skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your paper isn’t fact. It is an estimated published by perhaps one of the worst modelers out there. The IHME has been publishing scary models that couldn’t even accurately predict what was happening the day they were published.
> I don't think it's mysterious. The owner likely ran out of full, rare cans of soda and could not / did not want to source them anymore.

For folks who aren't aware your local distributor cans / bottles a much wider variety of product than what you find on typical grocery store shelves. If you have a commercial account with them you can get the list. Sometimes they make special runs for a promotion, special event, or special client order. Depending on the circumstances and if you have a good relationship with your sales rep you may be able to get notified and grab a case or two.

It is possible they were vending long expired drinks... but it is also possible they simply had a hookup at the distributor and sourced rare drinks from time to time.
Unless something has recently changed, XMPP also failed on the server side for normal users:

- Finding a practical provider is nearly impossible, because all of the major ones closed their public XMPP service years ago, and most people don't know what qualities to look for in a small provider, let alone understand why those qualities matter.

- Even if they get help from a friend and manage to find a reliable server that supports the magic combination of XEPs that are needed to make things work, chances are that server is no longer accepting new users.

- Even if they manage to get an account on a featureful[1], trustworthy, stable, free[2] server, many don't last more than a few years, so there is a high chance that the user's new online identity will evaporate before long.

[1](Required features include end-to-end encrypted group chats with offline delivery, among other things.)

[2](Yes, free. That is critically important for mass adoption today.)

I'm not a normal user, in the sense that I have far more technical knowledge than most people who use messaging services. I actively used XMPP for at least a decade; probably closer to two. I tried last year to piece together an XMPP-based solution that my friends and family could use, but even I was unable to solve all the problems I found in a way that would work for normal users.

And then there's the client side, which is also problematic, as soupbowl said.

This has been the state of things for quite a few years. The only people I still see pushing for XMPP are people who have major blind spots. Some of them have experience only with small groups, and have not considered how a whole world of people conversing presents different challenges. Others (usually tech folks) have had a good XMPP provider and comfortable client software for so long that they have forgotten how much knowledge it takes to get set up in the first place. A few are people who run small for-profit XMPP services or develop XMPP software, aka conflicts of interest.

Dear Jabber, I'm sorry. I liked you. I had high hopes for you. I might even still consider you for niche purposes. But as a general purpose messaging network for regular people, you have failed. It would take a lot of effort and resources to make you viable, and I don't see any sign of that coming. The closest you came was when Google and Facebook embraced you, but those days are long gone.

Meanwhile, Matrix is succeeding. The rough spots are being fixed. The bloated clients are getting competition. The missing features are appearing. Even as a work in progress, it is already usable for some of us, and it's consistently moving in the right direction. Importantly, I can tell a regular person where to get it and (often with no help) they can be chatting with me in a few minutes.
In a sort of similar vein there was the Mystery of the South London Hellraiser VHS.

A few years ago, someone spotted a Hellraiser VHS on the roof of a bus stop. It was removed and a replacement appeared. Then it happened again. Then more Hellraisers appeared on other bus stops.

It can still be seen on Google Maps.

I always thought Stoke Newington was a gateway to hell, so it was good to have it confirmed.

https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3299131/bizarre-story-vhs...
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. Voidfunc loved Big Brother.
It's currently rising at 1-3 mm per year which of course is a rate that isn't concerning at all.
... if you can find a charger. All those bells and whistles are beyond useless if you can't. It's rather amazing that you continue to talk past this point.

When I had an EV, it frequently took several hours of combined searching and waiting to find a charge per week. That's not counting time to charge. Frequently, broken chargers would remain listed on apps for weeks, which made it a terrifying gambling game when range was low.
The combination of social networks and global warming are gonna doom us all.
I know, right? Corporate taxes aa they are implemented currently are a joke.
I don't see any reason to expect people to have heard about it unless they follow tech business news. Or maybe astronomy.
They want to manipulate the weather on our toolbars and sell us counterfeit goods.
Any thoughts on how customers should think about securing their skills? ChatOps exposes skills that may provide deep access to deploy code or modify system configuration. Slack doesn't have the same security as an SSH session (password protected private key). I'm seeing concerns around phone theft, evil maid, spouses, or former employees who haven't had Slack access pulled.

From my end, I think these are solvable but may require thinking about the problem differently. How are you thinking about security?
I don't know anything about this audit other than that someone is doing some kind of audit in Arizona regarding the 2020 U.S. election.

Can you please clarify what you mean by people involved being untrustworthy, and/or other arguments against this process? I honestly fail to see any problem with auditing election results, since as far as I know there is no actual remedy regardless of the results, and it seems to me like verifying accurate results is a good thing.

