skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trusting data and data being objective

>Right now I absolutely want to see papers written by physicists studying COVID-19. Why - because physics is a significantly more rigorous field than epidemiology. I trust the average physicist to have at least slightly higher standards, for instance I trust them to at least pretend to care about statistical uncertainty, and I suspect many of them will upload their source code. I don't expect any of them to email their paper straight to known-friendly newspapers. (from your other post)

Is a really...bad idea. Let's not presume knowledge transfers from one discipline to another, that standards look the same, or that Alan Sokal was anything other than an egomaniac.
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Thanks for reading my blog. I tried to keep the "top tips" short and thought this was partially captured via

- Pay for anything that brings value
- Pay extra for well-written reports, even if they’re dupes

with the hopes that if someone saw this and wanted to read more they'd skim through the blog :)
Apple Music in general is a remarkably poor experience on any platform.
This seems to be solving mostly the same problem as the following libraries:

[1] https://github.com/phiresky/ts-typed-sql
[2] https://github.com/Ff00ff/mammoth
[3] https://github.com/AnyhowStep/tsql
[4] https://github.com/travigd/vulcyn

A query in one of those looks like the following:

const rows = await select(list.id, list.createdAt)
.from(list)
.where(list.createdAt.gt(now().minus(`2 days`)).or(list.value.eq(0)))
.limit(10);

The resulting type of `rows` is inferred by TypeScript to the corresponding correct type (`{id: string, createdAt: Date}`)

Prisma solves the problem by generating code, while all of these do it completely in type-level within typescript. Prisma also seems to introduce its own query language, while the above linked libraries stay closer to SQL.

[1] was written by a friend of mine and I'm using it in production to great success. I wouldn't recommend it though because it has repeatedly broken with new TypeScript updates since it uses very complex type structures and the dev has basically given up on it due to the complexity.

[2] is probably the most production-ready, though it has some design choices I'm not sure about.

[3] is the most well-designed, and can handle complex scenarios (including differentiating between join types etc). But it's incomplete so far.

[4] I have not used.

Pure type-level has the advantage of not adding a compile-step and keeping everything in a tool you already know. But all of the above have the disadvantage that the resulting type structures are very complex - most TS devs would have a hard time understanding the internals of the libraries and the resulting type errors can be unreadable. They can also cause the TS compiler to slow down significantly (in the past [1] had exponential compile time when adding a new column, though this has been fixed).

Also, since the TS compiler uses heuristics in multiple places and the type system is not sound, Microsoft has introduced regressions that have broken [1] in every other release.
Plastic is an amazing product and it is responsible for saving much more lives than it takes.

It's important to always think about both the positive and the negative impacts of anything we humans use, not just the negative or positive.
I think we should lean toward the workers, take them seriously and investigate. But it's unwise to go beyond the facts. If claims turn out to be false it'll damage the believability of victims in the future. Being prudent is necessary to have believability tilted in their direction over the long term.
That's just an excuse to shift responsibility. In a kill or be killed situation, you could always choose to be killed instead of killing, you'd just have to sacrifice your life. It's just that people don't actually care enough to give up their life or any of their benefits.

It always comes down to the fact that people will not give up their own benefits for someone else. If you want people to do something you have to appeal to their self-interest, not their morality.
Looks like all the remote interviews during this pandemic are evening the playing field. GG Yetis.
> get really really serious inflation of over 2%, 3%, maybe even more than 3%

Really serious inflation is when prices in supermarket change twice a day like in Brasil in the old times. It is Weimar style hyperinflation where everyone want to get rid of paper money right away.

Inflation of 2-3% is actually desirable - it is a sign of healthy, growing economy. Additionaly it is good for public finances as most expenditures is fixed and tax recipes are over the target. Yes it is a kind of tax on people but in healthy economy who cares?

Most central banks and banks in general (also insurers) dread deflation not small inflation.
Layoff Watch ’20: KPMG Canada Laying Off Poor Performers
The whole purpose of "open source" and "free software" is to allow modifications and ownership by the user. Both requires to compile on your own. So I would not call it a burden (as opposed to "benefit") but a consequence of being open source.

So we should consider the binaries as a branded favor of Microsoft for the lazy rest of us ;)
I was really excited when Prisma1 came out. It would be understatement to mention that Prisma1 was way overpromised and nothing ever materialised.

With Prisma2, honestly disappointed as it is too little to show for. This is an ORM like library that supports only couple of databases with database migrations still in experimental state with broken links for workarounds[1]

Also Prisma2 has half of the features at 'No / Not yet' supported state - https://www.prisma.io/docs/reference/database-connectors/dat...

Well makes me wonder what's wrong with TypeORM which supports 8 different databases with full feature support and migrations that work!

