skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no problem with conspiracy theories, or people talking about them. What I do have a problem with is the general category of misinformation/conspiracy theories which hurt or endanger others. For instance, for every person who doesn't get a vaccination because they believe some of the anti-vaccination conspiracy theories, there is an immune-compromised individual who is being put into harm's way because of misinformation because they medically cannot receive the vaccine.

In the case of the coronavirus, we are dealing with a very dangerous global pandemic, and I personally think that this falls into the category of "misinformation can be very dangerous."
Do you have to use the wireguard client or could say the VPN stack in Windows be used to connect to a wireguard server?
> I'm sure the airlines did keep enough cash for an emergency fund, but every emergency fund comes with a model of what an emergency looks like, and for airlines what makes sense to cover is things like oil price increases or a recession that impacts demand for travel by a few percent, not an event like this that results in a 95% decline in demand due to government mandates; we don't want every large corporation hoarding a hundred billion dollars in cash, we want that cash available to invest elsewhere.

I would agree that an emergency fund likely would have still run out in this scenario, but I don't think that invalidates the idea of investing back in the business does it? It's just more that the caveat is debatable / easier said than done.

> And I don't really want corporations to be major leaders of philanthropic activities. Why them? Who are they accountable to? Why should I expect them to support good causes? I would rather see that money in the pockets of individuals who can decide what philanthropy to support, or in the pockets of a government whose philanthropy is accountable to voters.

Honestly fair point, I agree generally with who is allocating. I guess the question is how do you execute getting it in the hands of individuals or government for philanthropic purposes though? I wouldn't actually mind seeing a system for that where you can pay into a government controlled philanthropy fund that voters help allocate on ballots during voting but that type of system doesn't exist now, and getting it to individuals is typically limited to your employees which then just turns this into option 4 but with the likelihood that they money goes into other businesses instead of the original intended purpose.

This whole thing could just be a poll on the website or a matching campaign that customers engage with where they choose from a wide variety of sources. That's a major philanthropic activity by the business but then not allocated by the business itself, assuming the options are sufficiently ranging.
Tangentially, I wanted to run Jitsi Meet for some meetings and created an account on Digital Ocean, only for the account to be promptly locked with no access to a human for support...just automated replies rehashing the same text again and again for tickets saying that I could provide more information if I believed that was in error (with no responses after providing additional information). Now I'm looking at trying Linode. Any other provider recommendations are welcome.
I don't think that contemporary, high emotional arousal misinformation sources are harmless. I contend instead that the feeling of superiority and constant novelty of conspiracy theories lead to a dopamine-addiction loop. Since novelty is one of the primary focal points of the human attention system, we are hijacked and conned by these systems. This is why high-anger television (Fox News) has ads for gold and reverse mortgages. Turn off the ability to fight, make them angry, then when the cognitive defenses are turned off, take them for what they are worth.

Misinformation and the hole that leads into it are not harmless, and lead to mental degradation and emotional trauma.
“I'm Going Crazy” Quarantine Music Video Starring Cats
If the public wouldn't buy airlines stock because of "bankruptcy risk" then why was Carnival Cruise Lines able to raise more than $6bn in debt and equity recently?
https://blog.torchnyu.com/

And no, you should not read it if you're a professional developer. The point of this blog is to give info that any professional would think is patently obvious, but also not common knowledge for CS students.

I spent my first few years complaining about the mediocrity of my school's CS majors. I'm hoping that by writing these posts at least one or two people can be more prepared for real world software development.
On the other hand, there are so many opportunities for experimental design limiting the applicability of results in mental health experiments, that sample size and distribution doesn't even begin to touch on it. Bottom line: getting a meaningful result that is widely applicable is a horrendously complex undertaking.
"I can’t imagine having my identity so wrapped in Trump losing the election that I would be hoping for hundreds of thousand dead and the failure of the American health care system"

No one celebrates the extraordinary and unending failures of this administration. We protest it. We argue against it. We see a horrendous rise of idiocracy as people celebrate their own incredible ignorance and hate.

That it's bad for you doesn't make it "good" for us.

If a miracle cure was discovered today and not a single extra person died, that will never undo the raw criminality, and total, complete incompetence of the Trump administration.

That Jared Kushner has a role greater than mail room is a fucking travesty. Hey, but what about her emails, right?

"Did the news about the death counts flattening and missing projections by a lot today bum you out?"

Social distancing works. This surprises positively no one. Your orange buffoon, however, wants to stop social distancing. Maybe there's some miracle snake oil he can pitch and everything will be great again.

Go back to Twitter. Go back to your insular echo chamber. Your trolling, copy-paste noise just makes you look like a clown here.
https://www.conradakunga.com/blog/

Blogging out of Nairobi on software development and in particular C#, F#, Powershell and databases. One of the best ways to learn something well is to write about it.
They already have a policy to ban accounts that incite violence. (Which might have happened, the article doesn't say..)

