skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll try to explain it the best I can.. remember James Damore? (read this: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/16/james-dam...)

I happened to agree with what he said at the time (scares me to type this), because he talked about AVERAGE differences between genders as group, and i thought it was ridiculous to assert that men & women are identical in all ways from a biological perspective.

But i'm definitely kind of aspergersy/autistic, and after a LOT of reading and some private discussion with friends, i came to understand why everyone was so pissed at him. My friends know me, and they didn't stop being my friends the second I said that. This is what his girlfriend had to say:

"But after reading it a few times, and discussing it with him, her position mellowed; she even came to agree with one or two of his points. She maintains Damore was, for the most part, naive and wrong,"

So in happy offline world, a naive guy said a dumb thing, people got mad at him, but they forgave. If the memo had been only between him and his girlfriend, he would have learnt from that experience and come out a slightly better person.

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But what happened in the online sphere, orchestrated by people who did not know him? He lost his job and any prospect of ever being hired again for years at least.

Consequences in the online world are FUCKED. There is no safe way to engage with controversy when the stakes are that high. Everything you said will be accessible to all people, for all time. And remember, everything from the heliocentric universe to the idea that gay people deserve equal treatment was controversial at one time.

Hence, online forums with real names attached become "sterile echo chambers" as I said.

HN is able to engage in some amount of controversial discussion without devolving into a lynch mob. Its a very rare thing. The whole idea of calling online forums "communities" at all grates at me because people forget how truly different these artificial spaces where we engage with context-less pieces of other people are to the real world.

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I think healthy at a truly global scale can only be either communities that completely stamp out controversial thought but end up saying nothing interesting , or those that don't but involve mob mentality and lynching. Those are the only 2 global level endgames for online networks, and they both suck in their own ways, but fundamentally because of human reasons. Only networks that aren't used by everyone have any shot of being in the healthy middle.
Well as a statistician, I hate to break it to you, but there is a massive reproduction crisis in science because heretofore the "rigourous research practices" has often times been more a veneer of rigor rather than actual science. The amount of published research (often in esteemed journals) that has been found to be unreproducible and based on faulty methods is aburdly high. The modern scientific method has arguably been as or more effective at building a tower that shields scientists and academics from criticism from work of questionable validity.

I'm not saying random data science blogs aren't often wrong. But you've probably been burned just as often by publish science and simply haven't realized it. And at least the data science blogs aren't behind expensive paywalls, aren't couched in meaningless vernacular, and present the code/data for reproducing their results, none of which can be said for a lot of science these days.
> They want every codemonkey to be easily replaceable.

Code monkeys at Google are very expensive to replace. I'm sure Google would change that if they could, but nobody knows how. Code formatters are definitely not part of any stratagem to accomplish that goal. On the contrary, they want those monkeys spending their time producing value, not arguing over where to put the closing brace.

As long as you never work with anyone who disagrees with your style, or whose style you disagree with, an opinionated auto-formatter is not that useful. For the rest of us, it helps a lot. I remember early in my career before Google settled on clang-format, gofmt, etc., how every fourth person had a different opinion on how to indent this or that thing, and how occasionally it came up in code reviews. Or teams had their own team-specific style, so if you needed to fix something in someone else's code you had to break all your habits . . . god, it was horrible. How did we live like that.

Now I just run the code fix program before sending for review, and the only points to discuss are naming and software design, not the placement of spaces and newlines. I'm still so thankful for it even half a decade after these concepts became widespread at the company. Fates bless the people who work on code formatters.
But what does that have to do with introversion? Extroverts can focus or make mandalas.
I found it quite funny that that specific outage was due to a dependency on Comcast's DNS servers (if it's the outage I'm thinking of).
This is simply false. Facebook creates phantom profiles to track users that don't even have a Facebook account.
Yes, but it all started in 2008 (to me, the starting point was really the 1998 government bailout of a private business - a hedge fund LTCM [1]). It was all downhill from there.

Still, not "since forever", only since 1998, or so.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management
The word community can be used in a huge variety of ways. The aiksaurus headings are simulation, town meeting, sharing, society, body. In many uses it just means place.

In some sense pushing back against any particular usage of a word with such a range of meanings is not a particularly useful task. On the other hand, community is often used as a positive term and it is useful to unpack it in more detail in that circumstance since it is often abused in its generality for marketing or political purposes. One aspect to consider is why the word community is used in a particular situation rather than some other word. I think it is more useful when looking deeper to consider to what extent particular aspects of community could be applied in a particular case and how different people might use the term rather than "community? yes or no".

Often the word community can relate to how people relate to each other in terms of providing daily needs. From that perspective the term is including the regular and excluding the occasional. Many people do interact with HN regularly over extended periods.

