skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there evidence that low income people spend less on transportation bc of Uber? It's still hyper expensive compared to public transit and car ownership (if driving daily).
What are you doing with your phone? My phones were never water resistant but they survived humid rooms, wet hands and rain just fine
In what sense did they take on the US military or win? Some of them continue to exist, I suppose, but that's rather like a defeated boxer claiming to have won simply for surviving the bout.

The various militas of Afghanistan were bombed and engaged haphazardly for years and now, it seems, we're withdrawing. That's hardly an Afghani victory in my mind.

One reason I have a problem with this kind of statement is that we should encourage the cessation of pointless wars, and not try to equate ending them with losing or being defeated.
Yes, it’s Backend-agnostic and designed to be embeddable into any web app. It’s basically an editor framework to define your own editor and you write the glue code to your web app.
Good to see you like it! I have taken a quick look at your project, I think we both share similar purpose, to make it simple and understandable. I will definitely take more time to take a deeper look and do some research. I believe this will be able to evolve my project. Thanks for your appreciation.
Best regards.
You know, I am from Italy, people here wonder why the gov is quarantining the entire North of the country, in that almost killing an already weak economy... so two of the most respected Italian epidemiologists needed to come up with something fast, clear and effective to explain ordinary people why many thousand of them are losing income and jobs and why quarantine is needed for another week at least... it is not armchair expertise at play here, but the transition from academic conferences to the public discourse without losing the scientific anchor that is justifying semi-draconian mesaures.
Largest e-recycling fraud in U.S. history sends owners of Kent firm to prison
The only problem with that was Apple denying it iirc. Otherwise throttling CPU to extend battery life is done on virtually every modern mobile device.
The "spiral rule" doesn't get at the heart of declarations. It's just by some guy that tried to figure it out on his own, and what he discovered was basically not declarations but the precedence rules of C expressions ;-)

> It also seems telling that no recent language has followed C’s example for declaration style, which is more implicit than explicit.

Actually most languages don't let the user do what C declarations let you do. For example, in Java (almost) everything is an object, and you can't just create a triple-indirected pointer. So, these languages can afford a declaration syntax that is less potent.

And then there are other more systems-oriented languages that chose to not copy C declarations. They come with their own gotchas. As examples I will pick D and Rust.

In D, you create a multi-dimension array like this: int[5][10] arr; Leading you to believe that you can use it as arr[4][9]; Wrong. That's an out-of-bounds error. You need to write arr[9][4]. Now, was that totally not confusing? The alternative is to expand these types systematically to the left, i.e. write [10][5]int, and maybe move the type to the right of the variable name, as in "let arr [10][5]int;". Honestly I don't like that either.

I've never really used Rust (either), but its downside, in my opinion, is that it has much more distracting syntax / punctuation.

I would love if there was a uniformly better way to declare things than the C way, but I still think C has the best tradeoffs for my practical work. The next time that I toy with language design I might try to simply go with C declarations, prefixed with a sigil or "let" or something, to remove the need for the lexer hack.
Yes, the rule of thumb I know is that you can get about 25 CT scans in your lifetime before having a significantly increased risk of cancer. By contrast you can get about 25,000 chest X-rays.
I have a brutal cold right now with a ton of congestion and a fever. I am trying decide on if I should go to the hospital here in California - has anyone read anything that helps you make that decision?

