skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends on your personal health. 50% deadlier to someone with existing issues that make the more likely to have a bad outcome (death) is worse than 50% more transmissible. The former cannot be managed, but the latter can by isolation or other means.

Not to say 50% more transmissible isn’t also bad, but not the worst, for them at least.
And what exactly is the definition of 'toy drone'?

That could be the difference between having to register a ~30g 'Tiny Whoop' style drone or not.
A friend once said, "A buzzword is here to stay when people start arguing about its definition." I don't know if it was in the context of Cloud Computing or AI or Industry 4.0, but you can see the pattern.
Unfortunately this means you get to make the same mistake as originally made with UUID: the static machine ID is a privacy leak.
Well, there's the spice.
They also submitted some patches to MacPorts, and I think Homebrew though I couldn't find a reference offhand. So i suppose it's always possible to argue they could do more, but code and hardware is a long way from nothing.
You nailed it. The difference between cultures in rural, suburban, and urban is mainly due to environmental stimulus. When your only opportunity for food at ~9pm in a rural/suburban environment is fast food — that changes the way you view your day, becoming a defacto framework that permeates everything.

They think in terms of independence and consequence (sound red?) - work late and still want decent sleep? Well you have to eat McDonalds or make a turkey sandwhich, there is no luxury, no option of a small family restaurant sharing their homeland cuisine.

This makes for a peculiar set of people - people that are mad good at creativity within limitations, but are constantly defined by their lack of exposure to experiences and post-modern cultural poverty.
Which doesn't always help you if you are actually using one of the make-firewalling-easier-daemons (which I personally would advise against). Those often only support very basic features, but are pushed heavily by the commercial distros.
I find it a nice experience, but as far as I am aware it is pretty much dead, the website just happens to keep running.
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Thank you for putting this together. I am reading it with interest.

I spotted one small typo and thought you would like to know:

“like transferring information form your software into an email or an SMS on the cellphone network.”
The feature I see missing here today I'm most excited about is searchable snapshots.

> While we've had support for backing up data to low-cost object stores for a long time, with searchable snapshots you can now use them as an active part of storing and searching your data.

https://www.elastic.co/blog/introducing-elasticsearch-search...
Resume-driven development?
This is one belief. Another observation is how common consciousness is, and pondering why mind thinks something as common can only happen once per universe.
Consider Jellyfin instead of Plex :)

https://jellyfin.org/
Yes, California is a very big state and I could imagine for example the Central Valley reaping many more benefits from any persistent remote work or company relocation trend than other states. Hadn’t considered this possibility but it makes a lot of sense.
>that must be some weird/interesting part of US law.

Indeed. We see time and time again that corporations can get away with almost anything they want without facing any real consequence compared to individuals. What part of US law is protecting these corporations and the people involved when they flagrantly break the law? It's sickening.
Recently I researched technologies for "real time web", events , reactive frameworks but this is now the first time I came across RSocket.

After reading the FAQ I am still not sure about its value propositions. Also I don't understand how "streaming responses and push" is different from the classic pub/sub model that so many websocket frameworks are offering.

I tried to avoid socket.io partially due to irrational preconceptions but then learned that it has a lot of features that are needed in many applications. It's also used by many people and has integrations into virtually every server and client framework.
It's interesting how the javascript ecosystem sucks you in until you stop being aware that there is anything else outside your bubble and assume everyone will understand your acronyms.

But then, it's not new. Heard people saying they know "the Visual C language" ages ago. Guess that's how MS started its monopoly.

What's worrying this time is that they're redefining "cross platform" to "runs in the same emulator".
They can't. They've put themselves on the path where they can't abide by the GPL. GPL3 says you must preserve the right to run the software and apple takes that away from their customers then sells it back.

So apple nopes out of it. They rely on the initial boost they got from GPL software. They do some MIT/BSD licensed stuff (and publish some of it but not everything). Every year less and less happens, unless it's their own language/etc.

They do have nice gradients and round corners though. :)
Ohh that’s good. No longer able to own any corp or LLC anywhere. Forced to liquidate all holding and be taxed as a normal citizen.
Most of the children comments are still missing your point
Businesses Are Fleeing California. Blame Bad Government
When shame is used as a weapon and tool of manipulation, a measure of shamelessness becomes a useful defense. As the demands of popular morality increase and change on a daily basis, at some point, some of us will give up trying to conform.
I switched a high traffic Flask web app to PyPy a couple of years ago and we saw substantially faster response times across the board, and much higher task throughput from our background worker machines, many of which were pegged 24/7.

