skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I see. So in the evaluation of u(+inf), it becomes 0, hence uv is 0. I have never thought of it that way. Thanks!
I will give all this a look, thanks for the links.
To expand a bit, if both sides did their due diligence 'bad' reporters wouldn't get sources. That is if sources vetted reporters then maintaining that reputation would be the only thing that got them high quality sources and then news sources that prioritized accuracy would have competitive advantage.

We have this already, in a less good light, reporters/news orgs building "good" relationships with people or companies and biasing their coverage in favor of the covered to maintain that good relationship. It sours the view of the news source when you start to see frequent hit pieces or undue praise of a subject that is a clear mark of a paper with an agenda.
If something looks "purely bad", you're probably polarized on the issue. There's usually positives and negatives to everything, even if one far outweighs the other in your mind or in the mind of the vast majority of people.

When you run into stiff resistance like the anti-vaxx movement, which has little economic incentive (I can't think of who profits by a kid not taking vaccines), it helps to be able to understand where their points make sense even if you don't agree.

Once you're that beyond right and wrong, then you can educate more effectively. I've had much more constructive dialogues with anti-vaxx people once they know that I understand how scary it is for a government to tell you you have to inject your kid with something you don't understand and doesn't feel necessary and might have risks.

I think if you grant them the courtesy that they could be right (which science and medicine has examples of being highly confident and then being wrong), that then they are more open to at least getting the highest recommended vaccines on their own volition.
Unfortunately the problem is that University's promote professors based on publications.

The solution to this problem seems to be to get rid of promotions based on these for profit publications.

If your research isn't open access, then it can't be taken into account for promotions or hiring decisions.
> Would you call it discrimination to specifically target poor people to receive government aid?

Yes. It is called positive discrimination, because the object of discrimination is advantaged by it.

> so it does not appear to be discriminatory.

You want to choose the vaccination schedule yourself, now you have to pay a fine (or not receive a benefit: close to the same thing). It is said to prevent harm from occuring, but apparently the person who's making the decision here believes the Finnish schedule (which is 1/2-1/3 of the US schedule in size) is better for them.

No choice for the poor, all the choice to the rich. Discriminatory policy if you ask me.
If you can provable show that the bug is non-exploitable, then can’t the attacker?
vidir is a low-fidelity imitation of Emacs dired mode. Emacs has had dired since at least the 80's.
Computational and neurobiological foundations of leadership decisions
PDF warning, both links

(Sorry, mobile cuts off the second half of the URL)
how does citeseerx compare to arxiv? Are they just different networks (PSU/Cornell) that function independently or do they index the same content?
"it works"; well making the "fine" income/wealth dependent also works and also works for the rich.
This is really cool, and thanks for putting the time in to create working demos. I haven't done any game programming in Rust yet, but I will definitely reach for this if I do.
> And you have the choice to buy spectacular developer focused hardware like XPS or ThinkPad laptops.

I'm using an XPS 15. A recent purchase - I'm an OS X user by choice, but Apple currently makes no laptop hardware I'm interested in buying.

Here's the relevant archwiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_15_9560

It would take me days to work through that horror. I'd still end up with an only partially-working machine. Yes, it's the fault of Dell & chipset manufacturers for not supporting Linux, but if I'm going to spend effort apportioning blame for the world's ills, I'll do that on things that matter more (torture, ecosystem collapse, social isolation).

In practical terms, I can spend time setting up & configuring Linux, or I can use Windows today and plant some vegetables, or walk up a hill, read a new volume of history or philosophy, talk to a friend. Windows is kind of nasty, but all the applications I need are available for it, it can launch them, it can give me access to files, and I don't spend any time messing with it. Good enough for me.
I really appreciate the offer, but I am not asking for charity. What has been monetarily donated to me so far, and job leads is more than enough. I can not possibly accept. I hope you take this as a respectful decline.
Emailing now.
Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
There was another incident like that too, a guy tried to make it to Hawaii and calculated he'd not make it because of headwinds and had to ditch. He deployed his airframe parachute in the plane and was picked up by a life boat from a cruise ship.

Here is the coastguard video of the event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBCUQlF3MMU
I think he does mean sampling from a gaussian. You can tell because the example calls randn().

The gaussian distribution is invariant under rotations in 3d (and more generally invariant under any orthogonal transformation in any dimension), so if one takes a random vector X whose components are independent N(0,1) random variables and compute X/|X| (where |X| is the usual euclidean norm of X) the result is guaranteed to be uniform on the unit sphere.
> an old fashioned bank transfer can be corrected if I transfer money and make a mistake writing the account number. Mutable history is a powerful feature.

