skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people started by acting like adults and wear a mask instead of acting like crybabies we would have avoided a lot of restrictions. I get why countries are enforcing harsh lockdown, it's the only way to make these animals behave. But then again we're talking about a country in which the president organises massive events without enforcing any social distancing nor masks so all bets are off.
For iPhone, go to Settings -> Siri & Search and ensure ‘Listen for “Hey Siri”’ is toggled off.
But they did call it an outage.
They seem to have hit the row limit, not the column limit. They were using Excel to collate the data coming in from different test centres: when one of the CSVs was loaded in, the row limit was exceeded and Excel cut off the extra rows without the operator realising (I'm going off reporting by Alex Hearn at The Guardian here, and he's normally pretty good)
Is the EU actually any better for this sort of case, though? In practice, not just in theory?

I believe the EU has different cost/benefit tradeoffs, but they're still not something to be done casually or easily by a consumer at this scale of damage. For instance, "loser pays" sounds great until you lose. Even if your obligations are statutorily limited it's still not something to take on over, let's say, Amazon restricting access to the 40 books you purchased, to pull an example from nowhere.

The damages in such a case are so low that it's difficult for any legal system to provide a reasonable mechanism for redress. Even if you valuate your time at the local minimum wage, even a small claims court is going to take more time than is worth it for one person. You'll probably be waiting in the courtroom for longer than the value of the books in question.

The real problem here isn't that the US is a consumer rights wasteland when it isn't; the real problem is the huge asymmetrical advantages companies have, in any jurisdiction, in screwing significant numbers of people just a little bit.
Turmoil over Political Speech at Coinbase
The same functionality to remotely enable the microphone is available on both cell phones and smart speakers. They are largely similar hardware under the surface.
Good point — especially since as opposed to full continuations, which are essentially impossible to implement efficiently, coroutines / one-shot continuations, have a completely obvious and intuitive implementation: each coroutine is a separate stack and when one coroutine yields to another, it's just a jump to executing code on a different stack.
It might help separating your data into different tiers of "love", and deciding on your backup strategies from there.

For example, my irreplaceable photos (probably around 3TB worth) get packed into year-based TAR files, then uploaded to Glacier Deep Archive. It's only around $3 USD a month.

I won't have to care about retrieval cost for the moment, because I think I'll only need to touch it in the event of a catastrophe.

Most media files and Linux ISOs don't get backed up at all.
I like the idea however I would prefer to at least have the option to download the .ipynb files
It's not hugely complex although definitely more than the first example. I guess it depends whether it's offset by the benefits...

https://dbfiddle.uk/?rdbms=postgres_11&fiddle=50e6a963cd1db0...

(YMMV, obvs.)
I guess Ogden hadn't heard of Godel's proof, which was around the same time. Ironic indeed.
That's the opposite of irony, as one would absolutely expect weirdness on Slack to be talked about on HN.
Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel
>This is quite clearly hopelessly idealistic. Robust ecosystems that sustain macrofauna are achievable (and necessary, IMO) but "untouched" is not. That sort of idealism is not a problem, but it does set up some issues in terms of getting everyone on board.

>Large grazers, bears, wolves, even lynx come into conflict with humans. This is reality. That conflict can be managed and mitigated such that we coexist, but we need to develop a models and cultures that allow this. Scottish farmers don't want wolves. They're not going to come on board with a naive effort. Even lynx are a tough sell, but it's a better place to start than wolves

>Americans and Canadians have had some great successes reversing exterpations.

One of the more high profile examples in the last ten-fifteen years are the wolf populations in Yellowstone.

https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/wolf-restoration.htm

One of the biggest issues they faced and maybe still do are conflicts between ranchers, farmers and hunters outside the border of the park. To the point where people would camp just outside the park with rifles and wait for any that would stray over the border.

Cattle ranchers in the area were the biggest opponents to the reintroduction, they also already deal with brucellosis issues because of the bison in the park, likewise, the bison in the park have a brucellosis problem because of the cattle ranches.

It took years of negotiations with landowners in the area, a lot of enforcement for poaching and constant tracking and population studies on the wolves themselves to get the success they had.
The original study was indeed subpar, but follow-up research research confirms the intuition that you are not the same when you know someone (something?) is watching you, as the "See Also" section demonstrates.
Yeah definitely true. I feel like sites that allow many languages have a hard time really ruling out the efficiency differences between most optimal and close-to-the-right-asymptotics.
Facebook says breaking off WhatsApp and Instagram would cost billions of dollars
Nextcloud 20: One private cloud to rule them all
You're right. This is why (as they said in the article) there aren't any massive players in the market. It's viable if you have a few machines in your area that you restock as a hobby, but the minute you add in any sort of overhead, your margins will dry up immediately. Plus, the numbers in the article are actually a little high. 25% margins or less are more common, and generally a single machine will only bring a few hundred or less per month in profit.
Horrible decision imo, since ping can easily be confused with the networking action and there’s no way an “i” could be easily assumed from just seeing “png”.
I've seen this too. And I've also seen the converse--complexity that was added because engineers refused anything but the most myopic designs, using thought-terminating cliches like "YAGNI" or "that's hypothetical".