We had so much less baseline load afterwards that we were able to scale down a bunch of instances. The transition only took a few hours of effort fixing one or two incompatible dependencies, so it paid for itself in savings quickly, especially vs an approach of trying to rewrite the slowest bits in a faster language.
We'll see if Chinese movies manage to make it big outside China. The day a Chinese movie becomes as secretly popular as fifty shades is the day I'll accept that they have proven themselves to be on an equal footing culturally.
The ads industry killed Flash by using it everywhere with bad optimizations. Adobe buying Macromedia and giving up on it didn't help either.
No, that's not what I said. Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should nursing homes have been used for anything, other than housing the people who originally paid to be in those homes. The Gov issues an executive order, and the nursing homes told both the NY government and the Michigan government (Whitmer did the same thing) they did not have the tools, beds or people to possible take COVID patients.

The lockdowns are unrelated to the leaders of those two states arbitrarily deciding to using private nursing homes to store patients; homes that didn't have individual rooms or isolation areas. The patients could have literally been sent anywhere else, like the massive emergency shelters in NYC that were totally empty and unused.
The article has little actual information. It says "Other tweaks may mean even more disappointment for higher income parents when the new index produces an even larger dollar figure than the E.F.C. did." but does not say what those "tweaks" are. Perhaps describing them would conflict with the celebratory tone.
+1 too.

The author also failed to discuss the many actualv advances in AI this year. Neural nets on 3D point clouds has become much better, image based transformers are doing some fascinating work, massive improvements to training efficiency and scaling models.

2020 from the perspective of AI progress was pretty solid, lots of good wins.
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration. If it can happen then that’s the system. “Sure, a minority can elect our country’s leader. But it only happens sometimes.” Doesn’t that seem weird?

Maybe the connotation of “king” is a bit off, but the president has a huge amount of power and apparently the only check on him (impeachment) has the exact same vulnerabilities that his election has (concentration of power in low population states).

I just can’t imagine a group of intelligent people today starting from scratch and deciding this is what we should end up with.
What do you consider "normal" and "non-normal"?
The startup Bill Gates has invested in is called Boston Metal, they use a technology called Molten Oxide Electrolysis:
https://www.bostonmetal.com/

But I'm watching the space a bit and it seems all the relevant companies bet on hydrogen-based DRI and not on electrolysis. I also tried to get a statement from Boston Metal when I wrote an article on the topic, but they didn't even answer. AFAIK they haven't announced any pilot plants yet.
Texas was strongly democratic until a lot of folks from the Bible Belt watched too much Dallas on TV and moved in.

The demos have to change a lot in a lot of districts to overcome Gerrymandering for state and federal House representatives. Power isn't in the Governorship, the Lt. Governor controls the state Senate, budget and sits on the redistricting commission. They are elected from the state Senate members.

So TX could have a Democratic Governor and Senators but the local stuff will be red for a long time.
> the app’s data gets deleted after 7 day

This is not true, it's a misconception about how the seven-day-counter works when the app is installed on the home screen.

Nevertheless, persistent data is a concern, because the standards do not specify how long data must be kept, so it could get wiped at some point, for example when the device is low on disk storage.
Is it? Not sure private ips are so sensitive, esp. the lower parts.
Not fully. The GIL is always held when executing Python bytecode, because it isn’t threadsafe. Dropping the GIL (parallelism) only happens in native code that explicitly drops it.
SBCL is a "sufficiently smart" compiler, that makes Lisp fast. I've replaced enough software with CL, that now I can't stand to use a computer without it. With CL you can do whatever the fuck you want, all the time. It's glorious. The limitations are your own ability, and having to interface to crappy non-CL software, idiotic non-Lisp protcols, and hardware seemingly designed to be operated by spavined brine shrimp. But also I'm "eccentric" and I like exiling myself to the software wilderness, where you have great freedom, but have to be very self reliant.
Stun is a protocol to query the network about the topology. Turn is a protocol to route through a third party when p2p fails. Both of these are part of the ICE methodologies.
How do you propose to do advanced dynamic and realtime graphing without a lot of JS?
You have our build capabilities exactly reversed. Wind and solar are fast, reliably deployed, and cheaper than any fuel based energy source. In the US alone, the pipeline has 174GW planned for deployment through 2024, however we will deploy far more than that because planning and deployment takes far less than 5 years for renewables:

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...

In contrast we have only 2 reactors, 2.2GW of nuclear under construction, they are more than 2x behind schedule, 3x over budget. There were an additional 2 reactors started at the same time with the same design, but they were abandoned due to construction difficulties and budget overruns.

We cant build nuclear in any sort of effective way. Wind and solar get deployed all the time, are always on time and always on budget. They are our only hope for decarbonizing our grid, nuclear offers us zero help.
After a lot of time spent investigating the different kind of (U)UIDs, I've come to the conclusion that ULIDs[0] are the best kind of (U)UIDs you can use for your application today:

* they are sortable so pagination is fast and easy.