Of course if there is some corruption, fraud, or similar going on with ANY kind of auditor, I'd like to know.
Until you oversleep it and be woken up by the driver in the bus park.
Inspiring. You’re doing amazing work.
Political beliefs / affiliation (especially when mainstream) is a protected class though. Was this individual also "bringing it to work"?
If illegal immigrants aren't given free food and boarding in a hotel they're literally in a concentration camp!
am I the only one who just thinks Reddit/Disqus threads are the way to go? (collapsable and deep-linkable)

what am I missing?
Simon Tatham doesn't have any profits, but his PuTTY is installed on every developer's Windows machine.

then isnt it up to the commercial vendor who bundled the software to properly vet it?

someone taking non-commercial products and commercializing it is where the line is drawn right?
Unlikely. AoE4 looks more like a Civ competitor than AoE2, in that it'll look beautiful, have wildly divergent civs, and almost entirely be played SP long run.

AoE2 does so many things wrong by 'modern game' standards. The graphics are 2D. Pick any two civs, they're 80% identical. New, goofier mechanics (Flemish Revolution) are disliked by the players (although still used). It's still an incredible game.
If your family has more than one iPhone, and is happy with Apple Music, the $30 per month is a no brainer.
He is also a Nobel laureate.
Well first of all, there are busses. Congestion pricing should make the buses run absolutely better, and even more relatively better compared to cars. Maybe have some extra busses that turn around at the congestion zone border too for extra frequency.

In the medium term, SF should be extending it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadtbahn. The central subways is behind schedule as usual for bay area infra. They should dig the Geary subway cut and cover.

Every time public transit improves, crank up the congestion pricing and expand the area it covers.
Both are an absolutely useless waste of resources for society
That smells like bullshit.

Asymmetric warfare ( or guerilla warfare) has been successful time and again since the Napoleonic wars, regardless of how overwhelming the enemy was. And Napoleon himself won multiple times against the odds ( so much so the Coalition made a deal to only attack when he isn't in command).

And there's the usual incompetence, bad luck, or tactical/strategic brilliance.

Just in the last century we have the Russians ( in Russo-Japanese war, WWI, Winter war, WWII), Austro-Hungarians, Italians, Ottomans, Americans ( multiple times), Arabs ( against Israel) fail miserably against a theoretically inferior in terms of size and weaponry enemy.
It’s possible the TV ads influenced your watching of those videos :)
A bit of googling turns up [1][2], but [2] doesn't seem to have much recent activity (presumably in turn due to Google ceasing active development of S4TF [3]

[1] https://www.fast.ai/2019/03/06/fastai-swift/

[2] https://github.com/fastai/swiftai

[3] https://github.com/tensorflow/swift
My wife and I made sure to see it when we went to Seattle in 2017
> if you contribute to an open source project that requires copyright assignments, then its only promise is that current versions of the code will remain with the same (open-source) license. Future versions might as well become proprietary

That depends. I don't know the current paperwork, but I assume assignments for GNU software still involve a contract promising to maintain a substantially similar free software licence.
I'm not saying they don't happen, what I'm saying is if you immerse yourself in a constant stream of "here's a bad thing that happened to one person out of the dozens of millions of people who created content on the Internet today", you'll get a really distorted view of what's actually happening. It's like never leaving your house because you see shootings and murder reports every day on local news. You're missing out on a whole lot because of the distorted view that kind of information diet gives you.
Sure, all of humanity is inherently tainted by profit motives or whatever. That doesn't change the fact that trusting a Y Combinator startup with this kind of sensitive private medical information is a uniquely terrible idea. That information is going to leak, whether intentionally (maybe they'll "pivot" to selling it) or unintentionally via security issues like poor internal access control.

Doctors also earn money, but they're human beings with actual identities, not legal entities that don't even list contact information on their website, and they're at least sort of bound by professional oaths and privacy laws.
Please change your logo\casing from 'PhotoRoom' to 'Photoroom'. It'll look more fluid. There is no need for 'Room' to stand out. Let it be low key.

If you have your own reasons for the current styling then you can totally ignore my request :-)
You mean like wordpress.org ?
Windows 96
In 2018, which was extremely recent. It’s not like this thing stopped once Facebook came into existence.
We may have to eventually do that. That also might make more sense for handling requests across continents. Every 5 minutes still seems like not frequent enough but presumably the same approach could be used to write every 5-10s.

What we have considered is not doing any synchronous writes and just queuing it up and handling it async. There's definitely some questions about whether our current approach will scale 10x but it should be fine for the next 2-3x.