"Never think ahead" is obviously not good advice. There's no silver bullet here--we have to think about how likely future scenarios are, and plan for them based on the business context and needs. Many of them are unlikely or too costly to do anything about...and many of them aren't.
One big takeaway here from this is that you can compete on inventory. Keep the high-volume items that are popular, but also sell, e.g., masks, sanitizer, other knickknacks that are relatively disposable and are good impulse buys.
Stop Blaming Spreadsheets (2014)
Could someone comment on why exactly this a poor design for their backend? Genuinely curious, I don't have any real world context on systems like this.
Is Discord a viable alternative to Slack? If not, why not?
Has anyone done a latency test?
Content warning at that Pressure Ulcer click. Its rough and probably NSFW.
Mercedes get prize money and sponsor money. On top of that they get revenue from supplying engines to other teams.

The team might spent untold hundreds of millions (of money they have earned) but the parent Mercedes company spend thirty million a year.

For Mercedes this is excellent value for money, equivalent to a billion or so in paid advertising time on television.

Contrast this situation with teams at the back of the grid: no revenue from supplying engines, expenses for getting engines, poor sponsorship money, no income from a parent manufacturer. Oh, and little in the way of prize money. They do get some sponsorship money from their drivers though, either because they are in a Mercedes/Ferrari/Red Bull 'academy' or because the pay driver comes with sponsorship from his wealthy father or country.
I've been in industry for 12 years now, and none of your second paragraph rings true for me. "Useless client projects" and "boss/company save face when things fail" sound like they might describe some kind of consultancy? Evening/weekend HR events sound like a terrible HR team—if anyone should know the importance of being inclusive of parents and others with external commitments, it should be HR.

You recommend not running, but if you're not in a position to change some of these core practices, moving to a better situation may be the best option. I think one huge quality-of-life factor is working on a team with strong technical leadership. That could be a tech-led company, or it could be an in-house engineering team at any company where the team's director has clout outside the engineering team, generally based on a history of delivering value to the broader org.
Or a developer looking for a fun project and making it available to anyone else who happens to want it :)
That's an amazing bit of indirection that both spares them having to update the machine and let's them change the price without reconfiguring the machine. Just like subway tokens.
You have various Jetson Nano 'pro' boxes,
like:

+ https://www.aaeon.com/en/c/aaeon-nvidia-ai-solutions

+ https://www.avermedia.com/professional/category/nvidia_jetso...

and you have certain numbers of custom design using the Nano compute module https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-nano
Gay couples take over hashtag to drown out hate group
"GET" is such a confusing word. I was on a bus with a man who was leaning English and he asked me to explain "get". His English was already limited, and explaining the diversity of meanings made me grow to hate the word.
I meant string in a more casual sense. From a more technical sense, it would be a symbol. I'll be more precise in the future.
Many people are able to use iMessage on Hackintosh machines.
I just started using Snowpack and it is a godsend. It’s an anti-bundler that puts separate modules into a directory.

Between that and using vscode remote SSH onto my server environment, it’s almost like the old days of save-refresh, but with auto refresh!
Why must this be an application with a demo? You can easily make a website with the same purpose.
Are people not allowed to do projects for fun anymore? Why does every single project need to solve a problem?
Jimmy Carter requested Americans to turn down their thermostats for the Winter and Americans balked (I was alive at that time - he asked to turn it down from 72F to 68F). I can't imagine Americans balking at turning down their thermostats being happy to give up the constant delivery of electricity to their homes. If you're going to ask people to make significant lifestyle changes then you should ask them to make those changes where it would provide the biggest benefit - and that's not the utility sector, it's the transportation sector. Not only is transportation the 2nd largest producer of CO2 (not too far behind electricity) but it also leads to poor local air quality and tens of thousands of vehicle-related deaths. Moreover, I think more Americans would be amenable to a change in transportation over a change in their electric supply.
Not particularly well - it's ... less offensive, and sort of a combo of fishy, oily, and vegetative?
I think you have the right approach. We all have to be humble and accept wherever science leads us. If god is part of the natural order, and we find evidence for this phenomenon, then it should be accepted.
Do you work for yourself or someone else? If the latter, why do you spend any effort maximizing your efficiency? This is a pattern that I see often on HN. People take an employer's problem (they are wasting the time they've purchased with distractions) and making it their personal problem.
18.04 is a sensible release to ship, considering that 20.04 only came out in April.
The font on that blog is awful.
> The real feature should just be a button that shifts insurance liability to Tesla for the period of the autopilot engagement and charges you a floating premium for it based on traffic conditions per mile/km while the autopilot is on.

