skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. It baffles me how people seem to think the world is just getting worse and worse. The person mentions school pressure, only a few centuries ago in the western world many children were working in factories!
> I'm a software developer, which translates to being somehow smart

This is a doozy of a way to start a comment.
I've seen many talking about getting into oil producers and ETFs well above this price.

Guess it depends where you dwell online.
I also did this years ago, it was my last upgrade and I regret not getting normal sized boards. I only have space for one pci-e card, so I can either choose to have a video card, or anything else I need (such as a capture card). Now I would also like the possibility to run two capture cards, but I can't even do that. These small form factor pc's aren't event that much smaller than an mATX build, so I don't really see the point anymore. If a manufacturer would start making smaller PSU's GPUs and more integrated cooling, then maybe. I don't think you should sacrifice so much versatility a PC has just for a little extra floor space.
What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?
You really need an attentive person to keep people from being dragged--there is no substitute. (And in some curved stations, the driver can't even see to the rear end of the train.)

In principle, everything could be enclosed, like an elevator, but in practice most stations would be all but impossible to retrofit.
The point I'm trying to drive at is that bailouts are not a reward. If they were a reward, we wouldn't wait until emergencies to issue them. Rather, they're an emergency response, and in that sense they should really be optimized for effectively addressing the emergency, regardless of what feels fair.
Questions like these on SO should be taught in CS-101. There are some amazing answers in there that I would have hard time finding in textbooks.
OS/2 always intrigued me because it looked like a strange cousin of Windows; it so clearly shared the design language (and some actual code) with that family of operating systems.
Thanks for a great comment. Some good plant-based spreads:

https://www.naturli-foods.com/products/spreadable/
https://earthbalancenatural.com/spreads/original-buttery-spr...
https://miyokos.com/collections/vegan-butter
https://purefreefrom.co.uk/products/

Miyokos plant-based cheese is unbelievable, but still only available in the US.
I know a bunch of retirees who live modestly off of dividend income, couldn’t afford a significant cut and couldn’t easily return to work. I don’t think you have broad enough experience to assume no one earns a few thousand a month from dividends and needs most of it to help pay bills.
Ask HN: What is the most amusing bug you've encountered?
A recent HN thread about Hackintosh gave me the opportunity to recount a favorite anecdote: Many years ago, I was browsing a Hackintosh forum, and I came across a thread titled something like:

> Help! Audio only works while I'm moving my mouse!

This is my all-time favorite technology problem. What's yours?
Not that but maybe someone can explain if the technology is "AI" why it still takes tens of thousands of hours to implement a project? Shouldn't we call it AI when the frameworks can be implemented with relative ease? My point is that the level of customization required to achieve AI, in my opinion, doesn't make it very intelligent.
Having had some success with Pomodoro, I'll say that it's dangerous to spend your break (really only 5-10 mins) surfing the web or checking your phone.

What happens in my experience, is that you come across a video you really want to watch, or come across a comment that you absolutely must respond to; perhaps that's what happening to me right now!

Before you know it, you've spent 30 mins away from work, and completely lost the momentum and concentration that was accumulating via the pomodoro. Now you have to use more mental energy to get back to that state.
The problem is that the question of whether dark mode CSS should be applied is only known once JavaScript can be executed on the page.
Or maybe there's just not a lot of AI in their main search product (for whatever reason). They seem to be pretty good in other areas (Translate, Cloud speech-to-text, Alexa etc.)
I wonder if the logos with the red handle in the eye then on the back of the neck was foreshadowing
I didn’t find any information about this service’s infrastructure and presence. There isn’t much information about its operations either. It seems like a single person project, which is something people shouldn’t rely on especially if it’s going to help you connect online (or don’t tell common people to rely on these).

With bigger providers like Google and Cloudflare providing free DNS and having presence around the world (to reduce latency), it’s not going to be easy to compete for others.

Recently I switched from Cloudflare to NextDNS. I like the fact that NextDNS has a closer presence in many locations (for lower latency) and also has several ad blocking lists you can subscribe to. It’s close to having a Pi-Hole on the cloud and close to having a non-customized uBlock Origin on the cloud. The web interface to customize this is easy to use. The only thing I don’t like is that it’s not a simple DNS configuration if you aren’t interested in additional protections or ad blocking lists. It requires an app for every supported platform. I don’t recall seeing a set of IP addresses published upfront by NextDNS, like how Google DNS and Cloudflare do. The pricing will be another factor to consider whenever it exits beta.
You have a dozen comments in this thread asking "Why is it racist" questions about obviously racist things. You're close to being reported.
Virtual Retinal Displays (VRD) have been around for a while (1). More recently entering the consumer market. I didn't see the article mention the Avegant Glyph (2)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_retinal_display

2. https://avegant.com/video-headset

Edit: formatting
The other day I found that googling something like “mesothelioma -lawyer” will exclude results with “lawyer” but all the ads will still be for lawyers and contain the word “lawyer”.

