skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you’re saying there should be a three-level consumer standard where the third level excludes any possible consumer product? Please don’t pretend that Apple and Zoom’s approaches are equivalent here. There is a substantial difference that deserves to be acknowledged. Anyone whose threat model includes Apple subverting their own security architecture shouldn’t be using any communication platforms.
Agreed, this is simply not an issue in the US.

Our banking system here is backwards in many ways, but the rigamarole described here just doesn't happen. US companies are much better about separating people from their money efficiently, I guess.
Nim 1.2
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

>higher viral loads associated with severe clinical outcomes
Apple underestimates the intelligence of it's professional users.
I don't like that people got laid off, but I can't muster a lot of sympathy specifically for an former gawker employee. Down with outrage clickbait!
Convalescent Plasma to Treat Covid-19
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200320192755.h...

I actually thought viruses lived forever, but I was wrong. The paper linked in this article says 1 day on cardboard, 3 days on plastic.
Just as background, I've been doing yoga and meditation for decades. I think the phenomena that people experience as "subtle energy" are interesting and are worth investigating. But my best guess is that these are purely internal phenomena. As eusocial primates with poor internal perception, it's easy for us to mistake internal phenomena as objective. For example, people who think they know what God wants -- who are great in number! -- turn out to be perceiving aspects of their own minds: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/creating-god-i...

With that, to your question:

> What if there are some things where scientific objectivity and scientific method breaks down, and is incapable of exploring?

Then that's a thing you can demonstrate. People are quite regularly proving that existing methods break down. Look at relativity, for example. The Michelson–Morley experiments started in the 1880s. Einstein didn't publish key work until 1905, and the revolution he started took a long time to play out.

You can find similar things happening with germ theory, which forced a revolution in medical practice. Or more recently, with figuring out the true cause of ulcers. Sure, there were a lot of nominally objective jerks who pushed back against these things, defending a failed orthodoxy. That approach does break down. But that's not the only thing going on. If it were, Einstein and the ulcer guy wouldn't have ended up with Nobel prizes.

Science isn't some incomprehensible activity. It's just a formalization of what we do every day, which is come up with ideas about how the world works and then put those ideas to the test.

In fact, you're doing it now. If you want to propose a framework that makes sense of phenomena, as you're doing here, then you don't get to stop half way. "Subtle energy" is one way to explain it. It's clearly useful to people in certain contexts. But there are all sorts of things like that. For example, people naively expect light things to fall slower than heavy things. Feathers fall slower than bowling balls, for example. There are all sorts of principles in naive physics [1] that are honestly not that bad. The same is true for folk medicine. An apple a day doesn't keep all doctors away, but it isn't a bad place to start.

So my issue with what you said isn't that you talk about "subtle energy". It's that you are casting a locally useful approximation as a universal truth. And you're doing that without acknowledging the gap or being willing to do the work. Our understanding of, say, thermal energy is the result of many lifetimes of dedicated, thoughtful work. If you want the power of objective fact, you have to earn it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_physics
Seems like it could be done safely...

Remove X bit and add write bit.

Patch.

Remove write bit and add X bit.

Tricky part: If you get a protection fault trying to jump there, spin until the X bit is re-added.

So yeah. That is going to be a hefty performance cost to write.
I think over the coming weeks, we're going to see just how much of the "essential" part of the economy depends on the "non-essential" part.

For example, a comment in one of these postings on HN was talking about how the manufacture of essential supplies was continuing and robust (even I've made a similar comment some time ago). But... ok... how much of the logistics capacity, the capacity of hauling those essential products from the factory to the final buyer is being impacted? And it's not just trailer cubic feet availability that's at issue... it's are those containers available in the right place at the right time? Greater cubic feet available for essential products in fewer overall containers is still a potential major problem. I have to think that a fair portion of the common carriers are dependent on a mix of "essential" and "non-essential" goods for their business and that some of these common carriers are marginal even during the "good times". Fewer trucks/trains/drivers/etc, mean that getting a truck scheduled to a loading dock on a timely basis is harder, even if available cubic feet for essential goods has risen. If my speculation holds, manufacture of essential goods will be robust, but there will still be shortages at the stores and for buyers simply because shutting down the non-essential has reduced available containers and the bottleneck has shifted to inventory logistics. I can repeat this sort of thing for many different parts of the economy; I went to get a replacement part for a computer keyboard... the company's website said they were closed under county order as a non-essential business.... yet food producers still need to use their computers to ensure they can monitor available shelf-life, etc.

