skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason HN works (well one reason) is vigorous moderation and a stamping out of any mode of discourse apart from collegial intellectual discussion. As a result, we don't see memes or most of the other cheap humour you will find on e.g Reddit. It also seems to lead inevitably to people whining about downvotes, and to people whining about people whining about downvotes.

HN is basically ideal for analytical, logic bound folks, and it works because the topics tends to be things that we can reason about and evaluate using logic.

HN would not work if the topics were more general. Anything political for example seems to hardly lend itself to logical discussion. It's impossible to imagine a @dang enforcing civilised discourse on political discussions.
I never see people discussing the statistical aspects of free will.

For instance, I may decide to have an apple tonight, or spaghetti, or whatever. Thus, I seem to have free will. But if one collected statistics on what I ate over time, there would be patterns and it would be much more difficult for me to overcome those patterns with "will". The more time and events you look at the more you see things like unconcious maintenance of weight, preferences of types of food, and so on.

Yet the long term patterns are made up of the individual choices that seem free.

I have this vague idea that some further exploration of this might be compared to the statistical ideas of quantum mechanics.
Some people name themselves. Sometimes you can even tell how old they were when they came up with their name
We have nothing to fear but fear itself [video][7:48]
US Marines and Army troops were sent to Liberia during the Ebola outbreak.

https://news.usni.org/2014/10/08/100-marines-liberia-thursda...
Isn’t the primary intent of having an offline place to cut off the distraction and to make it feel like a retreat? How can that be accomplished online?
Is Coronavirus Worth Throwing Society Away?
thats one one most eloquent takes I've read. thank you for sharing.
Democracy dies in darkness... behind a paywall...
Earlier version of story was already on front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22558859
But its mom and pop! Mom! Pop!
VRBO was Airbnb years before Airbnb decided to take their business model and add white-collar crime on top. Just like computer-dispatched car services existed for decades prior to Uber.
I think what they are describing is literally called a vaccine.
> the heat capacity of your set of particles is proportional to the number of degrees of freedom

IIRC that is only valid for a classic system.
That part about what claims sciences can make - has been addressed in statistical significance. No need to invoke philosophy.

The dark truths are even darker than that. It is what will get you deplatformed.

Paul has a very nice article on this somewhere on his blog. somewhere. lazy to link. something about things you can't say.
China reported Covid19 to WHO on 31 Dec 2019, do you say that travel curbs were put in Taiwan in early December?
She was convicted at a military trial. Obama commuted her sentence.
Maybe it's because I don't use Twitter, but I don't see much bot panic personally. This article certainly doesn't have anything to do with panic, it's just an investigation of one example.
I like it. I use a private wiki for this purpose for years. Doesn't matter how you do it, but taking notes is very valuable
Not sure what memo you're seeking or what game you're declining.

You said you didn't know what the DOJ/Trump administration was standing on to not comply with the congressional subpoenas. I explained they were standing on executive privilege.

As the article you linked described, the Trump administration was asserting executive privilege, and conflicts between congressional demands and executive privilege assertions need to be mediated by the courts ("But each of the emerging fights raises somewhat different legal questions that courts would have to sort through."). When the administration asserted privilege and declined to comply with House demands, the House chose proceed without court rulings, though courts probably would have compelled testimony about information previously revealed in the Mueller investigation.

For more authoritative sources than your NY Times article provides, executive privilege has been recognized in various supreme court decisions, particularly in military and diplomatic issues, even in cases where the court decided the privilege did not cover the material demanded (like U.S. v. Nixon https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/418/683/#tab-opi...).

Executive privilege began as early as 1792 in George Washington's first term, when he decided he had authority to withhold information demanded by congress. https://www.thoughtco.com/presidential-executive-privilege-3...
Power Challenges in ML Processors
The real question is, why are they going to vote for him again despite his failure to deliver on any of his promises, or to display even a modicum of competence at his job?

