skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post is nicely written. We are from the Pande Lab @ Stanford and are very supportive of this work being done by Barzilay et al at MIT. We cite each others' papers for good reason.

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I'm mildly terrified that it's going into another training data set somewhere.
Show HN: Mobile 3D group video chat with spatial audio for friends and events
As if the Kingdom of Bhutan couldn't get any cooler!

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I remember an advertising gimmick in the 90's, plastic ribbons with tiny ridges that you attached to balloons and then you could pinch them and draw your fingers down, running your thumbnail over the ridges. The result was that the balloon acted like a speaker for the sound waves encoded in the ridges.
Casio comes to mind when coming up with EL devices for example. The classic G-shock I have on my wrist right now touts a "Electro Luminescent Backlight", though I rarely use the light.
there is no herd immunity if reinfection can occur, which appears to be the case
Ask HN: Is there a Slack Bot that will post when AWS / Heroku / etc. goes down?
I want a Slack bot that will pull from the API stream at all of the services that we depend on, and post when it goes down. I find it annoying when, a couple times a year, someone messages me like "hey! your random app you made for fun is down!" and I Google around for a bit and find that AWS is down in Virginia or like Auth0 is down completely, via their status pages.

I am kind of shocked that I can't find an "omni-down detector" that summarizes the outage status of all your dependencies. Does this exist?
So 15% infection rate among pregnant women. I would assume pregnant women would be more careful than average about avoiding getting infected. So overall infection rate in New York City must be even higher.
When I needed to do this, I just grabbed Z3 and applied this little bit of black magic from the cookbook:

(apply
(then ctx-solver-simplify propagate-values
(par-then
(repeat
(or-else
split-clause
skip))
propagate-ineqs)))

Works pretty well for my problem (simplifying the branch condition paths for entering a given basic-block in a symbolic-execution system down to something human-readable), and best of all, it has no corner-cases requiring manual human teaching. (It's the ctx-solver-simplify bit that gets you most of that; it's a pretty powerful engine.)
I believe the principal reason is that social networks have accustomed users to be able to interact with the content they absorb. And as we all think that we say is important...

What I would really love to emerge is a kind of new social network / protocol based only on RSS for following and emails for comments :D
put redis in front of your graphql server.
let the key be the query hash. and the ttl be 30 seconds.
if your query has many duplicate lookups (e.g. the same user appears multiple times on the leaderboard) use dataloader.
Again, sir, I urge you to read the design notes [1] as it will answer many of your questions and uncertainties around this project. That said, you are someone I respect to the highest levels possible, so I sincerely appreciate the comments and criticisms shared thus far and earnestly hope that your participation will continue!

With that aside, to answer your question regarding monetized/cryptocurrency, here is an excerpt from the notes and there are far more details that can be found therein:

A blockchain is proposed which optimizes for correcting prior weaknesses around
acknowledging stakeholders such as existing top-level domain (TLD) holders and
optimizes for decentralization (while still allowing for n-of-m attestations).
Users use the native token (coin) to register TLDs which are pinned to a
specific certificate as the identity. A committed merkelized proof of all
top-level names allow for compact, shareable inclusion and exclusion proofs.
This blockchain exists to attempt to resolve the need for a globally unique
namespace which is necessary to have an association with unique names and
certificates. While it's possible to create a singular centralized globally
unique association (DNSSEC), a decentralized system can be resolved by creating
a blockchain with its own cryptoeconomic incentives (coin), including name
auctions of a unique namespace and block creation. Scarce resources require
sybil protection, usually managed by a central trusted authority (CAs, ICANN),
but can be resolved by having a blockchain based mechanism for global consensus
and resource allocation.

[1] https://handshake.org/files/handshake.txt (# Project Summary)
The tricky bit for OS X is that there isn't a virtual webcam driver for it. (Someone posted a proposed bounty last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22686333)

You can do this today on Windows and Linux, I believe.
Elon Musk says Tesla Cybertruck will will shrink by about 3%
Why aren't real and imaginary numbers both invented?
Codeberg servers for example are in Germany. But this was run in the USA on SourceHut itself, so it's no wonder SourceHut has the highest performance score when things like TTFB count in. That seems a bit unfair to me.
Not gonna defend LinkedIn, their dark patterns are well documented and awful. But don't you have basically a free form input text for each job description where you can put whatever you want?
> it's an observation that there is no sharp line between invention and discovery

This is true of pretty much any human categories, yes. That does not mean the categories aren't valid or that they should all be collapsed into one.
It's about the use of that word in the name of a product.
If you're not covered under CCPA or GDPR (most of the world) then you're just shit outta luck. Cool.
I agree with you completely. I think Bing is pretty good, but using Google just makes me "feel" comfortable that I am getting the right search results. It's kind of crazy. I just have confidence in it.
The problem with your argument is that it's simply unfalsifiable. It could serve to justify any kind of opinion. How do we know the earth is not really flat?

