skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Showing that torture is an effective way for good guys to obtain something is particularly bad. However, I am not against the use of torture in films like Saw.

Saw is a horror movie. Horror movies are a way to experience scary things without putting you in actual danger. And they are not going to achieve that by just showing kittens playing, getting you to be scared/horrified/disgusted/... when you know you are perfectly safe and that the story is fiction is hard enough. So they use an arsenal of techniques, from jump scares to phobias and gruesome deaths. And torture is great for this. We can imagine what it feels like, we get to see the blood and gore, we know it something that happens in the real world,... Well made, torture scenes are very effective at creating tension when it is called for.

And I don't think we should not use them just because torture is atrocious in real life. When we go see a horror movie or thriller, we know the game, we don't want it to go easy on us. Deep inside, we know we are safe, that's what allows us to have fun playing with our limits.

Is it healthy? I think so, most kids love getting scared at some point, and they don't become psychopaths as a result. And horror stories, even the most tasteless ones definitely don't glorify what they are showing.
Yes, especially if you have a physical system I am curious what happen (eg, do we shear the axel somewhere?)
Considering you're commenting in an international forum, what is "this country"?
How do I share it with you?
I'd like to think there would be a way to turn it, but I'm fairly confident it isn't possible. With that much mechanical advantage, no material will stay together. I'm not sure whether the frame/axles will break first or if it would just strip the gear teeth.
I hate overly precise numbers - based on what I've read, my one sig. fig. estimate for people under 50 is 0.5% mortality for coronavirus and 0.05% for the flu.

So I do believe that coronavirus is ten times more lethal, but I am currently a lot more worried about the crazy things people do or may do in response. If I caught it, I would be mainly concerned about the social consequences, the quarantine, etc.

On the other hand, having everybody work from home that can, why not? I mean, there are so many things that would be far more unpleasant or desperate later on, and if it reduces the spread even a little, it seems logical to do.

In my workplace, they just put up posters on the bathroom doors saying wash your hands and stuff. Yes, there's one in every office,* but still...if everybody has a laptop, the person at the top needs to just say, everybody go home for the next month. They aren't going to do it until the hysteria reaches a tipping point though.

*and I don't mean one poster
The virus infects the cells through ACE2 receptors, which are highly expressed in some lung cells but not the upper respiratory tract. High fever and dry cough are the most common symptoms while runny nose is rare. So no the symptoms are not comparable to a common cold.
You would need a tremendous amount of torque to move the last gear, because gears multiply the angular velocity on one side and multiply the torque on the other. If it took one newton-meter (about the weight of one apple on a lever a meter away from the gear) to move the first gear, it would take a googol newton-meters applied at the other end of the device.
Analogies make shit arguments when we can discuss the matter at hand directly instead. Systems with central access controls are vulnerable to at least 2 separate sorts of attacks. One procedural and one technical end.

On the procedural side its trivial to degenerate from

* subjects privacy is breached when the lawfully constituted authorities present proof to a judge of reasonable suspicion that subject has engaged in antisocial and immoral acts against society or its members

to

* it would be be awfully nice if we had access to everyone's personal data so that we could punish anyone we like for anything we like

In the United States we have already standardized on breaching everyone's privacy to the greatest degree possible with little or no recourse for the citizenry. Once you have all the information on whom speaks or believes in a certain way acting against them is a relatively smaller step.

On the technical side a centralized system is impossible to secure. When not if it is compromised to the victors go the spoils. It is comparatively harder at least to attack millions of clients even if in theory a central node could be used to compromise clients this can in practice trivially be made harder to exploit by just not allowing server to push to clients and not updating every second. Attacks may need to remain undetected for a substantial length of time before a substantial portion of the user base is poisoned and the chance of detection climbs towards 100% the more parties you attack.