[1] https://www.prisma.io/docs/reference/tools-and-interfaces/pr...

Data Validation

Cascading delete

Cascading update

Renaming existing table

Renaming existing column
The OAuth 2.1 Authorization Framework Draft RFC
So, it that motherjones.com article you link, it's clearly BPA they are talking about, an additive to plastic, not plastic itself.
AFAIK there are two Apple apps on Android: one for Apple Music, and another for migrating your data from Android to iOS.
> You can make your own starter, but it will be weak and basically tasteless for about 5-7 years. We sell verified OLD starters.

Is there science on this? My March 2nd starter is plenty flavorful and pungent. You throw away (or find another use for) virtually all of it daily, so it seems an odd claim; after a couple days the original starter cells are basically at homeopathic levels of concentration.
A thread from 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21878659
And the F-35 is a great example of how not to do things, so of course it has touchscreens.
Perhaps, but on many pilot's knees will be a digital touchscreen kneeboard which having learned with paper approach plates and map books myself was a godsend.
Buying things to bury just to make sure the competition doesn't get them is by no means a new business model or invented by Epic Games. It's been a solid go to for most big companies since forever. It's nothing new for Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.
Our SaaS product uses their API for a non-critical feature, I guess at some point we'll have to find an alternative. Any suggestions? (Happy to be pitched by competitors.)
I’ve been a big fan of Dark Sky ever since I discovered them through DuckDuckGo. I’m disappointed to see the API closed to new users, hopeful that they will become the default source for Apple weather apps, but most of all happy for the Dark Sky founders.
Did Gov. Baker previously support the ban on plastic bags?
Insights from over a million responses to trivia questions
Yeah both of my TB3 docks result in crashes after unplugging or plugging in while the display is off. Very annoying behavior.
For any health professionals out there looking for a good video solution tailored for doctors and psychologists; check out Confrere. It's a Norwegian company that has built it's service on top of the webRTC-protocol. I have helped several Norwegian doctors offices to get up and running the last few weeks, and they love it!
I have two CalDigit TS3+ docks (home and office). At home, I have a 4k monitor in the display port and a Thunderbolt 27" plugged into the TB3 port using an adapter. My previous dock couldnt handle the 27" at all, so I had to plug that in directly to the Mac. Usually when I needed to wake the machine, I had to unplug both the doc and the 27", log in, and then plug them back in again. Now with the CalDigit, it just works. It's also like $300, so I guess TB3 is hard and they know it =)

I am still on Mojave tho, so may suck on Catalina.
FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021 [pdf]
We've received over one million responses to trivia questions at Water Cooler Trivia now, and we've learned some interesting things-- including 84 different spellings of Amelia Earhart.

-Collin, co-founder of Water Cooler Trivia
From my use in London, out of Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Citymapper, I've found Citimapper to be the worst.

They're all basically working with the exact same data, but I find Apple Map transit directions to be the easiest to use, providing I'm in one of the limited cities it supports.
The most popular third party software installation tool for MacOS is called Homebrew. Alcoholics exist. That doesn't make the name offensive.

Amphetamines have legitimate therapeutic uses, it's not only crippling addiction.
> Redactions can be made only by authorized entities and under speciﬁc constraints ...

This makes the network essentially centralized. Why not just use a db that is cheaper?
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2012-jun-30-la-sci-tom... (Why supermarket tomatoes tend to taste bland [2012])
How do we know this isn't a great flippening event? It will take the West years to recover - we haven't even started. East Asia is up and running.

We only started forcing (politely) people to self isolate. That's right, in NYC there are still crowds, and cops aren't able to keep people apart. Polite communitarianism.
"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Submitted title was "Amazon is not as elastic as we had hoped")
Every other company maintains two apps, here there is already an existing app.
Ask HN: How to stop making obvious errors
It seems no matter what I consistently make obvious errors. Yet if I double check I often miss these errors. Simple things like spelling errors I can look right at an not notice until the next day.

If I look at the code, doc or email a day or two later it's obvious to me. But I could not spot it while doing the work.

I desperately need and want to overcome this.

Have any of you experienced this and found a way to better your self?
Welcome to Death Dimension
While grocery stores are essential, any individual employee is not. These are not skilled positions. Grocery store employees can and should be easily replaced. The alternative is the potential for a group of unskilled laborers to hold our nation's food supply hostage at time when many people who are out of work would gladly take their place. If they don't feel safe working right now, go home. Someone else will. Doubling their pay during a crisis won't make them any safer.
Wax paper uses synthetic wax (or silicone for parchment paper), which might as well be plastic.
A related article is https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/15/21180737/amazon-deliverie...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22742054, but no thread there)
That's because Google is an ad company while Apple is a hardware company.
> Unix doesn't put a strong emphasis on protocols. It just says "everything is text, except when it's not". It's not very helpful.

