skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's something weird going on with COVID-19 and oxygen levels. I've seen lots of doctors posting that they're seeing patients with crazy low oxygen levels - like in the 30s which is usually fatal but these patients were conscious and responsive.

Whether it's messing with the way we read blood oxygen levels, or there's something else funky going on, I don't know. But it's weird.
For the web site and UI, yes. But the actual video traffic comes from a private CDN: https://openconnect.netflix.com
It's a path evolution took staring from the first replicator; the "throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks" approach is built into the core of the evolutionary process. That doesn't mean the only solution is to burn the whole thing down and start anew. Partial replacement while preserving the whole could make sense, but it wasn't an option easily accessible to evolution.

Then again, the life's approach isn't all bad on the lowest level. From our, human, point of view, the issue is that at some point, evolution invented brains and consciousness, and that information is more interesting than DNA, and it gets discarded instead of being preserved.
Yeah, a rebranding will always sound weird at first. The question is whether the upside is better in the long-term - time will tell. Vercel does sound good (though does sound close to parcel for me and also reads like vermicelli a bit).

For "Zeit" I am biased, since I speak German and it translates to "time" (and there's a large circulation newspaper called "Zeit"... well, actually "Die Zeit" which reads funny in English - but actually fits for this rebranding :-) ).

When "Open BC" (Germany's LinkedIn, BC stands for Business Club) renamed itself to "Xing" 14 years ago, it felt really weird to me. Though I think by now most people on the Xing platform won't even remember the old name. And in 5 years time, people who weren't even born when it was rebranded will start joining the platform.
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> Juries will generally be majority white meaning the opinion of the black jurors would be discounted often.

How often do jurry opinions actually split purely along racial lines?
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Yeah, it's funny how the people who critisize social media the most are the people who don't understand it at all.

The machine learning Twittersphere remains one of the best places to learn machine learning tips. Insta is amazing for photography.
For sufficiently minor infractions (e.g. traffic tickets) the line between civil and criminal blurs a bit.
This is a convenient sideshow. PPP is a pittance compared to the >$4B the Fed will be distributing to favored wealthy cronies. No one believes in "capitalism" anymore. In a system of free enterprise, we'd be happy to see businesses fail while the state supported humans in need. Instead, we have the opposite: humans are forced to suffer while corporations are bailed out with their money.
MIT Scratch.
It’s possible, but then why is it $1000 smartphones are struggling with this, and $5 landline phones from 1993 did just fine? Did Apple skimp on audio hardware that bad? That’s a little hard to believe.
Time will tell, I suppose!
Yes, but without major semantic changes to the language to go the direction of i.e. Rust, you're relying on bounds checking to make it memory safe. If you're using C for performance reasons, adding bounds checking is a break in reverse compatibility, because it happens at run time and drastically degrades performance in some cases.
I don't know about you, but 4 out of 5 times, when I research my ddg query, which did not produce a single relevant result on the first page, on Google, I get a good result as #1... Maybe I search google optimized.

Still though: This is not evidence for Google's search quality. I, too, feel, like the results got worse over the last years.

Also: Afaik, DDG uses bing under the hood, not what I would call "search startup" in the sense of revolutionizing search quality.
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It was truly an amazing time. Some of us keep wandering, trying to find our way back to those days. But the people who made this environment have moved on.
Simple question: do you consider tax evasion unethical?

I’m not arguing that every mid to large size company is guilty either, but we can’t ignore how common certain activities are in the market, things like share buybacks, the legal cases around corporate personhood, offshore tax havens, etc.

Name a top tech company that doesn’t have an office in Ireland for taxation purposes. Joe’s tire shop down the street probably doesn’t, but I’d be willing to bet that a pretty significant percentage of the Fortune 500 do. Facebook, Apple, Google, Dell, Amazon, and many others do. They’ve created business structures that allow them to funnel money around the globe and avoid paying taxes on it. Is that illegal? Obviously not. Is it the right thing to do, especially as we live in a time where millions are out of work and starting to go hungry? Corporations that have expatriated billions in earnings on work done in the US are now asking for billions in bailouts, is that ethical? Again, mom and pop shops don’t have the influence to do this, but the Fortune 500 do.
”One of the main points of flattening the curve was to minimise the risk of overwhelming (particularly) health services by ensuring that pressure was spread out over time. Overwhelmed health services = people dying”

You are illustrating the problem perfectly: the goal of this is not (and was never) to prevent ”people dying”. It was only to prevent “collapse of the healthcare system”. To the extent that we have accomplished this goal, it is a moral imperative to move on to less drastic interventions, even if continuing might save additional lives.

