skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More accurately, extra bits are added to the transmitted stream so that bit errors in the received signal can be corrected.
I guess the shocking simplicity is part of the appeal
You (and others in this thread) are way, way underestimating the cost of configuration options in software used by lots of people. There's the cost of having to support that huge fractal in the code. And there's the cost of things being broken for users who don't understand the options and broke things for themselves. Configuration options are bad news for software not intended exclusively for technical users.
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Ah this explains so much! We were having a lot of trouble having meetings with more than 5 people. Nobody here uses chrome (for good reasons.)
I see is as a sort of expertise threshold. It's not for you if you don't get it, but if you do there's lots to discuss. It's what relevance used to be without marketing.
Yep, or to state it in AnimalFarm terms:

If cardinality(pigs + sheep) > cardinality(work horses), the truth will be downvoted.

In software, the work horses need to be more proactive and not give up what is theirs.
Any thought of writing a WaPo, NYT, etc. editorial? With an idea this potentially impactful and your credentials, seems like you'd have a good shot of being accepted.
"not always enough" is still better than "none". This feels like a classic "good being the enemy of the perfect" issue.
This was a key textbook in an incredibly useful rhetoric class I took as an undergraduate that influences my writing to this day.
You're supposed to investigate those before you use them.
I'm late to the comment party but I wanted to say our hope might just be better treatment (and not a vaccine). Covid-19 doesn't have to fatal as long as hospitals _don't_ use their standard protocol. Here's what I mean: https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_...
And I can't for the life of me even understand what the purpose is! The URL bar already had a very noticeable focus state outline. Are there users who couldn't tell it was in focus?

People on reddit have been complaining about how the bookmarks bar is harder to access now. The developer response has been something to the effect of "it's only covering the bar by a few pixels, it's really not a substantial difference."

I'd be inclined to agree with the evelopers, except, what is the advantage of that trade-off? Sure, you're only making the bookmarks bar very marginally harder to use, but, it's still something, and if users aren't getting anything out of it in return... why do it?
Iran isn't particularly poor. Hardly anyone starves to death there. The real test will come when the virus hits places like refugee camps in Bangladesh.
they re probably not sequencing asymptomatic people's virus, it would require some specific expedition. it doesn't even sound hard or expensive

reply to @ajross:

how would they know someone is asymptomatic? afaik they are mostly testing people who have symptoms , and their contacts (who will have contracted the same , symptomatic strain)

I think in germany they did antibody testing, or PCR of swabs of people who mostly no longer had a live virus infection to sequence. also, it seems the idea has merit; and i havent read about any team looking for this specific method (identify gene deletions and tracing). It certainly doesn't hurt (and doesnt cost much) to try

btw sweden is doing a survey of live infections in stockholm, however i don't think that they sequence the viruses

to @danieltillet:

maybe post about it in reddit on r/covid19, some epidemiologists hang out there for the latest news
Oh good weekly 'hiring is broken' thread.

I was stuck in stages 2 and 4 ( anger and depression) of 'unable to land a faang(ish) job grief' for years and would make angry comments on this weekly thread.

I think I've made peace with it and I hope to be in stage 5 acceptance. I've been leetcoding every single day for last 3 months, 300 problems in I can hit my target of one easy and one medium with 1 hr goal. I hope to reach my target of 1 easy, 1 medium and 1 hard within one hr. I regret not doing this sooner.

Even if don't land a faag job, this process has led to me accept the process and make peace with it. I really don't care if hiring is 'broken', it is what it is, its an obstacle i need to overcome. Bring on 'trapping rain water' , 'describe one time you had conflict with your team' garbage. I am ready!!
No, you can't read the article because you never found the close button on the medium pop-up.
I though about it, as a workaround. But realistically:

- my base ram consumption is 2Gb, so it would make 5gb with the VM, giving me 3gb for: firefox, and IDE, thunderbird, telegram, stremio, libreoffice, nautilus, veracrypt, liferea, gnome calendar, keypass, dev tools such as linter/dev servers/formatters, tilix, veracrypt, youtube-dl, jupyter, other VM I use for work... Even if I don't use them all at the same time, that's not a lot real estate. It used to be enough. When I used sublime instead of vscode, didn't have 4 communications apps and so on. You gotta hand it to the electron community: their software do bring good features.

- The ergonomics would be terrible for certain softwares. For chat, it would be alright (no notification is ok with me), but for stuff like dynalist, I need to be productive

- It's slow to use. You can feel the reaction time with every action. Android is slow in itself, but in an emulator, you want chain too many actions
You can use a hammer to make a screw driver.
There are two good reasons to look things up on the internet:

1. Obviously, its faster. I, personally, get paid for results, not for how "clever" I am. (Which is good, 'cause I'm not very clever.)

