skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think this is appropriate though since a key characteristic of a black swan is that people can look right at it but not see it due to psychological biases.
> That so feels like a mistake because that's the sort of tactic that would completely and utterly remove your capability of ever working as a corporate lawyer ever again for any company.

No, that's basically SOP for big corporate lawyers.
Has anyone sued someone for buying ad spaces for one's company or product name like stepping on domain names with malicious intent?
preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.11259.pdf

published: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
I can get a basic toilet. I can get fancy toilets (heated seats and more). All of them hook to the same connectors in my home. Different brands. I can hook them into pipes and connectors that are decades old. It works.

This is just hardware integration. It's due to standard interfaces and being designed to last.

What we build with technology now isn't designed to last. It's an intentional part of what we build even if we don't think about it much. It has an impact on end users (and even the environment... think of all the trash).

The rate of interface change is intentional on some levels. And, it's something we can control.
The bang commands are one of the coolest features of DDG.
What I don't get is why DDG has no "google it" button. I mean, typing !g is not convenient, esp on mobile.
https://movehumanityforward.com/ site just launched yesterday, received 3M in donations within 24hours.
For people complaining about worse local results:

You can also use the `site:` argument on TLDs. E.g.

"kino dresden site:.de"

If you can guess the TLD obviously.
Why would you have any confidence with CDC?

Go browse through the weekly bulletins from 2003 regarding the SARS 'epidemic' in the US. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5218a2.htm

You'll read of the hundreds of 'confirmed' and 'probsble' cases and dire warnings and the like.

Then, when the dust settles and years pass, the CDC reluctantly admits the following:
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In the United States, only eight people had laboratory evidence of SARS-CoV infection. All of these people had traveled to other parts of the world where SARS was spreading. SARS did not spread more widely in the community in the United States.
https://www.cdc.gov/sars/about/fs-sars.html#outbreak
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75% URL, then I go to the comments if there's something I didn't understand, or if the subject tickled me and I want further immersion.
Wouldn't the Ballmer Peak be pretty trashed? I don't really know how well BAC% correlates to drunkenness but that's almost double the legal limit for driving in the US.
A fatality rate of 1-3% is actually quite high. This is significantly higher than the seasonal flu[1]. Sure, it's not as deadly as other pandemics, but still - if the numbers are correct, if you contract COVID-19 you are more likely to die to it than you are to get in a car accident sometime in your life and die from that[2].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-compared-to-flu-...

[2] https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-o...
Why are you overriding native scroll?
Maybe you just under-estimate the prevalence of porn searches on the Internet? Once could easily argue that your esoteric geometry search is likely not nearly as common as the results they returned you on what they surmised was a porn search with a typo for instance.
I don't think that's some kind of moral absolute. Slack is indispensable for a chunk of the remote work that I do.
I'm kind of surprised there isn't an Uber "pickup truck" option.
There's enough anecdotal evidence of re-infection that suggest otherwise, although there a wide variety of reasons for that -bad tests, they were never fully recovered in the first place, etc.

SARS is believed to use ADE, and COVID-19 is closely related to SARS.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3019510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25073113

On the good news-ish side, a MERS vaccine entered into Phase 2 trials at Walter Reed late last year, although I can't find anything about that more recently. MERS is another coronavirus, but doesn't use ADE.
How are professors not middle class, financially? Academia doesn't pay particularly well.
> I have to disagree on this one. Multiple diverging projects create _Stability_, whereas a single project creates _fragility_. One bad step on the only project, and it will be all who suffer

Anti-fragility is a lot more complicated then just having a lot of implementations.

The moving away from CVS and SVN to much more easily distributed revision controls is one of the best things that ever happened to large open source projects.

The reason for this is that when its very easy to loose contributors and users to forks then it enforces a lot of project management discipline on the part of the project leadership. Before when you held all the keys to the castle and it was difficult to move away it was very tempting for people to use their position to impose "political" restraints on other people.

And vastly reduced hosting costs thanks to things like github, gitlab, spread of cloud providers and so on and so forth makes it now cheaper then ever before.

And these things makes it easier to 'unfork' as well.

In this way we have the odd result of easy forking has a way of making it so that forking isn't necessary.

And when there is a major dispute in a particular community then cheap and easy forking (and recombining) means that people can actually have competing governance models and see which approach is actually better. Rather then just fighting until everybody gets burned out and abandons the project.

Lede vs Openwrt is a good example of this.

Libre Office vs Open Office.

Gnome vs Unity.

These things exist more due to competing governance models then anything else.

So this can be summarized as saying "improvements in anti-fragility in modern large open source projects is more due to the fluidity in which projects can be managed, forked, and recombined rather then just the number of implementations users and contributors can choose from"
Oh, absolutely. Making a stupid mistake isn't necessarily better than malicious intent. I wouldn't work with either of those people, especially if my livelihood is involved.

