skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That just reeks of "people are idiots and I don't wanna get sued" type ass covering. There's nothing about these machines that's particularly magical. They just aren't stupid proofed against the typical homeowner half-assery. Solution is don't be stupid and don't half ass the install (i.e. read the docs the manufacturer publishes about the machine and do something to mitigate the corners you inevitably need to cut in your specific case).
> I think 6 years should be enough

I’m guessing you don’t know very many Indians?
It amazes me that after widespread adoption of dishwashers, we still build very customised bathrooms into houses that require manual labour to clean each surface - tiles/grout, basins, benchtops, toilets, floors, etc.

A bathroom that could be sealed and cleaned as though it was a dishwasher would be great. For everything but the toilet, lightly pressured spray of hot water would probably be sufficient. Throw the towels in the wash, close the waterproofed door, press the cleaning button and head off to work. Then the door/vents open to air it out after the cleaning process. There are public toilets that do it so surely we could make an attractive home version of that?

And if not the entire bathroom, at least have self-cleaning toilets rather than almost every single model being a slightly different shape so there's no standardised solution better than a toilet brush.

The lifetime cost of paid cleaners or just cleaning the bathroom yourself has to be worth something that could be invested into a bathroom upgrade when building.
Instead of labeling drugs "do not take with grapefruit", how about using a different dosage for when you take it with grapefruit? Having more of the drug survive the stomach could be a good thing.

Or is that too unpredictable? More unpredictable than the effect of medication already is, I mean.
Due to the pandemic, we’ll actually be able to hear the arguments and SCOTUS questions live as well. Possibly an acquired taste, but I found the last round of phone hearings very interesting and entertaining.
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I make sure I understand a feature before building it
Thanks for sharing your story. It reminds me of my father who experienced similar things in the 1960's: arriving to America with basically nothing, a network of friends, some skills and the ability and willpower to do demanding work. He immigrated, but there's a lot of similarity to what you experienced.

If I may ask, what has been your career path since your H1B days?
Too bad Nikola Tesla didn't had a middle name.
Just repeating my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24637140 although it was Tridactyl vs QuteBrowser, the same applies. Before tridactyl, I used vimium and vim-vixen, this is the best one hands down. In terms of integration with Firefox and links recognition. For the hints, it's mainly the fact that tridactyl highlights the elements hinted, for example with the Twitter web UI:

tridactyl: https://imgur.com/D1PDBgY

qutebrowser: https://imgur.com/m4vtbk0

Now it's not that a big deal, but the advantages appears clearly on more saturated pages, off the top of my head, stackoverflow's triage:

With qutebrowser[0], if I want to close the modal, `gs` and `hd` are almost on the same place (it's only with experience that I noticed that hints are top left so `hd` is the hint I'm looking for) compare this to tridactyl[1] the `hy` fits very nicely with the highlight which doesn't let any place for ambiguity. I noticed your other answer about the addons, it's very much appreciated, and if I can help with the beta or whatever, let me know, keep up with the great work.

0: https://imgur.com/H4oGufK

1: https://imgur.com/NyNyOoX
>> Their accreditation is not recognized

If so, then maybe they shouldn't have been issued "skilled worker" visa in the first place. Part of the visa process should be verification that a person really has the credentials to work in the profession they declare on their application.

Of course there also could be a process to get that accreditation without coming to the country. Something like bar exams for lawyers could be held in US embassies around the world, or online.
Greek court rules far-right Golden Dawn leaders ran a crime group
I am probably too young for that :) but this [1] seems a nice list, perhaps there's something similar

[1]: https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding
The NHS provides a very in-depth article on this (their health information is generally top notch). I would recommend giving it a read: https://www.nhs.uk/news/medication/prescription-drugs-and-gr....

In the article they state:

> How much grapefruit is too much grapefruit?

> The researchers report that furanocoumarins are present in all forms of grapefruit (freshly squeezed juice, frozen concentrate and whole fruit).

> One whole grapefruit or 200ml of juice is sufficient to cause enough of an increase in the concentrations of active drugs to have an effect on the body, and therefore could cause side effects.

I presume this would hold for other "bitter citrus" as well.

