skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! Books. Most cookbooks have a lot of full color pictures. They also lack ads, if they have a story to give context to the writer’s relationship with the cuisine it will be a few paragraphs introducing the whole book rather than at the head of every recipe. They do not have any DRM; once you buy one it is yours to keep, give, or loan as you will.

If one gets wet (not at all inconceivable for something used in the kitchen) you merely have to dry it out. It will be slightly wrinkly but it will work fine, unlike a wet phone/tablet/laptop. It’ll have the dish you’re interested in plus a whole lot more, you probably won’t want to make every single one of them but there’s probably gonna be a few that look worth trying.

It will not track you. It is easy to store where it is needed. If you want to make notes - maybe you loved this dish and hated that one, maybe you made a variant that your SO loved - it’s easy to make them with a pen or pencil, and have them visible without any extra interaction. It’s a pretty useful technology!
Except they don't turn out very poorly, they provide obvious value for a bunch of real-world companies doing it right now.

They don't provide 100% perfect results, but that's why we still make humans.
Twitter wants to capitalize on the fact that tweets are massively public, and they also want to capitalize on the fact that they are not.

Researchers are passing around lists of tweet IDs ("dehydrated", they call them) that can be "rehydrated" (that is, turned back into full tweets) if you have the right permission from twitter to do so.

The whole setup is really shameful.

It would be de-facto illegal to build a "Google for Twitter" today. I settled on doing it for ActivityPub/Mastodon because it's less likely I'll get sued into oblivion for creating a search engine that way.
CEO of BillionToOne here.

We have already generated and put into our scientific manuscript the data that FDA requires for EUA. As a high-complexity CLIA-licensed clinical laboratory, we don't see significant risk in getting the authorization in 2 weeks. However, we need to start working with clinical laboratories across the country today if this is going to scale to hundreds of thousands of tests as soon as we get the EUA. Also, international laboratories don't need EUA and can start using the test immediately. We did not think it would be responsible to hold off on making the technology public when every day is so critical in our response to the current pandemic.
Dismissing the value of serological testing seems like a self-serving move.

Such tests are immediately of very high value because they allow us to understand immunity to Covid-19, and to actually validate the estimates of cases amongst those who haven’t sought treatment.

These are both of huge value regardless of the percentage of the US population estimate to have previously contracted Covid-19.

By all means market your test which seems like an awesome contribution, but please don’t do so by devaluing other important tools.

[edit: the parent post has been edited to be less dismissive without acknowledgement since I made this comment]

[edit: looks like I’m wrong about the post being edited. Sorry for that. I stand by everything else I say here:

Serological tests are useful and needed right now, not at some future stage. It’s not hard to google to verify this, and it’s irresponsible to downplay the value of a test we need now.]
Yo which company gives holiday on that "celebrity's" birthday? I would like to know and is this company out of tamil nadu where Rajinikant is a star in? I feel like the idea is exaggerated, people don't really worship celebrities here, they consume their content just like in any other country. Yes certain underdeveloped towns in the country have such following that is because of a lack of understanding of their potential and higher life so they look at these things as they are accessible to them. Not trashing your idea but I wouldnt want a bad representation of the country as a whole.
I think it's a subtle but important one actually, the dopamine rush is a bit a self pleasuring quest, so thinking for others is already a step in the right direction

That's also an idea I keep having about general adult life, career and happiness. Youth is all about intense self satisfaction, but running this race too long is a dead end, and it should be hinted that working for other citizen is actually a good thing for you (because it avoids this dead end)
The current reality would require them to have those reserves as opposed to being bailed out, so by all meaningful definitions, it does, in fact, make sense.
Well, they'd need a debit and a credit entry on two systems at least.
Ask HN: If you only do programming at work, how do you manage your career?
People who say they don't do programming outside of work hours, I'm kind of surprised at them. I was thinking that I needed to in order to stay on top with marketable skills. But if you don't make software on the side outside of work hours, how do you manage your career in programming so you don't fall off the rails?

Were you just lucky enough to get into the right jobs that keep you doing work that is highly in demand for the moment? Looking back, I kinda wish I started my career with a slow-moving Java or .NET enterprise work because, although not being very sexy, it is comparatively stable to front end web development.
The moral hazard is that companies with many employees think they are "too big to fail". They don't feel the need to keep cash reserves so instead leverage themselves up to the eyeballs because when a recession hits the government will just bail them out.