I was just saying that I tend to err on the side of stupidity. Most people are stupid. Very few are bad actors in their day-to-day lives.
> It demonstrably does, elected leaders get voted out in well functioning democracies all the time.

That doesn't mean it works in practice. It may mean your electorate is tuning in to the media noise. The end result is usually that no long-term improvements happen in the country, because the first thing a new government does is undo the reforms and cancel the programs of the previous one.

> For me the key is to be a floating voter. Do not buy into the group-think tribalism of party loyalty, it's a mug's game.

That's table stakes for any human being with more than half a brain (unfortunately, most people aren't like that). But then you hit another problem. Last two elections (one internal and one for EU MEPs), I decided to learn more about the available choices of political parties and their programs. And I came from this with a firm belief that I cannot, in good conscience, support any single one of them. That's the negative side of voting for people, parties and programs. You don't get to express your true beliefs - you can only vote for the lesser evil, or abstain.
C# 8 nullable reference types
Coronavirus: The new disease Covid-19 explained (SCMP)
Is it easy to use it in a react js app?
Are they self made? They might have made billions, but did they come from wealthy well connected families that or were they self made? Turning a million into a billion is significantly easier than turning a hundred into a billion because it buys you the ability to try without risking your future.
The budget proposal included cuts to it, though, and some of the response teams that were in place in the government were cut.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
Every time someone brings up people being self-made the discussion turns into post hoc justification. It seems that we can't simply accept someone's immense success and we must find some excuse for why they made it. Yes, luck and the people around them play a role in any success (and equally, in any failure) and that must be accounted for, but that's not nearly enough to automatically discount the actual person.

I guarantee if a the son of a middle class innkeeper with an absentee father from Greenbow, Alabama became a billionaire people would say he had an advantage because he got to experience a diverse group of people as a kid and had a loving mother who supported him. An orphan living on the streets in an impoverished town in Italy and we'd say not everyone has the opportunity to make their own way when they're only 9 years old.

Shrug.
The term is intentionally vague because what constitutes an 'asshole' depends entirely on domain specific traits.

It's very clear what this article is getting at.
They'd piss on a spark plug if they thought it could hurt Trump. Now this version of a corona virus is their latest opportunity to take another whack at him.
IANAL, but if you have correspondence indicating that you wanted something removed and both sides agreed to it, then I'd imagine you'd have a case in court if they slipped something in. Contracts are never 'iron-clad' -- for example, you cannot legally sign away your soul. Lots of stuff can be invalidated in court.
They just posted about it:

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/update-on-covid-19-and-l...
Fixing climate change is a political problem first of all. A very different set of talents is needed here.

You'll have to convince or force people to change their priorities. First is probably not possible, due to the slow moving nature of the threat, second has its own drawbacks as well.
Show HN: Gathering 6k people to publish a dev card game
I think PP is great; however, I do not like to use it as an educational practice. Why boils down to two ideas - a) you are not hired in teams, so you cannot rely on classmates; and b) we've made students so scared to help each through fear of academic integrity and copyright violations that we had to create a special activity centered around looking at someone else's code.

The first idea is rather obvious - the teams you build while learning may be enjoyable but that does not directly translate to hireability. PP Exercises are still scored primarily through correctness over contribution, so a slacking student can do less and potentially learn less without fear of too much penalty to their course grade.

The second idea is more an opinion about the state of CS ed. In an English class, if I wrote something that wasn't good, I could rely on peers to help. If I need help on my weight lifting form, I can show my form to others for advice. In CS, how dare you show your code to anyone because Copy and Paste are so easily done. I've literally had students swear off StackOverflow and helping peers for fear of being labelled a cheater. PP to me seems like its trying to solve that fear rather than deal with the cause of the fear.
The sad part is that AMD seemingly does not want temperature sensors to work on Linux. All progress on sensor support has been from the community (namely Guenter Roeck) using leaked information, and AMD has been plugging some of those leaks[1]. It's not clear to me why AMD does not add this support themselves, Intel has no problem adding temperature support so I don't think there's much to gain by trying to keep it a secret.

> Guenter Roeck: The information is available from AMD under NDA, which is why Windows tools like HwINFO support it. The added Linux support was largely possible due to what I am sure are unintentional leaks by AMD, mostly in AMD's Linux kernel graphics code. Unfortunately, they learned; the latest version of their graphics code include files no longer provides temperature sensor addresses for Zen2.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/hardware/processors-me...
Fed quarantines U.S. dollars repatriated from Asia on coronavirus caution
A good simple overview, but if you need this you probably shouldn't be playing with cryptocurrency at all
Or even, "What can I do for you to help make this happen?"
I've gone through several thousand papers the past year or two so I feel like I'm more well-versed in nutrition than most nutritionists/dieticians at this point, certainly in my understanding the recent clinical/research literature. I rarely post any nutritional/health related statements without citations to peer-reviewed work (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=lhl )

I think most people don't publish labs because they view it as personal, but I did a write-up last year, which includes (IMO) basically all my relevant markers: https://randomfoo.net/2019/09/17/1-year-personal-health-inte...