In another sense it can relate to personal rather than professional or impersonal contact with others. Personally I find it a bit jarring in the context of HN being described as a community to see people talking about how it would be healthier if people didn't try to have personal conversations. But it is a feature of HN to generally discourage personal conversations and at the same time many commenters do know each other outside HN for various reasons. Additionally, most topics get very limited attention after the first 12 hours or so so it is common for later comments to be more personal.

In another sense it can refer to more vital connections, at least in a wider sense of long term importance and not just necessary to survive but also not including any casual connections. I think this would vary quite a bit among readers and participants on HN.

It can also imply a bidirectional influence even if not a balanced influence. I think the term would generally exclude anyone without some form of presence in the community, even if very minor.

Anyway, the word community can be used to start any length of writing so I'll stop there. How does your class define community?
Which part is here a database?
This is in fact how airplanes were detected before radar was invented. Not a joke.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/aircraft-detection-radar-19...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_location
Beautiful and inspiring.
Thank you for making and sharing!
"Code" by Charles Petzold is a great read. It describes how computers work from the bottom up, starting with how you can get electricity to do math. I've recommended it to people of all backgrounds, and everyone loves it.
Probably because of social stigma

Yes, people are dumb
Companies ultimately respond to monetary incentives. So directly or indirectly, they are giving your data to Facebook because it gets them paid.
Maybe it was heavily rehearsed rather than prerecorded https://twitter.com/coryweinberg/status/1243685748957564928?...

Edit: more: https://twitter.com/coryweinberg/status/1243685675137781762?...
Playing with stocks is no different than selling phsyical commodities, except that unlike selling items on amazon, ebay, craigslist, or your own storefront, you have NO idea what that share will be worth. Plus even a 20% return on 10 shares of say amazon will give you a decent amount of money, all you are doing is sitting waiting to sell. It's not even compounding of an increase. So you need an incredible amount of capital and knowledge of the market to even make it worth your time, much of which most people don't have. It's very easy to lose money in the stock market. It's completely nonsensical to believe that everybody is competent enough to play into that system. Most people understand how to directly translate their labor into a currency. If it was an easy way to get rich, why aren't most people drawing an income off of it? Because they need a job first for their principal. Which tends to often get eaten up elsewhere for a myriad of reasons.
Anyone else confused how a bar could legally have no EIN?
I see the continuous improvement in the frontend as well, but when I'm looking for a place to rent, trust issues are my #1 problem, not the usability of the UI.

There are lots of properties with 0 reviews, and I see that multiple properties are managed probably by the same management company. It's just a sad situation when a nice owner of a nice apartment hires a bad management company, and AirBnB can't solve this situation, as I would love to stay in that place, but I'm scared of the hidden problems.
So maybe MyCroft and Mozilla should get together?
I said early on because in Jan/Feb some people thought it might blow over -- it wasn't 100% obvious that you would be able to sell every mask you could make. Had someone signed a contract for 6 months of full production, they would have switched, but without it, they sat. That was a situation with a lot of parallels to SARS.

Now of course things are different, nobody is thinking the way I suggested. They are playing other games, though.
I saved some choice examples of code from the awful X-Windows version of Netscape Navigator, on my Motif Angst Page:

http://art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/motif.html

Including some classic comments like:

/* sets the parent window to 0 to fool Motif into not generating a grab */

And:

/*
* This is a horrible function which should not be needed.
* use it to put the resize method back the way the XlwMenu
* class initializer put it. Motif screws with this when
* the XlwMenu class gets instantiated.
*/
The article meanders quite a bit, wandering into the 18th and 19th centuries.
Sure, but there is a cost one way or the other.

TANSTAAFL (there ain't no such thing as a free lunch)

If its really important, then working out a deal that protects all parties is far better than threatening to give the business to someone else by fiat.

Roche has invested a lot into these machines and processes. Ensuring that they are adequately compensated and adequately protected from their competitors is important. Not just for fairness, but for also ensuring that companies don't decide in the future that the risks outweigh the rewards.

What will happen, for example, if some local lab starts putting together tests for these machines and ends up putting the machines out of commission? Who's doing the QA to make sure this is not a problem? Will Roche be on the hook for this? And how will the people who are depending on this machine benefit if it taken off line?

