skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Walk out a door, slap all my pockets: keys, phone, wallet.
and the FB data is likely underestimated too, because many persons don't feel comfortable about answering honestly with their real name to a company/university that could be coerced by government to share their identity (and that could mean fines, jail, or quarantine)
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Stop overestimating hackernews posters. Lots of grifters and way too confident people.
Technically that is speculation not investing.
The sampling was not random; they got their participants from a Facebook ad.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v...
> in your children, and their children after them, you will live on forever. Just as your ancestors do in you.

No you won't, and no they don't. Most people will be forgotten within a couple of generations -- or are you well-versed in the lives of your great-great grandparents? Your genes, random and (thus, probably) non-special as they are, will be insignificant within four generations.

> You know that pang in your chest when you see the beautiful family walking down the street?

Kids or not, unless you're incredibly skilled and/or lucky, your contribution to the world will be forgotten within a couple of hundred years and likely much sooner. Once you come to terms with that, life gets much better. Be kind to people, make thoughtful choices, and live the best life you can today.
Oh my. Barely the price of two drop pedals, has great reviews, and I can even pretend it's for the kid! Maybe I will become a bass player after all.
Hey! nice service. Interested in discussing it further, we run our blog with Ghost Pro. Just reached out via your hello email. Looking forward to connecting :-)
Wow. What a beautiful website!
Correct me if I'm wrong but anticheat engines, the way I believe they are currently designed, use their proximity to the actual hardware and OS to work, and the layer of abstraction introduced by Vulkan ruins this.

What if the anticheat model was changed to one that detects statistically-improbable scoring (basically, a scientific model)? And triggering that would require some sort of skill verification, almost like a captcha, but for human FPS skill or whatever, generated dynamically?

Basically giving up knowing "with absolute certainty" whether there is cheat software installed or not
TARP in the US worked exactly the same way with the banks, BTW. Banks which took TARP money had their dividends reduced to a penny per share maximum until the money was repaid. Here you can see that for Bank of America, it took until 2014(!) for their dividend to go above that:

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/bac/dividend-h...
And they can definitely still do that. AFTER they've paid back the state aid they received.
Plus, the state takes the risk that you commit fraud or run the business recklessly and put everyone out of work.

I agree with your point - and all of these risks are completely unrecognised in our current system. They need to be.
Is that actually true? You'd think solar would swing dramatically between day and night..
I'm not loosing my vision, but I'm dyslexic. I listen to almost all content, but just assumed I couldn't do that with code. This is inspiring me to try.

Thank you OP for asking and thank all of you helpful HN folks for sharing.
That is a failure that could potentially result in damage to the eye.

MEMS mirrors have built-in angle sensors, and when these report that there's irregular or no detected movement in one or both directions, the lasers are turned off.

The lasers in a MEMS mirror near-eye display operate in the microwatt range. Low power laser pointers operate in the milliwatt range, and the safety mechanism for those is that your eyelid is expected to shut to block off the laser in less than a second. Therefore, you have more time to shut your eyelids or remove your eye from the MEMS mirror display if there's a failure and the lasers fail to shut off.
One of my managers during an internship in college was blind. I actually had no idea he was blind until I met him in person; this includes being interviewed by him remotely and have discussions about code I was writing in real time. I was completely shocked.

This was at a very large corporation, and he had been blind throughout his long career there. I believe the primary tools he used were JAWS and a device that would actually generate braille for text on screen. This was pretty incredible to me, as he would do most of his reading via this braille device.

I don't think you will be limited to a certain portion of the stack. In some ways, it may open up certain opportunities like working more on the Accessbility features for front-ends, which is a critical part of a front-end but often overlooked.
I remember this happened once, to someone who bought cocoa on the commodities market.
agreed. If it works for you, np with that but it has to align with the team/company and other factors as well.
It does work with VNC. Not sure about VirtualGL though. It IS very comlete however, so it has a high likelihood I think.
DO also has great overall documentation quality and standards, IMO.
What if the answer is "to strike a balance between many workers being able to keep their jobs and disincentivizing tax-avoidance"?
The plan is basically to use these translation layers on top of MoltenVK[1], so the stack goes like [Game -> DX11 -> Vulkan -> Metal].

The other option is for Apple to pull their heads out of their asses and support the cross-platform graphics API that everyone else does. But we can all guess how that will go. If you want a platform for gaming, stay far, far away from macOS.