Any scenario where you think that shutting down for longer “saves more lives” creates a moral hazard, and shifts the goalposts from the original intent of this drastic approach.
And to me it sounds like a plasma-physics simulation package running on supercomputers.

\shrug\
Despite having all of those requirements I still can't get 4k streams on my PC. All I've managed to find are rumours from unofficial sources that there's some issue with HDCP 2.2 when using displayport with certain monitors. Either way it's extremely convoluted. In fact it's vastly easier just to pirate the 4k version. I don't feel bad about doing this because I already pay for netflix.
My comment was more about reality.

It doesn't matter what yours was about, it ignored fundamental issues.
I agree that there are ways in which loyalty manifests itself in positive ways for society and/or civilization as a whole, but I wonder whether or not unbounded loyalty to anything always comes with negatives.
I've found Twitter to be the only one really worthwhile. The key is finding thoughtful, interesting people whose opinions you care about, and then ruthlessly weeding out anything political. No matter how much I might like someone, the moment they make a political post they're gone. Political discussion can be great, but social media is simply not the place for it. You'll find that there are plenty of people who feel the same and avoid it entirely, so eventually you can build up a really cool list of interesting folks to follow and learn from.
I do that, too.

Especially presentations. For most movies, I am only comfortable with 1.25x. In presentations people talk extra slowly. It is a classic advice when learning to give presentations, talk slower. After getting used to 2X speed, it becomes extremely frustrating to listen to a live presentation.

Although even 2x presentations still feels slower than my reading speed as kid. But I cannot speed read anymore since I need glasses
yep, that's what I mean, they prioritise the people who are most engaged with the page, and that seems to usually wind up being someone with a huge grudge.
After the renaming you mentioned of NL, was there any lasting measurable business effect such as change in turnover, profit, new customers, anything at all?
> It just feels bad to have an ulterior motive behind posting a cute puppy pic

Is your project about puppies? If not then don't spam it!

It's low value marketing and you feel bad because you are deliberately trying to trick people. Maybe try to get your product in front of people who actually want it.
Vercel sounds like something about vermin and incels.
That's why the first sentence you quoted is there.
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There are only 2 or 3 States that don't have the unanimous rule.
Signal has end-to-end encryption and you are able to see the conversation on other devices from the point you link your devices.

What it does not have is the ability to send your conversation history to your linked devices (which I find a bit odd, if you can trust a device with your present/future conversations, you should be able to trust it with your past, or at least be able to opt in in trusting it with sending over your past conversations). I hope they will provide this in the future.
Moving RedisJSON to a new codebase written in Rust
Antirez on contact tracing apps (in Italian)
On a related note, Google seems to favor forum replies which instruct users to perform a search in order to find the answer to the question that they had asked.
This is excellent. I never thought about it that way. Indeed, with syn cookies the receiving party has no idea what was the original sequence number, so it will treat _any_ delivered packet as first.

Couple of caveats:

- you can jam syn cookies enabled with tcp_syncookies=2 sysctl

- syn cookies are generally bad because they prevent to negotiate window scaling. Window scaling is important unless you are doing low bandwidth like telnet :)

- you can somewhat negotiate window scaling when tcp timestamps are enabled. But enabling tcp timestamps in general case brings little benefit and wastes 12 bytes of each packet for basically no gain.

- for a bonus point, consider what happens when both syn cookies and TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT are enabled.

More about syn packet handling in linux
https://blog.cloudflare.com/syn-packet-handling-in-the-wild/
> Medical experts and scientists can provide data that helps inform people.

I add: when the data is clear cut. At worst, when data is noisy or little is known, you get (at least what I've seen in Italy) declarations from experts in the news that can be easily contradictory. Worse when some of the experts, because they're human, are a little more attached to their ideas.

In a way, this pandemic brought the scientific debate to light in public, in the sense that ideas are often challenged and adjusted based on discussion, and even harsh contrast. But this is a problem when communicating outside, because lay people usually regard experts as holders of truth, or at least part of it.

See the current debate on serological tests' sensitivity and specificity and the consequences on the results. I can likely understand the issues and the criticisms, but I can't expect lay people (not because any fault of them, of course) to understand them.
> The fed so far has made it so we have enough PPE

We don't have enough PPE. This has been well reported. That's it. Full stop.