I guess because they leave it up to the advertiser to determine the negative match words and that seems to always have priority.
I would say that what is already available for linux is far better than what adobe has for image editing and video editing. Nuke and Houdini are much better for editing images than photoshop. Davinci Resolve is a much better video editor than premiere. Painting and vector illustrations are where Linux doesn't have good alternatives as far as I know. At this point there are multiple web based image editors that are far better than the low bar that Gimp sets. Gimp is a relic that most people would be better off forgetting about.
I don't think the buttermilk ice cream is made from teh same buttermilk that the OP is referring to. The milk leftover from the churning of butter is a kind of tangy skim milk and it can't be used to make ice cream because all of the fat has been removed to make the butter.

The buttermilk you buy in the store is basically fermented milk. It has a totally different flavor and texture. It is also delicious and you should totally make fried chickenburgers with it. You should also make biscuits, pancakes, cornbread, etc with it (assuming you eat those things) because buttermilk has an amazing flavor that's really unlike anything else.
Oh, I'm not claiming it does it correctly. (In fact, I have another comment that points out another issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22924571). But the claim that I was responding to made incorrect assumptions, and the bugs in the implementation don't change that.
If oil was sold like that, it wouldn't be a joke
Time to make more tar and repave the roads.
Eeee macarena - ay!
> For context, I am completely unable to “see” anything in my mind. I do not dream either. If I close my eyes and think of something, nothing happens visually

Correct me if I'm wrong but I suspect a lot of self-diagnosed cases of aphantasia are due to the ambiguity of language (specifically, English)... Qualia lost in translation.

I suspect nobody really sees something visually when thinking/imagining something, in a sober waking state (barring maybe a few rare exceptions or psychotic disorders). If you would see something superimposed on your visual field, with closed eyes or not, that would be called hallucinating.

For me, "seeing it in my mind's eye" is a different kind of "seeing": there is no visual input.

Example: imagine a tree. Where are the branches? Where are the roots? Where are the leaves? What color do the leaves have? Etc... You can answer these questions, right? The place where you find the answers is where the mind's eye is. I've yet to meet someone who actually sees the tree with the same visual clarity as if looking at an actual tree.

Dreaming is somewhere in between for me: it's usually visual, but not of the same visual quality as waking life, except when lucid. A lot of people don't remember their dreams, but that doesn't mean they don't have them. Ask yourself right after waking up in REM sleep (don't even open your eyes if you can): what just happened? What were you thinking?
the icab link from yesterday showed a screenshot of amazon when their categories listings were still meaningful and helpful. nowadays, it's just a pain.

i recently looked for dough scrapers. i wanted to see what's selling best and what's most rated. they are everywhere. in dessert & decoration, in utensils, in bakeware, and many other categories. i mean i get it...

it's not just search that's hard. categorization is also an issue here.
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> Bill Gates comes to mind

I'd argue that Bill Gates is regretting his previous actions and trying to fix his "karma" in his retirement. He was just as bad as the rest of them.
> You need to set it ahead, not behind

Yeah I actually realized that mistake some 30 mins after posting that I think but then left it like just wondering who will notice that :p
Krita is wonderful for painting and other applications like that. But isn't a full photoshop replacement. It is pretty heavily focused on digital painting.
> Companies that intentionally run with razor-thin balance sheets and don't have any buffers built in to withstands shocks, are more fragile than companies with some buffer, all other things being equal.

That's true; but it's not at all the statement you made originally, is it? Do you actually have some data that suggests that dividend-paying companies are more likely to be run as you described?

Contrary example: AAPL in its Q1 2020 filing reported ~$200bn of cash, equivalents and marketable securities on hand. AAPL also pays a dividend.

Moreover: it's absolutely not to the benefit of shareholders to have a company fail just in order to pay a dividend (unless the dividend yield is something ridiculous); shareholders are often interested in a combination of growth and yield, and the value of the stock going to zero as the company fails is a bad outcome.

In fact, companies that pay a dividend by definition have a buffer. They can chose not to pay a dividend.
I talked with a friend the other day that works for a big Canadian producer. SAGD (which is popular in Alberta) can't just be turned off since the heating of steam takes months to ramp up.
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.
someone can explain me why they just don't stop pumping?
I care greatly if people do whatever they'd like. Tolerances build up. Eventually the drug only stops withdrawals and people just take it just to be normal.

Money runs out, and the part of your body that has been numbed by drugs wakes up. That part rarely gets attention. Getting over it can take decades, not just some simple two month detox, and everyone else has to clean up the mess. It gets ugly quick.