———————————————

The listed potential health effects are quite significant:

> - Torsade de pointes (a form of abnormally rapid heartbeat that starts in the lower chambers of the heart, which can increase the risk of sudden death)

> - Complete heart block (where there is no transmission of the electrical pulses between the upper and lower chambers of the heart that are needed to make it beat)

> - Rhabdomyolysis (breakdown of muscle fibres that leads to the release of muscle fibre contents, including myoglobin which breaks down into substances that can damage the kidney)

> - Nephrotoxicity (kidney damage)

> - Myelotoxicity (damage to the bone marrow)

> - Venous thrombosis (blood clot)
> In general I think starting from nothing is the original sin of programming pedagogy

I think you're right in saying that. Back when I was in school, I learnt a lot by copying BASIC programs from mags and typing them in and then modifying them. I don't think I even acknowledge that early stage much now given that learning strategies have evolved from there.

edit: Thinking back to that, it seems to me that one of the attractive aspects of BASIC for interactive programming was line numbers. You could replace any line by typing a fresh line with the target line number instead of going back to edit the program. There's something innocent and simple about that.
> FireWire was possibly better engineered, but USB was better marketed.

Yes, perhaps, but it had a big drawback. You could not build a Firewire device with a single die because of the high voltages. This added cost to the USB device (memory stick, etc) meant it would never be price competitive with USB. I was a member of a USB working group and was amazed when a member from a large Japanese company explained that to me. Up to that point, I had not been exposed to the low-end (as in price) of the USB market and didn't realize the significance of this issue. These manufactures would bring the 5V straight into their IC and drop the voltage on-chip. That is actually fairly difficult in the age of such small chip geometries, but basically impossible for Firewire which is 8V to 30V. The USB market is driven by the low-end, so Firewire never had a chance because of an engineering specification.
Retro Game Mechanics Explained: Data Redundancy Errors
And then there’s also city income tax withholdings for those of us who live in those areas....
That’s not a confusion of merit and wealth. If I use wealth to teach you how to drive a truck or learn to program, that’s growing value inside a person. That person became stronger, and in the eyes of society, more meritorious for some tasks.

Merit is due to many things, and mentorship, experimentation, and preparation are all parts of it. Medical training is also very expensive and part of medical merit, but also clearly entangled in discussions of money, opportunity, and growing inequity.

If you have hidden biological talent but never trained as a doctor due to wealth, should we trust you now to perform medicine? Not before that expensive prep; it’s part of merit.
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True. IMHO IP law is based on a moral and not a utilitarian basis, and as we know from almost all recent FLOSS projects especially in Cloud (Linux, Kubernetes, ...) IP is just a massive hindrance to productivity and has a net negative effect on the industry.
George Carlin would never run out of material in today's age.
People would eat variable amounts of grapefruit and might not eat it every day. Medications also have the potential to become toxic and have other effects other than the therapeutic effect.

Can you imagine trying to explain this concept to an elderly family member? A blanket statement is easier to comprehend for the general population.

People DO take insulin where the med is adjusted based on the blood sugar, but this is often accompanied with diabetic education component that takes weeks to complete.
Reading this got me wondering: is Daniel a genius or someone who got lucky once (1.5 times to be more exact) and now sees himself as a tech messiah?

Is Daniel Ek the scandinavian Elrich Bachman?

(Although Elrich was supposed to be of Dane ancestry which is also Scandinavian)
Just to confirm, this interpretation is correct.
Reading "Heroes of CRISPR" [1] it sounds like that, after Cell rejected the paper, they shortened the claim but it was still very much known to them:

> Finally, Siksnys showed that the system could also be reconstituted in a second way—by combining purified His-tagged Cas9, in-vitro-transcribed tracrRNA and crRNA, and RNase III—and that both RNAs were essential for Cas9 to cut DNA. (They would ultimately drop the second reconstitution from their revised paper, but they reported all of the work in their published U.S. patent application filed in March 2012 [Siksnys et al., 2012]).

> Siksnys submitted his paper to Cell on April 6, 2012. Six days later, the journal rejected the paper without external review. (In hindsight, Cell’s editor agrees the paper turned out to be very important.) Siksnys condensed the manuscript and sent it on May 21 to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which published it online on September 4. Charpentier and Doudna’s paper fared better. Submitted to Science 2 months after Siksnys’s on June 8, it sailed through review and appeared online on June 28.

[1] -- https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(15)01705-5
> What's with this nationalism and view human value?

Honestly it is probably just run-of-the-mill xenophobia, but looking at US Federal Tax revenue [0] I would like to point out that prior to ~1930 everyone was basically on their own and after that the government started really becoming a big chunk of the economic pie. In 1920, I expect it was a lot more practical to target an open-border policy. Economically, the failure of a migrant means nothing to a local. In 2020, if a migrant does not succeed then there is a risk that the locals will be paying for it. I argue that that would reasonably change someone's opinions.

