skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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China should allow non-Chinese social media companies from operating in mainland China or else international governments should ban Chinese social media companies from operating in their borders.

This is absurd. China is surveilling the world with their apps now.
Yeah, and other local areas that aren't geographically suited for connection to SF's net are starting to kick off their own nets. I expect we'll see a Half Moon Bay centric net in the next two years!
My kids’ Boomer grandparents wouldn’t want the burden of assisting with rearing their grandchildren. We can barely get them to watch our kids for an afternoon. Seems a common theme with our friends who are parents.

Their parents’ generation would/would have though. My grandparents did a lot with me and my siblings when we were young in the 80s and 90s
It's relatively direct:

https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-procedures-an...
Pulse oximeters measure the light absorbed by hemoglobin. So that's pretty much a direct measurement, I don't think it could be wrong.

https://opentextbc.ca/vitalsign/chapter/why-is-pulse-oximetr...
Right, I haven't looked at PTX or Intel Gen ASM, but on AMD this compiles to a lg(n) series of add instructions each with a warp local shuffle (v_add_nc_u32 with a row_shr: modifier). It's not going to shared memory. I've experimented a bit with hand-rolling scans (using subgroupShuffleUp) and get similar but not identical asm (that intrinsic gives you a wave_ror: modifier). So I think you could write this using even lower-level intrinsics and also get good performance.

I strongly suspect Intel and NVidia are similar here, but haven't experimented.

[1]: http://shader-playground.timjones.io/4d7402168290f8922da5df3...
Wet ops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetwork
Slippery Slope is a logical fallacy, much like appeal to authority or ad hominem, only that people online seem to have far less trouble recognising the later two than the former.
It's pretty cool that Paul Graham has reinvented the concept of parenting in such an innovative way.

I'm looking forward to hearing his cooking advice next.
Hmm no, Sweden is not the only country that is counting dead at care facilities.

See Belgium which is on top of the chart presented by Trump:

https://translate.google.be/translate?hl=fr&tab=wT&authuser=...
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Recently learnt about "The Priceless Gift of a Rich Cultural Education" by Cornelius Hirschberg from another book but couldn't find it anywhere on the web and it costs crazy money (around 180 usd on Amazon). I'm dying to read it. Can anyone please send me a copy? Thank you.
Comments from previous threads about the Santa Clara study:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22903284

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22899272
This would be completely illegal in France.

Beside the fact that an individual tracking requires the employee to be informed of the fact and that the company must jump through hoops to have this registered - you coukd end up screenshooting private activities.

They are allowed on company devices and company time, and they are protected.
Why would you have to "add Haskell to your CI" to run the tool?

You also don't have to install C++ and Rust compilers to be able to run Firefox, or a Haskell compiler to run Pandoc.
So a traditional hunting bow instead. Or a blowpipe with poison darts.
There are a lot of “hackers” who think that the ability to code or build a successful business is synonymous with deep intellect and wisdom, and a forum such as this naturally attracts a greater number of them who engage in some vicarious glory seeking.
In my opinion, it actually comes down to two main things.

The first is the algorithm that TikTok uses to generate your "for you" page (on TikTok this is the home page, the first screen you see when opening the app). Vine had a small number of creators that essentially ran the entire app because they had the most followers and views. You only saw videos from people you followed on Vine, or when exploring the popular category sections. For the most part though, the large creators gained too much power after essentially unionizing and demanding salaries from Vine/Twitter. After they left the platform Vine quickly died faster than it already was. On TikTok, there is a massive talent pool and each individual video is tested by the algorithm by sending it out into a test pool of users, and if it does well it continues to get sent to more and more users. This makes it easier to go viral on TikTok than on Vine (on Vine you would have needed followers already for anyone to see the video), which means more people are willing to upload content in an attempt to go viral and this gives TikTok more high-quality videos to serve. It also means that even if the top creators left it wouldn't matter much to the average user; they would mostly see the same feed that they are seeing now.

The second is that TikTok provides a lot of editing capabilities in the app itself. Vine never had that. In order to upload edited videos to Vine, there were extra steps involved. TikTok provides these capabilities out of the box with filters, various editing features, green screen effects, etc. It's actually very impressive.