This is what everyone means by "privatize profits, socialize losses". Pay back all profits as dividends/buybacks and when losses mount from a recession then get bailed out by the government.
I’m not the previous poster and I’m not sure if this is the same, but on iOS Safari there is something odd about the page scroll. Normally on iOS, when you scroll a page, the title/address bar shrinks. You can tap it and it expands, and tap it again and it scrolls you back to the top of the page. None of that happens on your page. I don’t really notice that the scrolling itself is off, but I’m probably not that sensitive to that kind of thing. This is latest iPhone OS and iPad OS, 13.4.
The crucial difference between Church and Curry is that Curry allows each term to be ascribed a set of types - perhaps 0, 1 or many - whereas Church insists on each term having exactly one (often annotated). Both are systems for proving type correctness of terms.
1) and 2) are exactly right.

3) is almost right--these sanger sequencing instruments are already widely available across the country for research use. Here in the Bay Area, I can choose from at least 4 different Sanger sequencing services that will run 10,000 samples at $2/sample in 24 hours. For example, see: https://www.mclab.com/DNA-Sequencing-Services.html
ooohff. That hurts but still cheaper than equity, especially a down round.
Please take 10 minutes to get your site on the free cloudflare cache.

It's not a good first impression (especially promising scale) not be to able to see it.
Yes, compromise in that typically US-centric way, and to hell with any culture that doesn't fit the mold, they can adapt!

It's true, they can adapt! They proved that when they didn't have much choice, back in the ASCII days when you had to conform or stay in the pre-computer age. But maybe we should try to better now that we can...
Thank you for clarifying the differences in a more understandable way. The bullet points in the post have been made more clear now.
Startups: SBA Loans Are Not Free Money and Taking Them Has Consequences
and what's the size of the neural network you have to ship for this to work? has anyone done the math on the break even point compared to other compression tools?

e: actually a better metric would be how much does it compress compared to doing the resolution increase with just lanczos in place of the neural net and keeping the Delta part intact
Just wipe out the shareholders when the time for bailout comes. Owners can choose whether to take bankruptcy or a 90% haircut. (Or, say, X - 10%, where X is the number that state negotiators determines the company will get in a fire sale).

This should properly incentivize everyone for the next round. I don't understand why more people don't propose something along these lines.
Doesn't mean I have to like them when they do.
Sorry, by "We" I did mean people who make actual decisions, although we all are to blame partially for not pushing back.
Thanks. Make him explain whether the machine learning is real too, since his linked manuscript doesn't say anything about it. This is a really exploitative moment to be hyping things.
What's the stronger interpretation?
It is objectively censorship, it's just not government censorship.
This is super interesting and quite relevant to a bunch of stuff I do at work.

Next time I have a project that involves real-time plotting of data, I'll definitely take a look!
In exchange for that return on investments, investors bear risk. That risk has now come due, investors should be getting a haircut.

IMO the bailout should take the form of an equity investment from the government. Investors get diluted, but the company survives. Government gets a profit if things go well.

Privatizing profit and mutualizing risks is an insane moral hazard, we have to shake it off.
Can you provide a source for that? It smells of a rumour people might spread to sow mistrust.
Very few people care about the whole conversation...

So the obvious thing to do would be quoting nothing, unless you specifically tell the mail client to include quotes. That would prevent the useless snowballing. Selective quoting is a way to enhance communication by providing context. If you aren't going to bother, there's no reason to include the garbage.

When it was a hot topic, there was a very tangible problem for mail lists in which some members were on dial-up in countries with terrible communications. Not trimming quotes was disrespectful to them so most lists had rules about it.

Now it seems there is enough bandwidth everywhere, the only issue is that all that quotes are just useless, a cruft from a questionable decision of the authors of Outlook.

Everything related to bottom posting is a strange hobby.

In my experience, people that has been recently introduced to email are oblivious to quoting styles. The hostility comes from those who ignored the rules of some community and were scolded for it.
>You may spend a minimal amount of time doing the “fun” parts that data scientists think of: complex statistics, machine learning and experimentation with tangible results.

I don't get why building a model people consider to be the "fun" part. That's mostly spitting data in, watching a loading screen, and then observing the output.

That's not fun, that's boring. The fun part is looking at the data and gleaming all these potential patterns from it, seeing what potential is there and what could be. Likewise, learning the business side and seeing what is possible no one has considered is great fun too.

My favorite part is feature engineering. Pre-processing and cleaning is fun too, but morphing the data into formats that extract a diamond from coal is a lot of fun, and what data science is all about. Clicking go on some ML algo is just icing on the cake, seeing it reveal bits maybe even I overlooked in the data.