[1] https://moltengl.com/moltenvk/
Flowchecks were popular in WWII, but are generally considered a little too vulnerable to memory and attention lapses in modern airliners. Airliners these days usually use challenge-response checklists where the PM (pilot monitoring) calls out checklist items and the PF (pilot flying) touches the switch or control and responds with the setting.

On a checklist it looks something like:

flaps .. set

fms .. set

EPR .. set

v1 .. 80 knots (below - abort for any emergency, above - abort only for those things that you really can't take into the air).

v2 .. 120 knots

runway .. 28L. Compass and HSI match with runway numbers. We are on the left runway.

takeoff clearance .. cleared for takeoff. My controls (PM says "your controls", PF repeats "my controls).

And so on.
It is difficult to see how we can regard Neanderthals as anything other than "the same as today just many years ago"

At the risk of being disdained by "science", I never bought the idea of pre-historic human subspecies.

The reason being is that I cannot fathom the evolutionary event that would cause our brain to develop in such a way that we evolved from "smart enough to outsmart all predators" to "completely dominate the earth and the elements".

There hasn't seemed to exist any such predator or environment where such a huge jump in brain capacity would be required.
Or you could just do longitudinal studies on the thousands of people who voluntarily consume these things without apparent ill effect. They don’t appear to be immediately toxic so any risk here is fairly long term. Lots of anecdata self-reporting on Erowid.
I think at many large enterprises getting paid in stock is standard for even junior line-worker hires. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, etc. People a few years into their career are often paid a majority in stock.
They also use this technique in Japan in stores - confirming the amount of money received, pointing to the money, to the cash register etc. I think it serves the same purpose, though it probably feels less awkward as it's directed towards another person (though people don't usually respond to the assistant talking).
It’d probably require renegotiating all their licenses with the RIAA and such. Granted, they did it before with 128 to 256 kbps (and removing DRM at the same time) quality. So, I’m sure they could, but the thing is most people don’t care.
I agree there is not nearly enough evidence to draw a conclusion. That's why I said, there have been no controlled studies either way at this point so no one can say for sure.

All we have is anecdotal reports, plus the fact that significantly more COVID patients die on ventilation than the average pneumonia patient who is [invasively] ventilated.

Since doctors were ventilating patients at the same O2 saturation points as usual, we can say at least that something is markedly different with COVID induced ARDS from typical ARDS that makes invasive ventilation particularly insufficient, if not actively harmful.
Along with the scientific method, I am convinced that much of the modern world is made available because of checklists.
Imagine two different companies, both make the same gross profit. Company A returns profit to shareholders by issuing a dividend and buying back shares. Company B doesn't have many shareholders, so instead of using raised capital, they have borrowed debt. They return their profit to debt holders in the form of interest payment. Company B actually returns more money overall because these interest payments are tax deductible.

If the economy slows down and gross profit decreases, company A stops its dividend. Company B defaults and declares bankruptcy.

Do we really want to bailout only company B? Tax policy already pushes companies to look more like company B.
Stroke survivors often suffer from hemianopsia, a loss of visual field due to blood matting down very fine hairs. More critical circulation restoring surgeries, like removing a tumor, sometimes have restored vision.

A drug that does that would be used by billions. It would be nice to find an existing rated process.
> You are correct that the vast majority of publicly traded companies do not pay dividends.

How many stocks in the S&P 500 pay no dividends?
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If it's low traffic enough and the footprint is small, couldn't the whole thing be thrown in a couple S3 buckets? I'm still learning this stuff.
The minimum wage contractor working in the cafeteria is not making $20K nor is the average salary of a software engineer in any major city in the US only $100K. The average salary of a software engineer at a FAANGM is far more than $150K
Denmark is a tax haven itself though.
A good display of the current state of search engines.
Bag of words does not work.
They appear to be trying to estimate the percentage who had symptoms at the time of the survey date, while the Stanford study was estimating the percentage who've had the virus (even if asymptomatic) at any time in the past.
The article you mention has no discussion of ammonia, just hydrogen and LOHC. That plus your mention of shipping energy into Canberra makes me wonder if we're actually communicating with each other at all.
The government has unilateral ability to invent jobs and even invent money if the goal is to help workers keep their jobs and/or remain fed and housed. So I feel that no company should get a bailout. If they fail, they fail, and the government can scoop up the workers and create an agency or just government-staked company that does the same thing, find some work in the country that needs doing and put the workers on it, or stipend the workers until they find a new job.