A very strange set of lab markers you're interested in btw - prolactin has very little clinical value for men (and is almost never tested), but I tested my testosterone at the one year mark (it's fine, 772ng/dL, I have not sequential tests). I had a thyroid panel last year as well and TSH, FT3, and FT4 were all in range. My CO2 has stayed the same regardless of diet - I don't know why that would be relevant at all.

For people looking to track their metabolic health, the bloodwork I think is most useful to track over time: CMP, CBC w/ diff, basic lipid panel (fasted 12h), A1c, fasting insulin, Vitamin D, hsCRP. I also was getting a full iron panel, and it was interesting to see my ferritin remained elevated last year (but is within range now - likely a marker of resolving MetS).

The thing that almost no one gets measured that is almost criminal IMO is fasting insulin - while it's highly mobile, it's also dirt cheap ($8 more than FBG+A1c direct-to-consumer price), allows calculating the best IR indices, and is a 10-15y leading indicator for chronic metabolic disease.

At home, waist circumference to height ratio (WHtR, WSR) is the best simple marker for tracking metabolic health.

Ashwell, Margaret, and Sigrid Gibson. “Waist-to-Height Ratio as an Indicator of ‘Early Health Risk’: Simpler and More Predictive than Using a ‘Matrix’ Based on BMI and Waist Circumference.” BMJ Open 6, no. 3 (March 14, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010159.
Does it help with solving hard problems ?
And then, they throw away all that information and give you targeted ads that are so bad that you couldn't make a worse job if your life depended on it.

I guess it is a mixed blessing.
You mean Bing?
Sites visited.

Unavoidably if you aren't using Tor the network can see the IP address, which would pin down that this is say, Facebook or Wikimedia, or Porn Hub. On its own you can't be sure this is Wiktionary not Wikipedia, or which type of porn.

In almost all cases the HTTPS traffic uses SNI (Server Name Indication) which deliberately carries the name of the server (the news.ycombinator.com in the URL you're looking at right now) in plain text. This enables Virtual Hosting - otherwise how would a bulk hosting company give you the certificate for bumsex.tinyblog.example rather than cats-in-boxes.example which are run by entirely different customers but hosted on the same cheap Apache server in a rack in Ohio? So that's enough to know it's the English language Wikipedia not Wiktionary or whatever.

But yes, it's only the site and so they won't know (at least just from this) if you looked up Bowel Cancer or Elizabeth Warren; if you are watching a Youtube video about Minecraft or Venezuela; and so on.

Medium term the plan is to deploy two technologies that mean the site's name isn't available, improving privacy. DPRIVE (encrypted DNS, often via DNS over HTTPS) and eSNI (Encrypted Server Name Indication) but while DPRIVE is complete and being rolled out (controversially as you may have seen right here on HN) eSNI isn't finished and is tricky to get right, it may be some years before you get much benefit. We need both for (hopefully) obvious reasons although DPRIVE already makes a lot of cheap censorship options impossible, and making censorship expensive makes it de facto unpopular in democratic countries where voters don't want to pay lots of money for something that seems mostly to inconvenience them. See also: popularity of the American TSA.

Even after all that work is done though, if the mere IP address you're connecting to is enough to be a problem you must use Tor today, and then, and likely forever.

Interestingly the Network described in Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" actually works exactly like Tor all the time, with (apparently) no way to directly send things to an address whatsoever. But this will always be more expensive to do with technologies we know about today, and so it is unlikely that we're destined to replace the Internet with a network that always behaves like Tor.
Support Vector Regression in Python Using Scikit-Learn
Usually the comments first. Unless the article title is too catchy :P
Ha. Our city council is dealing with that regarding a CATV franchise agreement.

The cable company’s attorneys changed several provisions that did not show up as redline changes, while intentionally making syntax and grammar errors that did show up as redline changes.
You are not wrong, but criticism levied at Adobe products (and I haven't used them in 5 years) is often actually unbeknownst to the person making the criticism, about the lack of state control and visibility in the UI. You can mess up your UI state to such a level that the application is unusable. The undo/redo mechanism affects the data (movie, the image, the sound) but it has no effect on the state of the UI. Adobe did implement "reset workspace" or whatever it was called, this was a gift from the gods, but it did not go far enough.