If you like ML why not be an MLE? That's what MLEs do, and they're a more desirable job. DS is all about the research, discovering and learning new information, and making the impossible possible.
An arbitration clause can't force the plaintiff to pay because it's in the contract for the benefit of the defendant. There's no "consideration" provided to make the plaintiff give up the right to pursue legal action in a normal court of law.
I believe they did that for banks after the 2008 crisis, maybe it should apply more widely. But still I'm not sure it'd make a huge difference given the scale of disruption caused by a global shutdown like we're seeing as a result of covid-19.
Urban dictionary:

"Sociopaths are people who have little to no conscience. They will lie, cheat, steal and manipulate others for their own benefit. They know exactly what they are doing, they just don't care because they don't think that way. If you are naive enough, they will brainwash you into doing exactly what they say and what they want..."

Does he want to get out of prison? Yes. Does he want to find a cure for Covid-19? Who knows, but it's beside the point.
I think you are copying the section of when there is no force majeur section.

See this legal article covering schools "https://www.fisherphillips.com/resources-alerts-comprehensiv... -- they aren't legally obligated to refund if they have a force majeur provision in their contract.
Fun fact, windows blocks remote desktoping to localhost (because doing so would lock the console session unless you break license and modify termserv).

Fun fact 2, this only blocks 127.0.0.1.

(side note: if you don't mind breaking license compliance on your personal pc, you can use this to remote desktop into other user accounts on the same pc for a nice separation of work spaces (or just move to linux))
Archive.md: http://archive.md/cUzP9
Looks like FLIF has a slight edge on compression ratio according to the paper, but it beats out other common compression schemes which is impressive.
They say they have not had false positives or false negatives. If that's not a lie, then that's not a lie. It does not mean the test is perfect, but it likely means the false result rate is low.
Stop spreading FUD.
National Biosecurity Strategy (2018) [pdf]
Sounds like he's giving the shares away, and it's up to the recipients to sell or hold.
StartSmall was started in 2015, why does a five year old organization require flexibility in expediting setup?

From the same article, Jack also doesn’t seem to have a strong history of putting his money where his mouth is. (Offered to donate Square shares to Ferguson with no follow through.) I don’t blame the community for skepticism.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Where-is-Jack-D...
I thought it was already well established that anything you buy from China has some level of child/slave labor attached to it. Most people see it as an externality.
If they changed it by like 2 hours or more, you are entitled to a refund. Call them. I had a flight scheduled for tomorrow that got changed and I called and got a refund for it (I'm not even in the state so i lucked out there as I was planning on cancelling it myself).

You can also wait and see if they cancel it. I had 2 more flights this week and they both got cancelled recently and I'm getting refunds. They are probably just waiting until a week before like it was for me in the hopes that people cancel themselves for the BS travel vouchers.
Take current expenses and multiply by 6, and that's a good start. Standard personal finance advice is for individuals to have 3-6 months worth of expenses on hand for an emergency. Banks frequently require 3-6 months of reserves for commercial real estate loans. Why shouldn't that rule apply to large corporations?
> Being kernel based means it cannot depend on external/3rd party libraries, which does reduce the attack surface

You are conflating two independent things. An external library could be very secure or not. Same for implementing the same function internally.
What if I waste my time trying to learn programming?
Clearly, you never worked in investment banking :)
There are various limits, up to 60% of AGI (for cash donations). The limits are lower if you're donating appreciated assets, or if you're giving to a private foundation (where the donor would have more control than giving to a generic 501(c)(3)).
Open source framework for building cutting-edge applications quickly
This reminds me of an endpoint that Google used to run. It was a never ending stream of RSS feeds. Anyone could subscribe (it was just a never ending HTTP GET, if I remember right), and be told which blogs had updated in near real time.

Nowadays you'd need to sign up for an API key, probably pay some amount of money, and provide twenty different forms of contact to use something like that. That's assuming it was allowed to exist in the first place, since it might take views away from google.com.
Wonder what Apple would make if this was WW3.
The opposite way from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22790425
> it gives an example and what to change

It gives an example of something wrong. Not once does it give an example of something right. It says "change this" but doesn't show what to change it to.
The machine learning bit is the buzzword that makes it trendy.
People have plenty of opportunity.

That we have anti-vaxxers and 40% of Americans rejecting evolution makes it self-evident that opportunity is not being taken.
I kind of had the impression the purpose of their delivery service was to help negotiate better rates from USP/FedEx. Is that what happened?
No it's not. Buying a bunch of Apple stock for $1 apiece doesn't prevent anyone else from buying Apple stock too. Buying and squatting on domains prevents people from using the domains. It's strictly rent-seeking behavior and is not productive in the least.
Key part is "for non-Amazon packages". I didn't even know this was a thing. They are having a hard time keeping up just with in-house demand, so this is likely the right move.
> Wework is renting so many square feet, that it could be a tsunami of empty offices.

