skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple got it right because they built a stable api around it, and integrated all their applications with it.

Linux hasn't got it right because there is still no unified api, even if there was, all apps must implement it to be useful.

This is where OP push comes in. To make all of this possible through donations. You should read his older blog posts. They're worth a read.
Handling range requests in a service worker
Interfaces that help machine learning (2020)
well, better nuclear than coal I guess
The article you link doesn't say anything about ICU capacity surging in a manner that compares with COVID this year. It talks mostly about tents outside of emergency rooms. COVID deaths this year are already 173% of the deaths from the 2017-18 flu season, and most sources indicate that these numbers actually underestimate the real toll.
that's a bad metric. If our ancient ancestors sat on a rock staring at a flickering rectangle for 8 hours a day they'd be eaten by tigers, but we're doing OK.
No, it doesn't. The point is to remember what you want to remember, not to memorize the whole library.
somehow that makes it all ok to censor rather than just leave it be and focus on other threads?

jimi hendrix was a pioneer. van halen was another rock-n-roller.
Given the time of that question, my guess would be they are using floating point underneath, and have worked out the math so you get approximately that much precision. There's some weirdness in this between 32 bit and 64 bit, based on how the calculation is done. See [1].

I had a mysql instance once where I migrated from a 32 bit system to a 64 bit system, and one of the main tables' primary key was a float that was a high resolution timestamp. Unfortunately, on inserting the old data into the new 64 bit system with a MySQL compiled for 64 bit, the values started having lots of collisions on the primary key, where two previously distinct high-resolution float values now rounded to the same float in 64 bit. Counterintuitive, and a nightmare.

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31415712/floating-point-...
That’s a good point.

My mind was definitely in the mode of what number and kinds of viruses that a body is exposed to, not so much how contagious it is, but I see your point.
> If you want to talk about vertically aligned retail giants producing store brands, it would be very helpful for you to understand that retailers like Walmart and Target are not vertically aligned and do not produce their own store brands. They buy them as white label products from other companies, most of whom make the name-brand products that appear in their stores alongside the store brands.

This is a distinction without a difference. The mere fact that they don't own the factory producing the goods doesn't change the fact that they are acting as both producer and distributor in the same marketplace. If Costco buys bottled water from Nestle they are only a distributor, and there is no conflict of interest. When they put Kirkland Signature water on the shelf next to it, there is a pretty clear conflict of interest that allows Costco to leverage it's power as a distributor into pricing power against producers. Additionally, there is only a single buyer for the product line, regardless of whether the producer is legally independent. This is a vertically aligned operation - if Costco stopped selling Kirkland Signature tomorrow, it would cease to exist. The fact that they are buying the store brand products from the same producers who make the name brand product makes the entire operation look more aligned and concentrated, not less.

> The second half of that statement is false ("in order to..."), and demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of how the retail market works. Product manufacturers derive their profits from selling to retailers not to end customers. They sell their goods at "wholesale prices" that are far below what the end customers pay. The wholesale prices for store brand products are generally the same or close to the same as the price of name-brand products.

Don't be patronizing. The entire dynamic as it exists gives chain stores negotiating leverage against those name-brand products, allowing them to get better prices on goods than a smaller, independent operator would be able to get. That is price discrimination, and it's why small businesses in the US are getting killed and big, consolidated corporations keep getting larger.
Face Swap has a graphical interface and the other is command line, but it has .bat files for you to just click and run so both are pretty easy to start with.

The main work is preparing the training data. Making sure the faces are detected correctly and not accidentally one of another person. It is very tedious work!
I would prefer working from an office just because of the benefits of collaboration. For generic cookie cutter projects WFH works well, but IMO complex large projects can be executed much faster by a co-located team of people.
Efficiency of scale is very real for datacenters
Is it still almost impossible to adjust the mouse and trackpad scroll speed/sensitivity, something that has been set by an easy-to-find slider in every operating system ever written since the invention of the scroll wheel, in Linux?
This rings true. The title should really be "Tech consumption in Sweden needs half a nuclear plant". What else is new?
Has GAE sorted out secrets management? Last I checked, they required you to commit secrets to the repo you push, which necessitates your secrets being on whatever computer (or whoever's computer) does production deploys. Contrast this with DO/Heroku/etc. which lets you set environment variables.