One last point is video length. Vine was always limited to 6 seconds (except for at the very end of life when they did a weird feature that allowed a 6-second video to be a preview for a longer video). Vine came out at a time when both Instagram and Snapchat ONLY supported photos, so it naturally rose as the only mobile video platform. During Vine's decline Instagram and Snapchat both introduced video support, allowing for longer length videos (Snapchat at 10 seconds, and Instagram at 1 minute) which only accelerated Vine's decline. People lost interest with Vine, the big creators shifted to Instagram and for sending videos to friends Snapchat became popular.

That's been my assessment having lived through the rise of these apps (I was in high school when Vine was at its peak).

If anyone notices an error in this, or has other thoughts, let's discuss!
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I disagree to an extent, but it is a compelling argument. Can you elaborate on Fabian struggle? I never heard the expression used.
I am not confident the danger is an existential threat. I think it's an interesting problem that markets are doing a poor job of solving. But since I don't want any government in charge of deciding what is fake news and you haven't sugeested a concrete solution so we can compare the cure to the illness, then what we have now will have to be sufficient.
Thanks. But you didn't say anything to persuade me that

> As a specialist for Turkey I would say that it is much more secular-rationalist than Germany.

And reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Turkey doesn't at all give the impression that

> Turkey is not a religious country.

Neither does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam#Turkey which says

"there are several formal and informal mechanisms in place that make it hard for citizens not to be Muslim. Non-Muslims, especially non-religious people, are discriminated against in a variety of ways. Article 216 of the penal code outlaws insulting religious belief, a de facto blasphemy law obstructing citizens from expressing irreligious views, or views critical of religions."
I live around 10 blocks from Brooklyn Hospital Center and I assure you the entire hospital, including atriums, waiting rooms, hallways and even meeting rooms are packed with patient beds.

If your hospital is empty, it’s because of the actions you took. Stop doing those actions, and your neighborhood will soon look like mine soon.

This thing of going to come in so many waves because humans seem to be incapable of not just learning from the past, but also the present.
This is not small issue. Up to 10% of FPGA's in the market can be affected.

RAID-, SATA-, NIC- controllers,
Industrial control systems, mobile base stations, data centers, devices like encrypted USB sticks and HDD's. In some cases it's possible to carry the attack remotely.
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Most of the TV consumption is from the elderly[1]. Maybe they're the ones who need to put down the remote?

You're absolutely right about reddit though.

[1]https://www.statista.com/chart/15224/daily-tv-consumption-by...
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Did anyone else come away with this article thinking Marc Andressen is overrated and completely out of touch?
There are some serious questions to be answered about the UK's response. However, those concerns mostly seem to originate with the political leadership (or, arguably, the lack of it) rather than the NHS itself.

It has never been the case that the NHS was the only provider of healthcare facilities in the UK or that it did everything "in house". We have biotech firms and medical equipment providers and direct clinical healthcare services in our private sector, too, and the NHS works with many of them routinely. Some of the big questions seem to be about why the government and NHS aren't making use of the capabilities those organisations might be able to provide in this particular situation.

I'm not sure the data we have so far does support your claim that everywhere is on the same path regardless of government response. Indeed, your own example of Germany suggests otherwise. There are also the (relative) success stories in Asia where they appear to have managed to avoid imposing the heavy restrictions we've seen in Europe without letting the virus get out of control. The widespread use of testing and the willingness to engage in population-scale track-and-trace programmes seem to be recurring themes in the places with better outcomes so far.

It looks like the thinking from governments in the UK and other locked down European nations is rapidly evolving to these heavy lockdowns being unsustainable for more than a few weeks, but possibly being a useful bridge to a time when we can adopt a track-and-trace strategy with a manageable number of cases. This brings us back to the same questions yet again about testing and engagement by the UK leadership with other facilities that might be available.
Very convenient way for party insiders to justify coronation of their preferred candidates regardless of "benefit to the nation." This same line of "gatekeeper" reasoning is exactly what justifies polling locations being closed and reopened elsewhere without notifying voters, years-long revolving door media propaganda campaigns, and accusing everyone who disagrees of being a Russian asset. The Republicans and Democrats alike are guilty of such behavior.

I too believe Trump is a symptom, not from lack/failure of gatekeeping, but rather the act of gatekeeping itself. I think the general public is (subconsciously or not) aware that these party insiders view themselves as "gatekeepers" and are anxious to "stick it to them" even if it comes at their own demise. Whether or not you agree or disagree with them, the issue here is that their trust in what they viewed as democracy was already eroded. This is probably reflected through the terribly small number of working class voters who participate in the political process.
Plus they directly contradict themselves in the story

> Before the clash, the world no.1 player didn't underestimate Firouzja, calling him "by far my biggest challenge."
Thanks a lot for your reply. Do you think Google is serious about differential privacy?

