skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 1955 the family income was usually only one salary. On the other hand you had a person full time cooking from raw ingredients, taking care of children and mending your clothes. So you didn’t pay for eating out, daycare, or buying new clothes all the time.
It may be true that starting from scratch would be impractical, but it might be practical to take Firefox/Chromium and make deep changes, to the point that it's effectively another browser.

Mozilla themselves have been doing this with Firefox. They've been replacing C++ by Rust (with the Servo rendering-engine project). They've replaced the JavaScript JIT more than once, if I recall correctly.

We've already seen WebKit give rise to two divergent major browsers: Chrome and Safari.
> 0.1 + 0.2: Produces 0.30000000000000004

No, it doesn't. It produces 0.3000000000000000444089209850062616169452667236328125.

> 1.40 * 165: produces 230.99999999999997

No, it doesn't. It produces 230.999999999999971578290569595992565155029296875.

> round(2.675, 2) produces 2.67

No, it doesn't. It produces 2.6699999999999999289457264239899814128875732421875.

> This is because 2.675 is actually 2.6749999999999998

No, it isn't. For one, 2.675 obviously is not 2.6749999999999998, but it also isn't converted to 2.6749999999999998 to be stored as a floating point number, it is converted to 2.67499999999999982236431605997495353221893310546875.

> round(2.665, 2) which produces 2.67

No, it doesn't. It produces 2.6699999999999999289457264239899814128875732421875.

> However, in floating-point numbers, it is above the halfway point (0.00500000000000000097)

Well, it is above the halfway point, but it's actually 0.0050000000000000009714451465470119728706777095794677734375.

> I am not a theoretician and have not proven that this is actually correct.

So, all the numbers are wrong, you have no clue whether your wrong results generalize, but you use that as the basis for advice to other people? I only can hope that you don't write software for other people to use.
Where is the updated version?
> Because to most users it feels like "free", because the stuff they're giving up (like privacy and the cost of advertising baked into things they buy) isn't readily apparent.

This is currently because the internet treats data collection as an "opt-out" feature, if you're even allowed to do that. Changing the law so that it is "opt in", and via a mechanism that is clear to a layman, might significantly change that for people. Wasn't that the point of GDPR, anyways?
It's not only thousand cases and a few dozen deaths. It's over a thousand cases over a few days of development from over a dozen. Learn your math, dude, especially on exponential growth. That multiply dangerously fast. Besides the confirmed cases, there would be at least few times more suspected cases, which could easily overload a handful of well-equipped hospitals. Once the the number of those infected go well beyond the capacity of the local hospitals. It will be the beginning of a an unstoppable disaster. So again, learn how exponential growth works.
Show HN: A reveal.js plugin that allow using PlantUML diagrams on slides
Tetris or any game's mechanics are not copyrightable. DMCA takedowns are not copyright rulings.

DMCA is a bad copyright-related law, but it's not the core of copyright law
The author of the paper has lowered the estimate to 2.5:

https://twitter.com/JonRead15/status/1220749021117140992?s=2...
Inserting a new commit in the Git history
It certainly is that time, but not because of Slack notifications.
Just a small reminder this is comparing a x86 on Intel 14nm+++++ and another one on TSMC 7nm. i.e the power efficiency would likely have absolutely nothing to do with the ISA in use.
The article focuses on the fact that the workers aren't given the training or opportunity to decontaminate before eating.
This thread seems to be unaware of DEC64, so this seems as good a place as any to point to this: http://www.dec64.com/

The gist: It's efficient (adds and mults in a few instructions), and preserves the decimal representation.

It's quite simple, really: Store a whole-number integer with a smaller one representing the number of shifts to the decimal point. This is probably a good choice for sensitive financial calculations.
>and suggests new outbreak could occur

An outbreak caused _by bats_, which is opposed to GP's theroy.
I believe the “metal” variants expose the processor extensions you’d need to discover Meltdown.
I think swiley is being a bit cheeky by applying the term "high" to those who are officially, medically stimulated. But you may be erring on the other side, giving too much weight to the official narrative that blesses "medical" speed and condemns "street" speed.