When we see broad pronouncements from politicians and bureaucrats talking about not shutting down essential businesses, I wonder if they appreciate how interconnected the modern economy is and that it doesn't simply break down into "essential" and "non-essential". Perhaps this sort of thing is why I so distrust those that would embrace economic central planning.
> most middle-to-lower-class families

Citation needed
They didn't criticize the program, they responded to a post that stated a fact about SNAP and made an apparently associated representation It seems like largely the US has been and will continue to keep people fed.

Saying SNAP isn't enough is pretty clearly a response to the representation.
Resolved, meaning permanently offline.
I wasn't aware of this one yet.

Though... it seems it has plenty of issues as well, see the comments on pubpeer:
https://pubpeer.com/publications/71E74AD5896DCF99981A47917DE...

In the trials registry [1] this was registered as a three arm trial with 100 patients each, so 300 overall. Yet the paper mentions ony two groups with 31 patients each. That alone looks very dubious...

[1] http://www.chictr.org.cn/showprojen.aspx?proj=48880
Eugene and K Falls - good representation of the two extreme poles of Oregon. My daughter just got a room a couple blocks from your old haunt, assuming UO opens up again...
"Insights in these reports are created with
aggregated, anonymized sets of data from
users who have turned on the Location
History setting, which is off by default. People
who have Location History turned on can
choose to turn it off at any time from their
Google Account and can always delete
Location History data directly from their
Timeline." Hmm Interesting
Zoom works using the web browser but it's using dark patterns several times to allow you to have the Join via browser option in tiny text...
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Can anyone who's read this comment on how useful it is for learning the concepts themselves vs. historical context and Lamport's biography?
> ... $500/mo in benefits for a family of three. This is definitely sufficient to provide three nutritious meals per day for three people anywhere in the country.

This is an unbelievable assertion.

That’s $5.48 per meal for 3 people. Have you tried to feed 3 people a consistently nutritious meal on $5.48 per meal everywhere in the country? What is your nutritious meal plan for 3 meals each day, 365 days per year, that doesn’t exceed $500 everywhere in the country? What are the ages and average caloric needs of each of the 3 people in this hypothetical family? How do you maintain $500/mo when, presumably, at least 1 member of the family’s caloric needs will change over time.

I’d love to see the meal plan that works for 2 adults and 1 child for $500/mo, for 18 years, everywhere in the country.

How do you handle snacks with $500/mo—do you just tell people tough luck, you only get to eat at specific mealtime? How do you compensate for the increased caloric need of a child who regularly engages in sports and physical activity—do you just tell them to stay hungry, or tell them they can’t engage in such activities?
The cost of rigorous consumer protections is sometimes monetary.

I have this discussion with European friends regularly: No, I don't automatically get a three-year warranty on everything I buy. I don't even want such a thing, sometimes. And in return I pay much less for everyday items.
Even in small restaurants there's almost always a sous or junior. Sure, the chef is more likely to pitch in, but they still don't do all the prep. They did their time working their way up the ladder already.
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All this. At a minimum the head of the company or some C-level should have delivered this message themselves, with video on.

Let employees have a way to contact each other for a while, so they can network for their next job, or at least say goodbye.
Considering that the primary force on my body is gravity, I wonder whether these gene expression mechanisms underlie weight control...or rather more specifically, my body's stubborn refusal to change weight downward.
Hi CAMEO, does the REMOTE in the description mean that I can apply from South America?
The vast majority of users expect the microphone and camera to be "off" when they are not using them regardless of the position of the lid.
I feel his pain.

I emigrated to Canada from Australia, and it was exceptionally hard for me to get a credit card. Apparently no credit rating is the same as the very worst credit rating. It also took time to get paperwork like a drivers license and SIN number (a bit like an SSN), and without those there was no chance. I had to go a few years without one, and the number of things I couldn't do without one was immensely frustrating.

Visa debit sounds great, but I find it doesn't work for a ton of transactions that want a credit card.

In the end I had to put $1000 into a special locked-in account that I couldn't touch before the bank would issue me a $1000 credit card.
The pattern I’ve fallen into with m4 is to have a preamble that sets up whatever definitions I’m going to need, redefine the quotes “backwards”, and then place a copy of the new close quote on its own line to start the main body of the file. It then acts very similarly to how you describe templating languages, where you mark the parts that should be parsed instead of the parts that shouldn’t.
As a former firmware developer (not for Apple, for power generation) it has firmware its not a hardware solution.

We have automatic steam cutoffs that are entirely mechanical. I have built a state machine out of hardware logic that would have cost less than a dollar with a microprocessor but was preferred because it could be verified to work and not be remotely “upgradeable”.
Because it also distributes to all the devices I own so when I want to use my own data, I don't have to remember whether it's in the phone's store, the laptop's store, the tablet's store, and so on.
The DMA transfers 64-bit words per each bus clock cycle between the main shared memory (RDRAM) and the internal RSP 4K DMEM (or IMEM, to transfer code).