That's not necessarily mutable history though. Such a correction will usually be made by an inverse transaction, not by wiping the original transaction from the record.
Totally agree. The US has a history of protecting the rights of the individual over the rights of the group perhaps more so than other nations. There are benefits and risks to that and many other countries are experimenting with other ways of evaluating those conflicts.

I think where the point gets contentious with libertarians is that forcing them to do something feels far scarier and authoritarian to them than forcing them not to do something.

I agree that we're all connected though and the decisions we make impact those around us no matter how individual we think our actions might be.
> As non american, I’d love to know more about this kind of business with China, and how it relates to the US government political choices. Why the US looks so scared by China, if it has such economic relatons eith it?

It's not just the US. The entire west is afraid of China. In around the Reagan years, the US - along with almost the entire west - offshored their manufacturing to China et al. Of course, now it's been about 40 years since and almost all of large scale manufacturing has moved to china (i.e. steel).

In the end the west wanted cheap imports, and they got it. But IMHO we are beginning to wake up to the fact that nothing is for free (as always), and what the west gained from having a virtually 1-billion-strong externalised pseudo-slavary labour force, they will pay in their own demise as an entire western generation grows up unable to build anything, begging to be economically annhiliated. The west made china a god and asked for bountiful reward - who wants to bet they will give it to the west forever?
Yes, but this is another topic. In practice the middle classes (there are too few very rich children to really matter) respond to the 'incentive' just as well as the poor.

In Australia anti-vaccination is a middle class phenomenon, the poor (in the main) are not against vaccination and just need an effective reminder to vaccinate.
The probability of experiencing bad cases decays exponentially with the number of iterations. 0.48^n.

Your CPU would spontaneously undergo fusion by tunneling before hitting on a case where it's stuck on a bad case for more than 10 microseconds.
I apologize for putting the wrong url, here's the correct one: https://www.wlwt.com/article/homeless-lose-battle-to-keep-th...
It is basically a game about timing but in practice people can’t help but give cues. Just as an example, if my only card is a 99 or 100 I can’t help but be somewhat disengaged with play and people are going to notice that and make assumptions about what I have.

It’s primarily a game about timing but it’s not the only element.
Cara Jitu Internetan Gratis Dengan Mode Pesawat
No different than many of the other enterprise chat apps. Amazon Chime is some of the buggiest software I've ever used.
z3 is a pleasure to use and rise4fun is brilliant for a lot if reasons.
In my mind, it boils down to an extremely simple question - if money didn't exist, and you didn't have to work to stay alive, would people do job x or job y?

The answer for many jobs is yes. We know this because volunteers exist, personal projects exist, people help each other fix their roofs and cars and fridges, etc.

In a society like this, things might move a little more slowly (probably we wouldn't have the airline or public Transit systems we have now), but things would absolutely still get done.
NaNs cause the craziest bugs
That video is unbelievable. I have always fascinated by cheetahs and their necks. But this just takes it to the next level.

Thanks for sharing this! I have nothing meaningful to add other than that I am awestruck by this video.
Nearly every article like this seems to have long verbose steps. For me in 99% of cases my development machine and target machine have mostly the same configuration, and so it feels like I have it down to a 3-4 step process which can be scripted.
OK. But maybe plastic bags and tanks of helium?
Is 150 miles a big deal because of the time period or because it's the UK? For some reason they seem to make a big deal about distances that are a day trip in the US.
Reading books to understand the diseases, vaccine compositions, vaccine effectiveness, and risks is an excellent way to become more informed.
https://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Book-Decision-Parenting-Libra...

Keeping people ignorant and forcing them via government regulation is a very scary path to go down IMO.
What's the $doi bit?
Sent from my personal email.
Even a survival suit won't help if you aren't found quickly.
Every game I’ve played is full of non intentional communication in addition to timing and that’s part of the game play as far as I’m concerned. Even the way you move your hand communicates something.
Probably took about 10 days to cover those 150 miles one way.
This could also make for a really cool chrome extension.
In my experience, settle early, settle often keeps your small business on track. While settling seemed wrong to me on principle (the patent was absurd), the cost of fighting far exceeded what my company could afford. I got on the phone with our corporate outside council and the plaintiff to explore our options. Their first question was "Are you a $100 or $200 million dollar per year company?" Uh, yeah, we think you have the wrong idea... In the end we settled for $50K, the equivalent of about two months legal fees to fight the suit. In the end it was the right decision as we bought certainty. Even ten years later this settlement bugs me, but it was the right thing to do.
You mean outcomes like a 1 in 2 autism rate? Or how about all the infants that die during the night after their vaccine shots?
The day I find one of these mark* languages that supports poetry -- which simply means, a section in which it respects literal indents and line-breaks, but not by dropping into monospace font -- I'll use it.