Of course, you also choose to ignore how many people don't die anymore from totally curable diseases that were a certain death sentence even just decades ago (e.g. take AIDS).
The law is tricky, varies by state, and I think people are worried about falling on the wrong side of it. For example, here's what NJ uses to describe which goods are covered: "which is consumed or used to preserve, protect, or sustain the life, health, safety or comfort of persons or their property". This could include many things we consider "non-essential".

Additionally, they're probably worried about public perception, even if it might be strictly legal.
Given that shipping is down, maybe we should be looking at brand new containers for this as well?

Certainly, GGP has a point about modular construction being simpler, for sure. But the counterargument is 'can you ship them'. Anyone who lives near a port city is aware that there are train cars and semi trailers designed such that you can plop containers onto them.

What I don't know is how prevalent is the equipment to unbox them on the receiving end (or for that matter, whether the container trailers are rated for long-haul). That would limit the reach to the supply chains radiating out from ports.
Funny you mention a telecom provider, because the same happened to me in France: I wanted to switch plan on the same operator, but couldn't because I was redirected to the login screen again and again.
Yes and that's what this "lossy" conversion to daytime does as well, incorporate prior knowledge, but that prior knowledge is about how images of real world things function during night versus day.
But that's the whole point, patents are awarded to things deemed inventions not things deemed discoveries. If you can't delineate between the two you can't say what is and what is not patentable.

Fourier analysis couldn't have been patented, despite numerous commercial applications. It's just the patent system is setup to only reward low-level innovation, so it arbitrarily excludes research level innovation by terming it discovery.
Raising prices in response to natural disasters is a really bad move for a company's reputation, regardless of how logical it may seem. And Amazon is already under a lot of scrutiny by the public and politicians. The last thing they need to do is affix a very large target to their back.
What's that terminal status bar you've got at the bottom of the screenshots?
I'm open to help write bindings or cool demos if you're interested.
And I don't think it's true if you want a system that integrates Google Assistant and the G-Cam software. Being privacy-conscious is not universal, it's an individual priority. For you, get an iPhone. My statement was, weighing advantages and disadvantages against one another, the math comes out pretty close.

On a Pixel, I can use Google Assistant like a secretary. It screens the calls, forces the caller to answer questions, then relays the answers to me to see if I want to talk to them. That's pretty damn awesome. But again, it's not everyone's priority.
Yes, he would tie it down and create a kind of berm along its length.
You missed that battle by a few hundred years, sorry.
In many states, no. See https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/can-potential-employ... for a quick overview of the legal reasons why not.
There's also stipulations on when and where you can organize at your workplace. For example, putting up noticed about a union meeting on the bulletin board in the breakroom is allowed, but you can't put that same notice on a factory floor. You also can talk about organizing at work, but only if it's outside of work hours (you can't be on the clock and using that time to talk about organizing).
Traffic yes, a lot

People advertising on youtube is the problem, that number is only going down
This is completely untrue.

What you are describing is usually called automatic tone mapping. This is basically noise reduction and possibly color normalization from brightening a dark image. Them showing their black image as the starting point is silly, because jpg will make a mess of the remaining information. What they should show is the raw image brightened by a straight multiplier to show the noisy version that you would get from trying to increase brightness in a trivial way.
I only use extensions that don't have minimized/obfuscated code in the xpi file. So that leaves only GreaseMonkey. There's zero technical reason to minimize extension JS code, since it's already compressed in xpi (zip) file.

It's not a silver bullet (I caught people who managed to put a tracker into non-minimized code too, in the past.), but minimized code is hard to compare for chnages and review during updates, so that's a no no for me.
>If there was ever a crucial moment for Boeing to play dirty, this would be it.

Yeah, Boeing is going to sabotage this launch, just like Big Oil, Big Auto, Big Media and Big ShortSeller sabotage Tesla.