2. Frequently, the answer on the internet is better/more complete/tested. Take implementing a Singleton class; its so simple that anyone could make one. Most home grown implementations would have race condition though.
Using video loopback opens up some great creative possibilities for fun with video conferencing.

There's one thing I'd love to achieve though, which seems not possible on Linux desktop (specifically kubuntu)....

I want to be able to use the loopback as the source for screen share instead of webcam; i.e. to use the loopback as the conference presentation.

Has anyone got any ideas how to achieve this? Given most conference solutions on Linux do not seem to support either 'share this window' or 'share this screen region'. It seems to be the whole desktop or nothing.
Even if your junior-turned-okish developer goes away, if you did a good job and part on good terms you now have a working advertisement in another company. And maybe a couple years down the line they'll come back.

Investing in your workforce for the long term: when you're big enough I think you should do it. Having a "reserve" is also useful. You don't have devs doing nothing: you have devs learning, teaching and ready in case a business opportunity appears.
Stop using Chrome if you're writing CSS
> Double-click selected everything while normally it would select a word.

In Firefox 75 on MacOS, double-clicking in the address bar selects a word.
I'm not sure there's a meaningful difference between a strangely shaped operator and a strangely-shaped function. (Indeed they desugar to the same thing, except one is symbolic and one is alphanumeric).

Any decent library will describe the operator in its Haddock documentation, and most will export a named function with the exact same semantics and type.
I like that Steve puts up “Why should I work at Google?” as a hypothetical question, then fails to answer it in any way in the rest of the post.
>I know it's common for Americans to assume everything their government does is a false-flag pretext for a fascist power grab

History does not support the most hyperbolic speculations, but it does support the idea that the USG files away at the base of lady liberty every time the public's back is turned. Remember the Patriot Act and 9-11?
Besides the address bar, another issue for me is now all image is lazy-loaded even in websites that don't use Javascript.

While I realize there are advantages to lazy-loading image, I've never liked it because often it makes the content moved a bit, which a bit annoying. However, in pages that uses JS to lazy-load image at least they usually put placeholder image so I know that there will be image there.

Unfortunately, since Firefox do it even for ordinary websites, now I often scrolling away without realizing there are images, only to find out later the paragraph that I read suddenly jumped to bottom.

I'm worried it will be permanent, especially since right now it's a bit hard to revert this feature.
These lower estimates are all estimates.

Really it is not important from the perspective of doing something about this pandemic as a huge number of people will die at all estimated levels.
This is pretty awesome work, but I just wanted to point out that Zoom doesn't actually require a green screen. If you uncheck the "I have a green screen" button, choosing your own virtual background still looks really good, although of course you're not going to get any crazy effects like this script adds.
>Your analogy is only true on average.

It is not an analogy it is math and how we commonly reference and understand federal debt. If you look at the US nation debt clock (https://www.usdebtclock.org/) you will notice next to the total national debt is debt per citizen and then debt per taxpayer.

Congress passed a $6T bill, that money is created as a future debt to all citizens, your point is obvious not all citizens are taxpayers, and not all taxpayers will have the same tax burdens (yet as you will notice we still look at tax revenue on a per capita basis also). There is a reason we don't look at the existing nation debt in those terms rather on a per capita basis. Either way none of that has anything to do with how Congress elected to indebt the Country and distribute the funds.
What do you mean by “high capital requirements in place” for hedging a portfolio? Do you know what options are? They can be used for hedging, and the bid/ask is the same for an institution or an individual.

You or I could’ve followed the 50 cent VIX call trader and made several thousand percent, all for 50 bucks a contract.

Hedges cost a percentage of a portfolio, it doesn’t matter whether it’s 100,000 or 1,000,000,000 dollars, if the overall composition is the same, the hedge will cost the same percentage of the portfolio.

You and I can trade mark-to-market assets too, CME micro futures have pretty cheap margin requirements.

It sounds like you have a lot of theoretical knowledge, but don’t actually have a practical knowledge of trading/investing. All of the stuff you complain about not existing actually exists.

Sure, you and I aren’t going to be able to put on a hedge like Ackman did, but only because the notional value of the derivatives used is so high. Use the tools available to the average investor, there are plenty.
Can you provide a screenshot? For me, the address bar partly overlaps the bookmarks bar but not the actual bookmarks. Also, the increased size of the address bar is purely visual and the clickable area of the bookmarks did not change at all. You can verify that by hovering the bookmarks while moving the mouse pointer inside the address bar. The bookmarks are still clickable even when the pointer is visually within in the address bar.
best/easiest writing tip 1: You place a square around the subject of the sentence and a circle around the verb. This ensures you have one (or more) of each, as opposed to having an implied subject or verb. Then look at how close they are - the fewer words in between the subject and verb, the clearer the sentence is.
Thus: Joe quickly and unerringly picked the wrong word
becomes: Joe always picked the wrong word

Best easiest writing tip 2: The most important word in the sentence is the verb - it should always do the heavy lifting. This means that - when possible - you should avoid the passive voice, but it means much more. When writing, select verbs that pop.
From: Joe walked down the street without direction
To: Joe meandered west.
i doubt that , if this magical strain does exist, any regulation is going to stop people from just getting themselves infected
I don't believe for a single second you haven't noticed the new url bar animation.
The about:config flag only ever existed so people running beta and nightly builds could easily switch for testing purposes. According to Mozilla employees, a big part of the new URL bar behind the scenes was cleaning up a mess of legacy code, so I can totally understand why they're not going to keep the old code around indefinitely.