N.B. the online publishing platform Leanpub has its own mark* variant, "markua"[1] which actually does recognize a poem section -- although as implemented it has minor formatting issues.

[1] https://leanpub.com/markua/read
Why? Is the terrain tough or they just would have been on foot? (Having no knowledge of the geography)
Had not even thought of that. I rooted mine so I can remotely drop books into it without having to go get it and plug it into my computers. Also, the ability to read epub files is really nice.
I certainly wouldn't want to be on a delta trike at 90kph.
Very cool! Are there more than 2 quotes for each time? E.g., will tomorrow's 10:17AM quote be different to this morning's 10:17AM quote?
> So, maybe Indiana Jones was just fighting against arcane DRMs?

Weren't the Grail trials in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade a kind of DRM to prevent people people who no license from accessing the Grail? And isn't the scene where the grail temple callapsed when Elsa tried to steal the Grail just a second layer of the Grail's physical DRM system?
Decentralized Web Summit 2018: Global Visions / Working Code
Sorry it’s not clear but why does the teacher regret debating him?
I think the points in the piece have some merit but I see something wrong in how it's said. Yes, you have to check HTML to remove bad tags on client side no matter what, yes you need 2FA no matter what.

But surely this does not mean we shouldn't write robust systems which make good actors do things like sign the products or compute checksums or whatever helps signal intent from the source, modulo a trust framework

Or, that we have the conversation about pervasive anonymity online and what it does. Or the roles of intermediate systems good and bad.
Thanks for sharing those links! I don't think many will watch due to the length and that they've already made their mind up about the issue.

I'm glad that you have posed several topics that I hope will spark discussion and have people critically think about the issue rather than blindly accept what the 'establishment' dictates.
> I realize that it costs money to publish journals and papers

Not that much. Nature sends me paper versions of most of their journals for free (so does Blood, so do some others) for (as far as I can tell) the sole purpose of getting me to read the ads. It's fine, I suppose, but I preprint all my papers anyways (some go to Nature-brand journals, most don't), and honestly their editing isn't even playing the same sport as, say, NEJM (which really does add a lot).

Most of the time the versions on *Xiv (not just my papers, but most other authors' too) are at least as good as the ones that get published in vanity journals. Sometimes they're better, since there are times that a topic really is complicated enough to take 50 pages and 30 figures. Rarely, but still -- it's not like the same 30 figures aren't just crammed into "panels" (smaller, harder to read figures) in glamor journals (or tossed into the supplement; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/t... is one of my favorite figures of all time and it's stuffed into an "Extended Data Figure" FFS!).

Chan-Zuckerberg and the Simons Foundation pay for bioRxiv and arXiv respectively, seemingly without much trouble, so I contend that publishing papers isn't actually that expensive, certainly relative to the benefit of doing so in a way that is accessible to the public who funds most of them.
I wanted this app as well so I decided to just build it myself. Feel free to sign up for the beta, I would love your feedback after launch: https://peapods.com

Building a social network around local events seems obvious and honestly I am very surprised no one has executed it correctly yet. We have a plan for solving the chicken-and-egg problem by bootstrapping off of the existing event platforms.
Most mammals play.
Had a similar idea, that automated creating meetings based on interests, availability and proximity.
How is that beating anything? You play games to have a fun or engaging time, counting seconds is extremely boring.

I and everyone we showed this game to had a lot of fun playing this game and not by counting seconds. It‘s a nice, quick game to start out with …
Ask HN: How much more desperate and crappy can Facebook get?
For the past year or so, I have significantly reduced my usage of Facebook, I have stopped posting status updates, mainly just keeping my account for getting event invitations. Today for the first time, I noticed a "Stories from across Facebook" feature that shows content that have absolutely nothing to do with the lives of people you know, but random news articles on all sorts of topics (god knows if half of these news sources are even credible). Did a quick search of this feature, apparently it's been introduced a few months back and there is no way for users to turn it off. Their support team simply dismissed everyone by telling them to submit product feedback rather than addressing the question on how to turn off the feature: https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=10216902612096563

I am once again deeply disappointed by how aggressively Facebook tries to shove things down their users throats. And at this point, it really seems more like desperation to me. It's like "none of your friends have new posts, here make sure you read some news that have never been verified". I'm aware more and more of my friends have became less active on Facebook and moved off to other platforms such as instagram or snapchat, but wow, is it really become that big of graveyard now that they have to rely on showing you irrelevant content?