Wework has a dozen locations in San Francisco. If that's a tsunami of office space, then the commercial real-estate market in the tech city of the US is much smaller than I thought.
On Software Quality
It's not precisely illegal. I'm assuming that was a rhetorical device. There are some flight restrictions in place, though. Reduction in flights is also causing a larger than normal number of "ghost flights," which are a pure cost incurred to move people and aircraft around. [0]

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[0]: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/airport-slots-ghost-fligh...
I hadn't heard of this, so I just looked it up, and it's an interesting story! However, it seems a bit more complicated than just "big government muscled out the little guy and screwed everything up." The "mosquito fleet" you referred t was apparently down to only two companies by the early 1930s, and down to one by the end of that decade. At that point, the ferries were already a de facto monopoly.

Saying the ferries were "nationalized" makes it sound like the government forced a bunch of operators -- or, well, that single operator -- to quit and just took over their business, but again, it looks like it's a bit more complicated than that. That remaining operator, the Puget Sound Navigation Company, got into a big fight with their union when they were demanding higher wages -- and the one point the state can be blamed for in this original saga is that they refused to let the operator raise their fares, although they were largely responding to public demand, according to the Seattle Times in 1951 (when this happened): the public didn't actually like that private operator, and thought they had raised their fares too much over the past decade while providing increasingly worse service. PSNC decided not to restart service, and the state offered to buy them out -- again, not what most people would call "nationalization."

If the state did a bad job running the ferries for the subsequent decades up until about the 2010s, there's no immediately accessible litany of complaints I can find. An investigation in 2017 seems like it's led to a lot of accusations about how the ferry service's labor costs had been managed since 2012.

In any case, this is fascinating history -- but it doesn't seem like a resoundingly knockout argument for "private monopoly good, government-run service bad."
If we talk about a lot of media, they simply had the priority of making Chinese look bad in any possible way, including blaming them for "misinterpreting numbers" and ridiculing them for implementing lockdowns or wearing masks.

Amazing how apparently all of the media around the world was united in a conspiracy to make China look bad, especially when much of the reporting was commenting on how much worse the situation must actually be compared to what was being reported by China, given the severity of China's response.
Is there anybody who is still sympathetic to airlines?
Part of the problem with serological testing is false positives. I'm no expert, but my understanding is that the tests available may have false positive rates on the order of 0.5% to 2%

If only 1% are infected, and the false positive rate is 1%, it's quite hard to determine what the test result actually means. On the other hand, some places like New York City are already at 0.7% per-capita known positives, and they're not even able to test everyone with symptoms. Their true infection rate could very well be 10%, which serological testing could confirm.
Your company has filed a US patent application (and it appears also a PCT) on the qSanger method, and this application is reference 8 in your document.

What are your plans for licensing the technology?
I don’t have to pay for my kids school. My kids school refunded all unused funds.
Thank you for what seems to be a breakthrough with implications beyond even the current outbreak.

I had a few questions though:

How do you compare this test to the Abbott machines? Obviously that test is faster, but how does that impact what we can do with it?

For 1m/day to be sufficient, do we need contact tracing programs to be able to find everybody who needs to be tested? How hard will it be to scale these programs?
Bloodletting
It surprises me that we don’t have crypto-based API micro-transactions yet.

Even if you had to pay 1 satoshi for 10 queries, it would go a long way towards making APIs viable long-term.
https://archive.md/Xo8tn
You may be talking about iodine: https://code.kryo.se/iodine/

You can host it yourself.
Going to guess defense contractor.
If you're not fitted and trained on the PPE you're using, it's more likely to cause harm than to provide any protection. If not direct harm, then by providing a false sense of security.

You need to not only know how to use PPE, but know what it's limitations are, and what it's designed to actually protect you from.

Wearing a shield thinking it provides any protection from an aerosolized virus is a perfect example of having the wrong expectations from a piece of equipment.
> We have a major "boy who cried wolf" problem with the media, and many of our truth-finding institutions.

Media isn't a "truth-finding institution". Neither are global political organizations. What we have a problem with is people being brainwashed into believe that media/political organizations are "truth-finding institutions".

> There've been enough instances in recent decades of arrogant incompetence and self-serving deception

Because they are in the business of deception. And it's not decades. It's centuries.

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."

"I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." -- Thomas Jefferson
Would it be possible to support returning a larger excerpt of the article within a single TXT record?

You should be able to get up to 64 KiB (minus a few bytes for headers, etc) within a TXT record. The lookup will have to use TCP though.