And when, after another four years, the wall still hasn't been built, globalism and automation still haven't been dismantled and the mines and domestic factories still haven't reopened, America's prestige still hasn't been restored, China still hasn't been broken, the Middle East still hasn't been pacified, and there still isn't a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage, who will they turn to?
The big issue we have seen with contact tracing in this pandemic is that it doesn't catch everyone. Those contacts you didn't find start new chains that you need to find and disrupt, but doing that requires more tests than are available: People who haven't been traveling are simply denied tests. So you never find those chains, and you get out of control community spread.
Is there a way to read this article without signing up?
And a buffet brunch!
That's probably by American expectations though. Most of Asia builds much denser (and smaller, roomwise) than anything in the states.
The global insurance industry players operate internationally. Lloyd’s of London is an example. Zurich Insurance Group is another. Insurance is a financial product. The terms of the policy are entirely negotiable and probably negotiated at the league level for the NBA because of merchandising, image, and TV rights. Those rights are sold internationally as highlighted by the NBA falling afoul of China with regard to the Ugars a few months ago.
AirBNB is group if you're traveling with a decent sized group. You can cook meals together, have a place to hangout, etc. As a solo traveler it's less good. Most of the time you either end up renting out an entire place for yourself (usually not cost effective compared to a decent hotel. Especially if you're paying a $50-$100 cleaning fee amortized across a 1-2 night stay), or renting a room in someone's house (which is cost effective but a bit of a crapshoot, especially if you like having your own space to decompress at the end of the day)
I really like conditional subroutine calls. I wish x86 had them. It makes it really easy to inline a fastpath of some safety check (e.g. nullcheck, bounds check, write barrier, etc), and have the slowpath be factored out to a common place. What PL implementations like the JVM, JavaScript engines, etc typically have to do without this is they insert a conditional branch to "deferred code" which is at the end of the function (statically predicted not-taken), but that deferred code can't be shared, because it needs to branch back to the mainline code. That costs code size. A conditional subroutine call is exactly the right mechanism to solve this!
I'll choose my own language, you choose yours. Manning doesnt choose for me.
One day I was just getting drunk with a pal in Istanbul and we decided to see if we could get an Airbnb ... in Mogadishu. Sure enough there was one, a real nice looking place listed dirt-cheap by a new account that seemed to be based in Seychelles. Totally above board, I'm sure.

Croatia is not Somalia, but it doesn't exactly scream "rule of law", either. Airbnb is not inherently safe so should only be used in countries where nobody would even think of breaking a law, like Switzerland or something. I have reservations about using it in America even.
> homophobic, racist, xenophobic

You're using the "they're evil" argument.

> voting for someone cynically exploit their ignorance?

and the "they're stupid" argument.

Talk to real life ordinary Trump voters and see what they really feel. Have a long chat with them so they're comfortable with you and not making up quick defensive excuses. Real common people, not an extreme example dug up by the media.
Using the word equivalent when there is no equivalent testing, and you're not accounting for the difference in initial exposure times, is deceptive.

The lack of testing is admitted by the head of the NIH, multiple times, most recently today: The idea of anybody getting it easily, the way people in other countries are doing it, we're not set up for that. Do I think we should be? Yes. But we're not. That is a failing. It is a failing. Let's admit it. Dr. Anthony Fauci

You do not know what the actual situation is.
One core question is if you can change yourself from being one kind of person to the other kind.

If you can't, this is still a useful way to categorize people, but not much use as self help.
"Chloroquine is a cheap and a safe drug that has been used for more than 70 years and, therefore, it is potentially clinically applicable against the 2019-nCoV."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-020-0282-0
[04 February 2020, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-020-0282-0]

A generic anti-malarial on WHO's Essential Medicines list, about 100 times more expensive in the US (WP)
It seems to me that the 1st Amendment should, in principle, give you the right to remain silent in any circumstances (including when you're subpoenaed). After all, shouldn't freedom of speech include the freedom to not speak - isn't remaining silent in of itself a form of expression?

I understand that this is not at all how the courts have interpreted the constitution, but it remains my gut interpretation - that individuals should have the right to freedom of speech and silence. I also believe, for the similar reasons, that lying to an FBI officer, when not under oath, should be constitutionally protected.
Canada is like the US because most of the media consumed by its population is US content.

Canada is like the US because the Canadian enconomy is so intertwined with the US when the Dow Jones drops 10% in a day Canadians hurt too.

Canada is like the US because Wuhan Fever is killing their citizens too.

Canada is different from the US because if one of their citizens gets sick regardless of having insurance they will get the same treatment as a billionaire will, and if they get sick first they will get treated before the billionaire.

Canada is different from the US because if a Canadian billionaire gets sick they will just go to the US, pay the money and get treated before any US citizen does.

Canada is different from the US because even though the Prime minister wore blackface, as far as I know he never grabbed any women by the P000sy!
It's the choice of Steins Gate. The spread of the truth is a necessary measure to bring the actions of The Organization and SERN to light. El Psy Kongroo.
The DOJ has no power over Congress in impeachment proceedings.
Yeah, that claim seems really dubious to me.
Prototypical inheritance (which, I assume, is the other side of what you're referring to) is also weird. Prototypes eliminate classes as a special thing (relegating them to mere constructors or factories, which is fair) but they don't help with typing (compiler-enforced or logical).

