skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thermonuclear pandemic bad? Isn't that R0 similar to many other diseases?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number
How do you know this? The only published program is paying for questions, and they had a trial of "knowledge prizes" years ago as a contest for the best answers but it was shut down. As a "top writer" for 2 years, I've heard nothing about any payments for writers.
A long way at that level. See OpenWorm [1], which is still struggling to simulate C. elegans, a nematode. It's close to the simplest organism with a nervous system. Fully mapped, 302 neurons. They have the wiring diagram, but not the weights.

That project needs more money, and the Human Brain Project[2] needs less money. The Human Brain Project was an effort to understand the human brain in ten years. This is year seven.

Grinding up from the bottom is a thankless task, but necessary. It's bad for your career in some ways. Years ago, Rod Brooks was promoting Cog, an attempt to get to human-level AI in one big jump. (It failed.) I asked him "You did a good robot insect. Why not try for a mouse next." He answered "Because I don't want to go down in history as the builder of the world's best robotic mouse" In the end, he went down in history as the inventor of the first production robotic vacuum cleaner, the Roomba.

This is a classic problem with AI as a field. People keep thinking that they're one big idea away from general artificial intelligence. Hubris. I've seen four cycles of that in my lifetime. There's definite progress, but it's very slow.

[1] http://openworm.org/
[2] https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/
Whatever you decide, you're on the right path in realizing that listening is good even if you think the speaker is crazy
nm is the new GHz/MHz.
The median family income is $80,000. That’s definitely enough to support two children in median parts of the country.
Superstitions about decimal floating point are far more prevalent, even, than superstitions about binary floating point.

Generally, whatever you think you are getting from decimal floating point, you very, very likely are not.

There is exactly one place where decimal floating point is the Right Thing: when interoperating with another system that is already using it. Those exist because others' superstitions have been locked in, sometimes even into regulatory frameworks. Decimal floating point is inherently less accurate, on any lossy computation, than binary, so you need a lot more digits to maintain the same result accuracy. This is why 128-bit decimal is common.

It is generally pointless to argue with anybody who thinks decimal computations are better. If reason mattered to them, they wouldn't be stuck on the idea. So, just roll your eyes and, if they have any authority, use a library. Performance will suck, but not so badly as you might guess, and you can spend the time until release circulating your CV without panic.
I don't understand why people eat monkey or bats? if they have all these virus or diseases in them. It's 2020 we have more food in the world than we did years ago no need to eat a bat just grab an apple.
I got kicked out of my high school programming class for logging into another high school's computer network. I didn't even break in, I logged into a friend of mines account and downloaded a txt file about a game. The teacher reviewed all the paper (these were print terminals)that got thrown into the trash and decided I was up to no good. (This was in the 80's when we really didn't have rules about networks) It would be hilarious if isn't such a stark example of how a poor teacher can almost fuck your life up.
It's interesting how the value the owners get from HN is more kudos and relevant discourse.

I'm finding it hard to think of other domains with succesful quasi-public institutions run by for-profits without monetization. Are there other examples?
It is an equivalent scale. Density is fine pitchm2 pitchtrack height. You scal node by an equivalent reduction.

It would be better to use logic density, but it is easier to use numbers we are used to.
No, it will just facilitate normalization over two generations. This is how it's always been!
> Now look elsewhere
I think you mean angels.
Series D,E,F funding
> However you can’t just choose to not pay for things.

Sure you can. The article even has examples.

> In the 1950s camping was an acceptable vacation. Hand-me-downs were acceptable clothes. A 983 square foot house was an acceptable size. Kids sharing a room was an acceptable arrangement. A tire swing was acceptable entertainment. Few of those things are acceptable baselines for most households today. The average new home now has more bathrooms than occupants.

> most poor people I know

I think this is the disconnect. The article is about the 50% of Americans that have nothing saved for retirement. Not Americans who are poor. It's specifically about how you can make lots of money but have nothing saved.

If we talk about poor people, then I agree with most of your comment. It's just not what the article is talking about.
We're talking about a place where this is common practice.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zrv78nG9R04&feature=youtu.be
You mean like a scramble suit?
This is just....not true. IBM doesn’t make 5nm chips. This is a research demo of a transistor design for that node. They don’t make it, and never will.
https://blog.intothesymmetry.com/2020/01/the-curious-case-of...

seems like it'll break on firefox now.
Take a look at music.rkt (the very end), there's an example of doing just that with the Tetris theme song. It's what I would use to test different sound waves, envelopes, note parsing, etc.