No amount of money makes up for human lives. You can pay a premium of $1mil per mile, if the car end up smashing into a family car at 80mph because the system was fooled by a shadow or a reflection it's still a net negative
We (Paperspace YCW15) have something similar at https://ml-showcase.paperspace.com/ where you can launch and run some popular Jupyter notebooks and run for free :)

Disclaimer: I’m the CEO/co-founder
ETA Prime already did a emulation, seems to have enough grunt to run some GameCube/Wii games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xrRxz5633I

Compared to him testing on a Raspberry Pi 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4TyYU9Xhcs

(note both those videos are a old so results could be different now)

The video is a year old, but I imagine there would be less bugs now. With this cheaper board coming out, there might be a bit more of development activity.
> and it's far from certain that a nominal and arbitrary lockdown (as US states have employed) in as complicated a system as a society actually does so

The key phrase there is as US states have employed.

Lockdowns have been successfully deployed to eliminate national COVID-19 outbreaks in developed countries. Both theory and that experience confirm their effectiveness. However political polarization caused both government authorities and individual citizens to undermine and severely compromise the effectiveness of the strategy in the US. This is one of those things were compromise to a half way solution doesn't work.

If you gave everyone time and resources to prepare for a total 3 week lockdown, then did it, the virus would be totally eliminated at the end of it. Afterwards, with strict traveler quarantine measures and contract tracing, the economy could open up completely. Unfortunately, we have too many people who refuse to distance at all or even wear a mask, so we get to live in an extended garbage fire.
There are soooo many regulations that add barriers to mobility in Germany. The weird employment recommendation coded letter, and the fact that you literally cannot fire anyone.
It's probably not surprising that it happens. But still, Facebook has promised not combining any Whatsapp userdata and respecting users' privacy when they were taken over[0], and Facebook getting a €110.000.000 fine from the EU for breaking that promise three years ago [1].

[0] https://blog.whatsapp.com/setting-the-record-straight
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_17_...
Nvidia Releases Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kit for IoT and AI
I love the creativity/problem solving, and your plan-less approach. Rapid prototyping is the key to not over-investing.

You'll quickly figure out what you like & don't like, and because you didn't invest too much you're more free to hack it up later :)
In that case, I don't understand why you replied to my comment asking "How would you migrate from 4 x 4TB to 4 x 6TB disks by buying one disk at a time?". In case it wasn't clear, the buying one disk at a time aspect is important, because storage needs increase steadily over time, not all at once, so it makes financial sense to buy a higher capacity drive and replace a lower capacity one over a longer period of time, instead of replacing all drives at once and then have most of the extra storage sit there unused.
How long after sharing this with hacker news did it take for one of us to name their public room "penis"?
I worked at MS in the early 90's during the time when they wanted to break it up -- I'm convinced that if BillG simply accepted this and approached it in a constructive way, that separate systems and apps companies would have been fantastically good for both shareholders and the software that was produced by MS and others.
Reinventing the SPAC
Total+Meditation
Big Brain. Bigger Impact: Ode Among the Semi-Finalists
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We at ODE believe that individuals who have discovered the effectiveness of decisions for themself, stand up for other goals as well.
Are there white papers / briefs out there that have hard information on what quantifies a good location vs not?
Agreed, I used to interactively rebase but have since switched to a four step process. If you have conflicts, you'll deal with them all at once when you merge in `origin/master`.

git fetch

git merge origin/master

git reset origin/master

git commit
This is exactly the type usage of unnecessary surveillance devices and subsequent attitude (chilling effect) that is the problem.
That sounds like Facebook's problem. "There is no 'it's too hard' defense", as Tim Wu notes.
Whether the design is efficient is a different question than whether the design process is efficient.
> Sadly, after a few honeymoon years he will discover almost the exact same problems with industry.

Pretty much what I was thinking. I am in demand just now, but my job hasn't been inspiring for years, its just keeping other peoples crappy code running rather than anything creative any more.

My theory with industry is that if a company has been around long enough to be making money, chances are their codebase will be a mess.
> If you have a smart speaker, you're trusting they don't upload all speech.

Well, you shouldn't be doing that because we've known for a while that smart speakers have a false-positive problem.

That's the advantage of a physical gesture; the AI won't get it wrong. A physical action like holding down your home button is much less likely to trigger on accident.

Not to mention, you can also full-on disable the voice assistant on your smartphone, in which case, there's practically zero risk of a false positive.

> With a cell phone, it is actually tougher, because you're also trusting the manufacturer that their security model is such that 3rd party software can't violate the privacy policy you're expecting.