Some folks suggest using a DB to store secrets on GAE, but this is (IMO) just obfuscation.
>I guess that's part of the thrill.

Yeah looking forward to the day where passing unit tests results in a Neuralink-induced orgasm
You won’t be hired and you won’t work for a company in the first place if it wasn’t a win-win agreement between the employer and employee.

What working for lower wages than you’re worth contributes to is a win-lose situation between employers in your field and employees in your field where the employees lose.

It will become a problem for you not now, but in the future when you are looking for a different job or when you want a raise (even if you’re satisfied now with your salary, inflation can catch up with you quickly, for example).
I agree, exacyly.
Unfortunately, having such an ideal commute is basically impossible for most people, who are left with the other two options, both of them worse. Alternate between commute and wfh is better but just not as good.

I really feel like an ideal commute is one of the ultimate luxuries, given how much impact it has on daily life. Even better than 20 mins by car is 20 mins by bike/ on foot.
Ask HN: How to start SaaS or software business?
It looks like there is SaaS for everything you can think of AND something that other consumers or business would pay for. Time management, project management, education courses, ads, no-code dev. You name it and you will find it.

I am good at execution and getting things done. But, I am not sure what to build or where to invest time and money such that it pays off in 6-12 months. I have been involved in backend work and have good knowledge of "how to use" cloud like AWS.

It is said that you scratch your own itch. But, I don't know if that will pay or not to create successful business.

Thoughts on gathering or finding profitable ideas that can scale up to 1-10 MM revenue in 5 years?
Isn't that a good thing? It means there's demand and money for more renewable plants.
Maybe this is the sort of incentive that will force them to toss a few billions for investing in fusion moonshots.
“Van” is part of the surname. It means “of” or “from” in Dutch. It’s similar to “De” prefixed to Spanish surnames.
Link to DHS press release: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/10/06/department-homeland-secu...

Probably a better link than the WSJ submission – even though I'm a subscriber, I want the facts, and the facts seem to be hard to find

As a matter of fact, I still haven't found the actual "interim final rule" (an oxymoron if I've ever seen one), so if anyone has a link, I'd be immensely grateful

EDIT: Here's the unpublished ruling in PDF: https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2020-22347.pdf

One paragraph I was keen on knowing more about – and which seems pretty uncontroversial:

> Under this new rule, the petitioner will have the burden of demonstrating that there is a direct relationship between the required degree in a specific specialty (in other words, the degree field(s) that would qualify someone for the position) and the duties of the position. In many cases, the relationship will be clear and relatively easy to establish. For example, it should not be difficult to establish that a required medical degree is directly correlated to the duties of a physician. Similarly, a direct relationship may be established between the duties of a lawyer and a required law degree, and the duties of an architect and a required architecture degree. In other cases, the direct relationship may be less readily apparent, and the petitioner may have to explain and provide documentation to meet its burden of demonstrating the relationship. To establish a direct relationship, the petitioner would need to provide information regarding the course(s) of study associated with the required degree, or its equivalent, and the duties of the proffered position, and demonstrate the connection between the course of study and the duties and responsibilities of the position
The problem with these data transformations is that the limited descriptive capabilities of YAML are going to be a problem, and then they'll switch to some hybrid monstrosity of YAML+Typescript, or some ad-hoc language or some new template syntax.

This always ends up happening; this will happen here, without a doubt.
Exactly this. People have latched on to the wrong meaning of "novel", ascribing meaning beyond just "not seen before", instead treating it something like "acts worse/differently from other coronaviruses".
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I think this speaks to the profound duplicity found inside humans. As if they just don't like the consequences of their actions waved in their face. In a lot of jurisdictions, data HAS to be stored locally, for privacy law reasons. So the data center has to go somewhere in the country, and the data center has to draw power from some local source. Given this reality, you just want the power to be clean. An analogy would be that "locals are appalled when they discover that eating meat requires killing animals". Given this reality, you just want the killing to be ethical. Maybe, like meat, put the data centers in some sparsely populated outskirts, out of sight and out of mind, and don't talk about it, sounds like that's what people really want here.
I also thought your original post was advocating for open offices.