OK, I probably misspoke by claiming it put an emphasis in protocols, but I think it's fair to say that Unix does emphasize component integration by sharing data instead of trying to integrate through a common runtime.

I do think that having everything be (mostly) text is helpful though. It's true that the data formats are often poorly specified, but that is compensated for by the fact text is a format that has a very rich set of tooling. text editors, regular expressions, parser-generators, etc. all make it possible to capture, analyze, and manipulate the text data exchanged.

Perhaps a better example of protocol-based integration would be the internet. It has it's flaws as well, but it's also enabled collective engineering projects on a vast scale.
Yes they are all lined with BPA or equivalent, to protect the can from corrosion.
If it's pandemic, the infected workers have to be sent home to avoid infecting others. This is actually even more important for the essential workers. Otherwise you end up with them all off sick at once.
Bold how many people here are licking those corona-infected boots.
Embedding Python 2 inside of Python 3 (or vice-versa) is not very hard to do on Linux. Simply `dlmopen` the .so in a new linker namespace and write a little bit of bridging code to interface the two object layouts.

Python has a very rich runtime, so there are some tricky problems to solve if you want this to be perfect. e.g., circular references between the GCs. However, there are simplifying assumptions that can dramatically reduce the difficulty, and these assumptions might not significantly hinder the language-upgrade use-case.

We've known about this approach to embedded interpreters for a couple of years, but we've not found a sufficiently compelling use-case for anyone to develop it beyond a simple proof-of-concept.

In general, it seems like there most compelling use-case for inter-language interfaces is writing core libraries in something fast, (mostly) runtime-free, and portable, especially for codes that no one wants to write twice.

Though I spend most of my time writing codes in slow, rich runtime languages, I've been on the lookout for a better technology to replace C. There are quite a few interesting options, and some have even less of a runtime than (dynamically-linked) C!
Three problems with your analogy:

First, the cop who gave you access didn't have the right to use it in the way they offered. They don't own the data. The "right" they're delegating to you isn't a lawful right they actually have to delegate.

This is a really big difference -- the problem in the scenario you propose isn't that a police company got hacked (in fact, I would argue it didn't). The problem is the police department illegally abused information and distributed that information to other people, and you willingly participated in that crime.

In contrast, all of the data access that was delegated to Power Ventures and all of the stuff that Power Ventures did with that data was stuff that users had the right to do.

Second problem, this would be illegal because of privacy laws around how the police are allowed to use your data, not because a company declared it so. I'm not saying you should have carte blanch privileges to violate any law just because another person violated that law first, I'm saying companies shouldn't have carte blanch privileges to make new laws.

To re-emphasize the point above, the problem in this scenario isn't that the police department got hacked. The problem is that people were performing illegal background checks. If the police officer didn't give you a password, and instead just did whatever background checks you wanted on their own without you ever touching the system, this would still be a crime. The system access isn't the important part.

Third, in the scenario you propose, both you and the cop would get in trouble. Hopefully, the cop would get in even more trouble than you. So when Facebook brings every user who "illegally" shared their password into court, then I'll entertain the notion that they think this is a real hacking case. Otherwise, why are we comfortable letting off all these willing accomplices to an unlawful entry case?
If they can make a durable touchscreen keyboard with a good click sound and feel and reasonable key travel and resistance, and that doesn't get crudded up with skin oils and food film, I'm willing to pay big bucks for it.
I'm a security engineer for a regional health system that includes 4 hospitals and numerous clinics. This is absolutely true and so much worse.
I was dragged into a bridge line with Cerner and had to explain to one of their System Engineers how to create a certificate. I had to walk him through everything. I've seen other vendors install EMS solutions that left very insecure intranet portals open to the world. I've found vulnerabilities in software and technology stacks, made a case with the vendor only to have them deny it and then attempt to make changes without notification. It seems rampant.
no, to clarify, apple has been using the weather channel (exclusively, i believe) for weather info across its ecosystem. you can't get integrated weather info on apple devices (iphone, watch, etc.) without it (you can download other apps but they wouldn't integrate with the OS).

i'd be super happy if they switched to the national weather service, but absent that, dark sky is more privacy preserving than the weather channel (who reportedly sell location data, for example).
Changed from https://www.thoughtlytics.com/redirect/curiosity-framework. Thanks!
Perhaps this video will answer your question. I was also shocked to learn this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQHFQoFoxvQ
I recommend chard (a.k.a. Swiss chard, beets bred to produce a lot of greens instead of large roots). Chard is expensive and hard to find in shops because it has short shelf-life once harvested, and because you need to harvest individual leaves as it grows instead of cutting the whole plant at once. But it's easy to grow, and the drawbacks are no problem to a home gardener.
A history of breaking dev environments? I'd argue they have a history of breaking everything on release. I do agree that they have a history of stablizing after a few months, but it's been longer than that.
We're not planting because we fear shortages now, but independent of our current predicament there's a nagging feeling in the back of our minds that there _could_ be shortages in our lifetime (most likely climate induced, directly or indirectly) and the time to learn is now, not when the shelves are empty.