>"Information" that's not only going to get people killed but also is factually wrong is definitely fair game IMO.

We don't want an advertising company in a capitalist society deciding that. That's the whole point.
'The impossible has already happened': what coronavirus can teach us about hope
Preprints on Covid-19 that have been supported or contradicted
https://danishpraka.sh/

Writing about things I'm interested in, mostly Vim, Go, Make and book reviews.
It would have been impossible for the train not to have stopped between Hungary and Yugoslavia — the two countries were not at particularly friendly terms.

Other than the border check (which might have been a more stringent random check), was your visit otherwise unpleasant?
It's very predictable that we'll have major market downturns for various reasons every 10 or 20 years because of history. If you are 25 years old you've lived through 3. I'm older and I've lived through 5 or 6, depending on how you count.
Thanks for your kind words, I'm glad that you've found my articles useful :)
Petition: Temporarily extend the 60-Day H1B Visa Grace period to 180 Days
> I don't know that you would ever want to pay the memory hit that it would take to store the entire network in memory just to decompress images or video, nor the performance hit the decompression takes.

The big memory load wouldn't neccesarily be a problem for the likes of Youtube and Netflix - they could just have dedicated machines which do nothing else but decoding. The performance penalty could be a killer though.
They should fix looking up for things such as "clipboard.js" attempting to look up the domain and giving not found page. Chrome is smarter in this regard.
ok, so... what? The notion here is to take the compose file, which is basically saying "this is what I want the state of docker to look like", and turn it into a generic application specification that multiple orchestration engines can contribute to and use... And... How would this work? Are we gonna have this smorgasbord of definitions in compose now with a subset of each working on specific orchestration systems, or something? Because that would be completely useless.

So unless there genuinely is a commitment to being able to have each orchestration engine just unreservedly guaranteed take any definition possible in docker-compose and deploy it, then there is no value to be gained here. None. Without that guarantee, then for every system you attempt to deploy a compose file to, you must DEEP DIVE into its internals to understand its limitations and costs and tradeoffs.

This gigantic massive timesink of a process is something I have always had to do. And I always discover all kinds of things that would have absolutely blocked practical deployments. This is the real thing that's bothering me, not that k8s and azure and docker all can sorta read some subset of a configuration. I don't care at all about that. It's not useful.
I think it's normal to include a JIT as a specialised form of interpreter.
COVID19 Is a Before-and-After Moment in DigitalTransformation Via
I downvoted you because that's clearly not what's happening. A delusional person spreading lies and made up facts is not just disagreeing with a worldview.
A couple days ago in Long Beach, CA, USA, a train engineer derailed his train in an attempt to stop a medical ship which he believed was part of a government takeover. Conspiracies are all fun and games until a simpleton believes them and does something that hurts others.
I agree. There's not a chance that it will be enough to change practice at this early stage, but it will be interesting.
Would anyone want to join this Marketing WhatsApp Group?
Thank you for that. More helpful than the acerbic review.
Because Saudi Arabia bought a lot of that equity. Not who I want being a majority (EDIT: s/majority/substantial) owner in my country's airlines if they need a bailout; have the US Treasury own them.

https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabias-sovereign-weal...
scs@cd
it is but it solves the distribution problem. golang aimed to solve the same problem by compiling to a single statically linked binary and it was one of its biggest selling points. i feel docker blunted this part considerably, but it also benefited it nevertheless: development environments, shipping runable packages with assets, etc. is easier when you literally have to only do docker run whatever.
The use of psychiatric techniques as torture is the history of psychiatry. This is not some petty joke or argumentative stance.

Do you think that Henry Cotton was a problem of political ethics? Supposedly his reputation and political status were so high in his society that patients and their families actively asked for their teeth, gallbladders, ovaries, testes, tonsils, ... to be spuriously removed.

Edit: I mean to say that serious contemplation of the risks and benefits of any medical interventions should always be taken seriously regardless of how severe a medical problem might seem or how exciting a miraculous new cure might appear to be. Most miraculous cures not only don't 'work', but also caused serious harm to their subjects throughout the history of psychiatric medicine.
https://www.gkogan.co/blog/ <- Notes and lessons learned about startup growth, especially enterprise software startups.

Haven't been publishing as often as I'd like, but the few things I've published were well received on HN.
SoftBank should hold out until WeWork crumbles under the weight of their terrible business model and the current crisis, then purchase their real estate assets for pennies on the dollar.
Do all the other popular browsers, like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge (the new one) and Brave, also support this?
> The 5G thing on the other hand is something that a lot of people think is probably dangerous, whether they're conspiracy theorists or not.

