skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course academia is a "radical left" arena, as it's the domain of our youth and that is a natural expression of their view of the world.

All news has bias, but some are more biased than others, and that bias varies from personal and ingrained to organizational and intentional. It's important to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff, as it were.

Project Veritas is a right-wing, extremely partisan organization with a shady history. They are not an organization that I would trust.
SpaceX Crew Demo-2 Mission
No it doesn't.

I remember the first time i setup a rack of servers in a cage in a datacenter for a company i founded. We bought a block of IPs in bulk and then we bought an interconnect from a provider within the datacenter. To get those IPs pointing to our server we had our severs announce ownership over BGP. It's that easy.

Usually BGP messages are filtered out by routers. Otherwise home users would announce ownership of the Google addresses and have all those messages come to them for example. But if you have access to an interconnect in a datacenter you can state you own whatever IP addresses you want. There's really nothing at all stopping it right now.
Very intermittantly.

Spelt was a buy where other flours were cleared out at a natural food store. Last whole wheat was a half-kilo bag. I'll hit numerous stores, early in the day. Buy what's available though AP / whole wheat / specialty by preference.

Gourmet / natural food stores have tended to better selections. Ethnic food aisles often have flour where main selection is out, or specialty flours regardless.

Whole grains are also available. I've contemplated buying a mill.
>but it doesn't mean that you can't change your own path in a meaningful way, you're free to take a harder path vs. an easier or more obvious one.

This is of course debatable, there is some evidence to suggest that the feeling that you took a certain path is illusionary. Your brain made the decision, then you became cognizant of the options and you felt yourself making the decision[0], but if you could rewind the universe, you would always choose the same path based on your 'brain-state' at that time. At least that is what I understand of the most extreme "free-will doesn't exist" position.

Just got lost in the SEP rabbithole [1], still not sure where I land on this issue.

[0] : like how you feel thoughts 'bubble up' during meditation, you didn't actively 'think' those, they appeared to you. EDIT: atleast that is what it feels like

[1]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/#DoWeHaveFreeWil...
Regulators Pave Way for Amazon's Deliveroo Investment
Honest, capable people don't put words in other people's mouths.

Please show me where I said, "All of medicine is therefore bad." No, you said that.

Now, will you apologize? I doubt it.

Will you do better at reading and understanding in the future? I sincerely hope so.
Why do you think the same thing doesn't apply to theories? Since you mention topos theory, the double-negation topology is actually a basic construction in topos theory, used to construct a dense Boolean subtopos of a given topos.
I don't know that that is true. Perhaps iPhone allows users to draw down the battery even more than competitors to preserve someone's "on"-time (like extend as much as possible, because you might be on an important call), because it knows that once plugged in, it can go into a dark state for some time to recover. If the choice is to have a stable power mode when on / under potential loss of AC charger power, is it unreasonable that Apple chose to do that? Are you certain that's not why they do it?

Maybe other phone manufacturers are cutting off your "on"-time sooner than iPhone is, and you just don't ever see their phones getting to this state. You don't even get to make your 911 call, because Samsung chooses to turn your phone off sooner?

So again, in that case Apple would be giving you more usable time, but you're not happy with them for it.
I tried to avoid this, for example deliberately including blame - which sr.ht does not support - and a few hard pages that we slip out of the 90-100 range for. I am definitely interested in expanding the test suite with harder stuff. I want to use this to set goals for performance improvements and feature development - not just to show off how fast sr.ht is. I also want to get those accessibility numbers up - right now, Bitbucket has consistently impressive scores across the board on that metric.
"Training small citrus plants was key to extending their cultivation across all regions of the Black Sea coast, where until then it had been impossible. This was achieved by pruning and guiding citrus plants into a creeping form, which reduced their height to a mere 25 cm."

People complain about cubicle farms, but there's so much we can do to train workers to be productive in them, if we start them young enough.
Similar to what others are suggesting:

Month-to-month doesn't work.

Mint's budget breakdown totally fails if my Landlord cashes my check too early/late.

Month-to-month doesn't work for expenses that aren't monthly. Example: travel.

Month-to-month doesn't work when the calendar lines up and you get 3 paychecks that month instead of the normal 2.

I'd be curious for a budgeting app that still has the concept of a month, but isn't locked to calendar dates.

Rolling average? Bucketed allotments that roll over? Maybe
It builds a detailed profile of you based on your public data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681207
Got any science to back that up?
A classic pick any two out of three example. Compromises need to be made in real life. Not all VMs need high data integrity anyways.

You get what you pay for.
First of all, "my wife's son is a doctor" is not evidence.

Second, of all, your inflammatory tone is unwarranted and adds nothing of value.

It would be better if you actually looked at the sources and referenced those in your critique.