If A has B in its prototype chain, are all values of A able to be transparently treated as values of B? Plausibly, this works, but there's nothing that really enforces it. Prototype inheritance is just a way of not needing to repeat code.

I agree it's a bit better than class inheritance, but most of the time all you need and want is composition.
I don't get why people don't know all three rules. In elementary school when the calendar is taught, the complete rules of the leap year were simply taught by the teacher. We even joked about people born on the 29th of February. Why wasn't this taught everywhere?
In case you didn't get it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22558727
"the data from the outcome of that choice still feed into one's neural network and influence future choices"

It seems to me that any time you have a process that feeds the output into the input, then you can easily have a divergence of trajectory whose precision exceeds anything that could be explicitly stored in a finite universe.

So it seems to me that free will must exist in the sense that a simple system, let alone a brain, can produce information from somewhere that can't come from the limited universe we seem to inhabit. Like, take the Mandelbrot set as a simple proof of concept. It may not have all the things in it that are in the universe, but it seems to have more resolution, more components, than can exist in reality. So if you used it to feed a process, it can add something to the universe as it affects reality.
Look, I agree with pretty much all of what you say. I would never suggest any company, whether a startup or an established enterprise (which is my case) go through the SOC2 process unguided, attempting to interpret the ACIPA docs on their own. That is a recipe for disaster. The TSC is almost inscrutable on its own. The AICPA cannot write in plain english to save their life.

That said, I don't understand this statement: "You can also sit around and worry about which of the "COSO Principles" you're covered on or not covered on."

In the end, to pass a SOC2 audit, you have to have evidence for each of the applicable TSC points, including the COSO Principles, which have little or nothing to do with information security but are all about general business governance. It's not a question of "sitting around wondering." It's understanding what the COSO Principles actually are after, so that you can assemble the appropriate evidence. And that means working with HR and finance.

You make it sound like the COSO Principles are irrelevant. Believe me, if I could skip them I would. If I could skip a risk assessment, I would. If I could skip all the "written and audited policies" I would. But you can't skip them. And in the case of a risk assessment, you shouldn't skip them. I mean, that's the whole point in the end: knowing your risks, and having the controls in place to mitigate them.

So yes, of course you need to be sensible. But you also have to do the work, and the work is hard. It is by far the last favorite part of my job.

But my point is: It's not about the product category boxes you have ticked. Security products are important. They make compliance much easer. No question. But for SOC2 to have real value to an organization (and I think there is real value that can be gained from it), it is far more about process, and it is process that is the most difficult thing to implement and religiously maintain and document.
"The bad news is that the way those improvements happen is still through hard work."

Why is this bad news?
Russian election meddling is back – via Ghana and Nigeria – and in your feeds
The Pentagon 'wishes to reconsider' the $10B Jedi cloud
This development shows that she was tested positive. The earlier article was just highlighting the risk.
> What other platforms are there for versioning data and recording data provenance?

Quilt also versions data and data pipelines:
https://medium.com/pytorch/how-to-iterate-faster-in-machine-...

https://github.com/quiltdata/quilt (Python)
Well, that's the point, isn't it? :/
It's instinctive and hard to change. In my case I have a why not try it approach. At the office some folks 100% of the time think every idea / change is bad.

It's made a difference in my life, things can always be done better - so I'm always thinking about how to do them better and then doing a fair number of relatively small things to make things better - boom - you are getting paid real money and have some success.
School Down – help mitigate school closure crisis
I am looking for help to build out an idea for families critically impacted by long-term school closures.

Starting Monday, SF and NY are closing their public schools. Parents are running around trying to plan their next steps and the reality is that many of these children are going to be left home alone.

I want to build a simple interface to connect teens with their neighbors so they can offer daytime babysitting and for families to request necessary help.

Social distancing and isolation are necessary in this exact moment, but over the coming weeks and months we will need to help and rely on our neighbors to dig ourselves out of this situation.

If you have the skills and time to help, this sudden lack of childcare is going to quickly grow into a society-wide issue.
Smart people to be sure. The global hysteria for a simple flu is mind boggling.
Google's G Suite cracks 2B users
They can't riot because coronavirus
Yes, you can fly with far more than $100k in gold, iirc coin dealers do so on the way to conventions. They typically ask for a private screening.
Planck's constant does have units of energy per oscillation.
Or to be exact, it has units of energy per frequency of oscillation,
e.g. Joules per Hertz (J / s^-1) = J s.
> The whole point of gold is that it is a tangible asset

I fail to see how. I know a number of people who trade gold online and it is definitely not a tangible asset to them.