> If that's "failed" I'd like you to elucidate what "success" would look like to you.

Not having to lie about being successful would be a start. Also, having in place the things that were dismantled by this administration that they are looking to put back into place in the middle of a crisis.

It's building a fire truck after a fire started because you didn't need it before hand.

It's idiotic.
Interesting article, but I'm not sure about the headline. The infection that's killing patients is the coronavirus.
I don't think it's legal. Much better language.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

This is not legal advice, consult a lawyer for legal advice.
"Unicode support" is subtly different from "CJK support". The former is far messier than the latter.
This isn't even close to true. The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Spring Break. Florida beaches. Evangelical churches.

Just because a majority of people do sensible things doesn't matter. The actions of the irresponsible and sociopathic minority still create the epidemic.
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> "Whenever nobody in a group has a different opinion on a serious subject that always seems extremely suspicious to me."

With a criminal conviction we're talking about exercising the state's monopoly on violence and coercing an individual to give up their liberty and freedom.

There shouldn't be a differing opinion on guilt. If there is, the state hasn't proven the subject's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. If there is reasonable doubt, the person should be found not guilty.
The future of media is here, and I was there (2017)
Will the immigration ban affect the tech industry in US?
Nope:

> Granted, it's been years since I last ate magic mushrooms. I loved the way they tasted
I’m waiting for 16k tv so I can finally tile 4 4K streams on it.
"A policeman's job is only easy in a police state" -- Touch of Evil
Ironically, what you wrote often explains the misery of work. After all, it's hard expending energy to solve fake problems at work, when there are real and more interesting problems to solve after work.
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Why do I need to sign up to filter, etc.?
> How's it not 4K?

Many people report Netflix's 4k is very heavily compressed compared to 4k blu-ray, making it high quality in name only.

I wouldn't know, because Netflix won't serve 4k content to any of my devices.
True, though at that point, you've left the domain of "lightweight" far behind.
People love to say stuff like this, but the truth is these things aren't mutually exclusive. Having a big network can help lead to opportunities to connect IRL. That (should be) the point of social media, or a big part of it.

Where it's really useful is in connecting together casual acquaintances, in a way that wasn't really possible before. If I meet someone IRL, I can friend them on Facebook, interact, see similar interests, and meet-up. Before, this was much harder. I couldn't see that this one person I had a great conversation a month ago with is really looking for people to play board games. It's easier to know that an old friend actually doesn't live that far from you now.

Obviously, there are issues with this (eg. MLM), and it doesn't always happen. However, Facebook at least, is clearly a useful tool. So I don't know what people are talking about when they say "don't social media, socialize IRL". Not necessarily what you were saying, and you were addressing specific statements from OP, but I thought this needed to be pointed out.
I wonder if Don Hopkins could adapt the infamous z-machine interpreter written in PostScript to read v5 games.
I don't buy the sentiment that social media isn't "worth it".

I've made friends, started projects, had job offers, acquisition offers -- all through Twitter. Twitter opens up huge opportunities for meeting people who share your interests.

The single best resource I've seen on this is David Perell and Matthew Kobach's (recent) lecture on "How to Crush it on Twitter" [1].

They say:

- People treat social media interactions like real-life interactions: if you're selfish irl folks won't want to listen to you, so why would social media be any different? Be generous with good ideas

- Pick a niche and only tweet about that niche. This obviously has to be something you actually care about. Your niche is probably smaller than you think

- Practice and review: Post for 30 days and at the end of the month, review the likes/RTs and draw a green circle over what worked and a red circle over what didn't. Post more of what worked and you'll notice you're getting better over time.

It's an excellent watch if you are looking to deliberately grow your Twitter following and are willing to practice

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5d6zm3YbqM&feature=youtu.be
I don’t know of any present day statistics, but it looks like it was a motivating factor in moving away from unanimous convictions, at least in the case of Louisiana.

https://www.wwno.org/post/history-louisianas-non-unanimous-j...
I thought it was secondary infections that where a problem especially with older patients and those with pre-existing conditions like myself
I've always disliked the fact that proxmox is basically uncapable of hosting virtual machine images to spawn vms at will.

You have to fiddle with template images but it's kind of a tedious task.
Sorry about that, have built a Linux version now. (There wasn't a Docker container available for the build file I'd used at the time)
Do you have any performance benchmark comparing with FreeType or Blend2D?