Edit: I was thinking of pulling the RIFF/WAV code out into its own package. Let me know if this is something you'd find useful.
> There is typically no way to tell after the fact

Consumer Reports (and others) did studies that showed non-organic food have lots more pesticide residue than organic food. That of course doesn't mean they are better for you or that they are tastier.
Please, expand on your argument!
For non-biologists among us ORF = open reading frame. It has roughly the same meaning as a gene.
Can anyone elaborate on why yarn v2 won't work with "many projects in the ecosystem"?
As someone who did his dissertation on episodic memory development, I see the wry humor, but I think your comment is a non sequitur. It is not that we have figured it all out, but rather can we gleam knowledge about cognition (e.g. episodic memory) and the brain from neuroscience and behavioral techniques. I think the answer is clearly yes. In terms of memory, we understand, for example, that the hippocampus is critical to some forms of memory, most critically memory that requires binding of arbitrary information/percepts representations into a more cohesive event representation, that the hippocmapus may achieve this through computational properties potentially afforded to it in microcircuits in subfields of the hippcampus (e.g. pattern completion from heavy recurrnecy in CA3) and pattern separation of information in the dentate gyrus, etc. and so on.
As your average developer who's heard architects mention these micro-frontends, I would have liked the article to start off by listing the use cases and trade-offs instead of jumping right on the hype train at full speed.

Since the article mentions Piral, I thought I would peruse that project's documentation (0), but am none the wiser on basic questions like: how do components get assembled into the main application, is network traffic overhead is going to be a problem, etc.

Delving further into the Piral docs, I came across a link to a sample micro-frontend (1) that seems to be importing every micro-frontend into the index, so network traffic overhead seems like it could be an issue.

Does anyone here have experience with these in a production environment and know how to avoid (in my mind) basic pitfalls like these? As it stands, this article seems to be setting people up for scenarios like the Bell micro-services disaster (2)

[0] https://github.com/smapiot/piral/blob/develop/docs

[1] https://github.com/benjamminj/micro-frontends-examples/tree/...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfh-VCTwMw8
I'll raise you the hypothesized (and today largely doubted) terracentric georeactor published in PNAS:

Deep-Earth reactor: Nuclear fission, helium, and the geomagnetic field, https://www.pnas.org/content/98/20/11085

And don't forget the "Moon may have formed in a nuclear explosion" theory (uranium enrichment back then was well above 20%!): https://www.technologyreview.com/s/417259/moon-may-have-form...
It is because of the wealth disparity. A massive chunk of the population lives in absolute poverty. I don't see them fixing that anytime soon.
There’s plenty of actual research into the ancient origin of vampires you can read without resorting to baseless speculation. There is no single myth or origin and eastern europe has no vampire bats—in fact, the bats are named after the myth. The connection is likely due to them simply being nocturnal.

EDIT: My tone came off as completely dismissing your thinking, which I don't mean to, I just mean to say that there's already a lot written on the topic.
Looks like it's primarily because it turns on the "PnP" feature by default, which keeps packages cached in compressed files instead of extracting them into `node_modules`. Most tools rely on files being on disk in `node_modules`.
Does Microsoft make any of their own silicon?

It feels like Google has been directing their in-house designs on ML/TPUs while Amazon went all in on ARM. It will be interesting to see how those bets pay off.
For what it's worth I'm flying back home to the US from the UAE and at the airport as I was waiting to check my bag I saw many (10+) groups of Chinese tourists checking entire boxes of 3M N95 masks. My guess is that they're running out at home and these tourists saw an opportunity to make some money or help people out (or both).
There’s extensions for that. One such is (as mentioned by @bubblethink): https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/
The 16-Inch MacBook Pro Is Great, Where’s the 14-Inch?
Me.I particularly love pandas. Sure its API is quite complex and I need to refer to the documentation more often than I would like. But the doc. is be pretty solid. And the set of features unmatched in the python ecosystem. Nothing can really beats pandas when you need to quickly do some medium sized (ie. in RAM) data exploration in python.
I'm surprised no one has commented on how unhealthy, unhygienic and to some level immoral the consumption of genetically similar animals is. One more reason we should only eat creatures very genetically dissimilar to us. Eating bats, cows, rats, pigs etc will give you nasty results indeed because their pathogens can attack you very easily as opposed to a fish. (Actually eating undercooked fish can give you a nasty thing called liver flukes so even thats not safe)
Is the Square a Secure Polygon?
Our school system let them right-click and ban programs running on your machine and apply that school wide.

It was a string match.

We called all our games winword.exe lol
This is something I really wonder about.

Presumably, there's a tradeoff between risk and interest rate, right? If you buy national bonds at 1.5%, you're accepting very low growth presumably in exchange for near-zero risk. If you park your money in a bank account earning 2%, you're getting a bit more, presumably at some higher risk.

If you're earning 10% or 15% on the stock market through a balanced profile of index funds, doesn't that suggest that there must fundamentally be some significantly higher risk associated with that? How much exactly? Otherwise I assume nobody would be buying bonds at the available interest rates.