So it's quite fast, but you need to remember that the main RDRAM is shared among the main CPU and the whole RCP (eg: it's also used as video memory for textures and frame buffers by the RDP), so contention is really high.
It is, and that's how I use it, but we also find that computer in the category "horribly underpowered" category of devices that can run Mathematica.
> if you can pay the full balance every month then there's no reason to not use one

And if the alternative is using a debit card, then by definition you can pay the full balance every month, because the money has to be there in your bank account before you can spend it with the debit card anyway. It's the same money either way, the only difference is whether it comes out of your bank account in little increments over the month or in one big chunk when you pay your monthly bill.
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Thank you for your kind words.

Yes, it's my attempt at innovating. I hate updating nested HTML templates.
I wish there was a way to augment data as easily for free text, and other business data. I always see these few-shot learning papers for images, I suspect because it's easy to augment image datasets and because image-recognition is interesting to laypeople. The vast majority of data we deal with in business is text/numerical which is much harder to use in these approaches.
Coronavirus Means Everyone Wants Jigsaw Puzzles. Good Luck Buying One
I've long wondered what the real-world impact would be of a Carrington Event [0] in the 21st century. If we're underprepared for "black swan" pandemic events, I suspect we're even more so for solar flare / solar storm events, given that unlike the long history of pandemics, we have no historical precedent for severe solar storms since the dawn of electronic technology.

I'm almost entirely ignorant on this subject; but my fuzzy understanding is that the only data formats which are guaranteed to survive such an event are optical media, and "paper backups" such as this one. I'm very happy that the GitHub Arctic Code Vault now exists; for closed-source OS/infrastructural code, I'm curious if any major vendors have their own equivalents.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
That's a good calculation. Now compare that with the PR fall-out from their chosen approach.

What are the future losses from not being able to hire top candidates (and maybe even loss of business if customers start boycotting it), since obviously Bird is a shitshow of an employer?
This exists elsewhere as a temporary or seasonal layoff/furlough. Many companies are going to be shedding employees through "covid related" layoffs that are not in fact covid related. Perfect time for companies to restructure without bad press.
I agree it's pretty sensationalistic, and I almost ignored it for that reason. But it turns out that it's actually well worth a read if you can get past that one flaw.
Clearly, the criticism is not of meeting an objective it doesn't have but of not having the correct objective.
Surely anomaly detection is better done by a machine?

I guess there's a certain level of human "intuition" about these things but is this not what most banks anti-fraud systems do already?
I don't know that I entirely buy this. Okay, the masked I sewed myself out of an old shirt and some coffee filters isn't nearly as effective as an N95 mask, but is it really 0% effective? Surely it's better than nothing?
It’s not new, sadly. The phrase “snake oil” goes back to the 19th century but names a phenomenon going back millennia.
We have been wiping down and sanitizing any packages and contents that come to our door. Never assume someone else is doing the right thing, just like why you still look even when the light is green.
"per year" is the drug dealer of the software world. Adobe might be the biggest pusher, but Mathematica isn't far behind.
There is just one thing, that he has forgot about it. He feeds a huge survailance capitalism machine with his data. The horror is not where he envisions, the horror is in, f.i. google tracking all his expenses.

Not that they know who are your contacts (android contacts synced, gmail contacts, images uploaded,...), where you surf (googletags, google analytics), what you search (google search), what software you use (google play, google spyware framework,...), now they also know where you spend your money.

Now this is real horror.
Google appears to be best-of-industry in making the data they have about you both extractable and deletable.
When having sexual intercourse.

Probably not the answer you were expecting, however true as it is.
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>This code turned out to be a lot more complicated than I anticipated. The patch ended up adding a hundred lines of Arc. A hundred lines of Arc! Do you have any idea how many lines of Arc that is?

It's like a million!
Yes, but why would they bother? They're not their employees anymore. Better for it to be a single, atomic operation.
I like the optimism of imagining, in April of 2020, that the mild inconveniences of various payment systems will continue to qualify as "money horror"!
Stanford Health, Premier, Resilinc create medical supply exchange
Well, the other credit building options are much less accessible: mortgage, car, personal, etc loans. I would say credit card loans are the easiest/most accessible to individuals to start building their credit.
It's hard to argue this when (capital L) Libertarians are constantly marginalized and hold effectively no sway across every level of government. And the simplest measure of the size and health of government (spending) is at a record high.

