skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, one is a new phenonenom and other is established.
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Same in NY. And it's fine. The primary underlying technology is G Suite, not search. The content available via Classroom is tightly controlled by teachers. There's tons of education products on the market and they're mostly garbage. Software that looks like they have never met a student or a teacher before. Classroom isn't great but it doesn't do much beyond present a list of assignments.
Somehow I see sources claiming that ad tech is not working as we thought; increasingly often.

Honestly it makes intuitive sense.. All this predictive things and still I get pretty dumb ads based purely on my search context.
Because the US has long ago decided that being a society wasn't something they were interested in, therefore the testing & PPE resources on the open market and handed out through the sole benevolence of the Invisible Hand of Having More Money than You, and TV and Film productions are able to acquire them, and operate.

"Other non-essential activities", not having the means to acquire these resources and implement these protocols, get to not operate.
Genuinely, I agree with you. It’s super powerful.

But you sort of made my point by comparing it to emacs.

Open source (or at _least_ open formats) can be incredibly powerful. Unless you’re claiming that Excel could only come into existence because it’s proprietary; in which case I don’t understand.
Honest question. How would you have to dispose of the tree to capture the carbon? Burry it? Wouldn’t composting release the carbon?
I would think because the organizers of these typical activities lack the resources or customer compliance to pull off as strict a regime as described above.
They didn’t do “nothing”. They gave guidance based on the data that was available and allowed individuals to make their own decisions on what course of action was best for them.

A large subset of the population in the US is (rightly IMO) not okay with their state or local government dictating what businesses are forced to close or imposing restrictions that effectively put them out of business.

By approaching the situation in this way it’s only further politicized the issue. I worry what will happen when something worse than COVID-19 comes in the future.
Actually there is something specific: while individual field accessors may make sense in some use cases (ActiveRecord or bidirectional UI mapping), the naming convention for them chosen in JavaBeans (“get/setXxx”) is too verbose and doesn’t make sense at all. Compare:

1. a.getFoo().getBar() vs a.foo().bar() or a.foo.bar

2. a.setFoo(1); a.setBoo(“moo”); vs a.foo(1).boo(“moo”); or a.onSomeEvent(1, “moo”);

JavaBeans are often used in reflective mapping, but nothing prevents from using simpler convention the same way.
The obesity rate could explain a lot, obesity is a major factor in covid risk. USA obesity rate is 40%, Sweden is 10%.
This is what they said:

new capability that will revolutionize how you build formulas in Excel

Which isn't really true. I can call macros using the =function(x) capability like forever.
I wonder if a timed open source license would work? One in which code/features were automatically scheduled by the license to revert to GPL/BSD/whatever at a point a year or three in the future?

I think that might sap some of the impetus to reinvent those features in a competing open source project (they can of course just copy them if they wait), and also might entice people to pay that wouldn't normally because they don't want to get on the paid product train. Users also get a known date a feature will be available, a real date, not a projected delivery date.

In a lot of ways it's what many companies that develop products do already to allow people to get familiar with their product (have an open source version with less features), but this allows them a better story, makes users feel more sure about what's going on, and if they release the code immediately but it's unusable for a period by other projects, that does make it harder for those projects to cleanly reimplement unless they're sure they haven't seen in (that might be a net negative for the public with a litigation happy company).

The hard part would be tracking the time, but git has ways to make that pretty simple.
Is there any assurance? Why would anyone trust FAANGs?
> Economists aren't scientists.

How do you define scientist, and who else isn't included?

Like, micro-economists do a lot of interesting experimental work that certainly seems like science.

Macro-economics is pretty much entrail-reading because we fundamentally don't understand how the modern economy functions, and is massively political and hijacked by a variety of interests, but that's a subfield that even economists agree is problematic.
Among others is still a smaller pie than either GCC or vendor specific compilers on embedded systems CPUs and operating systems.
Ooh, that's very clever! I'm definitely going to give this a shot...
> This is literally a carbon capture business.

Even if you're not burning it the day after Christmas, it'll get chipped and composted. Some of the carbon is released in composting, some wood will remain, but with how people use mulch, I wouldn't expect it to capture carbon long enough to be interesting.
I wish they explored the ACTA claims that artificial Christmas trees are more environmentally friendly than real trees.

Artificial trees are made from PVC and the by products of PVC manufacturing are highly toxic and historically highly polluting.

In order for that claim to be true under China's lax regulatory environment, either they have some revolutionary new method of producing PVC or farming Christmas trees is highly polluting. Either way, I would love to know the answer.