The real difference between medical and rec speed is dosage and route of administration. Big doses, taken nasally or intravenously, are abuse; small doses, taken orally, are medication.

But to concur with swiley, speed doesn't magically stop being speed when an ADHD diagnosis and a Trademarked Drug (TM) enter the picture.
I don't mind that ZeroHedge as it often cites news that isn't picked up on MSM. However, I have a massive concern about the bias in ZeroHedge. I remember once reading an article in which the final lines are something bold and along the lines of "remember they hate you and are coming for you" type rhetoric. That was completely not cited. I find that extremely concerning.

Also, similarly, they at one point ran an article about a John Hopkins doctor who is against gender affirmation treatment towards trans people. I googled more about their papers and the like, only to find that the doctor only published their work in religious-oriented research and has actually be disavowed by several medical practitioners who specialize in trans medical concerns. None of this was cited in the article.

This has overall made me quite leery of the validity of ZeroHedge on anything but the links that ZeroHedge cites.
The Life of a Bad Security Fix
Doctors warn China coronavirus carriers may show no symptoms of illness
Can we please avoid this types of response without citing source?
> An R0=3.8 means that it exceeds SARS’s modest 0.49 viral attack rate by 7.75x

but the wiki says SARS is 2-4
Revised down to 2.6:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1221132573340061697.html
Writing a self-contained ETL pipeline with Python
A Reply to “Let’s stop copying C”
Ianal, but an additional issue, is from my (limited) understanding, copyright applies to presentation not facts or the idea of something. If you take some info and reword it so the original presentation is gone and only the factual idea is the same, i think you are in the clear.

Again, ianal and dont really know what im talking about
Here is a tweet thread suggesting this guy is being histrionic:

https://twitter.com/ferrisjabr/status/1220963553911271424?s=...

If the link i post is more correct, it’s an interesting case of a science journalist correcting a Harvard public health scientist...
AI, IoT and ML Drive SMEs and Startups Growth in India
It caught my eye that Parker was born on 9/11/1911.
Very clever. But this kind of behavior made habitual will get you the reputation of a dirty hacker.
Been using Ubuntu on one for a few weeks; the only things I missed was a few Docker containers that weren’t built, and aws-vault didn’t have an ARM binary. I built my own, and aws-vault shopped a new release with ARM support 20 minutes after I whined about it on Twitter.

Everything else has been flawless.
Does "big tech" mean anything anymore? The world is technologized. Sex work is marginalized and criminalized quite thoroughly, for better or for worse, with and without "big" or "tech".
So the receiver pays you for access to the service and the sender also pays you for access to the receiver?

I hate everything about this double-dipping-middle-man-in-an-otherwise-free-interaction business model.
Perhaps you have missed a point or two. Of course it is the objective of fulltime proselyting missionaries to increase converts.

But that is not the only purpose in having such a program filled with (let's be honest) kids. Do they learn self-discipline? How to manage their time? How to socialize with people? How to study their own religion? How to empathize with others? How to speak multiple languages? How to lead peer groups? What their religion actually believes and if and how it makes any sense? How to manage their money? How important their parents have been in their lives?

Are these things learned just for the next year or two? Or do these missionaries go back to regular life with amazing skills that they can use to be better employees, co-workers, parents, teachers, and citizens? Is BRT just to trap people into the religion? Or is it an important life practice?

If it's just a sales technique, too bad. As a life practice, it's incredibly enriching.
Awesome advice, thanks. I’m happy to buy some stuff on eBay and play around.

Any suggestions? How about programming software? Readily available?

I recently picked up a Asco 300 w/comms module for my standby gen, DSE800 to control the engine, and a Siemens 9610 for consumption analysis.