This is compounded by the FDA/CDC: not only did they catastrophically fail to deliver on testing, they prohibited private companies from saving lives and providing testing, drugs, etc.
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Hi Peter. Seems like I just lost the H-1B lottery, what other options do I have to stay working in the USA (I'm currently on a J-1 visa)? I already have a master's degree, and would not like to go back to school. Thank you in advance.
The tweet doesn't mention covid-19, but if it's related maybe:

1. A patron's income is more directly affected, so he suddenly withdrew support.

2. Maybe they were teetering at the edge of financial viability and the onrushing recession will kneecap them in some way (maybe no one wants to advertise anymore, or something).
I moved from the UK to Germany about 18 months ago.

In the UK, credit cards are widely used but by no means universally owned.

In Berlin, quite a lot of places only take cash, and those which do take cards often only take debit. I don’t think I’ve even seen a single credit card advertised in the window of any high-street bank.
or a stargate ;)
Yes - the cuts went into effect two days ago on the first.
> I am skeptical. A test based on the sense of smell would have a very high amount of noise. There is no good, concrete measure of a person's sense of smell.

Parents with young children in diapers might disagree. I can think of one test that occurs consistently and is easy to validate.

(Joking aside, I do think about the fact that I can detect soiled diapers as evidence that I can still smell just fine!)
Show HN: TLDRs of 300 articles for developers
Hi,

Wanted to clarify that this is the summary article of the paper. I wrote it to help out people who might not have the math rigor and research background to understand research papers but would benefit from an intuitive explanation.

The actual paper is available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07685
See, all you need for job security is to create a recursive documentation procedure.
The author (who seems to use his cards in Germany) is most likely confused. The problem is not with debit cards vs. credit cards. Every terminal I've seen in Austria and Germany supports both (but see below). The problem is that Austrians, Germans, and perhaps other EU countries think that Mastercard/Visa means credit card, and Maestro/Giro/whatever means debit card. This is exacerbated by the fact that until very recently you couldn't even get a Mastercard/Visa debit card in Austria (1).

These terminals support Mastercard/Visa cards, plus more recently contactless. Mastercard debit cards certainly work.

Btw, if you are an american visiting these countries, and you want to pay with a debit card, when the cashier asks if you pay with a debit or a credit card, answer credit card. They don't care whether it's credit vs. debit, they need to know if it's Mastercard/Visa or the local crap card, to push the correct button on the PoS. If you answer debit, it will NOT work.

1. Austria recently started replacing Maestro cards with Mastercard debit cards... but they seem to be some kind of funny Mastercard cards, not "real" enough for these terminals (except in contactless mode)... But at least you can pay for your plane ticket.
not today but I used m4 in the late 80s to generate appropriate makefiles from a single source to allow me to compile my programs on HP-ux, Apollo Aegis, SunOS, AIX, etc. Happy days.
The people that run these organizations have an incentive to make this problem appear larger than it really is. I have never in my life seen in this country a starving person or a malnourished person for that matter and the government health statistics back me up. It is not a problem the U.S. has.
You need an N95 to reliably block incoming virus, and there's a shortage of these, but any mask or covering (even a homemade one) can drastically cut down on outgoing virus, which is particularly important for people like warehouse workers who have the potential to be super-spreaders.
I didn’t clarify that the tool needs to store the information so it can be imported into CAD, rather than just being hand scribbled lines and numbers.
Okay now try to eat like an actual human being and make it work for $500 over 30 days.

The dollar amount itself is fine, but SNAP should be supplemented with basic commodities. Beans, rice, flour, sugar. The prices for these when purchased at the volume of the federal government drop to near nothing.
Not a single reference to the actual creator of this model, John Boyd, a fighter pilot.
Americans are underestimating how long disruptions will last, health experts say
I mean, companies literally made rack mounts for Mac Minis, to install 6-8x of them at once in proper server racks. They didn't build this because no one was using it.
To add to your basics, don’t forget clothing and education. I think those are the 5 basics that are necessary to ensure every person can participate in society without fear or shame.
As a small sideline we've developed a new type of house that is CO2 neutral in materials over lifetime, low energy to passivhaus, very quick to build, and healthier to live in.

Designed for Nordic climates but insulates just as well if it's warm outside :)

The initial target was a modern starter house pattern, that could be expanded as the family grew, then split for renting out parts when the owners got old. It had to be cheaper, environmentally friendly, and healthier to live in.

As a bonus it has excellent fire resistance, and is very quiet.

It's fun to work with this kind of problem. Quite far from my normal projects. But holy hell, I didn't realise how truly broken the bureaucracy around construction is in many regions.
While I have no doubt that Redis is faster for slinging blobs around, that blog post is not great comparison of the technologies. Both Django ORM and Python psycopg2 driver are not performance oriented tools.