Why do I see so many people these days giving financial advice that the only responsible thing to do with your money is invest it in the market? Undoubtedly that's been great advice over the past 10 years, but past returns are no guarantee of future performance, right?

Is it mainly post-2008 that it became common sense that the average person should park their savings in the market?

What does the market think the actual risk level of an index fund is?

Or else why does anyone buy 10-year bonds?

I'm really curious to hear thoughtful responses about this.
It is only considered astronautics among those who haven't orbited.

On Virgin you get a glimpse of curved horizon, and stars in daytime, at the expense of about the filthiest kind of rocket ever used. Really, the fuel is basically burning tires.
I am not sure that a pay what you want model would work, but I want options dammit, and I would hazard a guess that content creators do too—just look at the wonderful, nearly complete lack of ads on patreon content.
This is generally good but the conclusion is mostly wrong

> One part of why Microsoft's ideas didn't really catched on was that we developers just didn't get it. Most of us were amateurs and had no computer degree. Instead we were so busy learning about semantic markup and CSS that we totally missed the rest. And finally, I think too few people back then were fluent enough in JavaScript, let alone in architecting complex applications with JavaScript to appreciate things like HTML Components, Data Bindings or Default Behaviors. Not to speak of those weird XML sprinkles and VML.
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> The other reason could have been a lack of platforms to spread knowledge to the masses. The internet was still in its infancy, so there was no MDN, no Smashing Magazine, no Codepen, no Hackernoon, no Dev.to and almost no personal blogs with articles on these things. Except Webmonkey.

People were building complex JavaScript apps back then (the term DHTML was coined in 1997), and there were plenty of experienced software developers and people interested in really learning how to code well. Similarly, there were many sites where you could learn techniques — not just A List Apart but many personal blogs and sites like Philip Greenspun's https://philip.greenspun.com/panda/ (1997). If you look at the first A List Apart entry in the Wayback Machine, they list many well-known resources:

http://web.archive.org/web/19991005040451fw_/http://www.alis...

(There is, however, a quite legitimate argument that back then English fluency was a very significant barrier)

The main problem was that 1990s Microsoft was all about “cutting off their air supply”. They threw huge amounts of money into building out tons of features, exclusive bundling agreements and promotions with various other companies, etc. but they were not nearly as lavish in spending on QA or developing web standards even before the collapse of Netscape lead them to pull most of the IE team away. If you tried to use most of the features listed, they often had performance issues, odd quirks and limitations, or even crashing bugs which made them hard to use in a production project and many of those bugs took years to be fixed or never were.

In many cases — XHR being perhaps the best example — going through the process of cleaning the spec up to the point where another browser would implement it might have lead to the modern era dawning a decade earlier with better than weekend-hackathon-grade quality implementation in IE. I look at that era of Microsoft as a tragedy of management where they had some very smart people but no strategy other than “prevent competition”.
Insights into Why Hyperbola GNU/Linux Is Turning into Hyperbola BSD
Genuinely not how I expected the story to go! And the polar opposite from my catholic school experiences as well (the headmaster caught me logged into my Hotmail account one day, physically pulled me off the computer while he pried through and read hundreds of my emails and then after finding nothing untoward, used the entirely unread contents of my spam folder [which in the mid 90s meant mostly porn & dickpill spam] as an excuse to try and expel me from the school).
I meant evidence based interpretation.
Newfront (YC W18) is hiring PMs to transform an antiquated industry
The most complete brain map ever is here: A fly’s “connectome”
Food is still a large share of many people's incomes. It is not surprising to me that some people may want to eat free or cheaper food, still in 2020. Some of us may have plenty of food - heck many of us have way too much. But if you travel around the world really at all you would quickly understand why some may eat non-commercially produced food.

Also, still in the US people eat animals like squirrels, raccoons or feral pork.
Most, yes. But things like databases, video/data compression, compute / deep learning workloads, etc, _are_ negatively affected by the fact that cores aren't really cores. Basically anything that's actually using the CPU to an appreciable extent will be affected by that. Add to that the hyperthreading-specific CVEs as well.
I suspect many of his buyers weren't particularly concerned that he was 'defrauding' them. He probably sold at a discount and it gave them the label that they were consuming organic.

Also, the article is very hyperbolic. It's pretty standard in the industry to fudge when it comes to organic.
Hmm ... I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on low temperature grown III-V material (GaAs to be precise) and studied InGaAs, and other variations.

GaAs would make for awesome switching systems, as it is a direct bandgap semiconductor, as opposed to Silicon, which requires phonon mediation. While this is a tremendous technological advantage, you have that minor problem of fabrication.

For GaAs, you need ~5 atmospheres of As gas at 550C. Not something anyone wants in their backyard, for good reason.