Tooling this complex needs to provide controlled methods for controlling state, both in the tooling and that tooling's impact on the data it is operating on.
I don't know if DDG is better or good enough - maybe I'll start using it.

But I do know that google has gone far downhill. and I think that is partially its fault, and also the fault of the internet as a whole. It's just become such an infested ad machine.
It's not a silly assertion, it's just that you've taken silly things away from this article. He's asserting that if you're too self interested / lack empathy you will hurt yourself in the long run.
"The CDC shunned WHO test guidelines used by other countries and set out to create a more complicated test of its own that could identify a range of similar viruses. But when it was sent to labs across the country in the first week of February, it didn’t work as expected." https://www.propublica.org/article/cdc-coronavirus-covid-19-...

The CDC could have adoopted the WHO guidelines for testing at the start. It's reasonable to assume that if they had, the US would now have a much greater testing capacity.
They are getting this adoration because they invest heavily in building it. They now have hordes of PR people creating their reputations in newspapers, tvs, social networks and blogs.

It's better than lobbying because you don't need to convince people to do things your way if they like you.

I've noticed such activity in places as unexpected as imgur, reddit or HN. Posts boosted out of nowhere, waves of comments for a specific trend in their favor, accounts that are very quick to react to critics, etc.

It feels off, but on the other hand it's impossible to prove. You could always argue it's genuine and it would be impossible to be sure.
The exact words to use - “I’m very interested in joining your company but I have an offer from other firm of x amount, can you match it”
I run Ryzen on Linux 5.5 on my desktop workstation at home. Admittedly I am always running the latest kernel as long as I reboot often enough, but it has been good. I also use an AMD GPU, and that has been very nice. Intel probably still has an edge on supporting the Linux graphics stack but not by much, and AMD GPUs have a lot more muscle, so it’s not a bad trade off imo. Anything to avoid NVIDIA really.

(To those who love NVIDIA on Linux: I get it. However, Linux needs to move on from X11 and the old, broken, fragmented graphics driver “model.” NVIDIA will always be a second class citizen on Wayland until they change their tune regarding open source. But hey, maybe they’re OK with losing Linux and Mac users, and if that’s their position I’m perfectly happy losing them.)
I just decided to try DDG out because of this post and am so happy there's a native dark theme. Now if only Github would release one!
I have exactly the same issue with it in Wellington, NZ.

Even with "New Zealand" turned on at the top, it gives me quite a few results for things in Wellington, Florida.

If I don't specify "Wellington" or "NZ" in the search terms, results are even worse, even with "New Zealand" turned on: I get results from Australia, Dubai, even the UK for various search terms. (and some of the TLDs are things like "com.au" or ".co.uk" so it should be trivial to filter those out.)

Google's not perfect in this regard, but it's an order of magnitude better in my experience for localised queries, even with both in Incognito/Private mode.
Roger Penrose at the Portal
Being the socially inept person I am, I would find this exhausting.
I think it’s also wrong to attribute everything to luck. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Zuckerberg or Gates are certainly very capable people who would have done well under most circumstances. But they were also lucky to be at the right place at the right time and meeting the right people.
Destroy your cell phone, delete your internet accounts, and only use cash.
>GNG is an on-demand production of glucose, and absolutely does NOT kick the body out of ketosis, or cause the brain to run on glucose.

I never said GNG kicks people out of ketosis, I said protein to fat ratios will prohibit ketosis. Yes, in ketosis your body continues to produce minimal amounts of glucose, I never said anything to the contrary.

However, GNG has a lot to do with ketosis vis-a-vis protein to fat ratios, protein to fat intake can not be to high or it will kick you out of ketosis because of GNG

>Furthermore, GNG runs at mostly a constant level, does not increase with protein intake, and is at that constant level even when the body is not in ketosis.

If you over consume fat or carbs, they get stored as fat in fat cells. What happens when you over consume protein? Protein can not be stored as fat, it must first be converted to glucose, which the body will try to burn before it is stored in fat cells. This is why a high protein to fat ratio carnivore diet will prohibit ketosis or kick one out of ketosis, unlike a high fat to protein carnivore diet (again I never said the body stops producing glucose from protein in that situation, but the glucose production is minimal in ketosis because of the ratios and ketones remain the primary fuel source).

>To overcome insulin resistance it takes a strict low-carb regime paired with moderate fat intake, and lowering of stress.

While generally true and correct, I can even come up with examples where this breaks down...whey oxalate being a perfect example. Whey oxalate will typically have 25g of protein and may have as low as 1 gram of carbs, but Whey oxalate will spike insulin in most people and throw most people out of ketosis.
Not sure which kernel is in Ubuntu 18.04, but my 1300X has been nothing but rock steady.
It's like no one in government(or the Fed) has read Antifragile...
Yeah this is standard American bullshit.