Good for Mozilla on the code cleanup, I just wish they hadn't also felt the need to make the URL bar expand...
"While I'm logged in"
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Try Brave. Once you disable the crypto bullshit, which is like a couple clicks, it is a good browser.
Are you sure the rule wasn’t “don’t publish something only proof-read by the author?” The best journalists I’ve worked with do extensive self editing. Then they file their copy to an editor.

Also, journalists work in a different context than other writers. They write for publications with people on staff specifically to edit their copy. Someone writing a blog post, internal company memo, personal essay, documentation, etc may not have access to a paid editor or time to wait on volunteers. Definitely a good practice to get someone else to read something you care a lot about or are getting paid to write. But there are lots of things (arguably!) that fall short of that.
Is there a poc of an attack that works on an up-to-date browser iff these mitigations are disabled?
> If the energy isn't enough to ionize, then what is there to study?

DNA is conductive, and there are researchers who believe that this might be an important component in how the cell detects and repairs damage to its DNA [1].

There have been a couple of papers that claim that DNA can act as a fractal antenna allowing it to react to wavelengths that you would at first expect to be way too large to affect it. Here's one [2], which claims it interacts over a wide range of frequencies with a resonance at 34 GHz.

If DNA charge transport does turn out to play an important role in how the cell identifies damaged DNA, and if it turns out that those fractal antenna claims are true, then we'd have a potential mechanism for non-ionizing, non-heating radiation to increase cancer rates.

Note that it would not cause cancer, but it might prevent a cell from finding and repairing damage that if left unrepaired will lead to cancer.

The first part of the above, that DNA is conductive, is firmly established. How the cell detects damaged DNA is not known. That charge transport plays a role in that is currently just one theory that researchers are studying, but it is a theory that if it turns out to be true will not surprise anyone.

I haven't been able to find much on fractal antennas, especially very small ones, so can't tell if the claims about DNA acting as an antenna have merit.

[1] http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jkbgrp/Research.htm

[2] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-5699-4_...
The same applies to algorithmic challenges given for whiteboard coding. The fact one can reverse a linked list doesn't mean one would be a good developer in a real world project. Whiteboard coding doesn't check the basic system design skills.
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Yeah, "nobody else ever", might be a bit excessive.

Like, "oh shit grandpa is doing an elevation attack on the family computer again".
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Sorry, your statement came across a little differently than it seems you intended. But I also disagree with your idea here - I've found stubbornness in young people and openness in older people as often as the reverse. If someone is interviewing for a job in your stack though, you should assume they aren't going to come in and say "guess what, I'm only writing C".
MS probably knows. VSCode without any extension is pretty reactive and light. It becomes heavy when you have 20 tabs open with linters, languages servers, formatters and so on.

So maybe we CAN make electron lighter.
This is missing a huge piece of the puzzle. US Treasuries. Any excess dollars are simply used to buy T-Notes, lowering the US government’s borrowing costs and anchoring the US economy. There is simply no need to go hunting for someone to buy your dollars all the time when you can always go to the US government itself.

The US special role is based on two things, size and stability. Everything else is icing.
That comment would be rude if it personally insulted the developers.
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Is that where decision makers are looking right now? I don't ask this to be snarky, but it seems that they post so many op-eds that it would get buried
It's just a figure of speech. It's not meant to be taken literally. It's a valid description of a lot of people's feelings for this user-hostile feature.
Alienating some of your most loyal users whom have spent decades advocating for Firefox has its costs too, and there are always ways to safeguard or hide configuration options, such as about:config.

Personally I wouldn't mind a slight expansion to highlight the search bar, but the current design is crude and over the top, and it has led to usability issues.
Yes, commercial airliners do pose a real health risk. There’s an understood mechanism and impact. I know I was joking about it, but only to highlight how crazy it is to push personal electronics use down for radiation health concerns, while airplanes continue to operate with no changes.
It still defaults to eager loading. You have to explicitly add the loading="lazy" attribute for it to load lazily.
This is the same thing as a vaccine (but without doing the safety due diligence). IMHO as a not-medical-professional, we’d be better off with just using one of the (dead) vaccine candidates early than with a slightly attenuated live virus.

