skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is annoying when you are looking for an app and have to go through 1000 of similar sounding apps. Then you filter it to 300 that seem like someone put effort into and the can find the one that is actually working only after trying 20.
> Anyone who has children knows that pretty much any disease rips through schools. If COVID-19 were to eventually be proven to not transmit between children in meaningful numbers

If? We already know that it doesn't. Yes, other viruses rip through schools rapidly, but this virus simply doesn't. Your gut feeling is wrong.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

"Younger children (<10 years of age) may be less likely to be infected than adolescents. This possibility is supported by contact tracing studies; test positivity data from children, adolescents, and adults; and population screening studies using seroprevalence data. Susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection and the proportion among those infected experiencing symptoms both generally increase with age."
> Not sure why you think FAANG is getting the cream of the crop.

The best coders can demand the highest salary. If you can afford to pay the highest salary you are in an advanced position position to get the best coders. FAANG can afford to pay the highest salary.

Anecdotal evidence to the contrary does not cancel this mechanism.
Yeah we had those too, sun goes down at around 6pm all year round here though, training would take place 3pm - 5pm for extracurricular activities
The art of standard serverside generated HTML and progressive enhancement or a page composed of JavaScript apps/widgets for interactive elements seems lost today. In the age of React everything is a SPA first by design from observations.

Having previously worked and taking a great interest in the schematic web last decade, progressive enhancement, accessibility, page size, etc etc the modern web is disappointing when what should be a simple HTML website instead be a blank white screen while it downloads 2mb+ of assets then a SPA bootstrap to show something loading json blobs embedded in the page and leaking information with the insistence of doing everything client side.
Can you really answer "Is the market still growing?" with 90+% certainty?
Sure. As it currently exists

But I refuse to be confined by the structures intentionally legislated by decades of Austrian economic policy to try to convince me that there is no alternative.

The debt could be erased, for example, if someone chooses a position of high societal ROI, such as say, an urban planner. Reward people if a need of society is satisfied.

Things can trivially be reshaped to encourage what we want instead of us always feeling pressured to do what we don't. Conforming our laws and incentives to a particular ideology wasn't necessary, it was a choice we can change.
Most streaming services block access from "non-residential" IP address blocks, which includes those of most VPN services and cloud providers.
I've been too cynical to look into it further, but it sounds to me that Clubhouse is what we used to call a conference call. Is it really different than that? Just wondering.
I think the bigger feature of the two is that this type of wall resists lateral pressure better and uses less materials[1]

[1] https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/elith/publications/all_pub...
In my country poor people are: doctors and nurses who work at state hospitals(most of them), teachers at state schools, university professors(both state and private ones), engineers who work at such government facilities as nuclear plants and the like, scientists in general and also some government officials.
All them make roughly 10-20% percent of what moderately skillful software engineer could make, in the same city and country.
Just for the reference.
Presumably if the market was bad enough there would be a point where the issuer couldn't meet the terms.
Yes, but I don't know what he's doing now and I wouldn't want to put his name here unless he said it was ok.
I’m not the person you should be explaining that to
What do you consider centralized currency? I mean, Rome had coin, I'm not sure about egypt and ancient sumeria, but I know they had gold and plenty of slaves.

People have been warring and exploiting others since civilization... I can't say 10k years back before the move towards grouping in clans and cities...

But technological currency also could "right the wrongs"...

Imagine if each person could only have 1 bank account on a blockchain, verified by identity which is somewhat centralized but governed by a DAO.

This bank account is auto-taxed (tx fees), it has a max limit, say 999 million. So essentially, there could not be billionaires. Sitting coin is taxed as well after awhile, and estate transfers would be limited say max 50 million can be transferred to posterity. The rest is paid out to all users as a dividend.

The bank account would also pay out UBI to people based on the size of their wallet and their utilization. The more purchases, the more utilization the more your payouts from UBI. A large portion would also go towards a central "trust" for crowdfunding of businesses, mutual aid for emergencies, and for healthcare.

The DAO would invest in worker/consumer owned grocery stores and try to peg the value of the dollar to prices by owning some of the pricing. Basically start w/ competing with Amazon on some consumer goods via the internet, and brick/mortar stores.

DAO would work w/ devs to develop an algorithm that ensures not too much deflation/inflation, max limits, good taxation, good ubi, good burning/minting via staking protocol, etc... all while being open and transparent.
Make it sidechain. And find some use case, turn based game is lame on blockchain. Maybe tournament with multiple parties and validation of winners.
> I don't believe anybody has looked into whether different types of people from different ages 'leak' the virus differently.

