skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It helps that FT8 is amazing. I can easily contact Japan from Massachusetts using a modest "cobweb" antenna (on my side) and a large beam antenna (Japan side). 100 W, but this is on shortwave which can bounce off the ionosphere.

WSJT-X is the software by Joe Taylor, who is a Nobel Laureate. The signal processing part of the program is written in Fortran.
Some studies are looking into performing tests on sewage to estimate the number of infected people in an area.

There are ways of doing population wide testing that are not very invasive.
Is this tied to the lack of airplane flights?
Ask HN: Does Google censor search suggestions?
When I search 'Joe Biden' on DuckDuckGo, the first search suggestion is 'Joe Biden dementia'. On Google, if I search 'Joe Biden' or even 'Joe Biden dementi', it still won't suggest it.

In contrast, Google suggests the result "Trump Derangement Syndrome" upon typing "Trump Dera" into the search box.

Does this imply that Google is manipulating search suggestions in a way that could influence the 2020 election? This could be an unintentional side effect of their algorithm, but seeing that search engines are able to greatly impact voters [1], it seems like an important conversation to have.

Is there a more systematic way that this bias could be investigated rather than just sampling a few potential search queries?

[1] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/how-google-c...
We're already at that point (driver's licenses, passports) and it hasn't happened yet. Yes, you can get blacklisted by the TSA for air transport, but they have an exception process for that (redress control number).

Proper functioning of democracy and government requires eternal vigilance (apologies to Jefferson).
Probably means Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines? Since less tariff and cheaper labor pool and especially in Vietnam, less individual rights.
Nothing about your argument was rational. All you made clear was that you do not understand what Apple's customers value.

Hint: It's not a technology spec sheet. And even if it was, their specs blow the competition out of the water. I think your focus on embedded systems is coloring your view of consumer technology.
> concentrate as much of it as possible for themselves at the expense of others

I.e. sheep and wolves.
But they are line of sight. That's what makes this so special.

Stars are many lightyears away, and radiate insane amounts of power the vast majority of which is lost. By the time it reaches here you may need a very long exposure to be able to see them at all. But it is line of sight. These waves were of the line-of-sight variety and somehow they were bent around the planet enough to register. That's a very hard to achieve thing.
No, just sounds like that person can’t keep track of how many system they deploy.
The first paragraph clarifies my point and I believe we are largely in agreement. The difference I see in our views is that I don't consider asset price increase without CPI increases as inflation -- it is a materially different beast (it doesn't increase commodity prices or depress buying power of wage earners for day-to-day needs.)

Your second paragraph is exactly what I meant by wealth inequality. I don't think rich people buying things will increase CPI, but it does impact positional goods like college and real estate.

So far, the Fed has been providing liquidity to MBS but not enough to prevent real mortgage rates from _rising_ currently. I believe unemployment will remain high enough for long enough to stave off a housing price increase.

The sell-off of equities as boomers retire and live off their stock portfolios is also something to consider as counterbalancing equity prices over the medium to long-term.

I believe the prevailing belief is that we'd be in a deflationary period without Fed intervention.
There's an interesting article in NYTimes on how heart attacks are way down https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/well/live/coronavirus-doc...
People just not wanting to go to the emergency rooms is not enough to explain it.

The article's comment section is full of people all saying how they're so much less stressed now, sleeping more etc. Work really is killing you! Mondays are well known to have the highest rate of heart attacks, and Saturdays the least.
Show HN: Rosetta – a 300-byte internationalization util for Node.js and browsers
bitcoin /s
I love the idea of a VR workspace. There are so many
limitations in our current workflows and tools that mainly just arise from being restricted to a small flat surface. Even just having your perfect setup anywhere you go would be amazing. All you need is a headset and a small portable cube computer - basically a laptop without a screen.

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But after watching your video, I feel like this really needs some tiling window manager (i3 etc) inspired way of easily creating workspaces with tiles, and effortlessly navigating between them. With relatively minimal head movement.

Also, does Simula support curved displays? It would seem very natural to arrange different curved screens around you instead of flat ones, which also potentially waste quite a bit of useful space.
This is very much not true on my team.

I lead the programmers but I don't do the work for them. If I do have to do work, I do it with them. It's very much their system and if they don't want to work on it then it'll be broken.

It depends on the team, the mentors, and the students. I'm sure other mentors and other teams do this, and I'm sure there are other teams and other mentors who help the students less and make them do more work.
Is there anyway to generate a list of flagged posts to perform a more rigorous statistical analysis?