Still, I'm more productive in a cramped room with a door that closes than in an open offices, and I'm sure many others are too.
New Sci-Hub Url
Here is a good alternative for downloading full PDF of books, theses, and research papers:
http://sci-hub.it.nf
For a moment I have a mental image of narcos stop cooking anfetamine and start making insulin instead...

Or chemist diabetics making their own insulin at home.
I can't believe I'm actually agreeing with something this administration is doing...
Keyboard controllers are usually ROM (perhaps even fixed function, they certainly used to be) controllers, so these solutions are generally software macros, like the one you linked, which works for some things, but not others.
I'm not sure I understand the complaint - if power is going to be consumed regardless, what does it matter who/what consumes power from a particular source?
yes, an actual leader and statesman of the civil rights movement, who deserves mourning and reflection, moreso than any entertainer.
I'd love to see Uber or a competitor embrace the "independent contractors" idea and let drivers and riders bid for service.

I think it's possible to implement this in a user friendly fashion. Enter your destination and your max spend, maybe minimum driver rating, drivers bid for the fare. Let "surge pricing" and basic fares actually be determined by market forces rather than Ubers algorithm.
The source is supposed to be the album's liner notes, which list MJ as "drum case beater" (see below).

So if anyone have the physical copy, they should be able to confirm.

But I'm not sure if it's sufficient to say that noise id done by MJ beating drum case, though.
Buttplug.io is officially my new favourite domain name.
I used Erlang in some university courses, and once wrote a simple crud app in Elixir/Phoenix, so my experience is somewhat limited.

Erlang's syntax is unusual, but after grasping the concepts I always found the language logical and easy to understand. On the other hand, I haven't been able to get comfortable with Elixir. It's a significantly larger language, which comes with higher complexity (but also lets you write code at a higher level of abstraction). I often found myself only half-understanding the code I was writing (and I always make an effort to fully understand what I'm doing).

And personally I find the Elixir syntax to be among the most confusing and inconsistent (especially when compared to Erlang).

Nevertheless, if I was making something web related, I would definitely go for Elixir (because of Phoenix). If I was making something lower-level, I would probably consider both options.
I read this via Google's cache, ironically. The words "Facebook" and "Google" appear only in the title. AFAIK neither has any presence in Sweden. So, clickbait, essentially.

The aggregate capacity of global datacenters has gone up by a factor of 5 since 2010 but the energy consumption has increased by only 10%. This is because taking a workload out of your ridiculous corporate server room where the PUE is 5.0 and moving it into the cloud where the PUE is 1.1 is just about the greenest thing you can do.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
You have a bright future as a copy editor at The Register.
Interesting strategy, let them build up power and give Facebook a bad name, then ban them right as the election starts, to provoke maximum conspiracy?

The QAnon nuttiness really reminds me of Lyndon Larouche. I don't know how to deal with people that are so disconnected from reality.
New timeline on reptile evolution rebuts long-held theories
I’m sure this administration’s policies on China will find many fans around here.
> the ability to define the kind of numbers you want to be working with and their precision is fairly poor in computer science...

It's poor because it's undecidable. We would ideally want to work with the real numbers, but no computational model can represent all real numbers (by a trivial cardinality argument).

Obviously, we can make useful progress in practice and evolve beyond the floating point representation (at least for general tasks), similar to what we did for other theoretically undecidable problems (like garbage collectors), but let's not pretend it's something that's easy to fix.

The paper is interesting and talks about very real problems, but it's still a far cry from something that can be used in production.
That’s largely because that page was created in 2018.

He was, however, listed as the 3rd co-founder on Reddit’s CrunchBase page as of 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20140815155953/http://www.crunch...
you don't think one of the most prolific athletes in modern human history ticks a few peoples' "culture" boxes here?
Support for mobile is amusing to me.. practice cellphone typing!
That, and the footprint of a setup is reduced when decks are placed battle style. This is important because turntablism requires a lot of very quick manipulation of both decks and mixer, and it's easier to do this if everything is a lot more compact.

That's also why you typically see turntablists using a simple, small two-channel mixer while other DJs tend to employ wider, bulkier 4+-channel mixers.