We absolutely have, and non-surprisingly, the sicker a person is, the more virus they spread around them. And since children are much less likely to develop symptoms or get sick, they spread the disease less, which is why spread among students in schools is much, much smaller than among the community at large.
> Do you need a 12MP photo of a goat?

DVDs are only 720 and 26 frames or something. What is 'quality' changes.

When your tv is your wall maybe you will need that 10 meg.

You probably won't care about the goat though. Kinda needs a person in it to keep its value. But whatever's some people like random goats and suns doing things.

Possible to use a better codec? H266 out yet?
For everyone using MariaDB instead of PostgreSQL, a similiar feature called "System-Versioned Tables" exists since MariaDB 10.3 [0].

We're using this feature in production as part of a financial forecast application. This makes it possible to forecast spendings/revenues based on data from different points in time. For example the users can generate a forecast in december based on data as valid as in june and can compare how good their forecast model predicted the reality at the end of the year.

This works quite well but there are some pain points:

1. System-period (transaction time) data is immutable and can't be changed with queries. If "faulty" (in the sense of "technically correct" but not reflecting reality) data is imported to the database, the database will return this faulty data for this "as of" date no matter what and there is no easy way to drop this data later.

2. This is the main reason why logical backups (mysqldump) for historical data are not possible, since there is no way to write that data back with queries. This should be possible in the future but the correpondig (critical) bug ticket wasn't solved in almost 3 years.[1] You can use mariabackup (physical backups of the underlying file-system storage) instead but this requires console-access to the database server which isn't always allowed in corporate environments.

3. I'm not aware of any ORM framework which supports System-versioned tables (neither MariaDB nor PostgreSQL) so you have to write your own solution on top of an existing ORM or use raw queries.

[0] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/system-versioned-tables/
[1] https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-16029
I feel like a bit more communication before coding would save you a lot of time. Also, I totally get why she does not want the latest app, or literally means more boring work for her.
In siem reap on the main road, that goes to the city when you come from the airport, there's a few temples close to the city. If I'm remembering correctly (+6 years ago), it will be in one on the right side of the road (coming into the city), black stone walls. I had a picture of it but can't find it, typical buddha pose, halo like around the head, but instead of resting hands on the lap it was holding the square.
If the pay was the same, would you seriously rather work at McDonald’s than at an engineering job? That seems unimaginable to me.
I wouldn’t use it either, for the same reason. Choosing a movie now takes 1 second for each card since they’re displayed one at a time and I have to do something to say NO.

How about you just show me a list where I can mark what I like and then get a list at the end. Then just switch phones and see each other’s list. Instead of an exact match, you limit each other’s choice to 10 movies you just picked.
From java9 onward if all the characters in a string are ASCII then java will store them in a byte array with one byte per character. This ends up covering a lot of strings.
>demographics is working against asset values in the next twenty years or so

I can't find the link now but I saw a recent paper that showed retirees aren't really spending down their investments in old age. Rather many of them will end up with more when they finally fall off their perch.
Well, guess I'm a no.
Max wealth limit of 999 million, might do it.

Everything else is taxed at 100%.
IMO people's opinions are more malleable than one might think, as long as you package the message in the right way and slowly modify it over time. E.g. you would start by telling the anti-vaxer that anti-vax propaganda is a conspiracy by the Chinese to make Americans weaker (I'm exaggerating, but you get the point)
> Well apple charge you $100 per year to upload app, are you kidding ?

IIRC Apple charged you 100$ as early as in 2013, that's when I bought a subscription myself for the first time. But the app landscape was much different back then and it didn't stop hobby developers from publishing.
A problem is that you can’t necessarily tell the big winners in advance, and if you don’t diversify enough, you will likely miss their big gains, unless you’re paying very close attention.

Avoiding bad companies seems like it would be easier, but if everyone knows they’re bad then they wouldn’t get much weight anyway, and maybe you’re wrong.

But I’m just explaining why it may be harder than it seems to beat an index, not saying it’s impossible.
How does this compare to https://github.com/scalegenius/pg_bitemporal ?
What did you expect? The process to get an app on the store is complicated, time consuming and you even need to pay for it. Hobbyists are just publishing web apps instead nowadays and couldn't be bothered to publish on the app store. It's simpler, more accessible and you're guaranteed it will work. Only companies or people who don't really have any other choice do that.
> corporate business newspaper is a mouthpiece for the "left"

you mean liberals, who are by no measure left: they simply want woke capitalism. leftists want to end capitalism.
That the vaccines have lower efficacy for variants is pretty much to be expected and kinda documented by now. Why would the Pfizer vaccine be any different?
Certainly if you use it without understanding how to use a random number generator... but that is not really a fault in numpy OR TensorFlow...
Sharp mind, surely someone already is using this brilliant name...
Can you give us a link or the name of this person?
Maybe not McDonald's but something outside with very little responsibility and a bit of exercise would be nice.

