skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome it has helped me already
The way it is phrased, if phone calls, emails or text messages are work depends on the type of job. Unpaid work is still work.
> Most medical problems are arguably preventable as well.

That's a huge stretch. You could say that for most illnesses we have some idea how to reduce the risk, but there is still an overwhelming amount of luck involved.

(And that's before we even get into the luck-based factors that make lower-risk behaviours harder or easier for different people.)
How would you say it is outside of China, are all those governments lying too? 2 deaths now, one of which is in HK. How terrifying.

> Anyway, I feel like it’ll be an epidemic

So worse than the flu which kills 650,000 people in a bad season? Worse than traffic accidents which kill 1.2 million each year? You should be utterly terrified of cars considering the fear surrounding this mediahype virus

Edit: Ahh yes that regular feeling of commenting about China on Hacker/Dunning Kruger News. Good luck folks, hope you all survive this flavour of the month apocalypse unscathed.
There’s a lot of comics nerdery scattered throughout the early issues. Up to and including an issue that is basically about Jack Kirby and how Stan Lee screwed him over.
Not so much fun as ps1,2,3 emulation as this all is too familiar pc tech. Nice work nonetheless though!
That’s a very good point, in that case even 50% would probably be optimistic.

We can probably attribute this article’s novelty to the slow adoption of Python 3. In that way it’s probably a good thing that it’s such a popular topic, even if it is old news.
No body will notice with all the current crap going on in the world except a few programmers. I want a law that prohibits this tracking, and prohibits cell phone companies from selling their tracking. Only under court order. Companies will claim they can't make money without tracking, too bad. Maybe California or Oregon or Washington state can push this kind of thing through.
Trackpoints don't have multi-touch gestures and they feel like they accelerate the onset of RSI.
FYI is the HydroOne 'Sunshine List' of those earning > $100K [1] at HydroOne (Ontario)

Here is 2018 different format for all Ontario [2]

Hey, how would you like to be a 'lineman' earning $120K in rural Ontario? Or a 'line maintainer' for $150K?

Their salaries are massively inflated, and this doesn't include benefits.

There were 4,279 people earning >$100K (of which only 664 are managers) - according to Wikipedia, they have 5500 full time, about 2500 part-time - and 7500 pensioners.

This means that the majority of the staff, who are doing mostly work that doesn't require a college education, are earning >$100K. People with technical training and those who work in more difficult conditions should be compensated, but this is ridiculous.

Consider that there are 120% more pensioners than there are actual employees, many receiving gracious, lifetime benefits, and you have your answer to why the 'transmission fee' is considerably greater than the actual cost of the electricity.

If you create a startup, and can just magically allocate everyone a +$100K salary, even if market rates would be less than half that, and can magically force everyone in the country to pay through the teeth no matter what, then you have a good business.

Now imagine if there was efficiency in this system, and considerable numbers of those workers could be out installing windmills ...

Any contemplation of renewable energy that doesn't' factor in the political and operational realities of these systems is almost pointless. These systems are where probably most of the hurdles are.

[1] https://www.sunshineliststats.com/Employer/9/2015/?n=hydroon...

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-sunshine-list...
"If it's not physical, then what is it? Is it an algorithm? Well, for one, there is no precedent. Nothing else in the material world is purely an algorithm...except maybe a computer running an algorithm..."

I don't see the distinction you're making. I think I want to say "ok, so nothing is purely an algorithm". A computer relies on the rest of the universe just like your brain and I guess it's therefore a "physical phenomenon"?

In order to draw a distinction, perhaps one could say that a "pure algorithm" is something that can run on "many" substrates, so the difference between a "pure algorithm" and a "physical phenomenon" is about the variance in the substrates maybe? But everything is physical. Statements about abstractions are statements about patterns of physical things.
Conservative area where a lot of companies spend money to be known to be the 'good guys'.
I figured as much. Considering it is TheAtlantic and it being on HN and throw in the title and I figured it's another targeted hitpiece on social media.