I’m working on controls for load shedding now. I put shunt trip breakers on my water heater and it’ll kick off when on standby since I don’t have enough power, as per NEC.

I’m also working on a modulating valve controlled by the temp delta of my tankless water heater. Sometimes it can’t keep up and I’d rather slow down flow for a shower instead of letting it throw an error, resetting, and annoying people in the shower.
Yes, in the US (and presumably some other countries, I don't know of any offhand).

Many other countries such as Canada use Lowest Astronomical Tide. The difference is actually important to know at times when boating between the countries.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart_datum#Choice_of_tidal_ph...
What you're looking for is Elman et al's theory in Rethinking Innateness (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/rethinking-innateness) It's more like Darwin than Newton, and is (to the point of another post off this thread) an early deep-learning-like theory of how the brain (or at least the cortex) becomes organized.
Tools, the only way that small startups can compete with big tech companies
I've noticed a trend of software engineers proposing that other fields create some abstraction that already exists. Last week someone avowed that a citizen regulatory body for aviation be created. Of course, that is the FAA.
if some genius decided using mustard gas was a good idea, some "genius" somewhere probably decided using bio-chemical super virus is also a good idea.
Ask HN: Mac app for quick capture notes?
Currently when I want to take a quick note, I normally cmd-tab to chrome, cmd-t to open a new tab, and just type my note as a google search and process it later.

But I'd prefer a standalone app now, so that I'm not putting all my notes into Google's search history.

What's a good mac app for quick note capture, with a global hotkey that I can use to quickly capture a one-line note at any time?
Show HN: R-cade, a simple arcade game engine for Racket
I think it's partly just the audience. HN seems to have a lot of professional programmers, which is similar to but not quite the same as computational scientists. That doesn't mean there's no overlap, but for example I haven't met a people (other than one Google person) at a recent physics-informed learning or scientific machine learning conference who is a HN reader, which really explained why none of the stories in those domains have been getting HN traction even though HN seems very ML/AI-positive. Julia is in this weird middle ground where its ML/AI stories seem to get a lot of HN traction as a programming languages topic given the HN audience, but in reality it has a lot more people doing things like research in numerical linear algebra, numerical differential equations, statistics, bioinformatics, etc. but fast methods for block-banded matrices won't hit science press.
I wouldn’t be surprised if during the next few years you saw a number of stories like this come out. From my talks with folks there isn’t as much oversight in the organic sector as we’re led to believe. That’s all hearsay so take it with a grain of salt.
I'm not sold on either of these objections. Let's Encrypt is not the only CA. If you don't like the free CA, pay to use another one.

If I see unencrypted HTTP on a website, I immediately think less of that website. It's a Good Thing that the web has got to this point. Quibbles about Let's Encrypt's terms don't strike me as convincing.

> I think the problem is that there are little alternatives to LE.

But there are. Again, there's a whole marketplace of CAs to choose from.

If anything, there are too many CAs trusted by today's browsers.
https://www.inkstonenews.com/health/chinas-coronavirus-outbr...
It was USB/HSIC and then switched over to PCIe with IOMMU.
See my post in another thread re Elman et al. Rethinking Innateness (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/rethinking-innateness).
I think it's fair to assume that people mostly steal desirable things. It seems unlikely that thieves are by and large stealing things no one wants to buy.
Yeah an R0 of less than 1 would mean it fizzled out with not much effect.
Your statements are too broad. The government actively denies anything is wrong among its own citizens until the disease is spread outside the country. This has been well documented both with this and with SARS. To medical professionals, they have them recommend those sick people stay home and not go out. To the cities where infected people are, it seems they have established some kind of lock down of those areas. Oh, and of course they have spread some anti-american sentiment stating that the United States is somehow responsible.

Of course it's hard to tell which story is right, the seafood or the medical facility. And honestly, it doesn't have to be one or the other - it could be both. They could have been practicing the breeding of viruses which had been harvested from local areas known to harbor diseases and infestations. If procedures were in question, or being retested, they might use a novel less deadly virus as a mechanism to practice with. It's plausible.