Don't get me wrong I love to code and would probably find my self doing that again but every crunch time of an unrealistic deadline that had nothing to do with the effort required to complete the project has me fantasizing about spending six months in the summer picking fruit.
We also started with "temporal_tables" C-extension, and also had to switch to NearForm's version written in PL/pgsql to be able to migrate our database to RDS.

Didn't notice any performance drop.

It also much easier to install (just run an SQL-script, no need to restart the DB) and it works everywhere, on all PostgreSQL versions. Great piece of work!
> Apple/Google are not valuing dev community as they used to and devs are taken granted for

I mean, it's about making money, App Store is not a public good. If developers feel there's a better opportunity they can pursue other platform, but it seems like Google and Apple succeed at making the money-making developers happy. What else should matter to a public company?
AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea
Dude, you're the personification of the bad-faith meme: Mister Gotcha.

While I entertained the idea of arguing with you, there is simply no point and I've come to the conclusion there are better uses for my time.

I'll just burn some points to point out how disagreeable I find your position.
Is that an anti-capitalist or anti-socialist comment though? I can't tell.

Is Amazon equally bad if you view it as one or the other?
This was a wage to wage comparison, yours is a lifespan to population comparison. So completely different.
For anyone curious, the example map given is of West Papua.
What do you take photos of and with what? I think that my lack of a storage strategy is part of what has held me back from really pushing myself to produce more data/art/music. I imagine a sort of life logging habit with photos of things I want to document. The issue then becomes discoverability and organization...
What are the alternatives to Signal?

edit: I'd like to have something self-hosted!
To be clear in the Wayland fetishists fantasies they wouldn't need to convince people to all switch to wayland circumstances would foreclose on any further debate in reality all players have an incentive to keep existing software working.

If one calls the _ syscall with parameters a b and c it won't suddenly require a 4th or demand they be in a c b order is literally what makes X11 continue working against newer kernels. Providing new functionality wherein if you don't call foo before calling _ with a b and c it fails to perform its function would be functionally the same as changing the order of parameters it would be breaking user space.

I don't see how you could possibly lawyer yourself past that, I don't see that the adults in the room who have to support customers in rhel 8 through 2029 can do anything but keep doing minimum work to keep x and the kernel playing nicely. I don't see how nvidia is going to go from supporting hardware for 10-18 years even on niche hardware to dropping support for X so quickly. I also don't see how you can meaningfully talk about the kernel dropping support for X without basing your discussion on actual kernel developers who logically would talk about kernel foo will be the last to support X probably years before it actually happens. I'm totally sure that python 2 -> 3 took over a decade after it was a completely suitable replacement but we will totally manage to replace X before its replacement is fully baked and the kinks worked out.

In short the whole premise is completely and totally premature wishful thinking by people who want their own way. I'll pour one out for X when its actually and in fact dead.
This used to be ok. These days, comedy with race motifs is playing with fire.

I’m not happy about how everyone is on the edge. Pissed off. Ready to be instantly offended. People gung ho about race, class, status what have you.

The world sucks right now so badly.
Not in support of the above poster's views btw, but I think he gave the analogy in a broader sense. Your take on this mirror analogy is from a micro-level. I still think looking at FB from a birds-eye view, the society mirror assessment is fairly accurate.
The Conflux Plugin for Ethereum's Remix IDE(GitHub)
yeah because Keybase embrace of Stellar worked out so well for them.

Almost as much as Kik and Kin (or whatever was that), as well as Telegram and TON.
The whole point of “index funds” is to allow Americans to retire.

Maybe provide an alternative where the average American doesn’t need to be an active stock manager or get pilfered by a hedge fund, and maybe we’ll see something more akin to a market that allocates capital efficiently
> I pay the electric company to have a store where only approved toasters and microwaves are sold so as to keep quality high!
> I pay my car company to ensure that only approved tires, windows, audio, windshield wiper fluid can be used.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but where I live there is a tax-funded Safety and Chemicals Agency whose job is to keep dangerous and malicious physical products out of the market. There is no equivalent for software.
> Because iPhones are general-purpose computers, not video game consoles.

You just pulled that of a thin air. I mean, a latest Samsung fridge is a general-purpose computer as well, so...

> And they are the property of their owners, not of Apple.
You know what you're buying, so just stop buying it. Pinephone ships in April.
Some good observations, allow me to deconstruct them :-)

I did mention literacy as a prerequisite. I'll add another one - an alphabet. Both those are non-obvious, and took a looooong time to invent. (The Chinese writing system probably prevented them from inventing the printing press with movable type, simply because trying to cast several thousand letters was out of the question.)