Of course, it would also be good if you didn't misconstrue my argument, e.g. I neither claimed that there are no vitamin D absorption differences between ethnicities, nor that low levels of vitamin D aren't a problem; low levels of any vital nutritional element are a problems. I did state that I haven't yet seen evidence of a direct link from increased (i.e. more than average) vitamin D intake to a lower probability of being infected with or being seriously affected by covid19.
Please elaborate somewhere on the website what it is going to generate. Web application, mobile app, smart watch app(based on one of the image) or all of them or just a responsive website. Other than that I had the same suggestion to remove requirement for account creation for trial or have a video/animation of how it works.
Ah, thanks for the explanation -- I thought that you meant that custom.css would be disregarded, now I see you meant that css _rules_ should use "last declaration wins".

Not really a followup on my previous question: what would be done if, say one can't change the order: so custom.css is still before original css. In such cases, without the specificity rule, wouldn't the only option we'd have is to somehow inline the styles, or spray !important everywhere?

To be clear, I only ever did this once for jupyter, and using very specific selectors was the only way I could do it -- of course I learned it hard way why this approach isn't great when jupyter changed the layout slightly. :)

If you're curious, https://github.com/prashnts/dotfiles/blob/0a2e98a848a98b7010... is that custom.css
There are a couple services that opt-out for you. Often times your information will re-appear on the same site months later, too, so they provide monitoring.

https://brandyourself.com/protect-your-privacy-online

https://onerep.com/

Full disclosure: I helped develop the BrandYourself platform.
I was also preparing for an interview and received a call from my recruiter that the position has cancelled.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22875094

Although the comments in the article are very relevant
The TL;DR on how it works:

> we exploit the fact that many object categories have a bilateral symmetry. Assuming an object is perfectly symmetric, one can obtain a virtual second view of it by simply mirroring the image and perform 3D reconstruction using stereo geometry

That is pretty brilliant!
Well, that's a great thread, very informational and somewhat changed my opinion on this.

I basically figured since my symptoms aligned 100%, and also since I live and work near the largest casino in the Bay Area (which is a hub for tons of international travelers and people from SF Chinatown) that Corona was circulating around Wuhan in Nov, and made it to the Bay Area by December, and I caught it early Jan.

I still think that's a possibility, but it does seem like it would have made it to Seattle before mid-to-late February in that scenario.

Anyway, thx for the info.
No, actually, none of that is true under US labor law. People can organize at their workplaces. It’s a protected action.
Which would mean SpaceX will just go it alone. It really would look bad for NASA if SpaceX then does manned missions that NASA can't do.

NASA can not count on the SLS to do the job, if only because it costs do much to launch the SLS that NASA can not afford many missions with it.
I can't reply to your first reply, but you completely misread me, "it's easier and more likely to succeed to prevent global warming in the first place than it is to deal with the worst consequences"

It is critical to human survival in the current and next generation to almost completely eliminate fossil fuel consumption, as well as mine and sequester vast amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. It will be easier and more likely to succeed to do that than create bio domes or extraterrestrial colonization.
Interesting, I get "hugo" as the first organic result on Google and 2nd on Bing (and DDG, which is the same as Bing in most cases).

All of them hedge their search intention bet by also providing film information in the side bar.
An unemployment rate of 15% cuts both ways. Mass walkouts and mass resignations are still disruptive especially if it takes time to onboard new employees.
If part of the value for participants was to know whether they had antibodies, then those that had gone through a flu (or covid) would be more likely to respond. This means that the overall sample likely includes more people who had COVID than a true random sampling would.
I'm not sure that's a valid precedent. National Geographic was facing bankruptcy with a bleak future. Their options were to sell or shut the doors - they took what they believed to be the lesser of two evils.

.org prints money - they have almost no overhead, and a basically guaranteed revenue stream. This isn't a public good that has no other options to survive - it's a bunch of shady board members attempting to enrich themselves at the expense of the public good.
For reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Turner
I would guess that Costa means the invitations had an associated calendar entry and they deleted the calendar entry. Deleting emails would definitely be pretty creepy, but I don't know if I've ever heard of that happening.
Not even close to being American and still see CNN as the News Network.

Agree that title should be changed.
Also: https://unsplash.com/collections/1887152/zoom-backgrounds is pretty decent
Wonderful post. I love writing that builds a bridge to internal sensation. Will the kind of feelings described here ever be modeled accurately?
The B-17 ‘miracle’: Defying Hitler with sabotage
.NET JIT compiler is not type safe
How do you square that with the fact that there is no outbreak in any overseas Chinese community? Not Taiwan or Hongkong or Macau, nor in the epicenter of Italy (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-...), nor San Francisco Chinatown (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/us/san-francisco-coronavi...)? All of these communities have far more ties to mainland China.
I think it's an interesting proof in the context of distributed systems where delays can be interpreted in any number of different ways, and the paper shows pretty concretely the existence of at least one of these delay-causing inputs.