It would be nice if governments didn't blatantly lie to their citizens, but I guess that's what "progress" is in 2020.
Thanks

Is there a way to get fuzzy searchable history ala bash Ctrl+r?

Also I've noticed that if I use any emacs movement command (say jump to start of line) vterm looses internal sync and my edits edit the wrong text. Is that an issue specific to my config, or do you have it as well?
I was going to complain about "consent" being removed from the headline, but the consent model for this is all wrong anyway.

Even if you had to sign a EULA when you entered the store, there's no way to meaningfully consent to submitting your biometric data into a legally unlimited universe of analysis, cross-referencing, marketing, credit reporting, law enforcement, and whatever else ingenious minds can invent. This just isn't a consent problem. It's a regulatory problem.

Under a proper regulatory regime, you shouldn't need to consent to a computer recognizing your face any more than you should for an employee to recognize your face, because the laws constrain what the computer can do with that recognition, and you can reasonably expect those limits to be in line with what the employee could do.
Power and heat dissipation are a huge part of TCO for datacenters. I'm sure Amazon picked an appropriate point on the performance per watt curve.
Yeah, if you were to design HTML, CSS, and JS from the ground up today they'd likely look very different.

The bigger issue is backwards compatibility; the web has bent over backwards to maintain it, which is a blessing and a curse. On the one hand it makes the feature set absurd, but on the other hand the web is (relatively) easy to archive since format interpreters for it are widespread, and pages can be built and then forgotten about because they still work.
They were sued by Rap Genius for a similar practice and I believe Rap Genius won.
Why have a password at all? Just use webauthn if a device is available and skip the password completely (or give the user/dev a choice -- password sharing may make sense in a lot of contexts).
Thank you for saying this. It was the case when I first joined HN that many posts were quite conservative. But here, and frankly across the US, there has been a shift to voices that are indeed deplorable.

I admired Jim Lehrer no end. But a person can wonder if the rules alone are strong enough to withstand the assault.
This paper claims that their "work suggests a potential risk of SARS-CoV re-emergence from viruses currently circulating in bat populations," which is opposing the theory that the virus originated from Wuhan Biosafety Laboratory.
Given that your cost is going to be correlated to AWS’s cost of goods sold, I’d argue of course we care.
I was using Opera as my chief browser in 2002..2010 period, so 2005 was Opera's peak, around versions 8-9 and a race to pass ACID2 test.

I finally switched away to chrome because Opera became unbearable on Ubuntu, it slowed down and a lot of graphics issues appeared.
The former may be a means of getting to the latter. I don’t anticipate it will be made illegal without widespread public awareness and disapproval.
It’s in there:

> The final nail in the coffin was that after the release of Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft decided to tightly couple new Internet Explorer releases to Windows releases. So they dismantled the Internet Explorer team and integrated it into the Windows product team.
Everything is a tradeoff. Sometimes you are a large business and genuinely need an airplane, but sometimes you are a small shop and using a motorbike is much more cost-effective.
This seems rather unlikely. We have the genome sequence of the Wuhan seafood market coronavirus, and it's consistent with it being a so far unknown relative of the SARS virus and other coronaviruses (see my other comment where I have posted links to the sequence alignments).

So did the Wuhan BSL-4 lab virologists discover a new relative of the SARS virus, study it in their lab, didn't publish it, then accidentally set it free? Sounds substantially less likely to me than people coming in contact with it while handling bush meat. That happens all the time, unfortunately ...
Spreading a tweet from a doctor who is acting like the world is about to end is a worse action than a rebuttal questioning his fear mongering that goes against both the WHO and CDC.
> Everybody in the history of humans has said the latest technology is the best model for how a brain works. There used to be a piston model for the brain.

Is this the same mistake as in "The Relativity of Wrong" [1]?

> people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proven to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about out modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.

> [...]