These are very complicated machines, and a lot can go wrong.
do you really think it's likely that they can avoid short term discontinuities in this context? Maybe we should be looking farther ahead?
I genuinely wonder if the use of masks is the biggest factor in stopping the transmission. When I went to Asia mask wearing was common everyday as a protection against transmission/pollution. It was almost even a fashion item. But here in the US, when the outbreak happened and I went grocery shopping with a mask I was stared at and given fearful looks as if I had the virus already.
Who can lead a post-coronavirus America?
Airbnb suspends marketing to save $800M, top executives take pay cut
Did Victor play team sports in high school or college?
or both, allergies make you over conscious about nose pipes, sometimes I cannot tolerate any clogging and if tissue forbid me to unclog them I'll maniacally 'find a way'
This is exactly what creeped me out when I first installed Zoom years ago.

Very few people cared when I commented this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20398084

Suffice it to say, I no longer trust Zoom to be running in my regular user account. I have a separate user on my Mac to isolate it. If you have the means, you might even consider a spare computer or a VM to run Zoom.
I treat it exactly like I treat online purchases. No auto logins, I MUST enter my credit card (or use paypal, which requires 2FA everytime, no remembering), and I always log out of everything.

It makes making a purchase a hassle just like it makes checking up on social media a hassle. I intentionally put barriers up to manipulate my own behavior I know well enough. Yes it's annoying, but I've made a habit of it for so long it's a nuisance that is the "Right" way to do it.
How much will I receive from the stimulus bill?
Make a Linux App
If their Privacy Policy doesn't say they won't sell or distribute call metadata or contents, I have to assume they will. If they want to update their Privacy Policy to make that clearer, I would encourage that.

(And hashed email addresses? Might as well just send the email addresses. Hashing is kind of useless there.)
Ahh yes now I get what you mean. I guess I didn't think about it like that. I was just thinking like a simple small business.
A People’s History of Computing in the United States - Joy Lisi Rankin

Joy Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games like The Oregon Trail. These unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world, just as much as the inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto.
If I were to make a loan servicing platform and didn't want to build a ton of custom code, what should I explore? My firm uses SQL server and I am mostly proficient in Python. Essentially I have built everything from scratch for the loan products we service. Looking for something I can integrate quickly but has industry support and complies with the SBA loan constraints.

TL:DR Any SBA loan servicing platforms for SQL and/or Python I can use to hit the ground running to service a SBA loan?

Also: my manger had me look at xleratordb for financial calculations and it seems to have a good amount of what I need to get started. Looking for input though. Thanks! -PJ
The article quotes Paragon's blog post without linking to it. Here's the original:

https://www.embedded-computing.com/guest-blogs/three-cases-w...
Maybe you don't want to cancel your wedding or close your business either, but the health department can tell you that you must.

Consent is not everything when public health is on the line. It seems like single-issue privacy advocacy is going to get even less traction than before.
FWIW I don't feel that at all. Negative comments: sure. Trivializing comments, sure. Also praise.
Sure, assuming you have the good fortune to choose your manner of dying. I wouldn't feel very comfortable making that kind of assumption. But I concede it's easier to sling accusations of cowardice than to think seriously about drowning slowly and helplessly in the fluids of your own destroyed lungs.

Congratulations on having gotten over this pandemic virus. Good luck with the next one!
Frustrated too, but it's not just a logistical problem, it's a political problem. We have lots of logistical wizards but had to decide to employ them them. Lots of bio-lab wizards too.
Social distancing itself doesn't work. When I go to a shop, I always see people without masks, or even having masks but not using them properly (it's supposed to be on the mouth, not on the chin). They are the people who just don't care if they kill other people by chance, even thought the radio is talking about the seriousness of coronavirus all the time in the shop.

I always use a P100 full face mask when shopping, because I have respiratiory illness and scared of getting sick and breathing even harder than I can right now.
Short answer: much lower salaries.

The average Albertan's salary is (still) much higher than that of workers from other provinces. Thus, each Albertan pays (on average) more federal income tax than workers from other provinces. Whether a province is "have" or "have not" is based on comparing the average federal income tax collected from that province compared with the national average.

The equalization payments is the income tax that gets partially redistributed - it is not a transfer from Alberta to other provinces.

For a given salary, the average income tax (combined provincial and federal) paid by someone in Quebec (or any other province) is much higher than that paid by someone in Alberta. Add to that the provincial sales tax (not paid by Albertans) ... and you get a situation where people outside of Alberta see Albertans as spoiled rich whiners as they: 1) earn a higher salary and 2) pay less taxes.