That's why we have locks on our doors and traffic stops. I really wonder what the world would look like if people were nice.

> But giving people psychedelics and having them explore their own consciousnesses is not going to catalyze our society forward by leaps and bounds, that has been done since at least the 60s.

How about the reverse?

You tripping?

ok. Turn down the atom interferometer please.
I don't think that's quite what parent meant. There's a difference between

"Does not break any rules"

and

"Follows all the rules"

Where the gap is in whether the entity is subject to the rules. You are correct that one that isn't subject to the rules is right to not follow them.

But, where the outcome of those rules incurs some benefit, why should the non-subject incur it?
There's Nowhere to Put the Oil
Hey thread, author here.

I don't have the energy to debunk some of these replies, but let me quickly say:

1. The reason that this is a hard problem has nothing to do with React, or Gatsby. It has to do with the strategy of precompiling HTML and not having a runtime server, an approach with many many benefits (described here: https://joshwcomeau.com/gatsby/a-static-future/). If you're wondering why anyone would put up with all this tomfoolery for a dark mode, please read that so you can understand the benefits to this approach.

2. "React is overkill for static sites" is a debate I am not trying to have, but I can say that for my blog (the site that this post is about), React has allowed me to do lots of cool things that would have been much harder otherwise. And using Gatsby means that I have first-meaningful-paint performance that beats a PHP template with no JS, since my site doesn't have to do any database lookups or real-time HTML generation. I am not saying that this is the right approach for every website, but it was 100% the right choice for this one.

4. Many of these replies are making suggestions that are discussed in the article itself. CSS variables are not an alternative to this solution, they _are_ the solution (my solution wouldn't work without them!). Please read the post before forming an opinion about it.

I hope that helps clarify some things! Hope you're all doing alright and staying home.
Uncovering multicore interference
Yes, each of which wraps a "Not Hotdog" app. Turns out that "Not Hotdog" is quite hard already.
Wow this website is really creative.

Not sure about the dark mode implementation, since it rendered a white screen for me with no content on iOS, but on desktop it worked.

Also the general feel of the website is really nice, a lot of nice little touches from the sounds to the "nonstop confetti party" when you sign up for the newsletter.
I still don't understand, why didn't the left simply reply "yes it is" and resist the urge to hedge/caveat/etc? It seems it would've been tactically and strategically best. Judging from the people I see online who were pushed right by the left's response to this.
For a moment I thought it's going to be about car washing.
> will draw the wrong conclusion

A risk. But it doesn't take much to get people on the right path.

1) trust your staff, give them autonomy and agency.

2) asynchronous transparent communication for discussions and decisions.

3) remove friction: few small tools for communication and collaboration, good audio, forum, wiki, git, etc. Services: shopping, childcare, etc.

And a bunch of smaller tricks. But trust, transparency, asynchronous coordination are the major points.

I've helped "rush" groups to full remote with less than 10h "training" during the last few months now that it suddenly became important to a lot of people. More time would have been great, but even a small bit can help a lot.

If you have experience of remote / distributed work, help out and teach others now that they really need it.
I suspect we'll see causal techniques start merging with more traditional AI/ML tools over the coming years.

Causal forests are an example that extends random forests, but I imagine a lot of the value in current pipelines would be to use causality as regulariser. This could be a parameter that controls the weight of established causal links, or it could be as a scaffold; e.g. a first 'causal pass' is used to establish constraints (monotonicity, conditional variable selection, reject changes that result in predictions inconsistent with the initial causal model when there is a strong causal model etc).

RL is likely more promising. If agents could be made to search for causality in an environment these relationships could be made much harder to unlearn which would then enable more efficient exploration & incremental learning. Framed this way causality guides attention, limits the search space and locks in learning.

I've got some quarantine reading/experiments to try! :)
I agree. It depends on long-term demand change, if any. New investors might be quite reluctant for a while regardless.
In their defense, February was a very confusing time for the virus, and it’s easy to look back in hindsight judgement.

For example, on Feb 24 Pelosi was in crowded Chinese New Year celebration in China town urging people to “come down”. They were still calling the China travel ban “racist” and “xenophobic” during this time. Trump was bragging about 14 cases and saying we have it under control.

People just really weren’t grappling with the seriousness of the situation. Now we all know, and we’re eager to blame different people and institutions. Not only that, but politicians are trying to rewrite their own histories. Don’t let them do that.
Yes. Butter solids taste a bit like baked/toasted cheese. Highly recommended.
I was implicitly answering the question of "why not just build more"? I know we have some.