I'll add have you ever tried signalling with a mirror? I have (as a boy). It's really hard. The big problem is you don't know if the beam actually crossed the recipient's eye. About the best one could do is he sees a random flash now and then, not an organized system of timing sensitive flashes. Navy ships use signaling lamps, which solve that problem nicely, and they use Morse with it.

Signaling towers were used in Europe before Morse, where different positions of levers were used for different letters. This system worked, but it was slow and very expensive, and didn't work at night.

Morse actually came up with Morse code first, then tried to invent an electric telegraph system. His predecessors had come up with other various encoding schemes, but they were all impractical because they were too complicated for the primitive electric technology of the time.

The point is, people had no trouble coming up with encoding schemes for the alphabet.

Anyhow, see "The Victorian Internet" by Standage for an entertaining history of the topic.
I can’t see it in the UK iOS app.
> Could they do things better? Of course. Are they trying to? Absolutely (the cynics would never admit this point, but it's true, e.g. the amount of resources and cross-company efforts thrown at improving privacy is incredible).

What about things like lying that phone numbers for SMS authentication will not be used for other purposes?

What about mental gymnastics to work around legal obligations that are privacy related.

EU regulations require allowing users to get their data in readable form - what FB is doing? Claiming that data is too complex, impossible to provide in readable form and therefore they are legally forbidden from exporting most of it. FB listed targeted advertisements as their obligations, and claims that as result they do not need user consent to spy on them as it is their legal obligation.

Maybe FB is mirror but they are busy mirroring nastiest - and the most profitable - parts.

For me their supposed attempts seem to be rather a smokescreen to me.
I found the "basilisk collection" (at the bottom of "bottom of the iceberg") the most fascinating one .

I have the feeling that the whole iceberg only exists for us to click on this very article (as both share the same domain)
Didn't telegram just create some kind of broadcast rooms that you can pay to attend? Or clubhouse, or both?
Maybe we'll see those kinds of features in signal too?
Not saying I want that, I'm not a user of either of those apps, but it does seem like something some people want. I mean to point that out as a potential reason for this to be be in signal and not a separate app.

It's weird to see that it written about as crypto in a messenger app is novel though, as my keybase app let's me chat to friends and send lumens to them if I want to. That feature was also criticised a lot if I remember correctly, though it never bothered me.
They employed 452 adults for a one-month data-entry job, which the authors say it's "a relatively cognitively-demanding task intended to be sensitive to sleep deprivation."

As a side note, the study also says that short afternoon naps increased productivity.
The best would be guaranteed basic income and ending minimum wage. Best of both worlds...

People can "choose" to work or be creative and maybe start a rock band, or a business.

This makes a lot more jobs available, more supply of jobs = more competition = higher wages organically.

GBI guarantees nobody's homeless, everybody has a roof.

Essentially poverty is gone, and some equilibrium between libertarianism, socialism, capitalism exists... sure there are players who this won't benefit as much... (Amazon, Walmart, etc...) but the rest of us...it just makes sense.

Taxation will need to be re-thought, maybe land-value tax? Georgism has some interesting concepts as an economic model...
I just added my SaaS there [1], have zero expectations but I'll be happy to report back if I notice any positive effects.

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Volatility is a problem but they claimed that users might mitigate this by not holding for very long with ordinary transactions.

I’m somewhat skeptical. But given that speculation drives much of the interest in cryptocurrencies, they might succeed anyway.
I got 700€ worth of free Stellar from them. Not complaining :D

Moved my Stellar out, exchanged to BTC and stopped using Keybase.
In my opinion they're not trying very hard. It's called "phone", not "computer" to start with.
Essentially, early in the epidemic, that was fueled by two things:

1) Previous studies for flu have shown that masks have very little effect.

2) There was concern about fomite transmission, and for good reason - both from previous coronavirus outbreaks (SARS and MERS) and because of the initial settings (hospitals and the cruise ship). Donning and doffing contaminated PPE is a skill, and an actually fairly difficult one.

The combination of the two led to the active concern that the reduction in transmission due to mask wearing might very well be offset by people self-inoculating via their mouth or eyes.

The shift in thinking came about via two mechanisms as well:

1) The fomite transmission thing appeared to be less of a big deal than initial studies indicated.

2) Previous studies had looked at protecting people by wearing masks. The newer paradigm for masks is primarily focused on reducing the amount of virus asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic individuals are putting into the environment via droplets or aerosols. Hence things like "My mask protects you, your mask protects me."