I am a Caltrain rider daily and I feel like it is not fair to subject other folks to this if it is a COVID-19 - but I don't also want to overload the health system unnecessary if there are folks with Acute symptoms.
Or send them a CCPA / GDPR erasure request: https://yourdigitalrights.org/?company=clearview.ai
Won't lie, I love watching videos or listening to podcasts in the shower.
We can solve all that be having the central banks print more money. That's what we've been doing since the RTOI of oil and gas fell off a cliff in the early 2000's. Working so far.
Non paywalled version: https://outline.com/ekbXnD
Intel Refreshes 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable, Slashes Prices
If you store time as seconds since the Unix epoch (1st Jan 1970), you'll overflow a 32 bit unsigned integer in 2038 (around March iirc) and time will suddenly be back in 1970 again. I believe the Linux kernel did some work to circumvent this on 32 bit systems in a recent release, but if you're running an old 32 bit system you're probably out of luck.
Videogame: Blending Ragdoll Physics and Animations
I agree with what you wrote. I did not object to subword tokenization that let you(?) win the competition. I objected to GP's assertion that one can add many morphemes together to create very long "words" in Polish, which made casual readers think of stringing morphemes like German compounds while the number of morphemes in Polish words is bounded by 7, maybe by 8.
Maybe just add noise. For example, there are lots of apps that mix faces. So mix your face with a bunch of other faces, or even faces from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com and upload the results wherever.
Nokia gets 5G deals just fine.

Nokia's trouble with profitability is supplier (Intel) for their ReefShark 5G NR chipset family. Nokia's ReefShark is really advanced design and Intel could not manufacture the chip for the specs and price range they promised. This caused huge additional R&D investment increase because Nokia needs to redesign parts of their 5G architecture.
UK NHS team set up 2-way SMS coronavirus service in hours
The actual paper seems to be this: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10615

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.10615.pdf

Website with videos: https://adversarialpolicies.github.io/ (that would make a better submission imho)

Github: https://github.com/HumanCompatibleAI/adversarial-policies

You have to stretch the definition of "new" somewhat to come up with the title TR chose, adversarial effects in all kinds of learning settings certainly aren't, the paper itself seems to contain quite interesting thoughts on how to assess them though (as opposed to just using them to steer the training process).
Open-source “pandemic ventilator”
M$ loser shill.
Not to state the obvious, but there's not been a diagnosis of covid-19 yet, so let's keep that in mind before concluding this person has it.

Also, otherwise healthy 30-year olds need to do exactly what this person is doing: quarantine & treat it with the same meds as the flu.
Relativistic Momentum and Relativistic Mass
Considering you just read an article on how the CDC has told people to not test people who aren't obviously going to die, you may want to revise that figure downward some out of sample bias.
Except, for people who are older or have health problems, who might also read HN you mean ?

I have chronic Bronchitis and Asthma and am on biological drugs witch lower my immune system.

Had pneumonia last year, wasn't fun.

Somehow my portfolio is not high on my list of concerns.
Do you actually think this will have a real impact “for the environment”?
AFAIK, the key difference is that Apple did it depending on the age of the battery, and not the amount of charge left in the battery as is done in the cases you describe.

That, and also that they were denying it, yes.

EDIT: And since the battery is non-replaceable, basically that also means with age of phone it just gets slowed done. Did/Does Apple kill the throttling if the phone is on the charger?
The original title reads "... for your Unix shell", suggesting that the code is portable to many shells. I have not verified that claim.

"... for the Unix shell" makes little sense. When I used Unix my shell was csh, later tcsh. Nowadays my shell is bash in most cases and dash in some more limited environments. Either case, "the Unix shell" does not exist.
Just don't plug it into power outlet, as that might kill you, and not just burn the charger, sadly.
What's your definition of "workstation software"? The parent answered using the definition "off-the-shelf", as asked.
Sources of Centralization in Lightning Network (and why they matter)
Leap seconds are only a problem for wall clocks (localization) and deciding whether to call something utc or tai.