To OP's point I could've maybe dropped the word "fundamentally" in my post because at the end of the day the fundamentals remain the same, as do the fundamentals of the guitar in the patent vs regular use.
Yes, it's called KindleLazy.
THIS!

The headline is about them getting locked on, because that's funny, but the buried lead is actually this:

> The security researchers said they discovered a way to fool the server into disclosing the registered name of each device owner, among other personal details, as well as the co-ordinates of every location from where the app had been used.

That's some really sensitive info, with the potential to destroy some lives, or be used as blackmail material.
The state of Utah flies employees to Mexico to fill prescriptions there because: "The cost difference is big enough that the state's program can pay for each patient's flight, provide them with a $500-per-trip bonus, and still save tens of thousands of dollars"

https://www.pharmacist.com/article/utah-sends-employees-mexi...
this doesn't work for wsj, ft etc - archive.is does
Wouldn't we need more due to more overhead due to less economies of scale?
I can only talk personally, and I have seen people with anxiety and depression before, and that isn't what my wife has (she has long covid).

She is part of the coverscan.com trial and has uncovered potential heart damage - which links to the way she's been feeling - heart rate all over the place, tachycardia etc. exhaustion, alongside breathing issues and physical issues such as numbness. She's 40 and before this incredibly active, working out a few days a week, running our house and looking after the kids plus involved in loads of other activities and groups. Since she got ill it can take all her energy to get downstairs to sit on the sofa - with her heart rate peaking at over 180 just walking to get a drink. Her old resting heart rate was around 62.

Similar medical responses have been seen with other viruses before. I understand why people want to disbelieve/find alternative ideas, but it is medically understood that viruses can cause serious responses like this. The question is why covid appears to cause more long cases than other viruses (SARS excepted).

That all said, I wouldn't be surprised if long covid sufferers END UP with anxiety and depression had 6 months plus of an unknown pathway through a new illness.
i didn't know that. what does that mean for the fate of this bill? doesn't that just mean that the senate must consider it? does the commerce committee have anything to do with it? since they oversee commerce and basically the internet (at least from what little i know...)
Please don't call names or cross into personal attack on HN, regardless of what other commenters do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> payroll taxes fall disproportionately (on a percentage of income basis) on the non-wealthy and make up 36% of federal taxes but aren't included in income tax stats.[1]

That's because it's a pension fund, not a general government funding tax. Even so, if you look at FICA payouts to the wealthy, you'll find that the wealthy pay disproportionately far more into the program per benefit received than the poor.
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I blame javascript.

Though most of the power consumption must be video streaming. I wonder if it would be greener if it was distributed via peer-to-peer networks. Any studies on that?
Another example of how to solve this problem is the rational number library used in the Microsoft Calculator. It is called “RatPak” and it is open source:

https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/blob/master/src/Calc...
It makes obvious that the problem is the law.
Facebook has a data center in Luleå. I don’t think Google has any in Sweden though.
I don't buy that they're trying to communicate in good faith. I remember very clearly sources like this* in 2016. There was so much hubris and minimizing of Trump that him having a 30% chance to win was like an irrelevant footnote to Hillary's coming coronation.

*https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cwc-j6YXUAEIMaM.jpg

The pollsters take too much credit when they're right and deflect too much blame when they're wrong. They need to do a better job of being humble and stop trying to pass themselves off as apolitical number crunchers just giving us the facts.
I'm in love. I was able to navigate to hacker news, use F to click into the comments. Use J to read a bit, then jumped back to the top of the page and used F to highlight the text box to start typing this comment. Pair Programming is about to get a whole lot more interesting.
Tesla is selling new cars with holes in the body panels, scuffed body panels, misaligned body panels, different shades of paint on body panels, dirty interiors, materials in the drive train that corrode within months, etc... These problems are well documented. Tesla makes luxury vehicles, they are not competing with Yugo or Fiat. For that kind of money one should expect better quality.
I don't think this works for two reasons. First you're incentivizing the wrong behavior, which would be to complete the ride as fast as possible rather than completing it safely. The second is that it breaks down in small economies where people can easily price fix.
Do not put flour on fires. It’s practically explosive.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2011/07/cost-increas...

All of them.

edit: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/us/the-soaring-cost-of-a-...