If you think 5G is dangerous, and that there's a conspiracy to harm the public through wanton disregard for public health, you are a conspiracy theorist, it's just a matter of degree.
> All that is needed is a weighting factor between the two loss functions

Assuming this is sarcasm. If not, it’s an employment guarantee for litigators.
It was certainly no crystal pepsi.
You have to use the Wireguard client. In that regard it's similar to OpenVPN.

Wireguard uses a custom protocol that isn't supported by Windows' built-in VPN client. Most OSes only natively support IPsec/L2TP or PPTP.
I've recently been looking into community detection for NetworX graphs for my collection of notes. How does performance compare with other community detection packages for NetworkX like Python-Louvain?
you can already share your desktop in zoom
Hm, I think there's a difference between disagreeing with 'worldviews' and repeating provable lies that cause actual damage.

The whole 'intellectual dark web' was built around the idea that 'every idea is worth discussing', even though it so happens a lot of the 'ideas' presented have been debunked a million times over, and the proponents usually ignore the data disproving their 'theories'.

Personally, I think the biggest damage the internet has done to the world is allowing anyone to parrot insanely stupid anti-science positions unchecked. There's no good solution to that problem, but it is important to be reminded that just because a problem doesn't have a good solution, it doesn't mean it's beyond the realm of ethics.
The catch seems to be managing all the different data that isn't comparable, but should be.

Like every logistics organization does something some weird way (carrier, client, end customer, everyone's accounting...), they're sure it is the right way, and then the next one does it the "right way" another way and now nothing is a 1:1 ;)

Lots of old / skewed / strange practices that requires a lot of unexpected maintenance / changes. It's easy to end up swimming in a lot of bad / not equivalent data.
Here is a short interview with comedian Neal Brennan about his personal experiences with (40 30-minute sessions) of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. He says it was more effective and longer lasting than Ketamine Therapy or Zoloft. He was able to stop taking Zoloft.

https://youtu.be/vB9DHMOiojE

This is an excerpt from a longer interview about his depression:

https://youtu.be/FfsUxrGmbdU
I've never tried it, but from memory I think you can run .NET Framework under Wine, which presumably you could put in a container.

But honestly, I think your time would be better spent moving it to .NET Core. I've moved a few big apps, and while I wouldn't class it as "easy", it wasn't really that difficult, more time consuming that anything.
Training the model is extremely expensive computationally, but using it often isn't.

For example, StyleGAN takes months of compute-time on a cluster of high-end GPUs to train to get the photorealistic face model we've all seen. But generating new faces from the trained model only takes mere seconds on a low-end GPU or even a CPU.
People are entitled to form their own opinions, even and in particular on vaccinations. They own their body after all.
Documents are for line workers. Past middle management, no one has the patience for that level of information density.
On OS X 10.9 (which I'm running), I use CamTwist (v3.0) for this. I have no idea if CamTwist also works in modern macOS, but probably worth a try.

http://camtwiststudio.com/
> WeWork is renting so many square feet

WeWork is big. CRE is huge. WeWork is not even among the top ten largest lessees in America.
Is there any way to find most Favorited items on HN ?
Ran through some numbers from their S1's and Harvard Business School's anaylsis. By mid Q3 they'll be out of cash at their current burn with no new money, given their 2020 obligations.
> It's obvious that buy-backs are basically a hack for struggling companies to sacrifice long-time gains for short-term posturing.

No, I don't think that's obvious. Buy-backs are used that way, sometimes, but they're also used by companies that are doing well to return some money to the shareholders.

Why would they do that, when they could just issue dividends? I can see at least two reasons. First, dividends require one transaction per stock owner, whereas buying stock has much less overhead. Second, dividends create an expectation that you're going to continue to issue them, which is an expectation you may not wish to create.

Given that issue with your starting position, I don't think your conclusions are valid.
Coronavirus: What India can learn from the deadly 1918 flu
If you like old soviet tech then this channel might appeal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvvFI9XEW1w

Lengthy reviews of soviet consumer electronics, in one of the most ASMR sounding voices I've heard (subs available)
I tried to do some back of the napkin math.

- According to their financial reports, they burned through $1.4B in Q4 and they ended 2019 with $4.4B in "cash and commitments".

- The $4.4B number is comprised of $1.3B in cash, $2.2B in LOCs from SoftBank that they can draw against, $800M in Restricted Capital, and $100M in money owed to it by another company from a joint venture.

- Given their burn rate, it's likely that they're actually out of actual cash now and can probably survive for another 4-5 months by drawing down their LOCs.

- However, that assumes revenues remain constant, which they're not - tenants are canceling due to both Covid-19 as well as concerns about WeWork's financial viability.

Realistically, they have until maybe the end of June?
wow this looks good. I will have to try this with my daughter. Thank you for sharing.
Toastmasters is needlessly cult-ish and bureaucratic. It's like freemasonry for public speaking.
Strawman aside...