* they can be represented as UUID in database (at least in Postgres).

* they are kind of serial, so insertion into indexes is rather good, as opposed to completely random UUIDs.

* 48 bits timestamp gives enough space for the next 9000 years.

[0] https://github.com/ulid/spec
But what if humanity only gets one chance? Is it still best to rely on the capitalist market? This market only reacts to regulation. It is not proactive. All stick, carrot don’t work no more.
You need to think a little longer term than now. Just because you believe the "we care about your privacy" text on the cookie popups it doesn't mean it's true.
Porting PyPy is harder than just re-running the compiler, because PyPy contains a few big architecture-dependent "details", like the JIT compiler and the foreign function interfaces (CFFI and ctypes). More details found at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25591695
If you think places like Orange County, Ventura, the Inland Empire, Sacramento, etc are expensive; you’re going to be sorely disappointed when you leave to any similarly sized metro elsewhere.
>I figure if the operator is doing something illegal, they might also risk not running an ID.

I am thinking more at idiots or negligent people not criminals or terrorists. If you cause some damages with your toy drone you will have no choice but to admit and pay for them and hopefully you get less idiots risking other people health with their toy hobby or commercial stuff.
Jetbrains has DataGrip and RubyMine already... and apparently just got IntelliJ on M1. https://blog.jetbrains.com ... and reading that list, there's a fair bit more that's been built.

The other thing is... all if the iPhone and iPad apps "work" (once you extract them from the iDevice) - its a lot more than just the core apps.
Hydrogen production is a fascinating energy case study because of the many possibilities for production.

Consider solar and wind. With variable production, there will always be time where you have more energy produced than you need. Why not use the excess to create hydrogen and store it? Now the energy doesn't go to waste.

Consider nuclear power. Nuclear doesn't scale down well- it's most efficient at a specific rate of production. But demand is quite variable- 2am on a not-so-warm-or-cold day, who needs all that extra energy? Why not use the excess to create hydrogen and store it? Now the energy doesn't go to waste.

In short, the energy used to create hydrogen can be very low, provided you have a cheap means to store and move it to where it needs to be, and provided you can deal with variable production rates.

If this provides an income for the energy producer, then it becomes more financially viable to use wind, solar, and nuclear- all non-CO2 emitters.
How do this and the other alternatives handle Apple’s “Live Photos”?

This pernicious feature is adored in my family and they won’t consider options that would take it away.
Indeed. "exactly once" violates the CAP theorem, so if you actually make a system that can guarantee "exactly once" then you should apply for a Turing medal immediately.
Do you actually think nuclear can be built faster than solar + wind? Most new 2020 generation was renewable, at least in the western world
This guide is concerning for the following reasons:

* blithely states that systemd is not secure, uses lines of code in an unit system as a security measure and makes claims not substantiated about it.

* recommends musl and misleadingly states number of CVEs as some sort of security metric. Completely overlooking that glibc was created in 1987 and opposed to musl which was released in 2011.

* ignores the fact that a lot of effort had gone into hardening openssl, and seems to think supporting OS/2 and VMS equates to bad code security

* seems to misunderstand the purpose of long-term support kernels, which rather ironically contradicts there first point about frozen updates... author should do some basic reading here, which directly contradicts the states there ate only two releases of kernels stable and LTS (there are actually four categories of releases, and don’t necessarily happen for security reasons): https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

I am still reading through it, there are interesting points made but I’m definitely taking it with a grain of salt given the above!
Without even getting past the title, a national strategy can't solve an international problem. Anymore than Kentucky can't solve the problems of the United States, the United States cannot defend the planet from asteroids or aliens alone. It will take pooling the resources of everyone into a central authority with the ability to effect allocation of financial and human capital to the proper programs.
Let us focus on how anti-democratic the Senate is then.

Of course one answer about that is that it was by design. But that design was, famously, a compromise, one that may not be necessary anymore.
Genuinely curious coz I don’t understand mobile networks very well — why not just send frames over websockets? You still get a persistent TCP connection and there’s no need for pushing or polling of any kind.
Ask HN: A VPN with Rotating IPs
Hi guys, so I am looking for a VPN with rotating IP. I am currently using NordVPN but the issue is that it has static IP which stays the same for the country. Any Inside into it would be appreciated.
First I've heard of it - WebGL works perfectly for me, on every one of my diverse Linux desktops. Intel, AMD, nVidia, never had an issue. I've got a Google Earth tab open right now.
spherical cows come to mind (although they might be oval due to relativistic effects).
Everyone's going to be making <250g drones now, between this and the US remote ID stuff. It'll be interesting to see just how capable they get.
> I didn't downvote, but maybe because it is an insipid and disgusting question?