In most practical scenarios it's not an issue, sure, but I don't think that's what the author was trying to get across as the point of this.
Kind of a weird take: The abstract asserts "diversity breeds innovation" as a fact, but the introduction describes it as a "common hypothesis".

I have little doubt that (say) a physicist from Bangladesh has a far harder time getting to the top of his field than an equally qualified one from the UK. It's not clear, though, that diversity per se improves the quality of physics research.
> First, I would take strong issue at your describing the majority of philosophers as Compatiblists. I can find no support for such a broad statement

Almost 60% Compatibilist, the remainder evenly split among three other options: https://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl

> Arthur Schopenhauer famously said, "Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills." In other words, although an agent may often be free to act according to a motive, the nature of that motive is determined.

You're assuming this is relevant. Turns out, it's not.

> Also, one of the primary criticisms of Compatiblism, dating back as early as Kant, is that what Compatibilists define as ‘free will’ is not free will as most people, including philosophers understand it.

Nobody definitively understands free will. Some people conjecture it has certain properties, mainly incompatibilists. So far they have mostly been wrong.

> This position that the ‘free will’ people experience is the ability to ‘decide’ to take some and then take it, while then saying the the decision to do so was predetermined, is not what is meant (especially in the vernacular) by free will.

Experimental philosohy suggests pretty definitively that people's moral reasoning agrees with Compatibilism: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274892120_Why_Compa...

> that even if it was supported, that said appeal to authority is a valid refutation of an argument.

The other poster provided no argument, they just made an unsupported claim.
Qt, range-based for loops and structured bindings
Could something like this be done for night vision goggles or is there significant latency?
The comparison is fair because it tries to automate expertise.

I'm sure you know exactly how much of which filter to apply for similar results. Laymen like ourselves will need a lot more trial and error. Their contribution here is to provide a push-button, automated mechanism.

I would have probably also tried something simple and given up due to the noise. So this is definitely interesting.
Good point, it generates a web app! It's built with native tech so eventually native apps. I've heard that suggestion a lot, video coming soon. Thanks for the feedback!
This is a very simplistic analysis. For Amazon this seems like a moment of vulnerability as they’re already struggling to keep up with demand.
Long video, so I haven't watched it all yet, but I have a bit of a naiive question: Does Vulkan and WebGL/WebGPU "fall back" to running on the CPU if "appropriate" hardware isn't available? Or are developers required to maintain separate code paths based on hardware?

I remember considering rewriting some tight loops in OpenCL but then the maintenance headache of having multiple code paths made the refactor seem not worth it. I'd guess this is/was generally a major speedbump for adoption. I know there is POCL which will run your kernels on the CPU, but it's not something you can't expect available on every platform. Maybe if POCL was part of the kernel or bundled with every distro then the situation would be different.

I've seen some project do compute in OpenGL ES 2.0 b/c that's ubiquitous and will always run (I think it's even a requirement for Android systems)
there isn't a fixed duration imposed by cryptography standards

Which was my point in the first place.

A distinct difference from the case of
data-at-rest.

I am thinking you reading something more into what I wrote than the words on the screen.

I disagree, but suggest the same for yourself.
What you have said is one thing. Intrusion like this can only be opt-in. But I am having another problem with opt-out with such a fishy company. Who guarantees me that after I send them my ID, they wont just take it, add the data to database and set a flag "hidden" to the records.
I think people apply a double standard when talking about Apple since they are the de-facto industry leader. The battery degradation issue is something that affects nearly all Li-Ion battery powered devices.

This includes all Android phones, PC laptops, etc.

People have such low expectations of the other products by default that no standards are applied and no quality is expected.

This is the issue. We apply (rightfully so) a far higher standard when assessing the industry leader (Apple) but we apply no standard at all to the competition which frequently gets away with the same kinds of issues (and also issues that are much much worse).
> There is no perfect solution of course, but generally speaking ORG domains have been used to signal that you are an organization vs. a corporation, and potentially a non-profit.

this is the convention, but I don't think it's ever been enforced by the registrar. see questions 5, 7, and 8 on this archived faq: https://archive.is/20120716084313/http://pir.org/get/faq/gen...

what I'm getting at is: if ICANN never enforced the convention in the first place, and they are selling it to someone else who also doesn't intend to enforce it, what should I expect to change?

when it comes to security in particular, conventions that are usually (but not always) followed are often worse than having no convention at all. it sets dangerous expectations for lay people.
Wait a few years till something happens to your controller and you try to get a compatible version.
The CDC is reporting an abnormally high pneumonia death rate in January, and it can’t be explained by confirmed flu cases:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/#S6

Look carefully at the black and red graph after the phrase “mortality surveillance data”.
This is a really great idea!