“Hate speech” is a very loose term. Do you mean actual calls to incite violence? Which are illegal and no one has any problem with their removal? Or do you mean “things I just don’t like”? Because HN already has a strong bubble mechanic to remove wrong-think (in practice right now!)

“I disagree with you” or “I’m wildly wrong” isn’t typically against a website’s terms of service. Is this looney guy being wrong about 5G calling for violence? Is his opinion illegal in anyway? Can you see no scenario (past your own nose) that your opinion ever winds up on the “wrong side” of corporate judgment?

Furthermore, if you’re just going to kick people off your platform because they’re wrong, you had better not selectively enforce that. Seems like it’s best to just be a PLATFORM. Which is exactly what they all claim to be. Except they do it while enjoying PUBLISHER convenience of removing things they just don’t like but are otherwise within the rules and terms.
You're postponing the inevitable. .NET 5 is .NET Core.
https://annihilatormodule.com

I'm a grad student, I just started this blog last week so there is not much content here yet. I plan on writing mostly about my current research and other random topics. Topics I have in my drafts folder mostly pertain to the intersection between cryptography, cybercrime, and smart contracts.
What is your pricing?

Also, can the resulting page be customized with company identity and/or hosted under own domain name? E.g. workdna.company.com
How would the "if this program halts then run forever, else halt" algorithm work on a real computer? I imagine it would fail with stack overflow.
5g isn't alien technology. It was developed over years by engineers and technicians. Did any of those folks show symptoms of 5g poisoning?
Wiregaurd uses its own protocol.

There is a wire guard client for Windows.
Here is what an expert in the field said, in my reference:

„When we think about the relative danger of this new coronavirus and influenza, there’s just no comparison,“ William Schaffner, a vaccine expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told Kaiser Health News (KHN). „Coronavirus will be a blip on the horizon in comparison. The risk is trivial.“

I guess we can both agree it turned out not to be that small of a blip.

> "Experts" tend to hedge and use inconclusive language, because that is correct.

Well, clearly not all of them used inconclusive language. Furthermore, if your "expert opinion" is inconclusive and hedged against all possibilities, it may be honest, it may be correct, but it is also useless.

Anybody with literally zero expertise on the topic could've told you that "Coronavirus is bad, but at this point in time we don't have a clue what is going on, nor do we know what is going to happen, so let's do nothing for now". That is, of course, paraphrasing the CDC and its experts.
They weren't right, they were just doing their usual shtick: weave panic narratives. The only reason they were 'right' because it so happens COVID-19 is actually pretty bad. But if you go and check their history of 'predictions' I bet everything in my savings account they've predicted a thousand 'tragedies' before and none of them came to pass.

In other words: even a broken clock is right twice a day, that doesn't mean it's working.
Their revenue should shrink by massive margins, as a start all temp rental agreements month to month are gone. Did they even have 50% long term rental? Their main hope is survive until this goes away, then wait for step 2, startups and entrepreneurs need their space, in bulk. Those are not happening for many months in total.
i've been doing python for 15+ years now and docker is one of the best things to happen to it, possibly it's saving grace in server side software. deployment and dev env setup used to be brutal.
Adafruit has some kits that are probably perfect for this, if you're cool with thermal

It would also be fun to have a thermal printer camera like that one that was going around a few years ago.

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/1289

[2] https://learn.adafruit.com/instant-camera-using-raspberry-pi...
It's being worked on:

Tobi Lutke (Shopify CEO) has put out a $10,000 bounty for cross platform virtual camera for OBS

- https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1242641154576965634

- https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2568

- https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/15

via dashesyan https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22749401
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Nice! I like there's a ready-to-use command line utility.

I think it'd benefit from a refactor to actually allow real-time streaming from stdin.

Do you have any hints how to choose timestamp units and how that affects parameters I should choose?
No, I believe you have the option of not watching his content, not replying to it, and generally allowing others to be as wrong as they would like to be. Unless someone is forcing your to interact with him... are they?

That isn’t the topic of an ad hominem however. Saying “he’s been kicked in the head too many times” is.
learning Adobe After Effects, Premier, and Animate are on my list. I use to use Flash quite a bit back in 2002.
Could you not make the same argument about many politically divisive questions? Medicare for all, climate change, etc.
No. Icke has serious mental health issues and promotes ridiculous conspiracies like all government leaders are reptile aliens. I'm not making this up, this is what he actually believes and promotes.
Diverse background can be your main advantage. Supercharge it this quarantine
I have been a bit weary of the WireGuard hype for much the same reason. Surely kernel mode is (a) the equivalent of running as root (b) opens up greater attack surface by virtue of running at kernel level
In that case, "The Weekly World News" has a lot of corrections to issue.