skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a study that might be even more interesting:

1. Have a reporter write a series of stories on several topics.

2. Label these stories with the same author name and have Group A read them.

3. Label these stories with a bunch of different names and have Group B read them.

4. Have both groups rate the trustworthiness of each story as they read them.

My theory is that we tend to trust sources we know more. I would expect that Group A would report higher levels of trust for the last stories they read, even if they disagree with the author, because they've been told they're reading the same person's work.

The way I personally read news reflects this. There are many authors on the news sources I frequent who I am familiar with. Some I consider to be heavily biased or idiots but, being familiar with their shortcomings, I feel I can get a better picture of the objective truth from their work than I can from reading something written by someone I know nothing about. I trust authors based on what I have read from them in the past rather than their biographies.

For this reason, bios and clearly visible author names/pictures may not increase the reader's trust in isolated articles, but it may help build trust with regular readers over time.
well if you are like me I joined not knowing the convention in use here so just kept an alias I am familiar with. people tend to rebel from true name account rules, some of this is exactly because of twitter has become which is a tool of bullies to intimidate those they dislike or disagree with.
We just don't have a very good definition of what "intelligence" actually is. Hence we're trying to set the bar somewhere. "Surely a machine that can play chess is intelligent". Nope, that's not it. "But surely a machine that recognizes objects in images is intelligent". Nah, it's just good at recognizing patterns of pixels. And so on and so forth. It's a noisy process, but we're slowly moving in the right direction.
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How to Create a Truly Portable Ubuntu Installation on an External USB HDD or SSD
It's also due to high entry cost of city living.

water / food / electricity doesn't total high for my needs, rent on the other hand

I guess that's why artists lives in old buildings sometimes..

ps: also, call me crazy, but I think in a hunter settings you'd have more time to wander and create than todays city life. As long as there's enough rabbits around to grab ..
Lucretius, some 2000 years ago, based on a completely different kind of atomism, believed something very similar. Free will was due to random events on the atomic level, what he called clinamen (the swerve).
Is your pi at an AWS data center? How much to co-host it at an AWS-grade data center?

Sure a self-hosted pi is cheaper, but that's an apples vs oranges comparison.
You then add a few additional layers on top, and you train those new layers in a classic supervised way.
But because a lot has already been learned you need way less labels.
Yeah, unfortunately there's not really much of an alternative here besides dropping libgit2 and subshelling out to git (which we honestly should consider, it just hasn't been a priority).
Very old photos; I've replaced all the hardware you see except the SSD, wi-fi card, and the power supply.

https://imgur.com/a/u1Ti7
> The Ribbon’s terrible because there’s no regularity in its structure. The eye can’t scan quickly: sometimes controls go horizontally, then they go vertically, then they run horizontally again.

Also some things are hidden in a dialog box which becomes available when you press the little arrow in the corner of the ribbon element. Good luck!
I don't see how this reasoning makes any sense: you just need to look at the actual clock time to find out if the alarm went off or not.

For instance: alarm set for 8 AM.

You wake up, look at the clock: if it says 7:59AM or earlier, you woke up before it had a chance to ring. If it says 8:00AM or anything past that, it already went off.

Unless, of course, you have an alarm that does not show you the current time. Otherwise, it's pretty easy to figure out what's happening.
people are dying of starvation in Netherlands?
When I'm feeling tetchy I call them malware blockers. RATs, browser toolbars, adware, etc. might not technically be viruses, but they sure as heck are being used as malware.
(This comment is unrelated to the use of lambda, and more of a note to the author)

The author comments that they prefer the light mode to their own dark mode. I think that the dark mode would benefit greatly from being designed (color wise) bottom-up as a dark mode, versus just trying to toggle certain things to be darker.

The big tell is that the lines separating each row of content appear to be the same color in both areas. This tells me that the color of the line is not determined based on the color behind it (either via transparency, via color manipulation manually, or via dynamic color manipulation from a tool like sass (ie, opacity(), darken(), etc...)

I do agree w/ the author that light mode looks better. I also tend to prefer dark mode UIs. I think that by mindfully revisiting color a lot of the visual noise will go away and result in a more pleasant experience.