Furthermore if you become 100% effective at detecting illegal porn shared via whatsapp doesn't it follow that users will use a decentralized means of transmitting illegal information. We would be substantially disadvantaging the population as a whole for little gain.
Hehe, that would be a nice question for https://what-if.xkcd.com/. (Actually maybe not, but it made me think of that, a whole bunch of weird question that have even weirder answers)
You can't use any kind of TLS offloading accelerator?
Still better than the frontend which will be declared out of fashion within six months after release.
I'm sure if you used a credit card you'd have no problem getting an involuntary refund from SXSW. After a few thousand of those I'm sure their stance would change.
Yeah, but that's just an engineering problem.
If I can afford to hire a few models to help me stay calm that’d be fine too
SXSW Cancelled for First Time in 34 Years Due to Virus Concerns
Your government at all levels are responsible for public safety. If you harm public safety (in)advertently, you can definitely expect lawsuits your way. Lawsuits are a matter of dispute. It does not matter if one "wins" or "lose".
Both Racket and Julia are pretty easy to pick up. Though to be honest, I would recommend starting off like how I did: C.
This is pretty incredible both from a product perspective, as well as the potential to push the whole industry towards a race to the bottom. Equilibrium here pushes storage, processing, and availability towards distributed nodes, unless high availability is required for some unique business case
Rather than just saying it does or doesn't cause it, I think we should also discuss how it may cause it. Because I think the sole extent of the influence is that it suggests the idea of doing it. And if someone explicitly brings it up and tells people not to do it, then that will be sufficient to make people not act on the idea.

In other words, I think there might be a causality chain, but one that can be easily broken.
Hanlon's Razor should be more well-known.

I like to modify it and call it Hanlon's Scythe:

"In the absence of clear evidence, don't automatically attribute to malice, that which can be trivially attributed to any other cause"
the reason for being upset is primarily the person being upset not being in charge of their emotions and getting mentally trapped in a situation.

most important is probably the observation that one cannot control their environment and that anger isn't really helpful in any circumstance other than running away from a tiger or something, so if you get upset just take a few breaths and get a coffee.

I'm not sure how much the mental models mentioned in the article help because I've come to the conclusion that getting upset is primarily a biological thing. It's much more simple I think than people often suggest.
In the modern financial system, risk-free debt is basically as good as cash on a balance sheet. If you need to turn it into cash, you just dip into the repo (“repurchase agreement”) market.

Over the past few decades the global financial system has steadily become completely unrecognizable from the standpoint of classical economics. Debt is not debt, savings is not savings, and printing money is no big deal (or so they say).
Ask HN: What is the best way to help research on Covid-19?
I am software engineer with some data science and evolutionary algorithms background. I have heard about the foldit challenge to help covid19, but I am not sure about it's impact. I have never learned bio related data science, but I'd like to learn the basics to understand the problem. What tools / methods / materials are available to an "average" programmer to start with to help this new virus?
A very valid concern! Our Privacy Policy is listed here: https://lunchmoney.app/privacy

A promise we make from the beginning is we're definitely not ever going to be selling any of your data. We don't have an incentive to since we're selling the service directly to the user as a subscription.
Frankly, I'd switch due to the lack of respect for the employees alone. He's a software developer, what great harm can come from letting him WFH for a couple of weeks if that makes him feel safer?
Coronavirus Risk Rises for U.S., Global Economies
Just for fun, I would connect the first gear to an electric motor and let it run for an hour or so.
Facebook Fights Hoaxes and Hysteria in Its Virus-Themed Groups
> Hard drives are a surprisingly low percentage of the cost of a storage system

THIS! There's no use of a 2TB storage if you can't upload/download this amount each month
If you're actually interested in packaging a generic Linux GUI app, check out snapd. It's originally an Ubuntu project, but has been pretty widely adopted at this point. I believe every distro you mentioned can run snaps, except maybe Gentoo.

https://snapcraft.io/
Even if the first gear's teeth were moving at supersonic speeds, there still would not be any perceptible motion of the last 90 gears or so. If the first gear's teeth were moving at relativistic speeds, there would still be no apparent motion in about 80 of the gears. The speed of light is only about a million times higher than the speed of sound, and this contraption loses a factor of a million after six gears.
Both of those statements are factually correct.
Cool approach! Best of luck!
Did you try canceling before the official cancellation announcement?

If they're not issuing refund after the cancellation announcement, then they're finished. No more SXSW next year.
I upvoted, but only to shield you from the avalance of downvotes coming
I stayed at an AirBnB once. The house appeared decent, but when the lights were turned off, the cockroaches and other insects came out. We packed up everything and left at 2AM. AirBnB cancelled our reservation and got us some other place; but because our reservation was cancelled, we were not allowed to leave any feedback for it! No wonder it had only good reviews.
Perhaps they will offer a choice between a voucher for next year's event, or some type of (partial) refund.
I don't disagree, but the irony is palpable.

> this is not a good comparison

> tools made to kill

> pretty much puts people's lives at risk
No- before. I eat between 5pm and 10pm. I guess I feel better. With placebo effect and whatnot it’s hard to know. My workouts took a hit initially but eventually got back to their normal intensity.
from my POV one problem with these review systems, unlike hotels, if I leave a bad review the next place I try to rent will look at my review history, see I left a bad review, and refuse to rent to me.