The morality and decorum police has entered the conversation.
> https://1.1.1.1

That's correct, some CAs issue certificates for public IPs. You're never ever going to get a cert for a private IP, since these are not globally unique.
Is Holder still running DOJ?

No actual people, who actually committed or conspired to commit, crimes were arrested / indicted?
I am not that much into mobile. Does TCP have the same difficulty?
Identifying things that other people might feel shame about does not feel like the same definition of shameless as the one in the article.
When I first found Nim I was looking for a faster compiled Python. I've found something that is much better: static types, less of an emphasis on OOP, static dependency-free fast binaries and macros all work together well to make Nim awesome to work with but what makes Python great is retained: speed of development, ergonomic syntax, and a small learning curve.

> very weird concepts

I'm curious, what weird concepts are you referring to?
I gave a car as an example, you don't know you will cause an accident and kill someone so you will not have removed your licensed plates and erased the serial numbers from the car body.
This is a great reference, but it’s pretty terse...it would be hard (IMO) to learn something for the first time from EoSL, though it’s great for having all the details and derivations. It’s just a very technical book, and though it is complete it is also quite inaccessible.
For those asking "who uses PyPy?": the truth is that very few people using it get back to us and say how it helps them or what they are doing with it. For instance crossbar.io uses it [0]. Some shops use it as a second step until they refactor code into a compiled language, but often that second step never materializes.

But the value of a second implementation of a language goes beyond the immediate "who uses this in practice". It can be a fertile bed for innovation and for new ideas, and provides a contrast to the nay sayers. For instance, the recent pitch to vastly improve CPython's speed has some roots in ideas that were tested out in PyPy. CFFI [1], revdb [2] and vmprof [3] all started as PyPy projects. Some of these turned out to be very popular, some less so. The next project in this line is HPy [4] (still alpha-quality), which is trying to re-think the C-API for Python to make it even easier to interface with.

RPython [5], the language behind PyPy, is also an accessible playground for dynamic language research.

[0] https://crossbar.io/about/FAQ/#python-runtime

[1] https://cffi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[2] https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/07/reverse-debugging-for-...

[3] https://vmprof.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[4] https://hpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[5] https://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html
It would be nice to put a short concise description of what a blog is about, against each one.
I love Elm but if the poster wants Haskell-ish experience purescript is much more similar. Otoh Elm is simpler and therefore might be a better next step. But since they already seem to have Haskell experience I’d generally recommend purescript if they just want to learn. If they’re choosing a technology for a production product then that’s a completely different consideration
I would say that for a vaccine to be open source there should be exact instructions on how to create it along with a justification for each step, it should list the exact contents of the vaccine (preservatives, etc), as well as any genetic code included (along with a justification for each part of it). In addition it should be legal for someone to create their own vaccines by following said instructions.

The part regarding legality of making your own copies would help with the vaccination of poor regions such as africa, while transparency could be used by researchers in order to find ways to improve it, or to create new vaccines for other viruses, or for students to learn more about it. In addition it would increase the trust of the general public for the vaccine.
It doesn’t have words. This alone is a tremendous help. Ragas and (some) jazz are in the same category for me by virtue of being sound without words. If it has words in a language I understand it’s too distracting.
> people end up re-inventing message queues and not even noticing they are doing it

Amazing how people sucked down this rabbit hole. My work is doing this right now, and its driving me mad as there are well supported alternatives out there. But I suppose there is something intrinsically fun about building a complex communications system.
The DC area, for instance, seems obviously more diverse than Houston.
I've probably read too much sci-fi, but high-density computronium left behind by a fallen civilization might make it worthwhile?
For what it's worth, I work on airliners and heard several times that doors are often a problem also. Not just passenger doors but also cargo and landing gear doors. They're hard to get right, and often need tweaking especially at the start of a program.
Tor does this, fwiw. https://www.torproject.org/

To clarify, you could run Tor on your existing vpn.
Cyberpunk 2077 Optical Breacher
I consider Nim to be a better Go.
No (at least, not the version I read a few years ago). But transformers are a specific neural network architecture, so I’d still recommend the book for the fundamentals around backpropagation, activation & loss functions, etc.

Once you’re comfortable with neural networks (and the notation), the “Attention is all you need” paper is fairly accessible.
As an ex Texan, I understand the pride behind this statement. But I think what seems to be the underlying premise — we don’t need to change to attract outsiders - captures an essential historic difference between California and Texas culture. It’s dangerous to speak too broadly — california has had its reactionary periods - but on balance I find it historically much more eager to change and evolve, especially socially, in response to outside and unconventional ideas and people. The Bay Area in particular (a tech center) is famous for this. Yes Texas is demographically changing rapidly but the culture of a place changes relatively slowly.