Sadly it's probably just a lie as the head of the ACTA is an artificial tree mogul.
The problem with the "we're tested all the time" explanation is that we've been told for months now that you can still be contagious even if you test negative and are asymptomatic.
>Fans break in a couple of years

Having a Nespi+ case and can say that the Fan sounds louder than than a printing laserjet you can even hear the bearing rumbling (combined runtime maybe 2-4 weeks), small cheap fans live much less than 2 years.
The tree takes up a bunch of space. The ashes are more compact.
Restaurants are majorly associated with spread. They’re unmasked, indoor environments where people talk.

Here’s an interesting report where two people were infected with just five min of overlap by an unmasked person. Extremely detailed contact tracing by the south koreans.

TV, by contrast, gets other people to stay at home in front of the TV and not be bored. A super vital service right now!

https://zeynep.substack.com/p/small-data-big-implications
We got our 1,7m large Christmas tree in Germany for 13 Euros, I simply don't understand how it could have been worth to let it grow for many years at this price.
HTTP/2 and how it reuses the TLS connection in Go
Sat Cent Parity?
Right, people put effort into figuring out how to keep film going.

What a lot of us are asking is why don't we do something analogous for small businesses? There does not seem to be political will to figure out how to get them through this as well. At the very least it shows a profound lack of imagination.
But take a look at this from a different angle. Yes, from the business perspective Docker, inc. seems to be failing badly. But from the engineering perspective they did a tremendous job splitting the monolith to separate components. Containerd was once part of Docker daemon and then abstracted away to an independent entity. And we all hugely benefit from this split.

Now, the next big thing is happening - buildkit. It is already possible to build containers using buildkit without docker. There is even a plugin for kubectl for convenience.

Docker is tearing itself apart but I see only good things happening around it.

P.S. It has been possible to use containerd directly as CRI for Kubernetes since v1.10
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/05/24/kubernetes-containerd-...
I am going to buy a replantable pottgrown tree this year. I've read plastic trees needs to be used 14 years in order to be more eco friendly than cutting a new tree every year.
The price from a grower (with 20-30% margin) is $30-35 or about the same. It's the fact that retailers (like always) have a 100% markup (50% margin) so if you go to a random convenience store it'll cost double and they'll make the money. No different from most consumer items.

Fake trees last forever... until you throw them away, and then they still last forever.
This is about outdoor dining and it's been almost a year now. Where's the science showing that outdoor dining is such a problem?
We have been told that, but the latest "science" says this is false. Study of 10 million patients published in Nature journal two weeks ago: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w

(Worth noting I was trying to find this link with Google and had a hard time. I had to switch to a foreign search engine)
This is pretty awesome. What are the missing pieces to get people using this? Is there a need?

I think it's being able to launch infrastructure like AWS but for consumers. Imagine one click to launch your "virtual home" / bastion. You can mange your virtual home from trusted devices (desktop, mobile, possibly web if you grant keys to 3rd party). In your virtual home you can setup I2P, a personal VPN (e.g. algo by trailofbits), tunnel/forward home server traffic to public internet (e.g. RPi), install torrent client & fire sharing drive for family, etc.

Thoughts?
FidoNet is still living, however it lacks at least strong authentication and data confidentiality (no crypto used at all). But it shows that people could be capable of creating global networks without unwanted third-parties.

For building store-and-forward networks I created NNCP several years ago and lack of connectivity, censorship (making no connection links) are one of the issues it aims to solve: http://www.nncpgo.org/Use-cases.html
My wife is a researcher and says she can often guess who the authors are when she performs reviews because it's her domain and their references and context tend to give it away. But it's still a guess because the review process is blind. I'm pretty sure it's just the journal's editorial staff that can see who's who. It's not perfect, but it's not as blatantly biased by 'brand name' stature the way you suggest.
I can tolerate many things, but one thing I cannot tolerate are intolerant people.

If you are not human enough to be humane to others, then you don’t deserve the carbon you were born with.
You can connect the Voltage connector to the 3V over the 5V and run the fan at a slower speed and less noise. It will ramp into use for longer, but the noise difference is worth it and case of you will certainly not notice it's activity as much.

Been nice if they just had the fan and connector attached to a new top for the case and could of added some side vents with height, making things just that much easier overall.

I myself have a 3rd party acrylic layer stack affair with a top fan and heat sink with 3V and run it constant as well below whisper level. I'd measure the dB but other systems currently mean my noise floor is 50dB and with sound meter right next to it, I get nothing above that. Though when just that a running, it a faint breeze sound at best.
The elderly if you want to save lives (i.e., you're looking at numbers only); the essential workers if you want things to run more smoothly.
The story in question is an outdoor dining area set up directly in front of an identical looking film crew dining area.
>suggests that the architecture doesn't matter, but we know that's not true. Eg, why are networks with skip connections SO much better than networks without? What about batch normalization?