Do you plan on adding a utility library to make working with XCB easier? e.g: https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2018/09/02/fonts-xcb.html
Is it possible to prove somebody guilty with 100% confidence at all? I doubt anything beyond the realm of mathematical formulae can be proven with 100% confidence.
I think it is a useful application. I will try it out later tonight.
I don't know, but we don't have juries in Germany and corruption isn't a problem either.
For what little it’s worth, I’d never heard either name before and I think they are both terrible.
They are much more scattered through the web. There are more of such articles for devops and high load architecture, but some topics are well researched, for example Mozilla have published very thoughtful article about app localization: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Localizatio...

Unfortunately, I can’t remember any source that is publishing such materials on regular basis, seems that this type of knowledge is tightly connected with exact company best practices and it takes a lot of work to make this knowledge useful for the general public.
The problem isn't with criticism, it's with baseless criticism.
Typical

Create crisis through destroying government by a thousand cuts.

Resort to greasy palms Pork Barrel Politics under the umbrella of "hey, at least I'm doing something in this crisis".

When called out say "see, I told you government doesn't work"
> Most people sensibly realize that a lock-down in the face of a pandemic is not a regression in our fundamental rights as US citizens, but just a temporary measure to save lives.

This way many of the rights in the Constitution and Amendments were slowly eroded (reduced), permanently. Technically, it is a slippery slope even if it is driven by good intentions. One day there will be nothing left, because this is how lives were saved, think of the children, etc. The only thing that I can think of in this context is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Yes, bad pun on "broke"
> 1 year? No. It just won't work.

Some experts in Italy have called for quarantines up to 24 months until there is a vaccine. The net effect this has done is just to scare the population, at this point.

I hope we don't have to go that route.
This sounds like a feature, not a bug. The impact of letting a criminal go free (presumably to commit more crime, and have more chances to put them away) is minuscule compared to the impact of locking an innocent person in prison.

Yes, it means that guilty people will go free. But relaxing the constraints of what "convicted" means that by definition there will be innocent people convicted by 7-11/12 juries.
I think the original quote is simpler: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." The essay from the NYT is a good read: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t...

Now, Pollan broadly speaking does get a bit more into what constitutes "food". But I'd argue in general: this is mostly a heuristic. It's not a clear set of rules, because such a thing is likely impossible. And advice of this sort is inherently kinda hand-wavy and (in Pollan's words) "flagrantly unscientific".

That doesn't mean it's useless as a guide – everyone will have a bit of a different view on that. Bread, as something which has been consumed for tens of thousands of years, is recognisable as food. It's got perhaps three ingredients and is minimally processed. Cheese might be similar. Maybe it could be as simple as "something you can reasonably make in your own kitchen", or maybe it needs to be a bit more complex.

The point is – it's too easy to get caught up in litigating the precise meaning of a vague phrase. The intent is clear, and the focus should be more on general diet rather than the needless semantics of "does bread stop being food when I make it into crumbs".
> There's no evidence lawmakers have any better insight into what's going on than anyone else, and quite a bit of evidence they may have worse insight.

Yes, I'm sure dark money funded protestors who blocked ambulances from going to hospitals have better insight than anyone else. What a load of nonsense.

Facebook is a private platform. It can moderate how it pleases.
I would prefer to have none, hence e2e encryption.
There are ones that clip onto a finger and also ones that you can wear while sleeping. I have one of the wearable ring ones (Wellue/O2Ring/Viatom, etc) and am happy with it. My oxygen levels are good through the night and my resting heart rate is much lower than I expected it would be.
Ah, sorry about nomenclature mixup. I love it all!! I want to see Linux become the premier “gaming OS” because gaming shouldn’t depend on a proprietary OS
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Sounds like a company who wants to hire a female CEO so they can be one of those "LOOK HOW DIVERSE WE ARE" companies that like to shout about it at every given opportunity to be fashionable or in the news.

Controversial Opinion Time: Hire the right person for the job, don't look for a specific gender or ethnicity to meet some arbitrary quota.
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Neoliberal market economy does not hold anyone up to any ethics, proper or not. It is a-moral by design.
Cable television could get away with it because for a long time there was no alternative, so they could renege on the promise of no ads and still keep making money (though now people have alternatives in the form of streaming services and cable television is circling the drain).

Search engines are a relatively competitive market. A paid Google with no extra perks will not fly when the majority of people will just flee to Bing. For a paid Google to be successful it has to provide additional value such as filtering out ads, blogspam, Pinterest and other wastes of time.
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