These companies have a delusional fanbase.
If you both opt-out and request data deletion, how do they keep you opt'ed-out? That seems impossible for them to comply with.
Here is the graph you are looking for:
blue = low CPU load
yellow = medium
red = maximal load

They measure the whole system consumption, so you need to subtract roughly 25-30 watts, to get raw CPU consumption.
> I particularly liked Max's answer who neatly makes the distinction between the structure (we discover) and the language (we invent). We're free to invent the names, but not the structures.

i came here to give my opinion, but this is pretty much it. i need to read max tegmark's books.

the idea that how we got to the structures and concepts we find is undoubtedly invented, because we've already seen that we've re-invented our methods multiple times. but the structures and concepts don't really change. we extend them, but there seems to be some set of structures and concepts that get settled to. if we found some alien species that has mathematics, we'd probably find that there's some mapping between our structures modulo small choices that were made.
My guess is that if you no longer live in CA you're no longer covered under the CCPA so no. It's about residence, not where the photos were taken.
I spoke about this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22900649

Basically, (1) simulated network conditions in lighthouse should account for this, and (2) the results are not substantially different when run from Germany:

https://www.netbsd.org/~joerg/report-de.tar.xz
FYI none of those images show if you have adblockers on
I'm not from Europe, but if I saw "BBC converts night images to perfect daylight in ~1 second", I would assume it meant the British Broadcasting Corporation. CNN is just as big of a name. His point is absolutely relevant.

Said differently: The percentage of people who are not from the US - but are aware of CNN as the Cable News Network, is higher than the percentage of people who are not machine learning experts - but are aware of CNN as a Convolutional Neural Network
Nice to see my own toy-project `rss2email` listed there!

I wrote that as a trivial golang application, specifically because that the original python-based rss2email project was the only reason I ever had any python on my main server.
I've cancelled any and all memberships, subscriptions, etc. with Amazon and anything they own, and I'm no longer ordering anything from them. It's completely unacceptable to treat workers this way, even if Bezos weren't the richest person on earth. Which he is! So on top of treating people like disposable garbage, he controls a plurality of the world's resources and refuses to mobilize any of them to help his workers.
We could argue whether the use is descriptive when the word is used in the name of a product, but it's the unwillingness on my part to test this in the courts.
I'm not sure why we should believe the strain that originated in Wuhan was milder, but lets go with this theory for a minute. How does the nursing home in Washington fit into that picture? It was one of the earliest known hotspots in the US and it was extremely deadly. Was it the mild strain that you think might have already been spreading through California or the severe strain from Europe that spread to Washington first before New York? If it was the former, why didn't we see similar situations in California among vulnerable populations?
Many upstream transit providers have route filters in place. They won't accept any route, like they did in the 90's. Some still do, of course.

Also, normally you have your router announce routes over BGP, not your servers.
The funny thing is that you can't really opt out if the mechanism they use to tell their system to ignore you is in and of itself facial recognition based.

They'd have to crawl all incoming data, and compare it with you (I.e. identifying you) in order to know whether or not that picture they just slurped up was someone who had opted out. Opt-outs don't work by definition when what you are opting out of is a system of identification.

The fact of the matter is, the system shouldn't have been made in the first place,and the mere existence of it guarantees the capability for it to be abused.
Right, but these are projects I've done on my own time. My job history (because of prior burnout that I've recovered from) doesn't describe what I am capable of now, and the things I've done to improve my skill. How do I add:

- That I reverse engineered an android app, fully replicated their API and engaged in successful responsible disclosure for the service?

- The Lisp with the ELF header I've handwritten in assembler?

- The wrapper language for HTML I then built my website and a business website for family with (In pure HTML+CSS, they aren't React projects that will get me hired but, that framework would have been overpowered for the client's needs. Also it's worth stating that it's not just a 'website for family', but the person is very qualified and accomplished at their artwork and the website is the major platform for showcasing their work).

- The robust file tagging system I worked on.

- The time I dug into the function call hierarchy of the linux kernel because one of the setattr family of functions was passing back an undocumented return code, and the subsequent patch to the man-doc project I contributed.

These sound rhetorical but they're very much not, if you or anyone else knows a way to accomplish this please comment!
Yep. You've got nothing. CFR is low, and this has been knowable for a long time. You're scared. It's OK. It's illogical and anti-scientific, but it's OK. But you won't be able to hurt ordinary people any longer.

Here's Germany's imputed CFR: https://spectator.us/covid-antibody-test-german-town-shows-1...

Here's Denmark: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/doedelighed-skal-formentli...