tl;dr dark mode is not just inverting certain light colors to dark, it should be done with more care.
The problem here is that these companies can abuse the DMCA to get the app outlawed and pulled from the major app stores. In fact, Apple already doesn't allow you to publish any app that interacts with any reasonably big third-party service or device without the explicit approval of the service (that's how alternative YouTube clients disappeared on iOS), even for devices such as smart light bulbs that are explicitly designed to be controlled via the local network without any authentication: https://community.lifx.com/t/app-store-rejection-permission-...
"Beyond the CDC and state labs, hospitals are also able to develop their own tests for diseases like COVID-19 and internally validate their effectiveness [...] But because the CDC declared the virus a public health emergency, it triggered a set of federal rules that raises the bar for all tests, including those devised by local hospitals."
I believe very strongly in individual privacy online. The idea that I should have to identify myself online, even just to the platform, by my legal name in order to engage in discourse is entirely abhorrent. I care very much about limiting the amount of information that corporations like Twitter have about me. Without going on a tangent, I don't trust these organisations to use this kind of data responsibly and I don't trust that the world may not change in a way that will penalise people in the real world for engaging in honest debate online today. It's not hard to find examples of people who have been 'doxed' and suffered real world consequences.
thanks for your input
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from what i know of the story he had the creators permission and later they worked together as cofounders
I deal with protecting myself medically daily. If you want to chat about your concerns, you are welcome to email me.

Not medical advice per se. I'm not a doctor. I'm just someone continuing to rudely fail to die instead of going along with politely dying according to schedule so other people can feel like they are smart and know things.

(This comment will self destruct in the near future.)
Twitter employees determine it based on unknown criteria and political agendas.
Even if you have a zero-day exploit for a browser, you still need to get that exploit to your victims. Ads are the easiest way to get custom media and javascript into as many browsers as possible. Ptherwise, you need to tempt users to your malicous site or find an exploit in a widely used site to get your payload to users (since most sites do not allow users to post arbitrary HTML, CSS or javascript).

Ad networks are supposed to vet ads to make sure they are safe, but they're bad at it and the system is not set up to make it easy (ads are dynamically generated by whoever's buying them as the page loads).
Yup, me too. Something sounding like "spore cleanse" makes a lot more sense in this context than "spork lens".
I would expect greater morbidity and mortality among health care workers, though, so I don't think that's a data point that proves or disproves anything.
The “modern web” will be a case study for psychiatrists once this bubble is over. (Seems to be a creation of the cloud business marketing machine)
If you write your program well enough (which is not hard), GUI or CLI doesn't matter, you've written a modular tool that can be interfaced with any way you want. And sometimes CLI is a better way to interface (CLIs can be chained together using standard mechanisms much more easily than GUIs).

And why should everything be JSON? It's not the best format ever for all the things (there isn't one).
Bittersweet news -- but he lived a productive and long life.

I came upon parasitic numbers by researching Freeman Dyson one day. Very cool. Read up on them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_number
Why our machine learning platform supports Python, not R
Monetize your bet then. :P Sell some calls a few weeks in the future. Implied volatility is very high right now.
Great UI / UX of getting visitors to pick & choose a paid plan right on the homepage.
Look I totally think that if you can negotiate with someone and come up with a deal that all parties find equitable, that that is legitimate business, and I'm not sure why you should meet resistance on that front.

However, I am not sure if this is the type of thread that I would like to see on hacker news.
So long as they actually get it "right". Compare to Windows' APIs originally taking UCS-2, then UTF-16, when now we would all rather be using UTF-8.
You design and build products which are 100% recyclable.
Own less stuff, give away things you do not need.
Price waste and good sustainable eco systems
Isn't the root cause choosing to default to returning Ok() and only maybe changing that if something goes wrong?
Nothing OP said implied all accounts should become verified. Simply that it should be an option for everyone.
They wonder why this natural waking up before the alarm only works if you actually set the alarm and does not work if you do not set it.
Perhaps, but I’d suspect they’re disproportionately concentrated in expat communities - folks who need to communicate with family/friends back home.

It’s not implausible that lots of Americans don’t know someone who uses WhatsApp. I only know one person, and they use it to talk to relatives in South America.
Right above this comment is the CTO saying he cares. =)
I think the example was something to the effect of "this person died, the family hasn't been officially notified yet" or something. I don't remember clearly.
With the number of people chastised in later life for old tweets, this could be interesting.

However, it's such recordings that have saved many an old TV show as the studios reused tapes as well. Kinda how few Doctor Who episodes got saved.
I hope that I'd just take that step myself in a similar situation, but people react irrationally and I can totally see why someone wouldn't.
There's a great doc that came out last year on Marion Stokes, who recorded decades of television. Her footage is being added to The Internet Archive https://blog.archive.org/tag/marion-stokes/
> realm of experience

Most can't even do that. Their paper experience is with tech and product, but the experience they actually got hired for is political maneuvering.
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"Someone in building X floor Y" is not "disclosing medical information".
You've badly misunderstood the article. (Maybe the article is wrong tho, and it's you that got it right. I didn't read the bill.)

This bill changes when taxes are due for non-quals.