I understand what you're saying, and I viewed the collection of contradicting examples, but it is unlikely that there isn't a predominant set of viewpoints on HN. Without choosing a side, there's no question that user flagging and mod moderation is likely to fall somewhere on the ideological spectrum and I'd love a chance to determine where.
Iceland’s ‘Test Everyone’ Goal Has Skeptics, but It May Be Working
Writing off a language/syntax/toolset because you couldn’t be bothered doing < 5 minutes of searching to figure out something that will probably yield net-benefits in the future is an incredibly myopic thing to do in my opinion.
https://peaceinspace.blogs.com/files/5g-emf-hazards--dr-mart...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S163107051...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03784...

http://www.5gappeal.eu/
I was responding to the description of the new CEO as losing his temper to a degree that his shouting can be heard on the entire floor. Which I don't view as appropriate.
Yeah, if I recall, we actually made a profit on the GM "bailout".
Deliberately flying loose with procurement to move fast in the "low top-line, low OPEX impact" sense is not the same thing. That can still be deliberate, and have careful oversight. What I'm talking about is the inability to operate any other way, so much so that your best option when things get tough is the nuclear one. My thinking on this is simple: If an organization finds itself in a position where dropping a nuke on itself is actually a reasonable option, they have done something very wrong to get there.

Such nuclear options should certainly not be handed out as blanket advice or "something to consider". They should be spoken of in tones such as "If you've really screwed things up bad, then here's what you do....".

I've worked somewhere that such such tactics were common place. Sometimes they were the only way forward (and yes, that meant we had much, much bigger problems). Sometimes they weren't necessary, an over reaction, and the chaos & destruction took years to recover from. In one case we lost roughly $10,000,000 over about 5 years in order to save about 1/10th of that.
- Weather happened to be favorable for a brief window of time

- The FT-8 mode makes barely-possible communication possible
Not if they're super minimal. I can imagine something less than moving your wrist while using your mouse.
> The topic was someone saying in detail, "Here is why I have chosen not to be an Elm user, and why you shouldn't be either."

When someone is saying divisive things, I think it's important to be clear and precise about what they're actually saying. Some of the burden rests on themselves, and some of it rests on the commentators.

And so I think it's important to note here, that I don't think he said the "you shouldn't either" bit. He specifically denies saying it:

> I should also note “Your Mileage May Vary” etc. It would be entirely possible to use Elm and find it adequate for your needs, and therefore never bump into the things I hit very quickly.
Amateur radio equipment in the so-called HF band can get you non-line-of-sight transmission. You'll need a really big antenna, and you'll need to be content sharing a few hundred kHz of spectrum with everyone else on the same continent.
There are a ton of Go features that have been asked for by the community that have taken years to get mainlined. I think the most common examples are generics and package management. The authors of the language tended, at points, to be at odds with the desires of many in the community.
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The New Deal was so effective, FDR served as POTUS for four terms, and is the reason we now have term limits.
Even better to combine this with sentry. So you can see all the actions that led to the error.
You project intentions onto Bernanke. You might very well be right about the consequences, but that says nothing about his motivation to do what he did.

Some not so random related thoughts:

- It's not always inflation by the way that eats away at money's value. Often it's replacement with something else, by force. Much of nazi occupied Europe has experienced this after WW II. Much of eastern Europe has experienced similar things after the fall of communism.

- Inhabitants of the US have not really experienced their money losing the majority of its value over the past ~200 years. In that way, the US have been more unique than many people realise.

- I've found David Graeber's "Debt: The First 5000 Years" [0] very interesting. He makes the point that we should think of at money as debt. Whether you agree or not, it's an enriching point of view.

- The biblical concept of the Jubilee [1] is fascinating. It demonstrates how debt forgiveness cycles were deeply embedded in some ancient Middle Eastern cultures.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)#cite_note-5
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Single swab tests may be inaccurate, nasal, throat and anal swabbing is usually recommended for good coverage.

The PCR test itself has near 100% sensitivity and specificity when done correctly.

Poor swabbing or contamination can result in false negatives or positives.

Manual PCR testing is known to be quite prone to human errors hence why the all in one cassette kits are quite popular.
> If the thought is self-referential, then the subject is inherent in the self-reference of the thought, namely the thought itself. [...] If this were not the case, then the thought could not self-reference.

What property of self-reference do you think entails the properties of a "subject"? Does a self-referential term in a programming language also have a subject?

I suspect you would deny they do, so why does a self-referential thought entail a subject when self-reference in other domains does not? Because the only answers I can come up with either amount to special pleading on behalf of thoughts, or admitting a superfluous concept into every self-reference that makes no useful distinctions and conveys no useful properties that I can see.

> They use it to mean that phenomenal consciousness doesn't exist or isn't real.