We actually started clinical trials of the Moderna mRNA vaccine in humans a month ago. We may have some early safety data. Better that than intentionally exposing people.
Not to mention making that generic would want to be accepted upstream in order to have upstream maintain this interface
Could you expand on the "practice in redirecting your attention". What kind of practice you do? Thx!
The sequencing is not the important thing here, but the search for strains with gene deletions and contact tracing everyone in the area to find more cases to prove the strain is attenuated. As far as I know nobody is doing this.
i assume we re looking for asymptomatic people, they won't have quarantined themselves
Indeed Firefox 77 has removed the preference already, you can check if you download Nightly.
This is one of those cases where the popular (initially incorrect) use of the word has far outstripped the one this link mentions.

It's like the word 'literally' (whose bastardization is both far more egregious and hilarious)

Even Google now reflects the 'incorrect' use of beg as the primary meaning of it:

beg - raise a question or point that has not been dealt with; invite an obvious question

Unfortunate, but true.
My replies to each of your comments, in order:

panpsychism or panexperientialism can't be right because they're not weird enough- to paraphrase Bohr. Would it surprise anyone to find out that, in our exploration of the brain we come across something as weird and upsetting to standard theory as QM is to physics ?

__________

If we do a gradual, over a long time, brain cell by brain cell replacement of a living human's brain, that human's self-report is our best bet to get around the impenetrability of the subjective experience of other minds.
It is also the biggest challenge to people like me and could point strongly to consciousness as a thing supportable by machines.

__________

I agree that this is a problem that science, as it is right now, can't deal with. But that doesn't mean it's not real. The Big Scientific Inquiry, the spirit of science, seeks to explain and understand everything. Many really dramatic upheavals come out of corner cases in science; the things that are slighly off or not accounted for in an otherwise productive theory.

_______________

It's not important to anyone's brain research, but it is important to society because making a mistake about what is and is not conscious has the potential for huge negative repercussions.

When Dennett dismisses the issue and effectively assumes the consequent of the argument he's supposedly engaged with, not only is he making an error but the consequences of that error are far-reaching into how we act towards one another.

What I am arguing, to the extent I am arguing for anything, is that people like Pat Chruchland have a point and it's not an "academic" one; it's substantive. We are making a mistake if we ignore it.
Are they not? That seems like a pretty obvious experiment to do.

For reference: I have a family member in virology. He reports that everyone he knows is now working on covid, mostly because if they don't they can't come to work on anything. The biggest problem is finding subjects that will produce a paper of any kind. I really don't think research bandwidth is the issue here.

I guess I have to repeat the question as its converse: is there any evidence that this is not happening? If it isn't, let's figure out the right people to pressure and not just discuss it on HN. And if it is, maybe we should let the experts do their work without pretending to have had their ideas for them?
I think everyone feels like they're being hit with too much information at some point. But wanting to hide, and knowing it won't be over sounds really frustrating.

Have you thought about running it past a therapist? They can help you size up the situation (eg are you anxious, and finding yourself avoiding work?), and think about options, or just help track how things are going.
The defining characteristic of a successful conspiracy theory seems to be that it's "exactly wrong"; if there are real downsides to a thing, they aren't mentioned, and fictional ones bandied about instead.

Or US government conspiracies: the more well-documented something is, the less it's talked about. Nobody bothers with Iran-Contra conspiracy theories, or even to talk about it any more : there was genuinely a criminal conspiracy, those responsible for that particular bit of treason were indicted, pardoned, and allowed to return to normal politics.
It should probably not be lost on us that the E-ink display[1] he's using in the prototype costs $1500. That's a lot for what basically amounts to a one color display, and if we ignore all the other features of E-ink, you could replicate this for less cost with other tech.

I recently experienced the Samsung Frame[2] which - to be clear - is NOT an E-ink panel, doesn't have the power savings, etc., but it's larger, cheaper, and has a very believable art mode. I was one of those guys who tried mounting an old flat panel to the wall to display art that I liked before realizing that it just wasn't believable. It was a nice enough effect in a well lit room, but turn the lights down in the slightest, and it's very obviously a television set, and just didn't feel at all arty. On the other hand, the Frame is extremely believable as a framed art print, to the extent that it fooled me the first time I saw one.

I haven't bought one yet, but it's much easier to imagine spending the $1000 for a Frame, mounting it vertically, and hacking out a way to format a newspaper graphic into its art mode than it is for me to imagine spending $1500 on an E-Ink display. Aside from being cheaper, if the project doesn't work out, then I can at least use the Frame for its intended purpose.

[1] - https://shopkits.eink.com/product/31-2%CB%9D-monochrome-epap...

[2] - https://www.samsung.com/us/televisions-home-theater/tvs/the-...