You already pay taxes upon exercise of non-quals. So the ability to pay at exercise does almost nothing to further inequality. In fact it's hugely risky and in almost all cases, a bad idea that leads to lots of money lost. In that sense, having the money to pay the taxes (anyway) improves inequality to the degree that it saps the assets of those with family funds and distributes it (via programs paid for via taxes) to the less fortunate. The opposite of what you're claiming, and what is the case today.

This bill changes the tax to become due at vesting. It will either not pass, or will become immediately ineffective as vesting schedules change to a 10 year cliff, with a single [4-year] pro-rata vest upon termination. IOW, for tax purposes you won't vest-as-you-go anymore. You'll vest all at once upon termination. If you choose to not buy your options the company will cancel the option agreement. If you do choose to buy them, the tax consequences are identical as today. Such a thing would be awful for ISOs but for non-quals it doesn't matter. For ISOs you want to buy them early as you can. For non-quals you pay tax upon exercise, so you don't want to buy them as-you-vest anyway.

It's very poorly thought out.
It's simply not possible without a large well funded team.
My father left me several hundred 6 hour VHS tapes. I had no idea what was on them because he'd kept an index, but it was mostly missing.

There was a lot of interesting random stuff on them, mostly from the 80's. The bits of stuff he recorded is like a peek inside his brain :-)
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> The downside of that is that your ability to find a specific picture from 5 years ago is entirely restricted to the extent that you were able to organize and add specific metadata to that picture.

I disagree with the premise that we should spend time manually organizing and tagging our pictures all that much.

The metadata that the phone adds to pictures – time stamp and GPS coordinates – is already sufficient in a lot of cases for finding pictures that I look for.

And where that metadata is insufficient, improved search powered by machine learning will come to the rescue. And not just tomorrow but even today.

Just the other day, a few weeks back, I was standing in the kitchen that I share with two other people and I wondered to myself whether the kitchen knife in the dishwasher was mine (I’d bought a new one a few days prior but couldn’t remember what it looked like). I take a lot of picture of random stuff and mundane things, most of which I never bother to organize or tag or anything. I pull up my phone, search my photo library for “knife” and lo and behold, I did take a picture of it when I bought it and my phone has recognized the object in the photo to be a knife so it was able to find it for me.

Important files and photos I do organize. Specifically for three reasons:

1. Ease of access.

2. Grouping related data together.

3. Tying photos and other data to abstract concepts like ideas for possible games or products.

So I am not advocating no organization or tagging at all.

But I think a lot of people are unaware or at least haven’t really incorporated the distinction between information that is already present in the data, and information that must be manually added. So they spend a lot of time manually creating folder structures that encode information which could already be automatically derived from the data itself.

As for messages in closed apps, I just screenshot them. And I am relying on OCR technology to be or become good enough to refind those messages in the future. That way, if the platform itself is gone by then or the messages are not on the platform itself or hard to find on the platform itself for whatever reason.

So far I haven’t even needed to use OCR. Because if I look for a message I often have other memories of where I was, when it was or something else that happened around that time. So I just jump back in time in my photo stream and either find the screenshot right away or I find pictures near-by in time and spend a tiny amount of time looking forwards and/or backwards in time and I find the screenshot.

I do wish though, that iOS would automatically tag screenshots with the name of the app that the screenshot was taken in. And I think it would be cool if the screenshots were stored as SVG with pure text and vector shapes plus embedded bitmaps, so that the whole potentially needing robust OCR in the future thing could be side-stepped.
In Nevada there is basically a constitutional right to be drunk in public. The state constitution bans local municipalities from enacting laws against public drunkenness. Up for argument as to whether that is a good idea or not but interesting nonetheless.
Thank you.

Still, what can I say about my concerns? I'm scared. For myself, my wife, our infant, our families. In this island of emptiness in the middle of red dots the Europe is on COVID-19 maps, we're all just nervously waiting for the first real case. Personal protection goods are already gone, people are slowly realizing that maybe it's about time to start stockpiling food. We've stocked ourselves up with ~two weeks worth of long-life consumables. Going to extend it over the weekend to a month's reserve. Our infant already has 2+ months supply. I try to be calm, but it's getting harder.

I don't know what I'm afraid more of at this point - of the virus, or of the quarantines and panic that will follow.
Any reasonably widely used language will have users who care about latency. People write user interfaces in Java so clearly it’s users care about latency. Similarly for JavaScript except I would expect a react user interface to produce a lot more allocation pressure than a java one (and so gc latency and throughput both matter). Even emacs lisp cares about latency (the main user visible improvement was not printing “garbage collected” each time the gc ran).

For things like servers, latency can matter to some extent because of the resource usage of in-flight requests. It is desirable to serve requests quickly to free up resources on the server and any clients too.

Similarly one will find plenty of apps which care about throughput too.
If you're a reporter in the space who wants to know more about this, happy to share more.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.
I truly appreciate thinkers who are able to think about God in their own original terms. His particular description of the notion of God is quite similar to my own, so this is quite nice to read.
The equivalent term is "leichte Sprache". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leichte_Sprache

The websites of government agencies usually have a version in leichter Sprache, although it tends to be counterproductively hidden.

The NDR offers news using leichte Sprache: https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/service/leichte_sprache/

Edit: or any of the other sites on this list: https://bpb.de/politik/grundfragen/politik-einfach-fuer-alle...

Further edit: there's a Wikipedia category for simplified languages, which in addition to English and German also has Latin and French: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Simplified_languages
I just did this with Vuex and vuex-persistedstate. It was a drop in plugin in nuxt. Anytime a mutation happens state is written.

I'm new to react but hooks look interesting.
Only for non-physicists and physicists wondering about things outside of physics.
I was reminded of that when reading about a compound in licorice (glycyrrhizin) that seem to be effective in reducing the replication of SARS, (another coronavirus):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12814717
https://www.nature.com/articles/news030609-16
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycyrrhizin
AFAIK Twitter used to have it / released this feature. May be it is was via invitation. I remember applying for it. I think they got inundated with requests and pulled the plug
Those children's grandparents are at risk, are you saying it is ok to cause 2nd and 3rd order infections?
Sad, but I’ve seen this type of behavior before. It should really be built into the liability insurance covenants or companies will often not care.

I was working at a high rise in Manhattan on 9/11, as a fresh new analyst. After the horrific incidents of the day, we were told to continue working. That continued for about 90 minutes until the company announced an evacuation.

Next we were told to carry all our binders (full of analyst reports) home, so a group of us Brooklyn residents did the 7mile trek with backpacks full of binders plus a 2001-era laptop, one of us had a roller bag because there were so many binders.
RIP Freeman Dyson. Apologies for drifting from main thread, fell for the oldest trick in the HN book.
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To be fair, those in authority were doing a pretty good job decimating the male working age population before flu came along. They could probably model the daily death rate from flu in it's early days to be less than that on the Western front... especially if they weren't very good at modelling exponential growth.
No, because anyone can use `unsafe` in Rust. GP’s point was that Go can use the feature internally but no end-user can.
Miranda released as free software
It's truly one of those I-can't-believe-nobody-thought-of-this-before ideas. And beyond the obvious benefits to developers' experience, it's also a huge boon to smaller language projects. If you build a new, open language and don't have the backing of a huge company, you definitely don't have the resources to integrate it directly with every editor someone might want to write it in. But you might be able to put together a single language-server.
Hmmm, regarding " https://blog.nugget.one/upstart/dont-form-a-company/"

you can set up your corp once, then present it as "doing-business-as" (DBA), depending on the jurisdiction, many times. I am not convinced that the above is good advice.

In fact, talking to a lawyer is probably better idea than picking up ideas from some blog.
Having done a big tour of functional programming ideas in the last couple of years, I've found almost none of them to be generally helpful for the ordinary programmer, except sum types, which enable the option type and result types. Though even just having the one special casing those two and not exposing sum types to the language would be most of the benefit.
I believe it is rude to ask this question, mainly because you already know the answer and there is no value to be derived from the discussion; therefore it is best to simply allow people to focus on Dyson. A great scientist has died and people should be able to reflect and pay their respect to the life that he lived. It is not fair to ask people to feel the way you feel and the black bar denotes a feeling of mourning. My friends and I had a math games night to honor Katherine Johnson and it was amazing but we would never ask those of another culture to feel the same way or have the same connection with her that we did.
Well aren't Pulitzers more about what you uncover than how well you write and research in the book learning sense? A half illiterate crank who exposed real and concrete evidence of a massive scandal say for a deliberately nonsensical example "Microsoft is bribing the FBI to assassinate rivals" would dessrve it even if half of his works were about lizard people.

Obviously being a crazy idiot doesn't help but being a good investigator and a good writer aren't the same thing.
What you seem to want to discuss is a totally different case. One where the authorities don't think there's sufficient risk to isolate anyone, but the company shuts down the office anyway. Correct?

Correct. I'm surprised there was any confusion.

Google is well placed to shut down an office with little cost, if it were a manufacturing plant it may be a different situation since telling everyone to work from home means that no work gets done. But Google is well equipped to support teleworkers, so there's little cost to them.

The authorities are still learning about the disease so even if something is deemed low risk today, it may be determined to have been a much higher risk tomorrow.
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I'm wondering based on his natural tendency to tweak with hardware/software