Just to shed a bit more light, we break things up into figuring out which ad to show and then handling when that ad is actually seen. The second part is mostly async already but the first part is the harder part. You want to choose the best ad for the content, the geographic targeting needs to match, and the ad campaign has to have budget left on the hour/day/total. If we only checked the budget every 5 minutes, that would be a problem. At some point, multiple servers need to know that there's still budget on a campaign and this requires some amount of synchronization.
I also was quite surprised that I never thought about different outdoor sports being affected differently by rain (& this being manifested in rules or tournament organization) even while I did participate in events that were affected by rain. Obvious in hindsight.

Start of the rabbit hole was this sketch by George Carlin on baseball vs football: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIkqNiBASfI
Interesting. It sounds like we value very different kinds of writing.
> With these large super destructive fires that wipe out everything you get slower reseeding which can let invasives weeds take hold. And you get dense stands of young trees and brush which are less fire resistant than mature forests.

If you're real unlucky an above average wet season after a super destructive fire will cause untold amounts of topsoil erosion and damage, impacting the follow on reseeding even more.
+1,

once you grok functors and algebraic type systems, a lot of other system design patterns seem like abstractions on a few key concepts.
Maybe we should internet-sleuth Ebay auctions of Hellraiser VHS copies and see if it's the same account winning them.
A "fun fact" my son loves: more people are killed by vending machines than sharks each year [1]. Perhaps it murdered someone and went into hiding?

1. https://medium.com/purple-theory/vending-machines-vs-sharks-...
Right. That's biochar. See my top-level comment.

But note that this is not all or most of the soil in the Amazon, by a long shot... the "terra preta da Amazonia" exists in isolated patches where humans had been conducting slash-and-burn agriculture for hundreds of years. Most of the soil of the Amazon region is just like any other topical soil, nutrient and carbon poor.
Even though they'd easily run circles around a Model 3, this admission still proves my point.

Almost as much gymnastics as you're using here. Maintenance and fuel costs will drop for FCEVs too. Right now, battery buses are more expensive. More importantly, you can get away with much fewer buses and a smaller refueling footprint since each fuel cell bus has significantly more range and shorter refueling times.
Language Detection Functions Now in AskGit
Just because it has a rocket engine, that doesn't mean it's a "rocket", it's a rocket-propelled aircraft.
I'm sure this is an atypical use case, but I found the hidden threads really useful for creating spoiler threads about TV shows/movies/etc. All discussion about the topic can stay inside the thread, and folks who want to avoid spoilers can simply avoid clicking on the thread.
If you want to make statements like this on HN, please back them up with sources.
So.. programming 101?
A friend of mine has a soda machine in his business with a similar question mark button. He had the same idea of stocking some less common items in it. Apparently people occasionally feed it money and press it repeatedly.
Concentrated, rather than dead. SC2 and AoE2 are the only games still running strong. SC2 seems quite alive. I play AoE2 competitively, and it's stronger than ever.

In terms of new games, yeah it's pretty dead. AoE4 looks cool, but I'd be pleasantly surprised if its near as fun to play competitively as AoE2. Wacky civ specific strategies make games more predictable, and 2d is more ergonomic than 3d.
I think this is really neat and I also like the HN tagline "learn computational science by tinkering with code" better than learning how to code and Data Science for Middle/High Schoolers.

I've been wanting to see something like this for a long time & think it's pretty neat!
I have the same problem...
things that have helped a little:

use sempo launcher Wich diminishes the amount of notifications one has

for a while I switched to an eink phone... with this my YouTube consumption went down considerably...

but still not enough.
Now I'm planing on getting a dumb phone.
nix-build relies on symlinks, which seemingly can't work on Windows. And it's not really a build system. Bazel relies on a JVM and it's really nice to not have one of those on your system if you don't absolutely need it.

Depending on how minimal you want to get, I think native build systems where you're not just building for yourself, but distributing source bundles that need to be built by others, have to start the discussion with Autotools, CMake, and Meson. The reason is just that they're already required by everything else anyway, so you're not adding any burden to the downstream packagers by using them.

If you're just building for yourself, have at it, get as bespoke and obscure as you want, but SciPy isn't being built and deployed primarily on NumFOCUS's own servers. It's being distributed as a tarball to its users who mostly build it themselves. You should make every effort to use a build system they're likely to already have and already be familiar with.

In particular, much of the focus here seems aimed at users who want to cross-compile for embedded Linuxes running on ARM. I doubt those people want to pull in a JVM.