Of course, that means the failed company's executive board has to also find a way to actually add value...
> 99%+ of viruses are either harmless or symbiotic

There is no such thing as a symbiotic virus.
I haven't read the law, but I would be surprised if it excluded the Danish equivalent of K-1. That would not make sense, it's a completely different thing.
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I really miss user server hosting. Stuff like custom maps, or weird custom rules. In a case like this, users couldn't stop cheating, but they could at least triage who is allowed on the server and who is not.
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There is some truth to that line of thought.

Either it is legal to avoid taxes, then no distinction should be made. Or it is illegal, in which they should be persecuted.

But making this distinction as a means to "punish" certain companies seems to conflate two unrelated issues.
Comparing cruise ships to diamonds is wrong. It is cruel, unjust and unfair to diamonds. At least its carbon products are shiny and sparkly
This is obviously wrong. You cannot dump oil, and anyone found to be dumping will be prosecuted.

READ THE EPA STATEMENT..

https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-03/documents...

> The enforcement discretion described in this temporary policy do not apply to any criminal violations or conditions of probation in criminal sentences.

...

> This policy does not apply to imports.

They are relaxing REPORTING requirements - not giving a free pass to anyone dumping whatever they want. Obviously.
418 pay dividends.
Hey all,

This idea started when someone I knew wanted to start blogging. We looked through all the available options, but something just didn't seem right. My brother found the same problem among his friends: unless you want to learn all the developing tools, people usually have to settle for either ads, subpar themes or larger costs. We wanted to help those who don't want to do all the technological set up.

Seeing as there were no alternatives for simple fully-managed blogging, we sought to make that alternative. We think it's important that people try new forms of expression. And I've always wanted to see more personal content creation.

Right now, we have our MVP ready of having your own site. We're looking forward to working and solving additional problems that comes with wanting to get a blog up and running.

We are eager to hear your feedback! Cheers
Maybe they're not breaking bank but for a company whose revenue is measured in billions, moving the needle by .1% is worth millions..

I know many Linux users who have abandoned competitors (GOG..) for Steam due Linux support.
without must be a tough one? It does seem that bing is the worst at figuring this out from the pictures.
One person's major inconvenience is someone else's great delight.
This is good for Saudi Arabia. Their oil is largely very easy to extract so they have the lowest production costs, meaning their losing the least amount of money compared to other producers.
I've used a high-end gigabyte brix at work running ubuntu - this is a laptop-class cpu, but with a fast ssd and 16GB of RAM, perfectly fine for development work -- and they're tiny and silent.
Dark mode shouldn't be harder with SSR apps, you would just send back the dark mode CSS in the initial GET response. Complexity around this might be related to trying to work with out of the box framework settings, but comparing this problem to some advanced image recognition, while admittedly a joke.. is just over-representing the problem imo. I'm sorry gatsby didn't give you an easy way to do this, but if you understand the principles of web applications this should not be an epic quest.
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For the third world counties they hire from those are great wages. By the standard of anyone reading this it isn't of course, but when you don't have options it is good.
Or you can do this: https://www.google.com/search?q=shirt+-stripes
There's a story online thats floated around for a while about a guy that ended up with like 10 tonnes of coal this way. Was delivered via barge somewhere if I recall correctly.

Edit: finally found it: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery
It's only ironic if you're prone to mixing up nationalities.

1. Denmark is a country in Scandinavia where they speak Danish. It's not a tax haven and it is not the country where they speak Dutch.

2. That country is called the Netherlands and that country has a tax evasion scheme named after it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Sandwich
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> And good luck finding Dvorak versions for other languages.

I definitely recommend Neo2 for German users. Ctrl + a,x,v and c still with the left hand. Letter frequency optimised for German first, English second. All programming symbols easy accessible, additional layers for Greek symbols and math notation.
Also, users of non-US layouts have much more to "gain" by switching from query-like layouts: Due to umlauts or accents, brackets tend to be way harder to reach.
Because keeping jobs is important as it is harder to create them.

Joblosses are talent moving away. Shops that will never reopen.
You're right. One person's major inconvenience is someone else's great delight.
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Some companies 'reinvest' profits in their operations and don't pay dividends.

Others avoid dividends, as dividends are profits that are taxed twice. (Once for corporate income taxes, and again for individual income taxes.)

Selling the stock for a higher price has opportunity for favorable tax treatment at the lower long-term capital gains vs dividends taxes as regular income.
Hey HN. We're Christos, Damien and Nodar, founders of OpenQuery to answer any questions you may have.We've spent the past few months working tirelessly developing a distributed query engine for dealing with sensitive data.