Just wanted to rant, and on the side, what does everyone use to organize and discover events as an alternative to Facebook?
I'm finding I have more "patience", these days, with regard to viewing and reading stuff [1]. I may just wait until the season's done, then add the CBS thing to my Amazon Prime/Video -- I see tiles for the CBS stuff, so I assume I can -- for a month and binge watch.

Is doing so now worth it for "Discovery"? Some other comments on this thread make me think, perhaps not.

Even if the new... "Stewart vehicle" is not TNG, let's hope it is of equal quality. Make it so.

The last season of Wallander (the Swedish production, not the Branagh thing) became rather interesting, exploring the experience of later life and perhaps the meaning of life as found in and through that context. The new Star Trek show probably won't emphasize this, but it would be an interesting perspective.

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1) For example, I bought season 2 of "The Expanse". But, now that Amazon has picked up production, I'm just waiting for season 3 to be added to the Prime offering; I just don't find myself in that much of a hurry/need, even though I found the show quite good.
Probably the dead body was a tough logistics problem. Gotta haul a casket, and also feed the party over the course of the days, while also watching out for roving highwaymen. Perilous days.
Got it. Will get you in housing by the end of the night.

I know what it’s like to be homeless, keep your head up.
> I realize that it costs money to publish journals and papers, but the system that we have now seems broken.

Why? For what gain?

Wikipedia seems to handle much higher hosting costs alright. Why can't we do the same for open access journals?
A variable representing the DOI of the resource in question, fill it in with whatever you're searching for (the DOI of a paper, for instance).
The DOI number of the paper you're looking at. You just need to set $doi to a string that contains the DOI. (In bash this would literally be doi=<some doi string>
I like that. It would be very interesting to have something that would use real life resolution human models and an option to control the time step.
the DOI number identifying the article.
Our Fat Pets
> we as a society force conduct all the time I don’t understand why is this so different

Because in america we believe in an individual's personal right and a limited government. A government free to take your children away when there is no immediate danger would certainly violate this.
Yes, that's the point, right?
And they missed :(
That was my first thought as well. I can see how air relatively close to the surface could geyser out, but I'd guess that deeper air would likely be trapped. Given the high pressure and density farther down, compressed blueberries would probably behave like the rock that traps water and methane in the Earth's crust. Because of the trapped air, maybe the planet would shrink a little less than the author predicts. (Of course it will shrink a lot, because the air compresses, but maybe just a little less than predicted.)
This is a very dangerous logic because it implies we should be fine with China stealing our intellectual property. The view should be qualified in some way so it doesn't have that consequence. They are our enemies.
>to prevent quarterbacking

Do you mean "the action of making criticisms after the event" as in Wiktionary, "to be the head of your click" as in Urban Dictionary or something else?
> However, firefighters near the scene are disputing the government's version of events.

> And three officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said the incident was actually a gas tank explosion inside an apartment.

> Smoke could be seen coming out of a building window at the site of the incident.

Nice shield:

https://i0.wp.com/contextodiario.com/wp-content/uploads/2018...

https://i1.wp.com/contextodiario.com/wp-content/uploads/2018...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avSgQc6DOiU
I think Scott Harrison has done well with Charity Water -- I believe he has singlehandedly solved 1-2% of the global water problem in the last decade.

Surely, if a NYC nightclub promoter can stop doing blow and start drilling wells, we can scale what he is doing.
Funny. Your "vaccine" didn't seem to work. Maybe you should be mad at the company that got paid $100 for it instead of taking it out on society. And just think, if you had gotten it in early childhood, the side effects are very mild.
I downvoted your comment because it's ridiculous.

The worst one is the silliness about high infant infections rates.

My grandma had polio and it impacted her from the time of infection to the time she died. I wonder if you've ever met anyone that had polio.
I read your comment, wanted to reply, didn't know what to say.
I moved on, ended up reading a speech by Neil Gaiman[1], with a quote that reminded me of your plight.

> Someone asked me recently how to do something she thought was going to be difficult, in this case recording an audio book, and I suggested she pretend that she was someone who could do it. Not pretend to do it, but pretend she was someone who could. She put up a notice to this effect on the studio wall, and she said it helped.

[1] https://www.uarts.edu/neil-gaiman-keynote-address-2012
You can email files to your kindle directly; although I just recently started using a kindle so I'm not sure if that's a new feature.
That's very unlikely. What can happen though is OP is giving away a ton of service (think github or instagram) and so a big firm can think long term on monitization.
> "audience"

What "audience"? Why are you using that nomenclature? This is not an entertainment product, nor is it for-profit software. So why do you care about building an audience and a brand? How about instead we make actually good software.
It's not a bad idea. I've thought about migrating to I-Bonds. I've kept it in a savings account for the liquidity, but if you are okay with having a less liquid emergency fund, go for it.