Stealing my contacts is bad, getting access to my microphone is worse.

If the argument is, "my phone might get malware, so having an always-on-microphone is exactly the same", that just seems really fatalistic to me. These are different risks that belong in different categories.
I don't know about that. The Old Testament has things like if kids make fun of a bald headed man, he can, out of narcissism, get god to send bears to murder them for the insult to his appearance.

> 2 Kings 2:23-24 -
23 Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!” 24 When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number.
Has Houghton actually accepted? He's turned down past prizes because some of his colleagues weren't included.

(to answer my own question - yes, he has now."Houghton accepted the Nobel but said he hoped future award committees would recognise larger groups of scientists. “Great science, often, is a group of people and I think going forward we somehow need to acknowledge that,” he said"
Their status page is annoying me more and more with these recent outages.

Recalling the incidents in September, it's a bit cheeky they call that "99.93%" uptime (30 mins of downtime).

Having remembered that there were at _least_ 2 seperate 1 hour+ incidents where I was struggling to send messages in Sept, I went through to look at the history, and they seem to have purposefully hidden these incidents on the calendar. There's no way of listing incidents in a month.

The information and accessibility of the status page is obviously politically motivated by marketing.
Fighting the Tinder++ Malware
It is absolutely not unexpected. Any vestiges of privacy are being eroded. Not that recently, inside of the car was relatively safe from eavesdropping. Cell phones and Alexa devices changed all that.

What I do find odd, however, is the weird distribution of those devices. In my immediate social circle, its either old people who want to show they have something cool and hip and young tech enthusiasts. My sample may be completele skewed as I am not the most social person ever though. The trend may be much more pronounced.

Still, it boggles my mind. Why would you voluntarily do it? My parents only invited trusted friends to ensure nothing 'questionable' made it to the authorities ( former soviet republic ). People today brazenly broadcast it.

I honestly do not get it.
Its interesting, I looked at that page earlier (~1145 EST) and it was actually tagged as an "Outage" rather than the "Incident" it is right now.

For me it has only been slow performance all morning. Its not good, but not what I would call "down" either. At least from my perspective. I could have a bunch of other folks who are completely unable to send messages and I just can't tell.
> No amount of money makes up for human lives

Sure, but no human life is worth spending infinite resources to protect.
Scrum Values: A Practical Guide to Implement Them (and Boost Productivity)
Unless you explicitly turn it off.
In the case of 'Python Virtual Environments' you'd still have to install another version of Python which is non-trivial with Debian based systems without causing some sort of collision, unless you download the binaries to /usr/ or other bin location as suggested.
Covid Hysteria Is Unforgivable
The thing is it doesn't need to record anything (to spy on you).

Voice recognition is 'on' all the time as it needs to recognise 'keyword'. All you need then is simple transcription into text.
With things like these I always like to visualize it backwards.

These things don't want anything. It's just the way things work.

If you manage to form an organism that survives better than other organisms, there will be more of you (and your cells). There is no "want" and "like" in evolution, just "works" and "replication".
In Europe (he was in France, no?) I would expect a professor to earn something similar to a senior engineer.
Great day to get some work done.
it was within the first hour
Unfortunately true. About a year ago, I had reported a pod-specific issue to Zendesk (I'm fuzzy on the details). They confirmed the issue but also acknowledged that it would not reflect on status.zendesk.com.

I've questioned status pages since.
Get real. Either you're buying everyone several expensive Tesla Powerwall-like batteries or this isn't happening. Why do people write things like this?
WHO says 10% of global population may have been infected with virus
Someone should really explore how intellectually lobotomized concepts like "hate" and "hatred" came to dominate American political analysis and Western political discourse more broadly.

This is not mere snark. There's a rich and fascinating story there.
Comments on the site itself are pure gold as some are pointing out the various (mostly humorous) events that are not being actively tracked with their driver-facing camera. I will try to compile this list below:

- DRIVER_ON_PASSENGER_SIDE

- DRIVER_MISSING

- DRIVER_PICKING_BOOGERS

- DRIVER_SEAT_FULLY_RECLINED

- DRIVER_SNORING

- DRIVER_SHAVING

- DRIVER_VAPING

- DRIVER_LIVESTREAMING

- DRIVER_ADJUSTING_MAKEUP

- DRIVER_APPLYING_LIPSTICK

- PASSENGER_ON_DRIVER

- PASSENGER_UNDER_DRIVER
You mean that you'd have the choice between using autopilot as is (with you having the liability, not allowed to text) or switch to Tesla having the liability and be free to text?

That would require the system to be safe enough to text while using it.

If you mean that the feature should always be pay-to-use, that seems ridiculous. Why try to minimize the use of a driver assist feature?
Link disintermediation:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001002772...
Literally, as even the tangling and folding ("packing") of DNA changes its behaviour.