal_audit
Isn't it fascinating that even a different species must have some expression for "stay away from that Karen"?
> Google Chrome doesn't come out until 2008

Oh of course, Google didn't have a horse in the race for the application web at all until 2008. Except wait, they had released GMail in 2004 and Google Maps in 2005. In fact, WHATWG made frequent references to GMail and Google Maps as examples of the application web and deficiencies that W3C was not addressing in its XHTML standard.

Then Ian Hickson, the main editor behind the WHATWG HTML5 standardization process, went to Google. One of my favorite quotes from Hickson about the whole process (as I noted in a sibling comment):

"The Web is, and should be, driven by technical merit, not consensus. The W3C pretends otherwise, and wastes a lot of time for it. The WHATWG does not."

This says a lot both about the outlook of the WHATWG of the time and the way the development community of the time saw web corporations at the time. And now we have 2 major browsers as of this writing. It's funny how much flak Berners-Lee gets over his acquiescence to DRM and yet the WHATWG discussions of the time are completely glossed over. I was fairly young when the WHATWG and W3C power struggle occurred, but it was a great lesson for me as a teenage programmer in the power of value capture.
There's a lot of reasons TPUs could be poorly matched for your workload, including model complexity (or lack thereof), the way your model is setup, the inputs to your models (if you're bottlenecked on IO, including host <-> TPU memory bandwidth, well, what can you do?), how you were training them (including the evaluators used).

Since your post didn't actually include any details, I did a search and immediately found an article[1] where TPUs worked better for their particular use-case. I suspect I could find many such reports (and probably some opposite reports too).

It's unfortunate they didn't work for you, perhaps you should give them another shot with a different model. I'd recommend using Cloud's examples as a starting point.

[1] https://medium.com/bigdatarepublic/cost-comparison-of-deep-l...
Wait, hacker news is moderated quite actively and skillfully. Not trying to be a smart ass, I just don’t know what point you’re making.
Ha, loosely related but not the same subject...

It reminds me of when David Brin was trying to say Dolphins might not be that smart.

https://davidbrin.com/nonfiction/dogmaofotherness.html
Just to clarify - the original intent was to use this only between devices in the same LAN, because this way you don't need a server. Having a server, there are much better ways to transfer files.
> how would you communicate it if you worked in their marketing department, if you're being honest?

I'd emphasize that both an "Open Source" offering and a more complete "Permissive Source Available" offering were available. The goal would be to contrast the source-available offering favorably with closed-source proprietary offerings, rather than to invite, needlessly, a possibly unflattering comparison with Open Source.

But how about just not picking a fight with the Open Source community?

The argument over field-of-use restrictions is anything but new, so going in with the notion you're going to either win everybody over or that people are going to quietly roll over is foolish.

The other possibility is that you deliberately pick a fight with the Open Source community for the sake of publicity. Some marketers are cynical enough to do that, but I'm not — and Timescale are not taking a combative approach and don't seem to be either.

But people really ought to know by now that attempting to coopt the term "Open Source" is certain to provoke an infuriated and vocal response. This latest wave has been going on for what, a year or two by now?
What a time to be alive.

I remember installing calibre once, because I needed to open an .epub file I had. Upon opening it, it started to "classify" stuff and build a sort of catalog, to which I kill -9'd it immediately and uninstalled it for good measure. But mounting filesystems is way, way worse than anything I imagined it was about to do!
These are incredible! It's like a wooden version of ClickSpring

Interesting that he keeps a bunch of old iBooks around so he can keep using Working Model
It really depends. Some places like Canada and Australia it's a bit rough, but in europe and both internet speeds and caps are much much cheaper. Honestly even in Canada I have a 1TB cap, which would be a problem if I played a ton of Stadia, but a few hours a week is not an issue. 50 hours would be maybe half my cap.
This site appears to contain the images of the relevant (copies of) the murals in question:

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/pre-columbian-murals...
Civil rights movement was started by Rosa Park sitting on the bus. It was surprising big event. Most characters in that story kept going by same scripts as before, with only slight variations and only little bit of learning from previous experiences.