Hotels don't seem to do that. Partly because they have 100s or 1000s of guests so one bad review means nothing whereas on AirBnB many units are individually owned so those owners have a much higher interest in things like this.

I don't know a solution though as there are issues with dishonest reviewers as well.

I do know AirBnB removed a bad review I left. The review is reposted on my blog so it's not gone but it is effectively gone.
"If your office environment is plausibly exposed (and in the modern world of international geeks, almost all tech offices are), and you can WFH, you should WFH. Period."

I work for a government agency, and I asked my union rep about this, and was told, oh, if there are more cases, maybe they will do something then. You know, you live and die by the rules, and the rules say you can't WFH whenever you want, even though everybody has laptops, unlike when I worked in the private sector.
If that has been confirmed. Do you have proof?
Unfortunately I need a search engine to be functional. The trade off privacy is certainly not worth it, and the algorithms aren’t half as good, at least in terms of search results. It’s a damn shame.
It's not just the office, it's the public transportation too. I'm generally a fan, but it's hard to argue it's not an extra factor of risk in these situations.
A quick answer to this is that 365 doesn't divide into 7 so cleanly. In any case, the use case for weekly budgets is definitely strong :)
As a person that doesn’t use Facebook, the restaurant thing makes me want to punch Facebook employees.
That's pretty disrespectful considering its much higher mortality rate. People aren't panicking for fun.

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-compared-to-flu-...
I find their statement a bit irritating...they're basically saying "if it weren't for the city, we would have still done it, screw any consequences".
> no creds that live outside of trusted elements physically tied to a device we own.

I’ve never worked full time at a software company that allowed credentials on employee personal devices. Supposedly because most consumers are up to their eyes in malware, often from the moment they buy the devices, not because the employees are untrustworthy (it would be difficult to have a functioning business where you can’t trust the employees.)
> It isn't. I've noticed that Chinese companies are even worse.

Then it isn't "standard American bullshit". It's just "standard bullshit".
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApqfqiFTO4E
> that's just an engineering problem

It's not - it's a physics problem - it reaches fundamental physical limits of the universe.
While it is tempting to say that "people aren't numbers", a refusal to quantify human impacts just results in poor decision making.

Because we still do make decisions. We still do allocate resources to our own pleasure that could have gone to saving someone else's life. We pass regulations limiting how much people can be exposed to chemicals that impact health. And trade off the convenience of being able to travel in cars for how many of us will die from doing so.

We still make those decisions. The only question is whether we think clearly while making them, or whether we shy away from the ideas that could let us think clearly.
Flip it around .. what's the fastest rotational speed achieved via a hand powered machine?
Exactly :-)

It's definitely punted for now as I continue to round out the product. When the time comes and we're ready for an official mobile offering, we'll evaluate the current solutions out there (the landscape is always changing!)
Caffeine: brute force.
If you made this in a physics engine could you get the last gear to spin in a reasonable time and not break the simulation?
There is one big problem that I've not seen anyone else point out with systems like this. I know because I did the calculation early on with Peergos and came to the conclusion that it doesn't work.

The problem comes when you want to store multiple files. If the corresponding erasure code fragments from different files are not stored on the same server then you don't have correlated failures. Contrast this with a typical raid scheme where a failed drive means the nth erasure fragment of every file is gone - correlated failures. If the failures across different files are not correlated, which is the case if you're storing each new block on a random node, then you are basically guaranteed to lose data if you have enough files. Depending on your scheme, this can happen as low as 1 TiB of data for a user. It is similar to the birthday paradox.

For erasure codes to work for a filesystem you need to have correlated failures.
Might have wanted to try this, before using this example. As other commenters have noted, this immediately offers up ‘Quittich’ at the first result.
While it's tempting to blame this on Philips doing this to increase sales, I think it's just as plausible that they just don't want to spend resources on maintaining the infrastructure required for the v1 bridges anymore. The v1 was very early in the market, and doesn't even have the horsepower to support HomeKit etc.

This is also a more likely explanation if you consider that Philips offered heavily discounted v2 bridges to v1 bridge owners. It's probable that it's cheaper to Philips to sell v2 upgrades to customers at or below cost than it is to maintain support for the v1 bridge.

Having said that, it sucks for v1 owners that they have a product that's going to lose features unless they upgrade. I do have a few Hue bulbs (with a v2 bridge), but I have everything set up through openHAB, with remote access going through a server I control. This way I don't have to rely on anyone but my VPS provider to keep all of it functional. Unfortunately this route is out of most people's technical know-how. And I certainly sympathize with people who could do this, but would rather use an off-the-shelf product that just works.
A friend of mine recently went Guangdong -> HK -> Thailand -> US. Their logic was along the lines of: Thailand has fewer cases than Singapore because Thailand has minimal air conditioning compared to places like Singapore or the US.