Meanwhile, Albertans (with their lower unemployment - still today) see "their" money wasted to these undeserving lazy Easterners ("lazy" = collecting money from EI). Politicians of all stripes contribute to fanning the flames. And, in spite of all this, we are generally considered to be a nice bunch, eh?
Great, thank you very much for the thourough reply and link.
Is there a way to save my progress?
Pandemic ventilator inventor makes his design open source
I used to think HN would benefit from more state-keeping, to make it easier to follow threads over longer time periods. I'm now convinced the opposite is true: that HN pushes threads towards being more ephemeral is something that makes it better as a community, not worse. I spent a lot of time on Usenet, and I don't think month-long threads (and their attendant personality factions) would make this place better.
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Worked on Firefox on Linux for me.
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You're not going to be able to boot from exFAT partitions: the UEFI boot partition spec is strictly based on plain old FAT format, not the new exFAT.
Yes, they're all listed now.

But I don't see anything in https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26646 about listing the IPv6 addresses. And using random addresses from multiple /48, that'd be an extremely long list.

I was wrong about not reusing IPv6. But even so, using the same IPv6 would be very rare, given the number available.

You say that no one could use residential IPs that way. But I know for a fact that it's already being done. For example, see https://luminati.io/proxy-networks/residential-ips.
Please join me in wearing a mask
So beautiful, thank you.
I believe, Its just part of Microsoft's plan for world domination and to neutralize Linux and other competitors. They are fully in the embrace phase at present. I'd question if it will have ALL the features on Linux that it does on Windows...
Somebody was waiting their whole life to write this title.
Note also at least the unwanted/unnecessary facebook connection: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7e599/zoom-ios-app-sends...
Vendomarch: A Startup to Fix Food. Want Hacker Advice.
We are a startup based in Rochester, NY and are launching a service called Vendomarch, which delivers produce from farmers’ markets.
Some of us during college thought that the famers’ markets had better deals and healthier food, but being college students found it difficult to shop from there. If there were a delivery service for farmers’ markets, we would have used it.
So we though if we would have used it, someone else might have too. That’s why we created this https://vendomarch.com.
Hackers, we would love your feedback. Currently we are making the deliveries ourselves, so if you live in Rochester, NY, try out our service and please give feedback.
Reach us at vendomarch@gmail.com.
Thanks
Plus the experience of Electron apps is generally superior lately. Look and feel may not be as consistent as the ideal but it generally never was in the first place, even among native Cocoa apps. The web has won on desktop.
I interned at a company called Palamida that did this around 2006. They were eventually acquired by Flexera. One of their competitors was Black Duck Software which was acquired by Synopsys.
In any sane world euthanasia would be legal and everyone could chose a painless death.

But of course we can't have that freedom.
David Chang Isn’t Sure the Restaurant Industry Will Survive Covid-19
Agriculture is an activity, not an ecosystem. Humans are but one element of the ecosystems in which they exist, and their flourishing is relevant only insofar as it preserves systemic viability.

Farms are inherently unstable - the 'system' is missing. From an ecological perspective, they're no more an ecosystem than you'd get if you released a bunch of random animals in your house. You'd have a new 'system' that lasts until they die.
Maybe he thinks that this would be many separate conflicts because of the different powers that partook and over different decades? Does seem to be a big deal.
This is one thing about a Single-Payer "Socialist" system that most Americans just can't get their heads around.

The big excuse in the US is that the country couldn't afford it. But many other tiny, poor countries can afford it in some way or other, to ensure that everybody has access to some form of cheap medical care that won't bankrupt you.

With Single-Payer, everybody, whether employed or homeless has access to basic medical care. Usually that basic medical care can even provide ICU services, and at no cost to the patient.
TL;DR...

"Any device that sends out a Wi-Fi signal also emits terahertz waves — electromagnetic waves with a frequency somewhere between microwaves and infrared light. These high-frequency radiation waves, known as 'T-rays,' are also produced by almost anything that registers a temperature, including our own bodies and the inanimate objects around us."

"They found that in this [honeycomb] arrangement, the forces between graphene’s electrons were knocked out of balance: Electrons closer to boron felt a certain force while electrons closer to nitrogen experienced a different pull. The overall effect was what physicists call 'skew scattering,' in which clouds of electrons skew their motion in one direction."

"...a terahertz rectifier that consists of a small square of graphene that sits atop a layer of boron nitride and is sandwiched within an antenna that would collect and concentrate ambient terahertz radiation, boosting its signal enough to convert it into a DC current."

“This would work very much like a solar cell, except for a different frequency range, to passively collect and convert ambient energy,” Fu says.
“Reasonable to project [the USA total] will reach 10M [infected]”
you can put radio input inside the label element, less typing
I'm more of a heavy metal EU4 player actually haha! I'm not a big fan of the cultural music while I'm playing but for some reason heavy metal just amps me up when I'm playing that game. It's (obviously) Sabaton, Black Label Society, Iron Maiden, and Rammstein most of the time. Otherwise I'll have hip hop or deutschrap on. If I'm in the HRE, it's most definitely deustchrap lol.