Also, I wonder whether the fact that most comments on this thread come from Google (ex-)employees, and not FB's, is saying something...
>rotten and antisocial business model

What's rotten and antisocial about providing cheap, reliable transportation ?
No One Is Supporting the Doctors
I love to highlight text on my browser as I read. The fact that it auto-clicks into the tweets as I'm highlight is infuriating.
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It's about how it's being provided. The history of Uber's sociopathic and often outright illegal behavior is long and well-documented.
Long division is also where I switched from being ahead on math to running behind. I could do those in my head and only wrote down the tail because I had to. Divisions that would have been hard enough that I couldn't do them in my head would have helped me a lot there.
When this first started popping off, I ordered one of them on Amazon. If I get it, it should help give me info on if / when I would need to go to the hospital.
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I think you missed this gem:

> "Vaccines are not coming anytime soon, so natural immunity is the only way out for now."
Or, just parallelize the entire build. eg, if you have four build servers, you could kick off a build every hour. Easy using VM's, trivial in the cloud.
This piece from Slate is also good: https://slate.com/technology/2020/04/nyc-emergency-log-coron...

Less great: Two more of my residents are sick. COVID, of course. Even without a test, we know. Their symptoms are familiar. My first impulse is to be frustrated. Didn’t I tell them to keep the mask on? Didn’t I say to wipe down the phone, or to not eat at work? I hate that impulse. It’s the same one that leads us to ask, “What were their underlying medical conditions?” when we hear about a young person dying. If someone was careless, that’s why they got sick. Therefore, if I am not careless, I won’t get sick. If someone had underlying conditions, that’s why they died. I don’t have that condition, so I won’t die. It’s comforting, maybe, to blame a victim. It gives a sense of control. But it’s not true.

My residents worked so hard to stay healthy. I know that. I wonder if I had gotten more PPE sooner, would that have made a difference? Maybe it really is just a matter of time till we all have it. Maybe it will be a different kind of relief once that’s happened.
This is a pathetic attack

Groups have been calling out the privacy concern of the companies you tech fetishists provide a market for for decades now

I had ethics in engineering classes in the 90s that discussed it as well

This article is a takedown of a particular situation that’s especially relevant given current events

Did you ask the author how they feel about those other things or just armchair expert knee jerk into ad hominem?

The author wasn’t obliged to turn a specific topic into a thesis on privacy in general.

dang: shut off the comment section. HN is /. level useless
Bit of a sidetrack but you did say BJJ so I had to say something. Also, did you see "Cidade De Deus"[1]? The planned suburbs in that film were... what you described, I think. Also, I watched that goofy movie "Suburbia"[2] back in the day as well. There's a sort of similar gestalt the both share that I can't quite quantify in words or graphs but it's there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_God_(2002_film)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburbia_(film)
We're counting covid deaths in care facilities (old-folks homes) in Canada.
We're finding it (tragically) one of the largest categories.

But I'm sure you'll find it true in any country that those deaths are under reported to some extent due to some lack of testing before the first clinical diagnosis of covid in a facility earlier on in the pandemic.

Tracking this stuff is really messy, when testing just isn't available universally, and current tests are only a point-in-time confirmation. We won't have much more accurate statistics until there's a test that can tell if you were infected at some point (forget the name for that type of test).
I wrote physics simulation code some time ago. The build was fast, but since the simulation speed was about 10ns/day the tests would take several hours to run. And the only way to know if your change fixed something is if the tests passed.

So it took several hours to get feedback for a change. But it also took about that long to come up with a new idea to try. Eventually I had a pipeline running where I could fire off a few ideas throughout the day, keep track of the change in the build, and iterate that way.
I am personally sympathetic. My beef with my local variant is that they protested by driving around my neighborhood honking in morning and afternoon. It gets attention, but does not exactly garner support. It those terms it reminds me of BLM blocking a highway. Whatever happened to protesting where actual decision makers are?
I would like to thank all the wonderful people like you who created such amazing products for me to use. I am sorry to hear that you have experienced mental anguish due to this. From my perspective you should feel pride and accomplishment from having contributed to helping millions of people every day.

I get dozens of questions answered each day through your search engine that before would go unanswered. (my last question was: "how does a digital scale work?")