The ntp case is contrived. Either you care and wait until ntp has connected to do your stuff. Or you care and don't let ntp rewind and instead smear. Or you don't care and deal with the consequences.
Try a waterproof MP3 player, also works great at the gym.
I think he means they bit-rot. Stop working.
As long as you have an oven, it doesn't really matter, since you can season there, or on your grill. It seems a little strange to ding induction on the basis of being bad at something you only do about once per pan, and for which there are moreover alternatives.
What I Spent to Adopt My Child
But with this logic, intel could finance this so much better than AMD. But we still see mostly Intel with security issues
You and others keep repeating what others have shown is obviously not true. Whatever the stated reasons for the blue checkmark are, it is clear that, in practice, it is not just verification.
NATO didn't step in, because Syria didn't use chemical weapons.
Smallest Multiple and LRU Cache – Weekly Challenge
A randomized clinical trial comparing N95 respirators to medical masks (2011) [pdf]
I sympathize with your health concerns, but all things considered it's not much more of a threat than (unfortunately) seasonal flue is every year. And your point is exactly what I'm saying, in terms of health profile you are an outlier, but the hysteria visible online makes a reader think that this pandemic is somehow going to wipe out a majority of humanity.
The next time we're in a world war I'll grant your point

Can we talk about things that happened in the last 70 years please
Either way you should call first — speak to a doctor on the phone and get their recommendations.
This looks like the paradox of tolerance, in the mirror form of how it's usually invoked.

A key tenet of conservatism is free speech. All together competing in the market of ideas. The first amendment came from this tradition and implicitly makes the assumption that only governments are big and powerful enough to control speech. It dates from a time when pamphlets and newsletters were the dominant form of political communication. That assumption is no longer valid.

What happens if your opponents systematically attack anyone who speaks ideas they don't like in an organised way, but they aren't the government? Then they win because they aren't forced backwards to pamphlets and paper newsletters. Being tolerant of this kind of intolerance means losing.

The simplest fix is probably to extend the first amendment to large, dominant providers of communication services. But that's unsatisfying because it's so unclear what a dominant service is, and anyway, can't fundamentally force providers to do things they don't want to do.

The core problem is the culture war itself, in which the extreme left see the right as an evil to be wiped out by whatever means necessary. Fixing that will require a much more complex set of legislative and cultural changes. These companies didn't used to be in the grip of leftist hated. Google and Twitter both used to have strong free speech cultures, which degraded over time.
Right but it’s not a blatant disregard.
If you look at the log graph on that link it’s clear it won’t get 50000x more severe unless the course drastically changes.
To further your point, there definitely seems to be a collective conciousness that emerges from human networks, very evident in the markets, where it is expressed in bull and bear markets, confidence and panic, and the collective concious is aware of itself.
> I see folks who couldn't define PCR tossing around R0 with the confidence of someone who's been working in wet labs their entire career.

What does working in a wet lab, or PCR, have to do with having knowledge of an epidemiological concept, or being an epidemiologist? Basically, epidemiologists collect and analyze data on disease determinants and some perform or recommend interventions based on that analysis. Those diseases can be chronic or acute, infectious or environmental.

Most professional epidemiologists have never worked in a wet lab, nor do they have medical degree (some epidemiologists do, but it's less common). Likewise, most doctors have zero formal training in epidemiology. A few medical schools have integrated a module on biostatistics and epidemiology into their curriculum, but it's not common (or at least it wasn't ~20 years ago, if that's changing I'm happy). I'm always amazed at how many doctors fail to understand basic biostatistical measures used in epidemiology and biostatistics, such as specificity and sensitivity, much less positive predictive value (also very important to know when interpreting test results like doctors do every day).

As we know on HN, people tend to misunderstand what computer scientists do. They assume they're more or less programmers, when in fact, they're doing a kind of applied math in a specific domain. In the same way, people misunderstand what epidemiologists do. They assume they're all doctors working on infectious diseases. In fact, you could look at epidemiology as also being a kind of applied math in a specific domain (population health).