Is this true though, or does network architecture only matter in terms of efficiency? This is non rhetorical, I really don't know much about deep learning. :) I guess i'm asking if with enough data and compute, is architecture still relevant?
I'm currently building a network for a cheesy 80ies-style virtual Lisp machine from a parallel universe with libp2p. It's very cumbersome, the Go libp2p library is pretty arcane and split up across too many packages. But it does work, and when it's ready users of my machine will be able to send each other encrypted messages over a p2p network with NAT traversal.
Raft Visualization
Also use FLIRC cases for my k8s cluster. They feel hot but I've to remind myself the whole case is a heatsink. So far it's been keeping the temperature at 47C most of the time (room temperature is in the mid twenties).
> Surely shipping a pile of plastic from China is worse for the environment than growing a real tree for 10 years.

Trees are light and container shipping is efficient. I found this from a totally unbiased source: https://www.worldshipping.org/industry-issues/environment/ai...

In practice, it's just a different environmental impact. You have to weigh plastic production against more shipping, and depending on what you care about, which is "better" will change.
The situation with these politicians you mentioned and others before is completely unacceptable in my view and should lead to resignations. The number one principle should be to lead by example. If leaders don't do this people will become cynical very quickly and society erodes. The same could be said for business executives receiving huge bonuses while running a company into the ground.
I tried scheme, but I couldn't live without a hashmap in the language. Thankfully, clojure specifies one as well as a uniform `seq` interface for collections.

The big problem is Clojure is a language without a published standard.
You have a good point. I think the danger comes from the potential for abuse. Once you ship software that has failing tests, you've established a precident and are likely to face pressure to do so again even when the tests are more critical. That's why I'd resist that, at least. My experience is if there's a real problem and later everything in production is on fire, no one cares about the caveats or risks you pointed out.

I do also agree that CI can hide complexity, but that's true of any tool as well as non-CI builds. Compared to a human running things, it's at least somewhat self-documenting due to being scripted.
Macros are not “formulas in Excel”, lambdas are.
But now the problem is convincing large numbers of people to stick their head into a machine where 200 individual beams can be focused on their skull, and then forget they ever did so.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/brain-stereotact...
I was having similar issues on Ubuntu with either Unity or Gnome (can't remember which). The high DPI resolution of the laptop screen made everything look really small and everything I tried to do to scale up the size of things just didn't work well. Things didn't scale evenly, sometimes the text would be bigger but not the ui controls. On MacOS I've found the display scaling to just work as expected
This is just silly. Before asking for double blind experiments or other types of scientific proof, one needs to first apply some common sense? Did the author ever live in a low density and a high density environment, so they can compare?

I did. Or rather, I lived in a high density (3500 people/sqmile) and I'm currently live in an ultra-high density area (45000/sqm). I used to have a car, and now I don't. I can now find most things I need within a distance of 2 to at most 3 blocks: the elementary schools my kids go to, grocery, pharmacy, movie theater, mall, gym, playgrounds, parks, a ballfield, gym with pool, liquor store, a few restaurants, a few docks with public bicycles (Citibikes), a bookstore (Barnes and Noble), a department store (Target), quite a number of cafees, etc, etc. In the past, whenever I needed something I would hop in the car and drive 5-50 minutes, get the thing, and drive back. Now I just cross the street.
But for neurosurgery the head is held in place and the gamma knife does not need to be hidden. Presumably, the microwave transmitters of a conjectured gamma knife would need to be portable and able to operate without even being in the same room as the target's head.
> Restaurants were never a major source of transmission

Restaurants were some of the earliest known sources of mass spreading locations.
This article basically describes how the current internet was created.... why would this new internet end up any different?

You can't expect every person to be skilled enough (and with the time and desire) to be their own network administrator, so someone will have to run the network for those people... and they will need to be compensated for that work... and some people will be really good at running that network, and will have lots of clients and get very efficient at running networks, so more people will hire them.... and they will get big enough to hire people and pay for laying cables between networks... and suddenly we have the exact same system we have now.

What would be different this time around if we started from scratch?
No, it's because Hollywood can pull strings in Sacramento.

It's crazy how much weight Hollywood has in this country. Hollywood can open doors sometimes that even Apple and Google cannot, even though the entertainment industry is tiny compared to tech.

I believe it's because politicians get star-struck. Just look at how many celebrities visited the white house in years past. It's insane how much access they have to the highest levels of government.
It costs a lot of money. The studios are willing to spend that money. Most small businesses aren't and probably couldn't afford to even if they did.
Radio receivers (and the LNA component of such) are incredibly sensitive... that's what allows all the radio systems we use daily to work at all.
If a signal is strong enough to have a physiological effect on the human body it is many many orders of magnitude stronger than can be measured with off-the-shelf instruments (i.e. an antenna and spectrum analyser).