For InP, you need to worry about your supply of rare earth (In) elements, and all the surrounding tech needed to grow ingots of an appropriate orientation material for InP. You have to worry about the role of defects (which is what I simulated), how to dope, how to build structures.

Its not simply that it is technologically better, its that there is a whole massive ecosystem around Silicon, that for better or worse, pretty much guarantees that we are going to be running silicon based units for a long ... long time.

The joke, and there was one when I was in grad school, about GaAs and other non-Si materials was, they are the materials of the future. And always will be.
A brief history of Wikipedia skins
> perhaps bundling Firefox (to stab at Google) for a fraction of the cost of continued Edge development.

I think that would have been a preferable outcome, for it would have pushed at least some fraction of users towards Firefox, potentially helping to shore up the only browser using a (significantly) different engine. Instead we have another Chromium-based browser, which doesn't add anything of significance to the browser landscape.
>Another reason for requiring feedback for downvoting is so others know why it was downvoted

That will just lead to bickering. And really if that's the rule then you should also be forced to make a meaningful comment when upvoting.

I find that there are times to downvote that don't or shouldn't require a comment. It will just spiral into a comment war tit for tat comments spiraling down into a hundred levels.
It is certainly not with "give up" and "it is already too late" attitudes that things will change
This is not true. It was only Microsoft's innovations that were tied to a specific operating system. Other browsers were cross platform. Even Microsoft's short-lived IE for Mac was not really IE.

ActiveX nearly destroyed the web, and as recently as a few years ago there were still enterprises digging themselves out of the proprietary mess they developed themselves into.
Intel’s 10nm is laptop first. It’s easier to yield smaller chips
That's surprising - used to use VNC to do remote support for people running Pentium II and III machines in the sub-1ghz, single core range, and performance was fine. I suspect those machines were overburdened if you really experienced that much of a performance hit.

Just for reference, in middle school we had one Pentium 60 with a CD-ROM that was an absolutely mindblowing machine. I got to use it maybe once a month or so... Everyone else had to use the 386s while one kid would have his day on the fast machine.

It seemed so futuristic at the time, and now the story just makes me sound old.
Hero programmers do exist, do all the work, do chat a lot
It's a strange thing the differences between my Catholic school experience and when other folks describe what to me seems like almost caricature-ish type Catholic school experiences.
Ask HN: ideas for last weekend of a crowd-fund please
UK climate-impact start-up, round has been running a while, investments possible from a number of place not incl US. What should we be doing (or where should we be posting) in the last weekend to attact some final £££?

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Just found a picture of the E450 - https://s.yimg.com/aah/anysystem/sun-e450-large-27.gif - and I gotta say, any computer that looks like it could have been Zack Morris's sweater is a good computer in my books
I guess it's actually called African Swine Fever aka Swine Flu.

If pigs can be incubators of human and non-human viruses and ASF being rampant did it and whatever bat virus or seafood virus get together in a pig and create 2019-nCoV.
Once people do start saving and investing, a similar truism applies:

"You get what you don't pay for."

Jack Bogle popularized this statement. It means in investing, small differences in expenses make a huge difference over time. You get what you don't pay for.
Oh yeah, Powerpoint Jeopardy! I remembered we did that in high school science class once. Totally forgot about powerpoint being able to link buttons to different slides but in that case I do think it was a lot of copy and pasting.
This blog post relies on the Daily Mail as it's main source. Are there any other articles or sites you can point me too, DM has plenty of links to big oil and regularly prints dubious anti 'green' material.
This sounds believable though, so interested to read more.
Is transmission through eyes that odd?

The common cold already is. You rub your eyes, the virus enters your tears, which drain to your nose.
This is what I'm curious about as epyc currently represents the state of the art x86 right? What's the TCO comparison when factoring in performance, density, and power?
Types Can Be Like Tests
There is a reason why "Contagion" starts in China ...
CF is undoubtedly good for DDoS protection, but that doesn't negate the fact that it does other things poorly.

FWIW I've found more websites that prompt for Cloudflare captcha than I've seen websites offline due to DDoS. I've seen lots of websites offline because they get too popular though. Many websites that I've known were currently under DDoS attack stayed online while I used them (like GitHub using Akamai).

At the risk of Troy writing a blog post proving me wrong... does the average static website need DDoS protection? I'd guess they don't.
> A rendering engine for clean, valid XHTML could be very simple. But everyone wants to be able to see web pages created by technically incompetent designers with "tag soup" HTML.

The HTML5 parsing algorithm is not _that_ hard:

https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110113/parsing.html

Do you really think that the complexity of a full XML implementation of the half dozen specs required to implement XHTML would really be that significant a savings compared to the actual features browser developers actually spend their time on?

You're correct that complex software is what people want but that's complex as in an advanced document layout system with advanced language support, rich media, forms, etc. rather than the format those features are implemented in.