And what do you think they mean by "isn't real" or "doesn't exist"? Because in this setting, such a claim to me means that phenomenal consciousness is not ontologically fundamental. That's a pretty technical meaning. Dennett certainly didn't mean that phenomenal consciousness doesn't exist as a concept deserving a philosophical or scientific explanation; clearly it does or he wouldn't have written about it.
Came here to say the same.
Especially now that the world is struggling with SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19, understanding these different models helps a lot!

Last but not least, Scott E. Page is a great educator. Glad to hear there is a book from him now -- his papers were a good read as well during/after the course.
When this whole mess is behind us, find a local team and volunteer. It's been one of the best things I've done for my personal sanity and gives me a sense of a side project. I don't even have to do all the work.

If you only build websites don't worry you'll find a place on a team. Don't sell yourself short, if you like kids and mentoring it's a great experience.
Interesting observation. Lots of radio traffic by aircraft might substantially raise the noise floor, even though they do not operate near that particular frequency one or more of their harmonics might interfere with signals that quiet. 432 is suspiciously close to 4 times 108 so you may be on to something there.
ECB is also going to print
A successful marketing exec once said "We know that half our marketing budget is wasted. We just don't know which half."
The fact that everyone agreed it was the only way forward doesn't mean something didn't go very wrong to get you there in the first place.

I'm not saying don't take this sort of action. And certainly, if you have to, the way you went about it is probably sensible. I'm saying that well-run operations don't have to do it at all.
But again, "nation-state" is a widely used term with a widely accepted definition. That definitely is not "any region with any amount of group identity that also contains a government."
China’s systems of shutdown should be producing a steady burn of new cases, not a reduction of active cases.

Population, Density, Epicenter.

This post is bullshit.
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Apologies let me clarify: Pushshift has a live api that mirrors reddit which you can use to compile a more recent dataset[0].

The uploader of that BQ has cited Pushshift as their source[1].

PS: In the next couple of days the batched archive data for Q4 of 2019 as well as Q1 of 2020 will be available[2]

0: https://github.com/pushshift/api

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/fcyu4m/extended_o...

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/fuoe2d/september...
Can you blame them? It was cheaper to outsource than automate, so why wouldn't they have outsourced?
If those Chinese-staffed factories comply with US and EU laws, especially stuff like minimum wage, benefits, and environmental regulations, that's perfectly fine - they're competing on even ground with any other factory in the country.
I would not be so categorical about that. 108 MHz is the low end of the VHF airband and 432 just so happens to be 4 times 108. So it may very well be that this connection would under normal circumstances be impossible due to interference.
I'm not an expert on cryptocurrency so I can't say how well you managed to anonymize the paytrail but the problem of logs and the lifetime of the chain concerns me.

When you start to chain VPN nodes you gain latency so you might as well use Tor. These days Tor has enough bandwidth to play 720p video with ease and there's less hassle. Also once you hit three modes you won't really benefit from longer chain so mixing VPN with Tor isn't really beneficial unless you're evading censorship of Tor.
Nature to join open-access Plan S, publisher says
Ok that is impressive... Very well done. And then to imagine I paid thousands for one back in the day (though my dad's work "PC at home" project).

I could have just waited 35 years and spent 1 buck for the ESP8266 :)
I think therefore I am.
Thank you for the correction.

What he actually said was, "I definitely cannot recommend it to anyone else." Which is fairly translated as, "You probably shouldn't either."

But he explicitly didn't say that it was inappropriate for anyone.
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Slowly but surely personal privacy is getting chipped away in the name of "Good"... smh
One of the problems is that the onset of tin whisker growth is stochastic. In other words, we can't predict when they will start growing, it's random. Which means they can start growing in a day, a week, a month or three years.

If I remember correctly, once they start growing the growth rate is reasonably constant and can reach many millimeters per year.

If that doesn't sound bad at all, keep in mind that fine pitch integrated circuit pads in modern electronics could be in the order of 0.2 mm apart. Which means a tin whisker that grows at a rate of 10 mm/year could bridge that gap in about one week.

I could be wrong on this, but it is my opinion we will eventually discover the RoHS initiative backfired and we generated more consumer waste than we every had before RoHS. I still have my 30+ year old HP-41C calculator (as well as a small collection of other HP calculators). They all work perfectly. They don't have lead-free solder. I doubt any RoHS era calculators will be able to survive that long and still work. In other words, we are likely filling our trash dumps at a faster rate than ever before due to RoHS.

RoHS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_of_Hazardous_Subst...
If you rephrase that as, "pay 20% more for an iPhone, but your chances of dying in the next pandemic or war are reduced by an order of magnitude", it might prove more popular. Of course, that depends on how convincing you are... but the present events will provide a basis for those arguments for a long time to come.
Try this:

https://brickseek.com/home-depot-inventory-checker/?sku=3081...
From TFA:

> The most likely mode of propagation was marine ducting with the signal being trapped close to the ocean.