The idea that a person's location should have no impact is great, but sits in conflict with the US welfare system.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Governme...
Are you just trying to build a CRUD thing with login? Parse Server hosted on a Node JS server + MongoDB + a little jQuery should do the trick, and you could probably do it all on free tier hosting.

I wrote an easy guide on how to do it in half an hour, targeted at people new to web dev: https://medium.com/@smuzani/setting-up-a-mobile-backend-serv...

The nice thing with Parse is not just that it handles password hashing, roles, and access. Queries are easy, and will give you the results neatly. Client side queries are not secure, but you could host the code on Node.js, or use PHP.

The dashboard is quite sexy and works well on mobile too, which is one of the main reasons I like it.
You're onto something here
Thanks!

There is no way to compare two date intervals in the UI yet, but the code is actually there, I only have to add some UI for it.

I was thinking to just add a checkbox to enable "compare with last interval", so whatever segments you have selected, when the checkbox is enabled you would also see graphs of the previous period. Eg. You have chosen "last 2 weeks", it would comapre "last 2 weeks" with "minus 4 weeks, minus 2 weeks".
There are ways around it, like “returning a signing bonus” or “reimbursing relocation costs”. Those are usually subjective and super-vague as well, e.g. “approx. $$$” or “minimum of $$$” and they never give you an actual number so it’s extra scary for someone coming from a country where their current monthly wage could sustain them for a year.

Temporary working visas like H1B(US) or 457(Australia) or L(Swiss) are all terrible in their own little ways, sigh.

The main issue is if you make a wrong career move your situation could quickly turn into an absolute nightmare, e.g. consistent abuse at work which you cannot escape.
Things are a bit better these days thanks to bioRxiv. I wonder which Nobel summary (if any) will cite a preprint for the first time...
The scale of Facebook and the role it plays in today's society stems way beyond the newspaper. In an age where communication mainly happens online, it is more comparable to a telephone, or even the internet itself. For (hundreds of) millions of people, Facebook IS the internet. You could say "well $telecom can choose to censor certain words that go through their phone lines, or block websites, just like a store can choose to stock a particular product or not" but let's be honest, they're different scenarios.
It's an interesting balance though. On one hand I don't want a thief(or anyone) to be able to use my device after it's stolen, it should be literally impossible for anyone to unlock that device, ever. On the other hand, I'm not happy with Apple positioning themselves where they are, aggressively going after independent repair shops and not selling spare parts. Can we have it both ways? I don't know.
Scaling Python Data Science to the Cloud (With Dask)
The article's title has changed; I think that they're doing one of those strange plays where the article title is different for different people.

This flop, losing a quarter of their value overnight, is one of the expected outcomes from the middle class placing their hopes and dreams on the stock market; they demand more ethical options from index stocks and ETFs, and this reduces the upstream demand for groups like Palantir.
That seems like the reason why won't they share the trained model. Somebody needs to pay for that, how would they fund it if they just shared it?

As far as my thinking goes, they are open more than enough. Thank you for your input!
It’s not at all clear how you are comparing Linux to its closed competitors, but frankly, if that’s the best example you can pick, I’d suggest copyright is largely winning that battle. Yes, Linux has probably “won” in some markets (servers/IoT being the obvious ones), but there are plenty of markets where that is not even close to being true.
Enpass.io with the Enpass Chrome extension and the Android app.

Data is stored on my Google Drive, for syncing across multiple devices.
ground realities are that, for example, flint michigan barely has clean water after seven years.

if you are claiming the usa is not a well functioning representative democracy, i agree.
Well, we others can buy a ticket and go see it. Same with GPT-3.
I’d much prefer going to the laundromat over not having a dishwasher.
Damn, your lack of tact is seriously depressing.
Not just funding, also jobs for the members of your lab etc
"This community is available in the app"

Well, so long reddit (and thanks for all the memes)
But apparently the effect lasts up to 12 hours, vitamin c should be gone from the stomach by then. Grapefruit has been anecdotally recommended for MDMA (an amphetamine).
Citrus names across languages are a mess. For example, citron is the English name for one of the base fruits, which after several hibridisation steps with other fruits results in the lemon. Dutch name for lemon? Citroen. In French it's citron. The French word for the English citron is cédrat. Sukade in Dutch.

The Dutch for pomelo is pompelmoes, while the pomelo is a hybrid between the pompelmoes and the grapefruit, and is called shaddock in English according to the Dutch Wikipedia.
I mean we have it at work because we very frequently copy 100GB+ builds across machines - and yes, the switch that we have is only 8 ports but full 1U size, and it is actively cooled.
Isn't Activation Lock still enforced server-side?