I wish you a lot of luck in this endeavor!

Any plans for a free, ultra-lightweight tier of service? You might be able to get more paid subscribers over time that way...
CRISPR-Based COVID-19 Test Kit Can Diagnose in Less Than an Hour
Yeah, that's my feeling as well.
Maybe a milder form of it came directly from Wuhan to CA, spreading like a bad flu. And then the version in NY came from Wuhan to Europe to NY, mutating along the way, and making it more deadly.
Very nice! I am on a phone. Are all of these backgrounds static (not animated)?
I was merely pointing out that the "mental" dependency of intuitionism isn't strictly necessary. Take it out, and you're left with an equally valid constructive logic.
You can organize at your workplace, but you don't have a right to use work resources to do it. (Workers used to have the right to use their work email, but the NLRB has recently overturned that precedent.)
Zooooom.us – A screen saver for these anxious times
I wonder: does anyone know of a solution which does something similar in a more software agnostic way? I imagine a software that takes a webcam manipulates the image and emulates another webcam which one could select then in every software that supports webcams.

Does such a thing exist?
It'd be pretty hard to prove or even notice. It's probably happened, the corporate world is too big, but it may not be common.
>> "arbitrariness or choice" is an illusion

>after reading a little about quantum mechanics I'm not so sure any more.

Even Brownian motion would suffice, a chemical phenomena we've known about for millennia.[0] The jittering of sodium and potassium ions between neurons can be enough to trigger spike firing in a 'random' way[1]. At the end of the day, we are just complicated salty sacks of stochastic processes trying to reproduce, not much more.

[0] yes, it's 'quantum mechanical' in cause, like all things are. I'd say it's more statistical mechanics than quantum though, but to each their own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_Neural_Science
Agreed, I wonder if the same amount of abstract concept would be possible though, can you feel a graph? could you do trigonometry with just hearing and sense of touch?
OK let me invent something:

A fignaft is a small pink bird from the island of slamp. It has a short triangular beak well adapted to plucking seeds out of the hard cones of the humnit bush. It was nearly hunted to extinction by the umaglots, until their chief shaman declared the bird to be a repository of the souls of men lost at sea. Since then it has made a remarkable recovery.

In contrast to the mental process required to invent an imaginary bird such as this, the folks who discovered DNA used tools to image cell internals such that the structure of the contents was revealed.

When DNA was discovered, something about the structure of the external world was made clear to us, and many other processes could be clarified as a result. The fignaft bird, on the other hand, only reveals the contents of my mind, and is constructed entirely of existing knowledge.
How long do you think it would take for Amazon to make 1500 new engineers productive during a pandemic? Amazon's not gonna fire anyone if they aren't forced to for money reasons.
It looks like SpaceX will gain the pride of having the 8 by 12 inch American flag left by the last shuttle mission.

"The shuttle replica accompanied an expected presentation of a U.S. flag that was flown on the first and last shuttle missions. The 8- by 12-inch flag, which was revealed by President Barack Obama during his call to the astronauts last week, will stay on board the station until the shuttle's successor arrives.

"This flag represents not just a symbol of our national pride and honor, but in this particular case, it represents a goal," Ferguson said. "This flag will be flown prominently here by the forward hatch of Node 2, to be returned to Earth once again by an astronaut that launches on a U.S. vehicle, hopefully in just a few years." [9 Weird Things That Flew On NASA's Shuttles]

Both the model and flag were hung near and on the hatch where 35 space shuttle crews have entered the station and where the STS-135 astronauts exited for a final time soon after presenting the mementos."

https://www.space.com/12335-shuttle-astronauts-flag-model-sp...
There is a slight problem (i am not sure if this is valid case, just thinking loud), if the data were gathered from public sources like fb, they might argue that those data are public.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3dl32LaOls&feature=youtu.be... 10 seconds, then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw2nfdNRAn0

China Bad
SV Good
SV Make New WeChat
SV Win
Yay

https://archive-media-1.nyafuu.org/vp/thumb/1525/64/15256481...
The problem is that the only organizations wealthy enough to do the necessary tests to provide "proof" have ZERO motivation to do anything that could jeopardize their already flowing coffers.

I mean, the govt could do it, if they weren't in the pockets of the corps.

What I'm saying is that if you're waiting for the pharma corps to provide the necessary studies to show their products ineffective or even dangerous, I'd call you a fool. Or do you have a few billion dollars lying around to fund such studies?
Where I grew up (41.3 deg N, on the Atlantic coast) I was always amazed by our neighbor, who would bury his ~15 foot tall fig tree every year to protect it from freezing. For some reason in my child mind it seemed to defy the laws of nature, though of course it was quite the opposite!
Hmm, seems the author forgot to define the seventh flavour.