Also, it's fun and gets us away from screens for a day.
Complicated way to say clutch
some of those countries have smaller populations than some US municipalities, of which there are many wealthy ones to cherrypick data from.
Tangential topic, but does anyone have a good no-nonsense evidence based source for how to make bread and/or sourdough?

I've been trying sourdough and it's crazy how many contradictory pieces of advice and explanations you read e.g. if the yeast comes from the initial flour or air, what ratio of flour + water to feed it with, how many times a day you feed the starter, how many times you let the dough prove. It generally indicates to me that the process is very forgiving though (as so many variations work).

I would have thought most myths would have been put to bed by now as it should be relatively easy to run cooking experiments if you want to debunk something.
It takes minimum 1 acre of land to feed an adult. Small gardens make sense for things that are needlessly expensive, like mint, basil, etc...

If you have a backyard, the least effort - highest output thing you can plant is a fruit tree.
KDE connect made plugging my phone into my computer basically obsolete, at least for me.
I think this is an excellent comment when taken by itself.

As a defensive human however, I think it assumes something about my original comment that is not there.
I hope this won't mean that DuckDuckGo has to stop using them as a weather provider.
You are being downvoted because this is an extreme position, but you back it up with reasoning and I believe it deserves to be heard.
Same here. It's been the best weather app I've used. I'm not one to get pissed off like this on the internet but I'm heated!

Is there any alternative?
They use a thin plastic liner to prevent reaction with the Aluminum. These will burn off when the Al is melted for recycling.

Great video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQHFQoFoxvQ
I empathize with the workers, but isn't striking while there are >3 million people out of work a bad idea? Whole Foods could fire the strikers and replace them. It's not like they need particularly rare skills, just about any of the current jobless could take a shift.
>My car has onboard voice controls, but, unlike Siri via the car's audio system, they suck

Using Siri is more dangerous than driving and texting:

"Undistracted drivers typically showed a one-second reaction time. Those who used the voice-controlled Apple CarPlay saw a 36% increase in their reaction time, which rose to 57% when they used the touch interface."

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/03/20/new-study-shows-u...

Touchscreens should be banned in cars. I bought my car without any for that reason.
#5 Is very true, but also remember that outrage that the online masses finds particularly true and relatable gets signal boosted more.
Just a heads-up, that link is broken.
It may be similar, but it is implemented very differently, in exactly the "so can always work on unmodified structures" sense.

Trait objects are a double pointer: one to the vtable, and one to the data. C++'s dynamic dispatch uses a single pointer to a structure that has the vtable and the data. The memory layouts are very different.
No, this definitely sounds like the baker's version of broscience to me. Anecdotally, our starter is a few months old and makes excellent bread.
Literally from the yeast in the air?

The article acknowledges you can get it from the air but raises two objections: it takes five days to do so and a new sourdough starter doesn't have the full classic sourdough taste.

Ok? It still makes bread work.

It's a little sad to see a reporter using FUD to obscure one of the ingredient sources that literally can't be hoarded, and pushing people toward visiting their local pizza shops or whatever instead of staying in isolation.
Is there a way to mechanize berry harvesting? The time involved in picking them is pretty substantial, at least for this amateur. We picked buckets and buckets of blackberries last year, and had a great time doing it, but it was many hours with the family outside. If I charged my hourly rate for that it would've made for some pricey berries.
This article talks about using dials for climate control. I have a 2019 CR-V and it still uses dials for that.
List of RISC-V Cores, SoC platforms and SoC chips available
Very cool but the WASD keys do not work on Firefox. Arrow keys work fine though!

edit: it suddenly started working after I switched to a different tab, and then back to the raycast's tab.
If it is inaccurate, please provide well-sourced corrections. I have no desire to spread incorrect or misleading information.
>Why aren't those employees fairly compensated

They are, otherwise they wouldn't have agreed to work there. Not one person who works for Whole Foods is employed by force.
Yeah https://pillarplus.com is working now. The www redirect still down though.
You just said that a diversity hire is anyone who is female or an under-represented minority. I think this comment is what you meant to say. Explicitly, if a candidate is a female or an under-represented minority, AND they do not stack up to standards.
Would you use it instead of the on-camera flash, or in addition to?