During initial setup the iPhone checks in with Apple (presumably providing its serial number, etc) and gets some client certificates back for things like iMessage, push notifications, etc.

So even if you circumvent activation lock client-side and get to the phone's home screen, you shouldn't be able to really use it for much (beyond a simple phone and web browser).
If this (somehow) succeeds, could IBM sue Oracle over SQL compatibility?
I really feel the words of L. Krauss when he says that the universe is romantic, in the deepest sense.
A little Google Ads trick that quadrupled the click-through-rate
It's important to note that the checkra1n team have vehemently criticized this article for inaccuracy.

https://twitter.com/axi0mX/status/1313665047768391680

https://twitter.com/su_rickmark/status/1313733383453732864
The point the others are making isn’t about your standard of living, but your compensation.

If you hadn’t been tied to a single employer, maybe you would have gotten a job with an employer who paid more. You would have been able to reach your savings goal without living so frugally. Your employer at the time was comfortable paying you a relatively small amount because you couldn’t go anywhere else.

They’re not asking immigrants to live more lavishly. They’re asking for immigrants to be paid more so there’s less downward pressure on wages.
Wow, I've never seen it so clearly described how to download/modify/rebuild/install a debian package before.

I thought that there were like a billion ways to do this -- pbuilder, debootstrap, fakeroot, sbuild, ./debian/rules, probably a few others I'm forgetting. Every time I've interacted with this over the last decade it's given me a headache.

In 2020, is `dpkg-buildpackage` the official way to do this? It seems very easy!
> Merit is due to many things, and mentorship, experimentation, and preparation are all parts of it. Medical training is also very expensive and part of medical merit, but also clearly entangled in discussions of money and opportunity.

Exactly, and if one has a lot of hard-earned wealth thanks to their own smarts and merit and drive to work hard they’ll of course happily spend it on all the right things to make sure their kids have even more of that than their parents. With private education and all that blocks opportunities for kids in lower income families and increase inequality; merit becomes a proxy for wealth and as meritocracy matures it becomes more and more a rule of the rich. (Being “a proxy for” is not the same as “being confused with”, it’s just that one would more or less follow the other.)
From what I can tell, the cheapest managed database on DigitalOcean is $15/month, as was mentioned previously in this thread.

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#managed-databases
But this is specifically about the MacBooks, no? Meaning that if you can get the machine to boot it will work as normal, maybe App Store won't work but it shouldn't have much impact on the usability of the machine, right?
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Does anyone else see only two replies for the first tweet? It says "THREAD" but then I don't see the thread anywhere. Twitter is terrible.
Unless you can uninstall someone else's broken one, fix it and install it in your home without F-ing it up you likely have no business owning industrial appliances. These things aren't made to plug and play anywhere any everywhere like consumer appliances are and you're gonna have to consider a bunch of little details in order to make them deliver good service. If you don't already know what that entails you're probably out of your league and the ownership experience will likely be less satisfying than several $500 disposable consumer models of the same time period.

Also if you're not gonna do all your own maintenance just forget about it and buy cheap disposable appliances. Skilled labor is just too expensive these days to do anything else. Also, many commercial operations that are small enough to not be able to do maintenance in house (hotel laundry is a good example) buy a fleet of consumer appliances with the extended warranty and buy more than they need to that when one or two are down at any one time it's a non-issue because doing that is actually cheaper than maintaining commercial equipment.
QAnon High Priest Was Just Trolling Away as a Citigroup Tech Executive
> What's truly amazing is that the author fundamentally misses the point of the article, that while you can say whatever you like, you are not shielded from the consequences of saying that.

It's appropriate to share one of those memes just as stupid, harmful and widespread as that xkcd comic here. Maybe even more so, maybe this really does refute the author's premise. Taken to its logical conclusion, it would justify any kind of punishment for speech. The consequence for critizizing Kim Jong Un in Noth Korea is that you get thrown into a labor camp. Freedom of speech, after all, does not mean freedom from consequences.

The fundamental error here is to speak of consequences as if they are things that just happen, like a law of nature, and not a conscious attempt to punish people.
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Conventional thinking is (or was? I don’t follow this closely) that hard shots into the side netting either low to the ground or high up are unstoppable. The goalkeeper cannot reach the high corners, and will not fall fast enough to catch low shots, if the shot is fast enough.

Mid-high shots close to the side of the goal are catchable, if the goalkeeper guesses (possibly with over 50% chance, if he knows the player or can tell from his approach) the direction of the shot.

Problem of course, is maintaining accuracy while shooting hard under pressure. Many players seem to be able to do that nowadays (most of the time)