(if it matters, I did a master's degree in epidemiology many years ago, and worked briefly on epidemiological grant research for a university. I changed professions soon afterwards, and have forgotten most of what I learned. But I do have a good idea of how epidemiologists are trained, and what they do on a daily basis.)
How is any of this different from seasonal flu? It's also potentially lethal for the older population and can also knock you out for a week or two. I'm not disputing that flu viruses are bad, I'm just pointing out that the mass hysteria that seems to be brewing is not based in facts.
> increase the military presence to a level that they could effectively remove the Taliban

With Pakistan providing huge financial and logistical support to the Taliban, it would never be eliminated. Geopolitical experts understand that so long as Pakistan has the India problem, Afghanistan will have the Taliban as a buffer state.
A ton of people at work were sick this December without contact with Chinese students. I would guess it wasn't covid-19 but whatever regular virus was making the rounds.
People replacing their own batteries will most likely throw them in the garbage. Not really good for the environment.
probably big data pattern matching search with a NoSQL db
> And since the battery is non-replaceable

Far from it - as demonstrated by the fact that Apple ran a $29 battery replacement program for this very issue.
I disagree. Time is pervasive and will exist in every application in some way. It will only matter to the user in a small subset of them
The Samsung S5 is rated IP67, resistant to 1 meter of water for 30 minutes. The iPhone 11 Pro is rated IP68, resistant to 4 meters of water for 30 minutes.
It doesn't seem like CA has a well publicized number you can call for advice (yet?) but you should call your hospital and ask them for guidance instead of going in. I'm currently traveling in Europe and that's been the MO here - you call a hotline and until recently they then told you whether to go in or not and they now come and test you at your home if it's deemed necessary. CA might not have a number or clear process yet but your hospital should at least have some guidance.
Maybe AMD just doesn't have that many issues.
I've spent a summer in +30°C heat doing demolition and foam insulation in a house that had been through a fire. I had to wear a heavy half face cartridge respirator the whole time due to both the toxins from the fire, and the toxins from the foam insulation.

I wouldn't say that was fun. But it was tolerable. A N95 mask is fine by comparison - not much worse than a surgical mask.
How the myth of limited willpower gained widespread acceptance
This is awesome. I currently use duplicity for backups to BackBlaze, but my DB backups I just place a files and I've just been pruning old one's manually for a while. Something like this, that lets me specify the file format, would be perfect!
This is not intending to minimize in the slightest the amazing work that Jeremy does - I am a huge fan.

But Fast.ai has TWO co-founders, and somehow, Rachel doesn't seem to get any credit in these discussions (not the book specifically, I'm talking about the overall enterprise). Not quite sure why; A lot of the content on the website is written by her, and it's clear she adds a lot of value to the endeavor as a whole.
None of us individually do, but I'm pretty sure there will still be 7+ billion people on this planet in year 2120. Irrespective of 2 degree rise in temperature or lack thereof.
stupid, mostly-unrelated question: how does 'call a doctor' usually work? do most people have a doctor that they can just call? If I had a need to call a doctor (fortunately I don't at the moment), but don't know any doctors, what should I do?
roam seems to me like a new shameless copy of workflowy.
Climate modeling is one of those areas where debatable assumptions are relatively small.

Existing climate models are really good. They are used with little modification to correctly model climate of Mars, Venus, tidal locked exoplanet and previous historical eras on Earth. You just set the parameters and they pretty much produce the climate that exists on those planets or time periods. Yet constant shade thrown at them.
We use video conferencing pretty heavily where I work but you can mostly not broadcast video if you don't want to--although some groups prefer everyone to be on camera because they think, and I generally agree, it increases engagement. (And screen sharing is used quite a bit as well.)