> My answer to him was, "John, when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."

Modelling the brain as a bunch of pistons or as a complicated machine or clockwork thing is a lot better than as a magical clay golem or opaque soul. Modelling it as a computer is even better than that. Not a computer in the sense of an x86 desktop exactly, of course, but the concept of computation is clearly fundamental to understanding the system. Similarly, the brain is not ResNet but concepts like backpropagation are probably useful.

So, sure, maybe people have been using the latest fad to explain the brain forever. But that's only bad to the extent that the latest fad is getting further away instead of closer.

1: http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html
"No link with seafood market in first case of China coronavirus, Chinese scientists revealed"

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3047646/no-l...
There are ACME clients written in Python 2 or even pure shell -- should work even on very old systems (but not older than ~2010, you need openssl with TLS1.2 support).

I personally prefer them even on current systems, as I don't really like the "automagic" nature of certbot.
That sounds annoying. This is like Slack forcing their WYSIWYG editor on me. Thankfully Apple hasn’t done this yet and the URL bar still acts very much as it should.

But just ask me how I feel about navigating other parts of Apple’s UI! Dunno who they’re user testing with but these changes make me a bit ornery sometimes.
The theme across agile implementations is control over what's taken on and accountability for what gets done at very high granularity. The whole thing about breaking up complex stories into subtasks is do not abstract away any details from me, I want to know everything.

It's hard to imagine this being a less top down communication style. What are you comparing it to?
So Long California? Goodbye Texas? Taxpayers Decide Some States Aren’t Worth It
You can drive it underground because, I think, the problem is coming from having too many animals/people in a small crowded place. If people were to raise their own cattle it'd be much healthier[-].

- Not really an expert, might be wrong.
>We can solve these problems by rounding after every operation.

In my experience one should do exactly the opposite, round/format only the very last result when you need to print it, otherwise always keep all the decimals in the intermediary results to avoid accumulating rounding errors as in a Superman 3 bank hack (aka "salami slicing"). I did a lot of affiliate and e-commerce software in my time and if you're careful you can use floats (sometimes you have to deal with old systems working that way), but fixed-point calculations with integers are way easier and safer. Just make sure to store enough extra decimal places, not just the 2 that you print and you can calculate interests, exchange currencies, charge 0.5% fee on $0.01 per click transactions, whatever - it works just fine.
By all accounts all procedures were followed, beyond that apparently some intellectual property protections weren't.

China studies major viruses too. They are a party to the research. That part isn't so insidious.
> Just do it with a fixed-precision decimal number, and represent it as a string.

Why? If you are going to do that, might as well use an integer of cents. It's more compact and if you're worried about these calculations and storing this kind of information, it's likely you are storing lots of it (or it wouldn't be a problem).
"The easiest way to get started is to create a free admin account..."

I'm surprised they don't use Userbase account for their own website.
“It’s safe to say that not all need advanced nodes. But Apple, HiSilicon, Intel, Samsung and Qualcomm require advanced technologies, and for good reason.”

“The design cost for a 3nm chip is $650 million, compared to $436.3 million for a 5nm device, and $222.3 million for 7nm, according to IBS. These are “mainstream design costs,” which means one year after a given technology has moved into production.”

The new nodes will only be used where the design costs can be recovered, which is mostly consumer and server farms AFAIK. Basically anything using the current best nodes will use the next gen nodes.
These Are the World's Oldest Mind-Altering Drug Cultures
The public health scientists wrote in his first tweet that he's "never seen an actual virality coefficient outside of Twitter", i.e. he's admitting to not being a subject-matter expert. So getting corrected by someone who's done their research is not that surprising.
Might want to try SideNotes or FiveNotes (same developer). My current key mapping is control-option-command-space. I don't think either provides sync capabilities, but for quick notes, they're decent.
Digital maturity among Indian cos balloons to global high
It's called Dennard Scaling [0] and it ran out about 15 years ago

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling