skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose it's due to technical reasons why there's (seemingly) no web client? It's a big plus for Google Meet and Jitsi (the Zoom web client is practically unusable).
Yup, I contacted the mods.
> NZ hospitals have been fine.

So every organisation from kindergartens to factories was affected by coronavirus, but hospitals were not affected at all? I don't believe so.
I used to admire Nathan Myhrvold for his work on the Modernist Cuisine and this, until someone cut him down in a HN comment that just because he plays with lasers and mosquito's in a lab and makes cookbooks it doesn't excuse his patent trolling and damage to the world.

And to be honest the Modernist Cuisine isn't as good as the hype I've since decided after actually reading it.

Anywho if this ever leaves a lab I might re-evaluate my opinion on him.
Whoa, this is great. I am using a 2006 Mac Pro with 10.7.5 and most sites are broken to me (not HN).
The distance between the developer and the production database is directly proportional with the size of the company. The same is true for the amount of paperwork needed for even the simplest things.
For some company sizes a feedback cycle measured in days is not good enough and may kill the business.

There is a whole lot of things that could be applied which would have prevented this, before needing to hire a separate server admin as an interface to the production database. :D
The two developers got a "a sum in the low five figures" (1) when Apple licensed the program, and they went on to form a company around the software.

(1) https://www.newsweek.com/they-hacked-real-good-free-117023
You're not taking into account the denominator - the number of people getting infected.

This new virus spread far and fast, while seasonal flu is significantly more blocked off by how many people have immunity or vaccines. Number of deaths is lower for seasonal flu because the number who get infected by those known viruses is also much lower. That's why the IFR is close yet for this year more people are dying.
It's working for me on Ubuntu 20.04, with PowerColor Vega 56, and Firefox 81.
Windows doesn't even natively support windows games.

Go try installing the original Civilization 2, or Rocket Jockey.

Both run fine in wine and can run on Windows 10, but not on windows without serious effort.
Path of Exile was actually broken a few weeks ago and required a third-party Proton build to work. It was sheer luck that Proton 5.13 came out just in time for you to try it.
My case has a lip all around the phone, including the bottom, and the swipe gestures work just fine.
Thank you for your work on wg-access-server, I am happily using it at work with the multi user support to let staff self-service their VPN logins.

There's a few rough edges if you wander off from the simplest use case and a few nice-to-have features that I'm sure will show up in due course, but the core product nails it IMO.
IIRC some side channel attacks we would recognise as spectre were worked on in the 90s but the only really showed themselves properly in the 2010s
It goes much before that. Isikoff met Steele on Sept 22, 2016, and published a story about Carter Page the next day. He didn’t verify a thing. All he did was get an anon government official to say FBI had the dossier. And that kind of journalism happens all the time and never gets called out. The double standards are amazing.
All cpu have instructions with nsa in the name. Well not in the name, but added at their behest at some point in history.
I generally don't bother researching beforehand thanks to Steam's excellent return policy.
> What is in it for Valve?

Aside of political motives regarding Microsoft, the technological problem that Valve is solving with using the flatpak technology is creating a single Linux build target for all Linux game releases.

A recurring complaint from gamedevs is that it's difficult to support many different Linux distributions/versions/runtimes. Steam already does a decent job providing its own runtime to link against, but this goes several steps further in abstracting away from the distribution that a user may be running.
Something simple to organize/reorganize ideas and order.
Some sort of kanban-type platform (like trello or airtable) might be useful.
Heh, during the early days of the pandemic when there were shortages these 1 lb blocks turned up at my grocery in California marketed as "chefs size" and I loved them.
Materials that regenerate! It could be used in pavements. It would be useful in sidewalks. But I would not dare use this for anything especially structural like beams or walls. However, it could be good facade.
Nils, have you thought of doing a master class?

I have utterly, most thoroughly enjoyed everything you have produced. Imperative, functional, low-level, high-level it is all excellent.

If having a class isn't your thing, would you consider taking requests for books?
Data really doesn’t back that up. Adjusted for inflation it’s cheaper to get lawn care done today than 40 years ago. Minimum wage was actually higher back then and automation was worse. Landscaping is extremely common with industry revenue hitting $51,908,304,000 in 2016 or an average of ~400$ per household per year across the US.
why oh why isn't this native functionality.
it seems that windows added this in their latest release (win 10 2004 i think)
I don't use a browser with javascript. I cannot turn it on.
So does Intel. A 2x boost power consumption is pretty standard and Intel often goes beyond that with its turbo.
I feel like history classes focus too much on inane specifics and on chronology. I would have preferred general topics, and an overview of worldwide events that qualify for those topics.

For example -

Genocides: The holocaust, Rwandan genocide, Armenien genocide, etc.

Empires: British, Mongol, Roman etc.

Wars: WWII, WW1, Mongol Wars, etc.

Fastest expanding empires, Most peaceful periods, Most scientifically productive periods, etc.
Agreed. I can’t stand this rhetoric of “I can think of a way this reasonable and useful policy might possibly be abused so let’s throw the entire thing in the trash. I refuse to mitigate any harm or accede to any policy unless it’s perfect!”
You forgot to add a /s. Microsoft is happy to let you run Linux applications on their platforms that you pay for.
>It's not unchecked free speech. Instead, it's unchecked curation by media and social media companies with the goal of engagement.

Unchecked free speech has always been an issue, which is why even in America, where free speech occupies one of the highest rankings of competing social virtues by dint of history, there are still a litany of narrow carve outs.

Do you lie to your business parters in the context of a transaction? We hit you with fraud, misrepresentation, or any number of torts. Do you threaten someone with bodily harm? Oh boy. Cyberbullying? Depending on your state, that might be a problem. Lying while under oath or to a federal agent? That's potentially a few years behind bars.

So yes, unrestricted 'say anything lmao' free speech does not exist. It has never existed. It will never exist.

Everyone who does us the disservice of trotting it out as if it does exist is creating a strawman which distracts us from a more honest conversation.

Which isn't 'should there be a line at all?' It's 'where should that line be drawn?'
What features do you need that a word processor doesn't currently provide?
Assuming a vaccine doesn't come, why shouldn't NZ keep their policy up indefinitely? Testing and quarantining visitors doesn't seem that onerous to me. Certainly beats just letting it run wild in the population.
>> Companies that make their money selling ads

> Which includes...the New York Times. And all other media companies.

Netflix?

It doesn't have to be so. But you have to pay for the product.
The 4 letter word you are looking for is “core”
Also lack of a social life and family commitments helps tremendously.
Well you didn't answer my questions, which is OK, you appear to be partisan, which is also OK. What you're advocating I very much disagree with, even though I'm not sympathetic to any of the names you named I think it is very short sighted to advocate restricting speech of any kind and will inevitably lead to victimization of more people than any speech could. Also, particularly, I think classifying any sort of speech as a hate crime like you have done is irresponsible at the very least.
Mexico Experts Find 2k Ruin Sites Near Maya Train Route
Don't forget the challenges around identity resolution and privacy compliance to properly join it all up effectively and accurately.
Someone SSHed to production and forwarded the database port to the local machine to run a report, then forgot about the connection and ran the deletion script locally.
Depends on what external services it calls.
If you keep configuration in the environment (/etc/default/app-name) rather than in the application package, it's nearly impossible to make this mistake (especially with proper firewall rules). You can even package your config as a deb and keep it encrypted version control.
Softbank? If they invest in you than you probably know you have a flawed business model
I don't remember ever hating my parents, but I did resent them for several years, sometimes not contacting them for months.

I think it is an unhealthy and unhelpful thought pattern, one which can transfer easily from person to person.

I don't think it ever helps anyone. And I think it is a coward's pursuit, because most parents will not try to hurt you back, even if you hurt them. And hurt them you will, because it hurts to hear your own child speak against you.

All of our parents have done something that hurt us as children, and most of our parents have done much, much more trying to do good, despite the odds being stacked against them. As a parent, ancestral customs, societal pressures, and entropy are all fighting against you, trying to kill, maim, harm your child, and it's all you can do is sweat working against all that shit at once, while at the same time, behind you, trying to create a positive, happy experience for your child.

I think it is a symptom of how spoiled we are by our society with space and resources, because most people in the past had no choice but to live with their parents and get along with them.

I like what Joseph Brodsky has to say on the matter: “Parents are too close a target… The range is such that you can’t miss.” Be generous with your family. Even if your convictions clash with theirs, don’t reject them—your skepticism of your infallibility can only benefit you. It will also save you a good deal of grief when they are gone.
I've always enjoyed stuff by Rain Noe (the author of this article). I believe he has lived in Japan previously, and seems to have a more realistic viewpoint of Japan's pros and cons.
My own favourite shot - like chocolate sprinkles. The sheer number is incredible. Each a remnant of some long-lost literal posting -- themselves becoming the new surface. Downtown Ottawa

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfTYG-phtFE/
I’m blocking out all curse words and crazy things with ‘2020’
Ex..
instead of what the f*
Let’s use “what the 2020”
If you live in the US, you can actually purchase these products from amazon.co.jp (Amazon Japan). They support switching the website language to Chinese and English. When you switch to English, everything including the comments are translated.

You do need a separate account on this website and you cannot delete the account (unlike Amazon US).

Shipping from Amazon Japan is faster than from Amazon US if you are not an Amazon Prime user.
Do you know the mechanism? Retro-Diels Alder?
How did cases for the Galaxy S curved phones manage? The bezels there extended beyond the front onto the sides.
I agree. But how do you stop a foreign actor from doing the abuse? I think this is where we need to lay the responsibility at the feet of the social media networks that allow this to happen.
> Lies can be carefully crafted to exploit the way human brains work,

Well, sure. But the problem is the censors are also human. If crafty lies can deceive the average person, why do we believe that the authorities are any less immune?

I feel like so many times anti-libertarian arguments follow this formula. "Regular people keep making this mistake. So let's just have the government, helpfully stop them from making the mistake. Except of wait... the government is also made up of people who make mistakes." In other words, who watches the watchmen?

Even in a world filled with crafty lies, open speech is the obvious solution. It's much harder to deceive 300 million people than it is to deceive a small agency responsible for "arbitrating truth". Yeah, a lot of people will still screw up and get the wrong answer.

But when millions have access to open information, it's virtually guaranteed that at least some non-neglible subset will figure out the truth. A world with centrally managed opinion is not very robust, and likely to see truths die out completely.
Two things- there was a rattle in the rear door on the drivers side, and there was a slight misalignment of the rear hatch. Both issues were solved without issue by Tesla Service (and they provided me with a loaner Model S).
"it is much more a people problem than a tech problem"

^ This holds true for nearly every aspect of nearly every company.
Indeed - after incidents like this I usually say, "This is called experience that you can't pay to get for any price. Learn from it well, and value your lesson."
How about no one should eat the same food group all the time? I get news from here (leftist), reddit (averaged to moderate when all my subs are taken into consideration), Google News (more leftist than not), and 9GAG/Imgur when they post political social stuff. Fairly well rounded.
it's not about me not liking the device, read what I wrote - and I can add that I've designed and shipped hardware products with SoCs in them, so I know what I'm talking about.
Barman (1) is really easy to setup and lets you avoid the many pitfalls of RDS (lower performance, high cost, no superadmin, no arbitrary extensions, waiting for releases, bad log interface).

(1) https://www.pgbarman.org/
When it comes to hospitalizations and fatality rates, people are talking past each other by only looking at part of the picture. The two main camps I see are:

1) Covid19 is far more deadly, look at all these excess deaths!

2) The IFR is low, about the same as the seasonal flu, so we really didn't need the lockdowns.

Both are half true.

Basically, we have decent herd immunity for existing viruses. Even with an identical IFR, the viruses are acting differently because we lack(ed) any real herd immunity for the new virus - so everyone was getting infected at once, which means everyone getting sick at once and risking overwhelming hospitals (this is the part people in camp 2 miss). On the flip side, because we do have decent herd immunity with existing viruses, either due to prior exposure or vaccine, seasonal flu doesn't spread nearly as far (this is the part people in camp 1 miss). A lot less people getting infected means a lot less people getting sick or dying, which explains the excess death despite the same IFR.
Are there any examples when big tech has "made a mistake" or "banned" someone on the lefty leaning side by mistake? I have countless examples of right leaning views get banned and censored "by mistake". When mistakes always happen to one side, the right loses faith in the system.

Simply pointing out a couple executives being republican doesn't have anything of value. This isn't about democrat vs republican. This is about democrats + RINOs vs Trump supporters. Having people like Mitt Romney or John McCain type republicans is of no value. Vast majority of Trump supporters dislike them.

I will give a couple examples - the Biden campaign keeps tweeting the same lie again and again about Trump not condemning white nationalists at the Charlottesville incident. This is an easily verifiable lie. Yet twitter nor Facebook ever marks this as "debunked".

Another example - In October 2016 and October 2020, NYTimes put out articles claiming to have the tax data for Trump. They didn't disclose any sources, nor was it verified. And if the data they had was correct, they obtained it illegally. Yet Twitter nor Facebook banned this on their platform.

Another example - last week, media ran stories with secretly recorded audio of Melania Trump. This wasn't banned either.

Here's an example from a few hour ago where FB deleted a post and restricted monetization by BabylonBee (satire) for "violating our Community Standards.":

https://mobile.twitter.com/The_Kyle_Mann/status/131749666800...

Yet these platforms are now claiming the NYPost story cannot be allowed because it's "hacked" data. It's not hacked data plus even if it was, they don't apply the same standard to news which might hurt Trump.

As for not being able to comment on the same thread, if that's the case, then this is a very poor UX. Not being able to interact at all (I wasn't able to for at least a day) on a topic you are passionate about makes the site pointless.

EDIT:

It's strange how someone seems to be monitoring this 3 day old post on HN and flagging and downvoting my comments instantly.
I recently implemented a similar (though more constrained) interpreter in assembly language, for the CHIP-8 virtual machine. Might be of some interest:

https://internet-janitor.itch.io/bulb
C++ is 35 years old significantly older than client side web programming. iOS apps are only 12 years old. So, they both showed up well after C++ was a mainstream language.

2) Objective-C++ may look like C++ but their different languages. As always beware of edge cases.

3) WebAsm is somewhat “supported“ by 92% of web browsers which sounds great but isn’t enough to be viable for companies like Amazon. But hey it’s a cool toy if you don’t have real work to do.

4) I have run into plenty of missing C++ documentation when C# documentation was available on Windows. It’s supported sure, but very much a second class citizen.
Ambient conditions can make it more likely to manifest symptoms of a cold if you are infected. They will not make the virus appear out of nowhere.
Screens are much more durable now than when I started getting cases though.
I disagree. It does a lot to help reliability and to find bugs.

It also means you have a completely decoupled backup system should anything go wrong with the primary.

I'm aiming to have at least one redundant component for every piece in the system I'm writing.
There are plenty of articles that criticize "both sides" on topics where only one side has done wrong.
> after a couple of glasses of red wine, we deleted the production database by accident

> It’s tempting to blame the disaster on the couple of glasses of red wine. However, the function that wiped the database was written whilst sober.

It was _written_ then, but you're still admitting to the world that your employees do work on production systems after they've been drinking. Since they were working so late, one might think this was emergency work, but it says "doing some late evening coding". I think this really highlights the need to separate work time from leisure time.
I love this post. This sort of thing happens to everyone, most people just are not willing to be so open about it.

I was once sshed to the production server, and was cleaning up some old files that got created by an errant script, one which file was '~'. So, to clean it up, I type `rm -rf ~`.
> In CS, it's a lot harder to bake data.

You've never read a machine learning paper, I take it. Those results are by far the easiest to bake.
If we start censoring everything people might misinterpret we might as well just throw in the towel at that point.
Parenting is hard, Being a good parent is even harder.

I wonder how much of the tension is from changes in society.
I'm a physicist, interested in consulting on both data analysis and precision metrology/hardware projects in general.

That said, I will happily accept consulting fees in return for deleting someone's database in prod, should they so desire.

Edit: Heck, being a white-hat licensed-to-create-mayhem chaos monkey for a few hours a week sounds pretty fun. Email in profile.
Doesn't work on my Samsung s10. Maybe there should at least be a browser permissions popup for the GPU, like the location access popup.
I wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of a lawsuit, defending drunk employees working on production data. What outrageous recklessness. And how imprudent to admit this to the public. Some things are best kept to yourself. No one needs to know that.
Just my 2 cents. I run a small software business that involves a few moderately-sized databases.
The day I moved from a fully managed hosting to a Linux VPS, I have crontabbed a script like this to run several times a day:

for db in `mysql [...] | grep [...]`
do
mysqldump [...] > $db.sql
done

git commit -a -m "Automatic backup"
git push [backup server #1]
git push [backup server #2]
git push [backup server #3]
git gc

The remote git repos are configured with denyNonFastForwards and denyDeletes, so regardless of what happens to the server, I have a full history of what happened to the databases, and can reliably go back in time.

I also have a single-entry-point script that turns a blank Linux VM into a production/staging server. If your business is more than a hobby project and you're not doing something similar, you are sitting on a ticking time bomb.
Interesting. I looked at the code-samples. Why are there so many all-uppercase symbols?
I am a big fan of Proton and Wine, but I was wondering, how much of the work on Proton gets back to Wine? Is anyone aware of how the two projects feel about each other?
Archived version:
http://web.archive.org/web/20201017104844/http://tech.mattmi...
tdlr: nytimes says the social dillema is caused by idiots and abusive users of social media not by social media owners.

pravdatimes will be out of business soon, who cares about pravadatimes. they are irrelevant and soon will be nonexistent.
Developers can now start building new categories of Android Auto apps
The X1s are part of Lenovo’s business line, not consumer, so you’d need to be comparing to the Dell Latitudes to make it fair.
lol it's a scoreboard app
From Heavy Metal to Irrational Exuberance
Matt Taibbi writes about this a lot. Free speech used to be a cornerstone of liberal/progressive values. In only 50 short years that's been abandoned to prevent the "fomenting of discord".
Please give me one example of something you want your congress to do, that they would not be willing to do on national TV?