But the bigger point I think is that we have the tools generally to support distributed and remote work--code/document repos, texting, collaborative document editing/viewing, easy conferencing (whether or not video), etc.
Democracy dies at paywalls.
Formic acid, being more oxidized, has lower energy density than methanol. In what way is it better than methanol?
I get GPL and fully appreciate its philosophy. The problem happens when you actually use it in practice. Because of its viral nature, anyone with different licensing must convert to GPL if they use your code. For many scenarios, this is actually not possible not just because of commercial secrets but the potential for opening up for security vulnerabilities when you don’t have resources or competitions where you should keep code secret until some time or simply because you have dependencies on other code which is very expensive to get rid off. Due to this reason, many companies forbid the use of GPL licensed software as well as release anything under it (because then you can’t use your own code!). Many other companies simply don't want the headache of checking all of their mess of legacy codebases with a myriad of dependencies that would be hard to untangle into GPL compatible open-source release. The legal and economic overhead when you use or release GPLed code is non-trivial. For this reason, the vast majority of open-source code released by big tech companies on GitHub is MIT/BSD licensed, which ironically is more "freeier" than GPL.
I concur. Wearing a mask makes it less likely you'll inadvertently touch your mouth, nose, or eyes.
It's easy to distinguish magic from technology, if it works it's technology.
"he resurrected Argentinian national debt" ... wait, so the money Argentina borrowed, they have to actually pay back?

FYI this is not 'vulture capitalism', it's not even really capitalism. It's just basic financing.
The regulation is supposed to apply to all manufacturers, and in fact the article is talking about Samsung as well.

A more accurate title for this story would be:

"All new _phones_ might be forced to have a removable battery"
They are replacable. It’s cheap to replace them. They just don’t have a user accessible hatch.

I wouldn’t want to have a battery hatch and perhaps worse water sealing, just so I could change a battery myself instead of paying $20 for it once in the lifetime of a phone that is maybe $500 to $1500 to buy!

Sure if it came at no cost in terms of size, weight, price, waterproofing etc then sure. But otherwise I’d rather just pay the cheap replacement once after 2-3 years.

If people throw away their phones because the battery has gone bad, I think it’s because they think it’ll be expensive or impossible to change it.
Urgh, react.
Says the "opinion"/history section of WaPo. And the Democratic presidential candidates flat out lied in the last debate with claims of funding cuts to the CDC & NIH [1]

Also, lest you forget to blame Trump for feeling down & out, NYT opinion literally called it the TrumpVirus. [2]

Is it too much to ask for grace and to not FUD during a pandemic?

[1]: https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104

[2]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/opin...
Sharing his view and still doing research and publishing results contradicting this view to advance their career seems unlikely to be honest.
Yes. If you have a used phone with a dead and non-replaceable battery, you're gonna invest at least half of the amount of money to make it operational again compared to buying the cheapest new smartphone available (assuming your average Joe goes to a shop to service his phone).

If all batteries can be replaced by the consumer, all that's left is the cost of a new battery itself, which makes that used phone very much an attractive option again, since it now would cost only a fraction of a new phone to make operational again.
Python 2.7.17 (default, Dec 31 2019, 23:59:25)
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.strptime('Sat 29 Feb 12:00:00 PM', '%a %d %b %I:%M:%S %p')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: day is out of range for month
Actually, it's signed 32-bit integers that overflow in 2038. Signed integers have been used because people wanted to store dates earlier than 1970 too.
Exactly. If you have to choose between guaranteed mass panic today and probable mass panic tomorrow, always choose tomorrow. This is what the professionals at places like the CDC understand.
The data is uploaded to gbif[0]. Where you can download it for free!

0. https://www.gbif.org/dataset/50c9509d-22c7-4a22-a47d-8c48425...
Tricky question. As an extreme example, Is it as morally wrong for a homeless mother to steal baby food from a convenience to feed her starving baby vs a rich kid stealing from a store to impress his friends?
Barcelona's map will continue to shift over the coming years too, with its move towards 'superblocks'. Even within the space of a year since my previous visit, the block I used to live on was converted.

Likely we will see more trees and plants around those areas now the roads have been converted to open spaces.
LinkedIn has one! Yesterday it listed my time with my current employer as 2 years and 9 months. Today, it’s 2 years and 8 months! Can anyone venture a guess on how I time traveled?