It is true that we have some already, and that does make it somewhat easier to build more (it's not like we've never done it before, we have the software and businesses ready to go, the tooling presumably exists somewhere), but there's still substantial expenses that doesn't help with (the tanks still have to be built, land may have to be acquired, you can't just build one in the middle of nowhere in Kansas, you have to have it where the oil can be shipped to, inspections and permits because even under these circumstances I'd still rather like at least the important ones to happen for something like this, etc.).
In the US we were able to get a good yogurt culture from someone and now make it ourselves. Tastes just like from back home.

Next time you visit India, or where you're from, try to dry some yogurt and use that as the culture. I have a feeling that that might work.
I get the appeal of building in an SFF case, but there's a catch: with micro-ATX or full ATX case, you're more likely to put it away somewhere like under the desk, since the power button and ports will be easily accessible from the top. However, with a small case, you will have to keep it on your desk, adding to the clutter.

I built a computer recently and went in the opposite direction. Since the major differentiator of desktop vs laptop is power, I put as much power into my computer as I possibly could :) I also built a custom loop in it, because it looks cool, keeps the PC quiet at all times and I always wanted to do that.

Here's the PC if anyone is interested: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/Mkcqqs
stripes are not the only pattern besides solid color.
In case you didn't know:

https://sentientmedia.org/dairy-is-cruel/
For historic reasons states have built systems that prevent normal governments from inventing money at scale: Independent Central Banks. It's of course an important ongoing debate in economics whether this is still appropriate, but it's unrealistic to expect governments to so dramatically alter the fundamental structure of monetary policy. That said, of course it's even more unrealistic to expect them to do so absent a massive external shock.
Weirdly, searching for

'shirt no stripes'

on Google returned this web page at top of the organic results.

So at some point, searching for a shirt online will involve this conversation. Even more confusing.

(Although I expect my filter bubble will play a part in that)
I would never search for something this way. If I wanted to find a 4WD car, I wouldn't search for "cars without 2WD."

Likewise, here, I would search for solid-colored shirts.

And these services are limited to the content/terminology utilized by the cataloged sites/products.

If I am selling a "black shirt" or a "solid black shirt," it is not google's job to catalog it as a "shirt without stripes," unless I advertise it as a "black shirt without stripes."

I would use natural language to test a services' NLP ability.
But they have been buying back their stock which is effectively paying out a dividend with automatic reinvestment.
It does a little bit cut into the organic/spiritual nature of the experience. If I am going to get high I have recently gone back to just smoking weed instead of eating a 'watermelon burst' gummy or something. Smoking with a pipe is timeless and the ritual, smell, taste are all a part of it for me.

Same thing with mushrooms, preparing the tea for me is a part of the experience.
There should be a very small percentage of exceptional players.

If you allow everyone who cheats to play, even if they're only playing at the peak, it will break the balance of everything. The top tier games will suck because half the players are cheaters, and the lower tier games will be filled with aimbot smurfs on their way up.

Unfortunately pretty soon we are going to enter a world where the cheats can be deep learning based and entirely external to the game itself (only using video as input, transmitting raw mouse input, etc). It will be fundamentally impossible to tell the difference from human players. This will be a weird time for competitive games when it happens.
What if Trump loses?
2B phones cannot use Google and Apple contact-tracing tech
Yes, basically 1990s Expert Systems but with even more manual labor.
https://www.google.com/search?q=plain+shirt

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=plain+shirt

on edit: https://www.google.com/search?q=shirt+-stripes
You should be able to view with this link (thought I had used it when I posted in the first place):

https://medium.com/@seandexter1/the-baymard-institute-a-glor...
Well, the Windows NT family (which includes Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10) is a descendant of OS/2. In fact, Windows NT 3.1 was basically a reskinned OS/2.

I remember fond days of playing several MSDOS games at once under OS/2 (Elite: Frontier and Colonization, iirc) while Windows 95 failed to play any of them :)
A semi-common retirement setup is to buy relatively stable stocks that have good dividends and supply you with a 4-6% annual return.
Every systems sucks at NLP. It is an extremely hard problem and we are nowhere near matching the human cerebral cortex.
Should be able to use this link:

https://medium.com/@seandexter1/the-baymard-institute-a-glor...
Interesting. Thanks

Stimulus would only prevent (some) companies from going bankrupt. So at best it avoid crash. Not sure why market is optimistic though.
Labeling work remote or non-remote (on-site?) becomes increasingly irrelevant. Need for physical presence in a given geographical location is mitigated by good planing and quality of tools allowing to share information effectively.
Why dont we stop calling things remote or not, but focus more on improving the tool sets needed to better plan and share thing between humans.

All of these tools are needed wether the team is physically on the same geo location or spread out. What changed now is that its much harder to justify not having them anymore.
I think Krita is a pretty nice digital painting product; it's good enough to where I'd consider paying for it honestly.