> Title should be “Toy commercials are being replaced by product placement and YouTube influencers”.

Nefarious product placement has existed for decades in movies, tv shows and magazines like The Atlantic. "Influencers" have peddled products forever. We used to call them celebrities ( aka influencers approved by the elites ). So what is the fuss really about?
I personally enjoy https://jalammar.github.io/ and https://mlexplained.com/- For machine learning & deep learning stuff
That's for new cars. This wasn't a new car.
I like the Navy version far more.
That’s an interesting experiment and thanks for writing it up in detail.

However I’m not sure what the VR really adds to it, above e.g. learning to shift the default point where most of us are conscious from (behind the eyes) to the lower abdomen as done in Zazen. We can similarly learn to shift this locus of consciousness completely into our FPS VR avatars but that doesn’t really make them ‘agents’ in the full sense of the term. The transfer is illusory.
I shared the story of a Wuhan coronavirus survivor here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22272264

It’s an account from a 23 year old healthy male who contracted the virus late December. He was hospitalized with fever and developed pneumonia. Within a week he was in critical condition with near fatally low blood oxygen (claimed 60%) and digestive issues. He would have died without medical treatment.

There are several stories like this shared on Chinese media but they’re not shared with the rest of the world.
No company is a benevolent hand feeding you – it's a machine for making the owners and decision-makers as much money as possible. If you get something out of it in the process, that's just luck. So biting is the correct reaction to the company's bullshit.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex TV
To add to the list of stuff that I consider positive/encouraging:

- Out of 270 confirmed non-China cases there's still been only one death. That's a 0.3% death rate. Which raises the question, why is the death rate 2-3% in China? Are we sure it will be that high worldwide? Is it 2-3% because of something unique to the virus or something unique to China (i.e. a delayed response leading to overwhelmed health services).

- I think the histographs in the WHO situation reports (Fig 2 and Fig 3 in the latest one [1]) tell an interesting story which has gone largely unreported. Excluding the situation on the Japanese cruise ship (which is tragic but easy to quarantine), new international infections have been declining since the end of January. That's because the majority of non-Chinese who became infected got it in Wuhan. No one is going in or out Wuhan now, so those cases have basically dropped to zero, and other sources of infection are stable to down.

Obviously vigilance is important and the threat of an international spread needs to be taken seriously. But I think we should at least consider the possibility that this virus may have appeared more dangerous than it actually is because of a poor early response in Wuhan. And while the response can always be better, no one now is screwing up as badly as Wuhan did.

[1] Latest situation report: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...
Why is Ola delaying payments to drivers?
I have been using Ola in Hyderabad for the last one week. Drivers are frequently requesting cash or alternative payment stating that Ola is delaying their dues by couple of weeks. This has been stressing them. Why is Ola failing to promptly give them their dues when they can promptly take money from their users?
I want to say a few years ago there was a "positive" verdict in a jurisdiction in Texas which set precedent which is why you see filings over there.

Let me see if I can find a reference and I'll update this comment.

EDIT https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/supreme-court-ends-tex...
What Is Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)?
There are many things I want but can't afford, and instead of putting myself in a vulnerable position to get them I choose to do without.
I tried calling the number but it just kept ringing.
I tried this with family.
- 2 older members got the point and have been very good about sticking to it.

- N-2 members got huffy that they wanted to see the kids open things. No college contributions.
It’s well worth the effort IMHO.