Even if it was, so what? I really don't get this point. Scarcity is what gives value to gold, if it wasn't then anything tangible would have value.
Hadn’t she already given testimony on the subject in question? If I recall she refused to testify a second time because she had already done so.
Thanks for sharing. I need to look more closely but on a brief look it seems the only event detections they are offering is person detection, car detection and people count...
Replace Mumble with Discord, start a server, or join a friends. VR chat is for memes in 3D. It should be mentioned most major online games have voice chat integrated now as well.
The average company a few years from now will probably be as profitable as the average company last year. But that's survivorship bias: some of the companies from last year might not be around anymore, and it's hard to predict which. I think that fear might be driving lower valuations.
For fellow ignorami,Pebble was a wristwatch; see https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/19/what-working-on-pebble-tau...
FOIA has no real penalties for noncompliance. In Washington State, our public records law has penalties (legal fees + $100 per day of noncompliance), and as a result, state agencies tend to actually follow it.
> That part about what claims sciences can make - has been addressed in statistical significance. No need to invoke philosophy.

This is not what I meant, nor is it what the majority of philosophy of science concerns itself with. I specifically mentioned epistemological basis[4]. Questions such as what deliniates science from pseudoscience, and what empirical investigation tells us about how things really are, are questions in the domain of philosophy[0]. Even so, what rigorous justification deliniates a good statistical significance from a bad one?

>The dark truths are even darker than that. It is what will get you deplatformed.

Sure enough, philosophy studies those too[1][2][3].

>Paul has a very nice article on this somewhere on his blog.

It's hard to see why PG should be considered an authority on philosophy.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-science/

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/race/

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-politics/

[3] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/speech-acts/

[4] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/#WhatKnow
They are rendered as HTMLUnknownElement and just don’t have any behavior or style as default, you can still refer to the tags in your css

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLUnknown...
Not to everyone. But part of the reason growth mindset is popular is because it appeals for many people's desire for a quick fix. It's not quick.
What would you ask?
I've used DDG for a while and my impression is that it seems worse than it's been in a while. I've been looking up documentation for some rust crates and DDG has been particularly unhelpful.

What prompted me to comment was trying to find information about the latest SARS-COV-2 story from Iran that had been published on SFGate.com. DDG was turning up news sites like: Infowars, Washington Times, Daily Kos, Zero Hedge, Red State, etc.

Google put the Guardian and WaPo front and center.
I met a lady named "Arwen" once. I asked her about it and she just said "My parents were total LoTR hippies." But while it stood out to me at the time, it didn't strike me as name that was ridiculous or anything. Just distinctive.

Now Frodo... that would just seem weird. Or Gandalf for that matter.
Forgot to mention http://www.asic-world.com/verilog/veritut.html which also has some nice explanation of HDL and hardware in general.

Also it's very important to keep in mind that HDLs describe hardware, the HDL code is not executed on the hardware. Think of it as writing C++ templates.
A country 1/7 our size has done 25x the testing.

If you don't think that affects how our numbers net out, I'm not sure we can have a rational discussion beyond here.
The most likely outcome in my view is that a number of elderly legislators will die before the election. Even last winter, before the virus hit, the actuarial chances of everyone in the Senate living until November were down at around 14%.

Much of Congress and the men running for President are in a very vulnerable age group, and the nature of politics makes it hard to self-isolate.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gWVuTPWLXZH3nB5oVMAm...
Curious why it leaves out PC-relative addressing. By 1990 it seems that was one of the obvious shortcomings of 8086.
At least one bill is being blocked because it doesn't have language prohibiting the money to be used for abortion. The money would be used to fight Covid-19 pandemic, but for some reason, it's critical that the money in no way go to abortion.

https://www.salon.com/2020/03/12/gop-delays-coronavirus-bill...
SoftBank Plans $4.8B Share Buyback Following Pressure from Elliott
Anyone who takes the current Chinese numbers seriously is incredibly naive.
When I see anyone appearing over and over in a short span like this I assume that their publicist is working hard to get them out there for some reason. Like Liz Phair at the 25th anniversary of "Exile In Guyville", when she surfaced out of nowhere and was all over everything for a few months.

We already know Paul knows the power of buying good PR: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
True, and yet I'm still sitting here champing at the bit for Season 3.
Can’t agree more!