Kind of reminds me of when I was working for a geointelligence agency charged with building and integrating third-party ground processing algorithms into a user-facing web tasking framework. We have to retrieve and build the dependencies, too. xerces-c, Armadillo, MKL, no problem. Just keeping downloading, either cmake .. or configure, make, then make install, over and over.

Then one of them requires TensorFlow and it becomes a two-month research project trying to figure out how to build it (sorry Google, but the military does not trust your pre-built binaries).
Is there any proposed logic behind the difference in thresholds between the two groups? It seems designed to do just one thing - overestimate cases in the unvaccinated, and underestimate cases in the vaccinated. What is the actual rationale the CDC provides?
The idea that the tests of TDD are not the same thing as the tests of test coverage is a great insight that I don't think I'd quite realized before. In my experience, that seems in fact accurate - writing a short tool that uses the code you want to write is a good way to break down the problem and also make sure your solution actually works, but it's different from having confidence in the system.

On the other hand, I'm a little confused at the idea of non-automated tests that provide value. If you're interested in security/compliance/accessibility/etc., those seem like general software quality things, but they don't seem like "tests." To me, a "test" is a thing that either passes or fails, by analogy to tests in education, tests in law, etc. It's definitely valuable to review code for security issues or ensure that you're taking accessibility into account, but unless you're asking a question that can produce a yes or no, then you're not increasing stakeholder confidence through evidence, per the article's formulation (which I agree with). If you think there's value in manual testing because a human will provide you with "insights and feedback," great, but if you do hallway "testing" and everyone successfully completes the task but provides no feedback, is that a failure? If you can't find any security bugs from reading the code, does that mean there are none?

If you want unstructured information from humans as part of inputs to your design, great (and that's a great reason to shift feedback left), but I think that's a different category from testing.

You can't automate everything but you can automate a whole lot. Static analysis tools, better languages, modeling tools, etc. can find or prevent security problems more reliably than a human. Linters can check for accessibility issues (missing alt tags, missing ARIA attributes, etc.), and you can write integration tests that try to drive your entire product using only accessibility APIs to make sure your workflows are covered. Automated tests can look at emitted logs and metrics and make sure they're emitting what you expect and not emitting what you don't. And so forth.
"Idiots ruin things for everyone else."

I think that sums it up nicely, and indeed was my main point.

The female engineer we've worked with on a daily basis for years, in a very friendly, cooperative and relaxed team. So very far from a stranger to us. She's one of us, basically.

I'd agree that it would be incredibly unlikely that if we did make that compliment, anything bad would happen. But the fact that all five of us shut up regardless, I find telling.

I guess it's math, in a way. If there's a 1% change of getting into trouble for trying to say this nice thing, not saying anything means the chance is 0%, so the better option.

Yes, in the case of the feedback problem with the VCs, it was actually women taking issue with the lack of real critical feedback. They wanted it, they didn't want the muddied down overly protective version.
I’ve been passing by this since I was kid, it’s funny that it’s getting so much interest now. I would just use it like a normal vending machine lol
I can't wait for this comment to show up on n-gate.com
1. Has this ever worked for you before?
2. This is clearly a designed logo, which means yes, lots of reasoning went into it.
3. Please change your user name to include your entire last name, it would be more clear.
I did read the article, but that wasn’t immediately clear to me. Maybe something about the formatting of pre-generated docker images in the same line as the compiled versions?

Anyway, thanks for the clarification!
I am in Central Florida on the east coast, south of Daytona Beach. This puts me close to Orlando and Jacksonville and I can get to Tampa 2 hours and Miami in 4 if I drive. I am also just an hour flight from Atlanta (or Miami if I want). But where I am I cut costs down even further, so I am probably another 10-20% cheaper then Jacksonville depending on what you compare.

Jacksonville is a good option, still inexpensive overall, decent city life & start up scene, easy to find employees and has good investors. Miami is also awesome, little better weather IMO cause I hate temps below 40, but cost is a little higher; still low compared to most major cities however. Austin is also a great place, lived there when I was in Texas, though it has changed a bit since I was there, still is a cool place with a great balance across things. Both states are income tax free which is always nice too.

There are services you can use, like waveapps, or Quickbooks. You use their accounting software and they have certified accountants that will help you every quarter/year with taxes etc. They both offer payroll services for a small fee too. Difference is they aren't your tax advisors, they just will do what you ask and they aren't necessarily looking out for you the way a private accountant would who gets to know your business. I've used both, but still hired an independent accountant to make sure I didn't totally ball things up.
> >- doesn't show NTFS alternate data streams.

> How would that even work?

Throw a new pane into its main content preview frame, tabs on both the new and old, label them "Main stream" and "Alt stream" respectively? Something like that.