We'll see.
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https://youtu.be/1BYFbXJKJ8U
Anyone else read this while counting the logical leaps being made between data and reason without any evidence?

There is no multi-factor analysis being done, only single factor correlations that the authors want so badly to point to evil capitalism as causation.
I think this is tinfoil hat free territory. Barr has been public about his feelings on encryption and this proposed law (unless it's been changed in the last month) specifically gives the attorney general effective carte blanche authority over how it's implemented and interpreted.

No tinfoil hat needed unless we ask why Barr has made this a personal crusade.
Here's a quick page on Lunch Money vs Mint: https://lunchmoney.app/compare/mint-alternative

Pasting from an earlier comment:

> Totally understandable that you'd like to avoid using services like Plaid. We have a lot of users who share the same sentiment, and also many international users who cannot use Plaid, so it's a priority to ensure the experience is without Plaid is still an enjoyable/practical one.

> We offer two other ways to bulk insert transactions: 1. we offer a CSV import tool, and 2. we are currently beta-testing our developer API so you could write your own integrations to import data
Over a lifetime perhaps, but COVID-19 has the potential to kill about a million Americans within the next year, which would make it the leading cause of death by a large margin (surpassing heart disease by 50%). That's assuming a conservative death rate of 1% more inline with South Korea or Diamond Princess rather than the 3.4% the WHO currently estimates or the 5% seen in Wuhan, and assuming a 33% infection rate rather than the upper bounds of 60-80% some experts are predicting. If you have a chance to save a million lives it's probably worth taking some precautions.
It's a great saying, but aren't all large ships these days made out of components that don't float individually?
Every manager I've ever had I've ask for a raise and everyone of them have given me the option to show up Monday or find a new job. This is fanciful thinking in a priviledged industry and doesn't represent most employment relationships.
Users caring might mean that a user is 15% more likely to select a 5 star host over a 4.5 star host, not that the user will say a 5 star rating is a top concern.
Noted! I know a friend of mine reads my blog via an RSS reader, so they still might be able to automatically parse it?
There’s a difference between capital and printed money. Capital is the result of forgone consumption, of producing more than is consumed. Much of what people call “capital” is really just inflated paper claims to assets. A share of stock is not capital, it is just a fractional claim on the residual earnings produced by a business. Capital isn’t magically created when stock prices are bid up, because the underlying assets (“capital”) of the business don’t change.
You contract with a tunnel broker (most, if not all, are free) to give you an address.

If you have a lan then you can set up radvd (or similar) to distribute addresses. You may need to replace your router though.

Your ipv6 packets head out over a 4to6 tunnel to your broker, and then out to the wider world.
Good point! Also, web apps are definitely making a comeback!
Your analogy to guns would make sense if other developed nations didnt have civilized gun policies. Seeing as they overwhelmingly do, its nonsense. Stop using a legitimate issue to pry nonsense about guns into it.
Viruses don't care about the weather. The reason we catch more diseases in the winter is just that we spend more time indoors, physically nearer to other people. That will probably be true of COVID19 too, but the existing transmission numbers (which, to be fair, are still noisy and hard to say anything definitive about) are like an order of magnitude higher than you get for flu transmission. Summer isn't going to do squat, basically.

When "most" people have had some variant of a virus in the past and have working antibodies, it's harder for diseases to spread. When everyone is vulnerable, you need far (!) fewer transmission events to double the number of infections, and things explode.

This kind of misunderstanding is a big part of why so many people (including those at the top, sigh) aren't taking this seriously.
No refunds, no exchanges. I sense a class action lawsuit.
I suspect they waited too long to do it. I suspect a very large percentage of the people that were going to attend have non-refundable plane tickets, have already arranged time off from their jobs, etc and will still be coming to Austin... I guess time will tell.
The American Frontier Continues to Shape Us (2018)
it's not a specific case. if I type federer on google I get a list of all his recent matches and live scores so it is easy to follow. A lot of my searches on google are like that. I don't even have to click on any links.
Impressive but imho he could take it one step further and instead of concrete on the other end, he could rotate the gear in the opposite way.
What's the license? I can't find one in the repo...
Thank you, Dan Streetmentioner.
I did not mean what TLS is, I meant the context of the high performance numbers. Using what software, etc.