I get to write beautiful documents, spreadsheets and presentations that I can easily share with colleagues, who in turn, easily can provide feedback and comments inside the documents themselves.

I tracked the length of my last run with only my phone using android and maps, something that otherwise would have been difficult to do.

My family easily collects photos of our holiday together in a single shared space.

These are just the first things that came to mind I used google for in the last week. Whatever evils google do, you do at least as much good as well.

It's absurd to me that you are feeling guilt because of this. I can't tell you what to feel, but people like you have made my life significantly better and I want to express thankfulness for that.
interesting. is haskell that big? don't they have a docker image you can pull in?

i know python and node and other languages have small images you can get for the CI situation you describe.
Is the world's best butter worth 50 dollars a pound? (2017)
In what ways do you predict it changing?
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OPSEC needs are minimal with the people they’re targeting.
I got down to the one where he says adults lecture kids on morality, but not other adults.

Does he really not get regularly lectured on morality by other adults? I certainly do, and I get a tiny fraction of such lectures compared to my wife...
fuck off with your generalizations.
> I can already host my own blog and have it safe from the whims of a central service.

Depends which central service. You aren't beholden to social media companies at that point, but you still have to:

* play by the rules of your ISP (If you're hosting on your home connection)

* trust that your hosting service won't arbitrarily turf you out

* make sure that your domain is safe from unauthorized transfers, sudden price increases, etc.

If the convenience and ease-of-use of current systems is worth those downsides (And for many, it is!) then fine. But it's not entirely accurate to say that you're safe from any central service.

To your second point, legality shouldn't be the final word. There are lots of governments with laws that are either actively or inadvertently used to silence dissenting opinions, or used to root out various undesirables. "You can do crime easier using it" isn't a great argument IMO.
Ex-Googler. I had my gripes with the company, but their ethics was not one of them. They constantly strived to make fair and ethical decisions, and they treated their people extremely well.

A company that’s as large and fundamental as Google will always have detractors. They pay too much. They pay too little. They collect too much data. They don’t make their data open enough. There will always be something.
> I show the duration of the command in a human readable format, but only if the command too more than 60 seconds

There is also a similar builtin feature [1] of ZSH. For example, you can put this in your .zshrc:

REPORTTIME=10

It instructs ZSH to report the time elapsed since the command was invoked (if it is above this threshold, 10 seconds in this case).
However, it just takes the CPU time into account. When using something like `sleep`, it won't trigger. There is a plugin [2] that covers this use case aswell.

[1]: https://nuclearsquid.com/writings/reporttime-in-zsh/
[2]: https://github.com/popstas/zsh-command-time
Maybe he's talking more to himself and his peers here.

By writing this down, he's committing himself publicly to a path, there's no reason to think he's not aware of that.
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Would that be in the same way that Google gave users the option to opt out of location data collection and then went on doing it anyway?
I suggest to check some previous discussions below:

- Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative? (54 comments) [0]

- Ask HN: Google AdSense Still Bans Ajax. What are the Alternatives? (34 comments) [1]

- What are the best Google adsense alternatives? (9 comments) [2]

- Ask HN: What are the best alternatives to Google AdSense? (8 comments) [3]

Remember, people who asked these could be have different problem with Google Adsense.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21397274

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7924916

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14357289

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2050377
Why use git when we could use SVN? Decentralization removes the need for synchronization with a central system (self-owned or otherwise). It allows for more methods of interaction and independence.
While very occasionally useful I think technical debt issues mostly should not exist. Improving code quality should be considered part of any issue that a person takes up. Any code that relates to the issue should also be viewed as a potential candidate for refactoring as a part of that same issue.

Notice also that in TDD refactoring is part of the TDD cycle: write test, write code, refactor. Doing TDD would make you do what is described in the previous paragraph as part of the cycle. So generally one would refactor something multiple times a day.
Yes, did you read my comment about having read many papers about this in the past?
Extraordinary?

Name any single Go feature aimed at helping parallel computing.
Why does your wife get more lectures on morality?
Fundaments haven't changed much. Pick a JS framework and go from there. It's gotten more complicated, indeed. But, if you're building projects of your own, you're free to ignore it as there are not that many palpable benefits, and your users / customers couldn't care less about underlying tech stack.
With that line of thought, C++ is a safe systems programming language.

The features are there and everyone is free to use them, and I am yet to see a Clojure linter against using those features.

In fact, Clojure cannot interop with its host platforms without doing any kind of OOP.