Even if you make an effort to concentrate the effect in a specific spot (e.g. phased array antennas), you can only achieve a moderate reduction (e.g. 1-2 orders of magnitude) outside the central lobe. It will be easily detectable outside the effective area.
There are new wooden buildings in Europe too. I wonder if these are built to stricter codes, I mean to withstand fires for longer?

I agree the US focus seems to be on fast exit, multiple options (from buildings that seem to be made of matchsticks).
Isn't this the same?

RUN apk update && apk upgrade && apk add foo
> And people fucking love it. That's their biggest "buffer".

Yes, Apple has a strange cult appeal. Their customers are happy even when they are being exploited.

> Disc drives, legacy ports, headphone jacks, blinking lights, chargers...
Apple shows everyone when it's time to take something out and leave it in the past.

There are plenty of manufacturers refusing to throw away headphone jacks, and customers are making buying decisions based on it. It may yet turn out to be a poor decision for Apple. It certainly hasn't resulted in them clawing back any market share from Android.

I believe Asus' EeePC was the first massively popular computer to omit a disc drive, not anything from Apple. Ultrabooks were similarly an upmarket response to the popularity of netbooks.

Most of the legacy ports Apple has discarded were their own unpopular proprietary ones, adopting USB dug them out of their own hole and put them on an equal footing with PCs.

For years Apple was trying to push firewire and avoid USB2, to their customers' detriment, which was an obvious mistake to everyone at the time and proved to be a failure.

Apple's record is mixed at best.
Oh I think outdoor dining is fine if not in one of those indoor tent things.

But your comment seemed about dining generally. If you only mean outdoor dining I agree that’s fairly low risk if spaced out.
Yes. I certainly do, running a Kubuntu install. If you are using a Ubuntu base, consider installing their Nvidia driver package.
No, that's not right. Poor tax policy leads to poor land use.
WOW! I know very little about what it takes to fly a helicopter, but I know it ain't easy. That is some amazing flying.
Thanks. That made me smile. Maybe so!
No, essential workers are younger and face much less risk than the elderly.

Essential workers can become ill, but they mostly recover and get well, whereas the elderly become ill and die.
Solar panels have their own peaks. In general anything depending on minerals and construction techniques that themselves include energy has...
I wish I had time to read them all...
> All in all, it's obvious Google didn't follow their own supposed research protocols, but this whole thing is much more complex and I think it has very little to do with her paper.

She still had a job after she published the paper, she still had a job after she told people to stop working, she stopped having a job after she demanded confidental HR records of people who feared giving her rather simple feedback.
Perhaps most things look hard until you understand them, but that doesn't make the learning curves the same. Having attempted to learn enough docker swarm and k8s to cover the same uses (standard "run a bunch of containers on a homogeneous group of servers to provide a webapp"), and sunk massively more time into k8s and still not figured out major sections of how it's supposed to work, I can assure you that k8s does in fact suck as a beginner, and dismissing valid criticism as propaganda is plain wrong.
Homebrew works under Rosetta 2. Homebrew on ARM has partial functionality. https://brew.sh/2020/12/01/homebrew-2.6.0/
In which "many places"? Cause like all graphs I have seen trail each other pretty close with cca 2 weeks delay.

The testing prevalence don't just jump without reason - it is predictable at this point.
Another little known file type feature is that if you’re using a sqlite database file as an application file format, there are a handful of bytes reserved for applications to register that “this is a SQLite file for use specifically with application X”

Application ID docs:

https://www.sqlite.org/draft/fileformat2.html#application_id
The film industry has participants that are willingly abiding by strict safety protocols. You couldn’t get the shopping crowds that serve small businesses to do the same.
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Interesting to see first party support for this. It is somewhat unfortunate that the official fan lets you read the fan speed, but not set it. I put a Noctua fan on my Pi and it sucks in a surprising amount of dust; mostly an artifact of too much ventilation when the computer doesn't actually need the airflow. (I put a filter on it and it's fine now, but sometimes I wonder whether the dust is actually filtered out, or if it just reduces airflow by so much that you don't suck in any dust to begin with :)

While writing this comment, I decided to investigate whether or not speed control is even possible on a 5V fan with 3V3 logic and found this: https://noctua.at/pub/media/wysiwyg/Noctua_PWM_specification...

The answer is: I still don't know. They say that the PWM voltage is pulled up to "3.3V/5V" internally but the spec says the PWM signal has to be 5V, so I suppose the results are undefined (and they just left 3.3V in their document accidentally).

But, a first-party fan could make this work, so I'm kind of sad that they just chose some off-the-shelf fan that was cheap today in Shenzhen. If you could do better than Noctua, then there's value in making it first-party. If you can't, why bother? Everyone that wanted a fan already has one.