If you need more detail on technique I have found The Mind Illuminated to be a super good book on the subject.
California is a big state with a lot of different terrain, including parts at high altitude that get cold in the winter.
It's a good thing that the us doesn't have a dead hand system. The US and all the nuclear powers should have a "we won't strike first" policy. The reason is it really is mutually assured destruction to send nukes between at least the us, china, and russia. So none of them should ever do it. There have been multiple times where at least the us and russia had false alarms that the other side was about to strike them, and that would have been the end of most of our lives. If china & russia won't do 'no first strike' then the us should do it alone, hopefully bringing them along, for the reason at least that it helps our safety.
"Once the algorithm is good enough at imitating you that your own mother can't tell the difference between a robot containing that algorithm and you, is there still a difference. And now every mathematician should say "No". After all, 4 and IV is the same number."

I don't understand what you are talking about. Do you think identical twins share the same consciousness? Is a clone the same person as who it was cloned from?

It seems to me that "4" and "IV" are abstract concepts that have a basically unlimited number of relationships with the real world, like tentacles. The mathematical concept of four is just one of those linkages.
Before the cruise ship, Japan already got domestic transmission case which is a bus driver driving tour groups from WuHan. It is confirmed on 1/28. (Later the Japanese local tour guide on that bus is also confirmed infected) They barred foreign nationals who visited China's Hubei Province on 2/1

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/28/national/japan-...

Taiwan blocked tour groups from Hubei on 1/24 and ordered to evict existing groups. There are two confirmed cases whom are WuHan tourists entered before 1/24. Fortunately they did not caused domestic transmission.

The case I referred on that evacuation plane is a confirmed case and there is still a chance there might be more cases from that plane since the on-plane protection is reported to be sloppy.
It's a win from the implementation side because you can support all three use cases with one format, reducing code duplication and at least hypothetically leveraging the same improvements across the three use cases with no additional effort.

The UX concern you're describing doesn't necessarily have to have anything to do with the implementation details themselves, as demonstrated by sites like imgur rebranding silent mp4/webms as "gifv". As long as the new format makes it reasonably easy to access data about its content (e.g., header field indicating animation/movement), there shouldn't be any issue with collapsing the use cases into a single implementation and simultaneously addressing the UX concern you mention.
Only the worst cases are making it to hospitals in China, while outside of China lost anyone suspected of having the virus is going to get some hospital attention. So that selection bias alone results in the death rate being higher in China than abroad.

Also, a lot of people that get this virus will just think of it as a bad flu and blow it off over a few days. They don’t get counted in the statistics.
I really wanted to run FreeBSD in my T470s and the lack of hardware support pushed me over to Ubuntu. I loved setting up FreeBSD and it felt snappy for a lot of stuff but it would be cool if some of the devs who do live on laptops would just release a package they tune for their particular hardware.
I'm under the impression that the vast majority of significant medical problems, in the US anyways, are associated with obvious risk factors such as obesity, sedentary lifestyle, and alcohol/tobacco consumption.

Those are all trivially avoided.
Interesting work. Definitely has application potential in various businesses.
Three-Dimensional Trapping of Individual Rydberg Atoms in Bottle Beam Traps
I used to sell web hosting... the amount of space started at 250k or if you went with the more expensive package was 500k.
If the capital costs of such a system are lower and they can convert the design into something floating on the sea on continental shelf with tethers mooring it to the floor i see a lot of potential for water, land and electricity (competitive) stressed cities. A case in example is Chennai, India.

I wonder if RO based desalination has any learning rate associated with it and whether a lot of CAPEX costs are related to some proprietary IP. I know that a lot of OPEX is energy costs and hopeful that solar will get even more cheaper with time and even more scale. However if the same can be done with scaling of RO technologies and reducing costs to say ~20 % of existing a great many opportunities will arise.

Really hope it will be lower than 0.1 $ / m3 before 2030.
True, it's also based on ethnicity. I when i lived for a while in a country with a wide anti-Russian sentiment, i saw my Uber rating going down, moving to the one more friendly to Russians, it went up... I would assume than minority people have it hard.
CERN Open Hardware Licence
I'm saying the only reason they just started doing this is because they got caught doing the complete opposite (which directly lead to millions in extra unethical sales). Why aren't they adding these "new features" for any Apple devices besides iPhones? Are you saying they don't have the capability or that the underlying issue isn't the same?
Install the solar panels over the football fields as roofing.
No, I don't think. I assume, and bring arguments, and can listen to others.
This seems like confusing correlation with causation in an exquisitely pure sense. Maybe that extends to consciousness downloading as a concept in general.
> the team’s demonstration device can achieve an overall efficiency of 385 percent

I don't care how good you think you are, you're not getting 3.85kW per square meter from sunlight.
Honest question, you don't see a danger to our system of checks and balances if the executive gets to block impeachment investigations?
The new ones play video ads and (some at least) have audio that you can't disable too (spotted in New Mexico). Truly baffling!

Hopefully not all of the machines are that bad. I wish that common point-of-sale interfaces focused on simplicity and ease of use (especially accessibility). Maybe one day!
I _think_ this may be the implementation: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/60ac6ed5579f6666130fc...

There are copious notes in there about the implementation and it indicates linked lists are used.

EDIT: Blargh, it's here: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/60ac6ed5579f6666130fc... . That file references this blog post which indicates they may be flagging and repacking as dilap commented: https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2015/01/faster-more-memory-eff...
PEdump – Online PE Dump
Friedman explicitly argued that a company has no social responsibility other than "to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game." I don't think he was endorsing bad behavior, per se, but he was condemning any behavior that could be considered "good" but even modestly value-reducing.

There are certainly some economists who might argue that indeed it's become nonsense excuses, including The Economist, which wrote in 2016 that shareholder value theory had become "a license for bad conduct, including skimping on investment, exorbitant pay, high leverage, silly takeovers, accounting shenanigans and a craze for share buy-backs."

(Also, apparently I had the year wrong -- Friedman wrote in 1970, not 1975.)
Related:

https://github.com/zed-0xff/pedump

Also, if the page gives you a screwy popup (why would this be?), then disable JavaScript -- and try again...
What a shame that the thousands of people who have been elected in that time by the public and with a budget a few magnitudes larger couldn't manage somehow it. Either they are wildly incompetent or the one person with far less money is highly competent. Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle?

Guess it was too hard, political considerations and such, certainly some aerospace CEO's got rich regardless in the meantime, so good for them yes?
> The entire Internet uses DNS for billions of hosts. To say it won't work for a tiny internal network seems a bit strange.

Ok. Then look at it this way. A DNS server effectively has to look at its own hosts file and publish the results in response to online queries.

Assuming the failure rate of getting answers from a hosts file is constant, why exactly do you think those online requests have a negative failure rate? That’s what would be required for DNS to beat hosts files!

If we’re talking about different networks then the hosts files do not have the same failure rate, and that’s the first time DNS (or something like it) could be better.

> DNS isn't "new" at this point. I remember configuring old SunOS boxes in the 90's, switching them from NIS to DNS. Exciting times.

Confessions from the cargo cult. Oh well. Hopefully the above makes it clear why this was a mistake.

If not, I’m not sure what else to say. In 1996 I was converting sunos boxes at that time back to hosts files and yp because the failure rate of DNS was higher and the previous guy left. What else could I do? If I’d told my boss we needed to keep using DNS because “it works for the Internet” I would’ve gotten laughed at. We had real work to do!
YouTube and the Celebrity Takeover
They are all updated in the same JavaScript function.

However each clock is updated in a seperate call to .innerHTML. This means the DOM is updated seperately for each clock instead of just once for all the clocks.

So depending on how eager your browser is about doing layouts, I could imagine different clocks updating on different frames to be a possibility.
Do any of these tools factor in average cloud cover etc.?
Now you're idealizing struggle. It's easier (doesn't mean easy) to influence a group from the inside than from the outside. Quitting Google to avoid its money would be just a nonsensical self-sacrifice.
That's hardly a developer blog though. It's mostly commentary on Apple's business practices and products.
Bet you just got a traffic spike
I made a "smoke games" store page. It didn't have a functional shopping cart or anything, just basic HTML with some frames.
Living up to your name! Thank you so much.
You’ve missed my point. I was referring to Schopenhauer‘s statement which is translated as “one can do what one wants, but can’t want what one wants.”

https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/32731/what-do...