> There is a whole truckload of Sahara dust getting across the Atlantic this week. I blame it for the modification of the normal atmosphere into a superrefractive one, supporting communications for the first time on this band. Sahara dust dryes the air around it by absorbing moisture and thus modifying the refraction index. Like a G-Line feeder or an optical fiber, the difference in refraction index between different layers allows the propagation path to curve down following the Earth curvature to allow these fantastic QSOs.

> I read about this phenomenon many years ago in an old ITU Bulletin justifying the enhanced superrefraction conditions usual between Cape Verde and the Western African Coast.

> Jose, CO2JA

From you:

> this radio contact was made possible by the recently-developed FT8 digital modulation scheme

My questions:

1. which factor was more important, or were they equal?

2. Is it COVID related? ie, atmospheric conditions are suddenly different around the world due to shutdown of industry.
A Man Bought 46 F/A-18 Hornets
CW?
>Content has extremely high fixed costs, and zero marginal costs; it follows, then, that the fiscally responsible content producers sell that content to as many outlets as possible

I wonder if this means Netflix may try to maximize some of it's best content more by taking out of streaming inventory and charging to purchase/rent individual series and movies? all within the Netflix app?
Unicode 14.0 delayed by six months due to Covid-19
I regret using that word. The few times I saw him speak he was either a) obviously drunk b) hyping up the military like no one's business or c) just kind of bragging about whatever. It was shocking. Then I saw Woody speak a few times and it was like magic.

When my kid first got into First I keep asking him about Dean (again, I was a fan) and he was like, "no one cares about him."
WhatsApp is closed source tho, so, how anybody would trust it?
Apparently practicing Elm users don't have a voice and say within the community either. That's kind of the whole problem.
> The price would have evened out if labor could cross borders as freely as the goods that it produces.

Not really, if that was the case for ex, everyone doing similar jobs would be getting paid the same in US or EU. I am not saying things dont get evened out to an extent, but people are harder to move than the goods they produce.
Wouldn't the people who prepared that announcement work at Yelp in Marketing/PR? Or at least have had to approve something before it was announced? So some employees must have had some knowledge. Maybe they knew they were not going to be laid off/furloughed.
National Robotics League is fighting robots for high schools. I know a lot of people like to shit on this type of event for various reasons, but it's really the only type of STEM competition that's gotten any mainstream popularity.

I agree that having the competition rules change every year makes it harder for less well funded and backed schools to compete. Also, requiring specific hardware just to field a competition makes things much harder. NRL doesn't have that problem.
Agree that the EU will more likely break up than the US, there aren't state-level checkpoints banning interstate travel on a governor-by-governor basis. If Germany and Austria are squabbling over medical supplies now, it likely won't be EUR.

I doubt CNY given past history, but if the worst comes to pass, I don't think China would pass up a long-shot opportunity to become the next reserve currency. I think it depends on how desperate people are, and how good China's execution is. USD took off post-WWII and USA's execution was top-notch.

I would also say not having a global reserve currency is another option, especially if globalization shrinks massively and international trade becomes highly discrete and easily manageable at a national level by govt. I think there are some trade deals that are barter-like (Australia // Taiwan with the alcohol for masks trade). No need for USD there.

Let's hope the USD is here to stay, and the country stays strong. I just hate being surprised.
Neither.

At a practical level, the law is not that which is written down, but what is enforced.

The Confederate states may have had good textual arguments why it was legal for them to secede from the US. However, they were conquered. Their claims were ultimately meaningless because they could not defend themselves.

In the intervening years, the federal government has only gotten stronger. See this [1] discussion of the Little Rock Nine - particularly around the use of the National Guard as an example.

At a practical level, I don't think anything will come of this, but only because California isn't trying to exercise sovereign power.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine
Due to the low quality of the video and audio I honestly struggled to want to go through the material.
> The only real advantage I can see is concentration of skill - e.g. people say that you basically have to develop electronics in Shenzhen, there's simply not enough talent in the US and EU - but I wonder if the efficiency gains are offset by innovation losses. Again, IMO it would be better to have a local high-skilled population of engineers & entrepreneurs.

That's exactly the argument that Tim Cook used a few years ago. He said that an iPhone not manufactured in China would cost 30k USD...before quickly moving manufacturing out of China. These arguments sound nice, but are lies. When offshoring first started the cheap labor pool was the only thing that mattered, and it still is.
I've played a few thought experiments thought my head in the case the Fed leads to the decline in dollar confidence and I can't think of any country in the world that wouldn't be affected. Most countries use USD as the reserve currency, and this leads to some big dollar demand around the world. Is this the secret to low inflation? Keep USD as the world's currency and outsource labor to cheap companies to reduce upward price pressure?