The project skeleton has just recently come together and we couldn't wait to share it with the community.We want to take the technology we've developed with Parallax and push it in the right direction solving real-world problems. If there are any particular use-cases you'd like us to look into we would love to hear about them!
Certainly :-) Thanks for the feedback!
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> "because we like them and we feel a patriotic/moral/righteous duty to help them"

Sounds like an abusive relationship. Again, if a company wants to be bailed out by the tax payer, I don't think it's a stretch to ask that they pay taxes.

Otherwise it's like me, a foreigner with no connection to Denmark other than that I've 'helped the economy' when I went on vacation there last year asking for a bailout.

> But if the answer is "to help workers keep their jobs", then the distinction might not be relevant.

In many European countries, social safety nets exist so you don't have to reward cancerous businesses for terrible business practices, while still ensuring individuals are looked after in the event things go sideways.
There are services you can call to help you out of this predicament. Obviously they charge a huge margin.
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But the owners are not "taking all the risk" in this case hence the conditions attached to the Danish state acting as the last financial resort for businesses that are currently in trouble and whose owners cannot do anything about it.
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So, about as random as this Facebook survey then?
Store as dried fruits with a dessicant packet and a hand warmer (oxygen scavenger) in freezer. Half of the weird mushroom flavor/odor is from it being improperly dried and stored. I dry mine to cracker-dry, and you really don't get a lot of flavor or texture from them.

If they're still hard to consume, shred them and extract into tea. Psilocybin is water soluble. Some like to add lemon juice, as it supposedly hurries the conversion of psilocybin to active psilocin (not sure how true this is). Tastes a little different but is relatively quite palatable.
I still don't understand the "fight the monopoly" argument. Should I use Windows Server or FreeBSD to fight the "Linux dominance" monopoly?
Still includes some shirts with stripes, since the search is now just for shirts that don't explicitly mention stripes.
Here's the actual paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61839-w

Hardy, B. L., Moncel M.-H., Kerfant C., Lebon, Bellot-Gurlet M. L., & Mélard N. (2020). "Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implications." Scientific Reports. 10(4889).
See: Black Mirror. All technology is bad in the wrong hands. Technology is always just a tool. Smartphones and webcams don't spy on people. People spy on people. People kill each other. People steal from the poor. Et cetera. The shape of the tool can be made to be malicious. For instance, a gun is only good as a ballistics toy that you have to be very creative to use constructively, or it can be used to kill. Nuclear bombs could be used for the most efficient nuclear power generation available (haw haw but it was seriously considered [0]).

So, some questions we must always ask about a technology are:

1. How malicious is its shape?

2. Is it too powerful for use?

3. Does society have enough control over itself to actually prevent it from being made?

This is one of the lines of thinking you see around AI, as the emergence of a powerful AI is seen as a fast approaching inevitability.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gnome
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Ask HN: Good (cross-platform) book management software?
My current book reading workflow is:

1) Keep PDFs, EPUBs, etc., in Google Drive (moving into Kindle as needed)
2) Make notes/highlights in Kindle
3) Parse clippings.txt
4) Save in Joplin (Second Brain)

I am looking to step up my game in steps 1, 2 and 3.

Anyone knows a solution which would allow me to:
* manage my book and document collection
* make notes, annotations, and highlights
* parse clippings.txt from Kindle

Looked at Calibre and Polar. Happy to do further digging, but there must be a good all-in-one solution.

Thanks!
But ... why?
Unless you are going to tug it around a lot, what is the big deal with miniaturizing? There are lots of ways to "hide" a PC or make it blend in with office furniture. Just reducing the size of the box seems a bit of a pointless fad unless you are fine with laptop like performance, in which case ...
Well, his username is "stallmanite"; what did you expect?
Indeed. The fallacy that all investors are all fat cats, swimming in money is pretty galling. When interest rates on savings accounts dropped, many regular folks took some of their savings and put into dividend paying companies. I'm sure most of them are aware that this is an investment and isn't without risk. I'm certainly not advocating for companies to pay out dividends no matter what. But the lack of nuance bothers me.

Not all dividend paying companies are greedy, and not all dividend investors are wealthy.
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In an interview, Jeri Ellsworth stated that when she was at Valve around 2012, they were exploring all types of near-eye displays for use in their eventual VR headset, and one of the displays they tested was a laser retinal projection display. It was specifically mentioned because she pointed out the safety concern they had with projecting a laser into the eye.
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I think that this is actually really encouraging in showing that we still have a ways to go in improving search engines. A lot of people treat search engines as a solved problem, at least for non-question answering aspects.