Some people are so compelled to have kids that they don’t have a choice in the matter at all.

Personally my wife and I chose not to have kids, but we know many more people who had to have kids than those who felt they had a choice in the matter.
This is one of the strengths of capitalism, I have thought about it many times.

It came up in a fairly exemplary way once when there was a fashion photographer in a group I went drinking with. Nice bloke with some interesting stories. He mentioned a plan for an elaborate practical joke at a fashion show by showing some crudely made post-apocalyptic style collection. Anything "scandalous" would effectively just end up being good publicity.
> Also, since Li Wenliang died, well, frankly a lot of people are pissed at the CCP.

This is a pretty irrational reaction if you ask me, the CCP is actually the more open, quasi-democratic side of Chinese government and politics. There are loose 'factions' as part of the CCP that are cautiously pushing for more openness, and the Chinese should be aware of them and be supportive. Frustration and anger are not helpful.
The old site would give you a confidence interval of the time, but the new one doesn't seem to have that. I can't see any estimate of how accurate the time is.
They didn't upgrade their JS apparently. Could have been es6 arrow notation. :)
"There's no evidence that anything about the way human minds work is fundamentally unexplainable."

Can you have evidence that something is "fundamentally unexplainable"? Other than a lack of explanation?

If your statement has consequences, then there must be an imaginable counterfactual where it does not hold. I'm struggling to think of that.
"We are going to litigate every single patent suit to the fullest extent possible including appealing any adverse decisions all the way to the Supreme Court."
Part of the problem of rating inflation comes with the removal of problematic listings.

My girlfriend & I discovered large patches of mushrooms growing out of the master bedroom carpet in an otherwise very unhealthy AirBnB. I wanted to write feedback on the house, but I couldn't warn others since AirBnB's policy in such cases is to remove the listing. I spotted the listing not long after with a clean slate. I'm sure they cleaned the place, but I'm also sure they didn't tear out the floors and fix the root problem. Too bad no one will know since the ratings won't be a source of info in such cases.
Is that "easy" to hide such big number of deaths in China?
Wuhan's Healthcare system could not handle a widespread cold break out either.

Much of the rest of the world has sufficient capacity to hospitalize patients to prevent an outbreak. China being China is behind both due to recent industrialization and also an authoritarian state which lied about the dangers.

Take it how you want, but this is a severe flu which would not have survived in more industrialized nations.
Is anybody able to go past the first 2 pages of search results. Lycos does not show page numbers and it looks like it is repeating old results past page 2
Smart design of new materials could improve energy storage technologies
Considering what it [looked like 1 week ago](https://web.archive.org/web/20200129180342/https://time.gov/), I'd say this is an improvement.

My favorite part is "THE OFFICIAL U.S. TIME".

No messing around.
A fast work-stealing queue template library in modern C++
Maybe analogous, maybe not. Analogy is in the eye of the beholder. There's no law of the universe that says that consciousness is equivalent to computation. Maybe consciousness is an emergent property of biological systems, along some dimension currently unknown to us.
Dan LeMire

John Regehr
> Lots of under construction gifs

Which ones were your favourites?

http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/
This is glorious. I wish I could even remember my Tripod URL, let alone be lucky enough that it's still hosted.
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Analysis of Wuhan Coronavirus: Deja Vu [pdf]
The ones I'm thinking of were "nomograms" (thanks to user 'chemeng'). Visually they look like perhaps a very specific subset of "Parallel coordinate" graphs. Definitely more for calculation rather than visualization. Evidently they were popular from around 1890 to at least 1950.