Here's Iceland: https://reason.com/2020/04/03/what-we-should-have-learned-fr...

More studies coming next week from LA.
‘South Park’s’ Latest Episode ‘Band in China’ Gets Banned in China
Calling work email a "resource" seems a little dubious to me. I.e. if I use office stationary to write my union manifesto, they have to buy more stationary. If I send an email they don't have to buy more of anything.

Especially in the world we live in right now - email and other work-hosted communications platforms are not a resource provided by work, they are the WORKPLACE.
Hello HN!

I created the new Movement app to be an immersive video conferencing/chat platform that more closely resembles how we interact with each other in the real world. We just launched our open beta and I wanted to share!

Features:

1. 3D and spatial audio

You can move around in 3D spaces and hear people who can close to you more than those who are far away just like real life. With zoom and others you were limited to one conversation but with Movement you can have multiple!

2. Create a virtual room and pick from one of our room types.

Make a club room, a conference room or a villa room! We support up to 17 people in a room right now but are working to soon support 100+

3. Discover other rooms and meet you people.

You can actually go into other peoples rooms (if they allow it to be public)

Excited to share! Feedback welcomed! The UI isn't perfect but we're working on it haha.
Is this different than

document.querySelector("html").contentEditable = true;

?
One might say that computing doesn't care about ordinal numbers, only cardinal numbers.

On an infinite tape, there is no "first byte", only "a byte placed where the tape already was when you started" (i.e. at offset=0.)

Similarly, there is no "first byte" of a random-access memory, because the ordering of memory is not guaranteed (i.e. some memories have bit-planes, some memories have banks, some memories are big/little-endian, etc.) The only thing you can say about a memory (and thereby about a RAM-word machine, or about an array) is what exists at address 0 of it, at address 1 of it, etc. It would be incorrect to describe address 0 as "the first byte" of memory, as this would impose a canonical iteration order.
All of the flu surveillance numbers suggested a historically bad season this year, and there was a big peak in flu-like mortality in February. It's entirely possible that we were mis-characterizing the data:

https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html
It may have a low overall fatality rate, yet it seems to have a high rate of hospitalization in clinical cases.
I think you might be surprised by their level of outspokenness on social media or lack thereof. Are you familiar with the concept of the "silent majority"?
How did he exhume it in the Spring?
The article demands decentralisation of infrastructure, which if you want to facilitate payments like Wechat does which is a large and key component of the platform, requires some sort of consensus mechanism.

Doesn't necessarily need to be a blockchain, but something similar in spirit, and this quickly falls apart because WeChat does a billion+ transactions per day, that's about tens of thousands per second and there's no decentralised, secure solution for this.
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Amazon warehouse workers get $17/hr starting wage (and a full 2x ($34/hr!!) overtime), with no experience/education needed and almost no barrier to getting the job (except physical capability to lift a box), as well as the best health insurance I've ever heard of entry-level manual laborers getting, as well as education budgets to be used on any higher level education they want.

Obviously warehouse work isn't glamorous and they are under a lot of pressure and there's nothing wrong with increased scrutiny on how they are treated, but it's also getting exhausting when people act like Amazon FC workers are treated like slaves.
These are very common statistical methods when dealing with surveys and populations. It isn't this paper's job to describe the background on something like that, just like it isn't this papers job to explain blood testing.

They describe their limitations and adjustments exactly like most other studies of this sort do. For example:

"Those imbalances were partly addressed by weighting our sample population by zip code, race, and sex to match the county. "
Agreed. Depending on which option you choose, this could further improve their model. For example, they could use it to confirm your identity and improve recognition of you. Even if they never disclosed your id, they could use it reject subjects that would otherwise have a possibility of being you.
I think the more likely explanation is that NY simply is a lot more dense and less reliant on cars vs the less dense and more reliant on cars California.
I don't think it needs to be changed. I also read it as the news channel, wondered how that would make sense, and guessed it was the other sort of CNN. It's confusing but not misleading.
My understanding is that it is 1500 employees, not 1500 engineers. The number of engineers is probably far fewer and low enough to replace.
1. Not everyone works with ML ornis familiar with different types of neural nets

2. CNN exists outside of the US
> There's no point acting all surprised about it; the plans and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your earth years. If you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that's your own lookout.
I started a job search just before shelter-in-place took hold. I think most well-funded startups that aren’t obviously directly impacted are hiring as usual, but that’s anecdotal and based on a pretty small sample size.
Yes. This is like editable text for any text on the screen enabled.