skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's depressing this receives this much attention on hacker news.

An extremely wealthy person making an imperative to less wealthy people to "ignore partisan politics and focus on results!"

To this person I would ask... who had the capacity, the agency, the capital, the resources, (and given this article, presumably according to them, THE VISION) this entire time? You did. So rather than make an imperative to everyone with less to "get back on the horse" and "put aside petty differences"– why don't you examine the decisions you made, and examine the systems you were party to, which led to this colossal failure.

"I’m with Nicholas Stern when he says that capitalism is how we take care of people we don’t know"... Uhhhhh people you don't know are dying everywhere meanwhile speculative finance i.e. markets i.e. your entire business is doing great. Fuck off
The fact is that many (most?) implementations do support this. It is implementation specific. If it never worked, you'd never be able to write a device driver using memory mapped IO in C, which is pure lunacy.
While it's true that there will always be special interest groups, it's not true that the current situation is even close to "more or less the best it can get". There's too much power in far too few hands due to capital accumulation. This is not a natural law.
The next time I read a blog, I hope that it doesn't disappoint me as much as this one. After all, Yes, it was my choice to read through, nonetheless I truly thought you'd have something helpful to talk about. All I hear is a bunch of whining about something you could possibly fix if you were not too busy searching for attention.

https://isharoisharomein.su/
A Multilingual Multi-Task Benchmark for Evaluating Cross-Lingual Generalization
> I would love to offer a couch to a friend in need, if I knew I could count on them not to abuse it, that they'd make steady progress, and that there's a deadline for when we get our lives back to normal. Unfortunately whenever I do try to help out it usually ends up enabling continuing the problematic behavior.

This sounds like the individualized perception of the issues with a government welfare system. ;)

Very good idea on the "other help" movement though.
Not at all. I’ve worked for startups, enterprises, the US government, and provide guidance to Congressional representatives on an ongoing basis on technology policy. No one worth working for has asked for a degree.

I still get inquiries from Amazon and Facebook for roles. Not Google, but I’d never work for them anyway (nor Facebook or Amazon, for completeness).

I also intend to run for public office, which has age constraints, but no educational requirement.
This is awesome. There are too many tutorials out there that don’t show how to fit all the pieces together. They’re more of the “learn functions, and solve math problems in a REPL environment.”

To that end, is there a platform that regularly provides updated/crowd sourced tutorials that are more software engineering based? For example, these tutorials can be taken to the next logical level and shown various ways to host these applications, and using SQL to manage user databases...etc.
This has to be a scam.
Good luck! One thing I think has really tripped up past attempts is there are a lot of variables that can make a difference:

What version of macOS are you running? What are your BIOS settings? Does sleep work? Do CPU C-States work or is it always using full power? Do all the ports on your GPU work, or only some?

Somehow, these things all need to be tracked, and users need to be able to see both exact configuration matches and ones that are just similar.
Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Australian media
> We're finding it (tragically) one of the largest categories

Our prime minister said it accounted for over half of the deaths.
> Free societies enable creativity by limiting this power of the past

How does the "limiting" part of this work?
Brain's Expectations Affect Learning
The conditions of the ESM is more or less the entire point. They were offered the money they need - with some guards attached. But they wanted more, and not just borrowed but entirely given by the EU (=Germany). With no oversight. And they got that by calling Germany Nazis. That's despicable.
I've been watching quite a lot of US mainstream media these days and I can confirm that this is not true.

For all of MSNBC's faults, their anchors have been repeating testing like a broken record. They even mention how much they sound like a broken record but that testing is simply the most important thing in reopening, and that the US is doing very little of it.
It's a hard problem but only as hard as speech recognition without lip-reading (which can already be made speaker-independent).
Sorry, I have no knowledge on virology topics. But this “herd immunity” thing is a complete nonsense. Politicians may repeat it as long as they want, but it still makes no sense. 50 million people must be infected, 1,5 million will die. It will take many years. While immunity very probably(????) disappear after months. Asian countries had many different viruses in the past, all of the contained. Why is it so difficult to follow their path?
Big Tech's Resilience to Downturn Faces First Test
Thanks!

That is better than I've seen.

I'm still missing anything beyond summarizing what officials have said.

The Ohio Governor blaming FDA regulations is the closest to an analysis in there.
Cool idea , launch app in play store.
Francis Spufford pens unauthorised Narnia novel (2019)
I have a point to make that I feel intersects the conversations here.

It concerns something I didn't figure out until I was older, that children are brought into existence w/o their consent.

Now I don't believe this is* (edit: fixed) an evil or unethical act; it's simply an unavoidable facet of reality. However, it creates a debt to children so massive, that it can't be fully repaid in a lifetime.

In short, the debt between children & parents only ever runs one way.

Because of this, I have a permanent & total obligation to my kids' well being, while they in-turn owe me nothing for a lifetime of labor on their belhaf (which as a single parent - changing diapers & earning income - has been substantial).

It doesn't mean my grown kids should or shouldn't contribute to my welfare. It means that my responsibility is to continually tip the scales toward the outcomes they desire.

In our case we operate as one household & there are different obligations in play there. But the Original Debt indicates that any shortfalls (in labor, etc) be filled by me, unless & until more practical solutions are worked out.

My reward is that this really efficient mindset solves lots of problems in advance.
That's the main difference for fixed monthly payments. But higher interest rates cause lower asset valuations, which increases the marginal utility of paying more than the minimum payment each month. Paying off a mortgage ahead of time used to be a common goal. Now you hear people talk about how it's smart to pay the bare minimum and gamble their surplus in a brokerage account.

And sure any individual loan done by a bank can also be done by a well capitalized landlord, but the difference is in the quantity of money being newly created and funneled into housing. You can't take out a securitized loan to buy groceries, but everything that can be financialized shoots up. Even non-scarce manufactured goods like cars.

I agree that increasing the supply of housing is a good thing. But you're never going to get rid of positional goods - few want to live in a tiny apartment their entire life. So our solutions aren't a matter of either/or.
Apple owes everything to the fertile, inventive mind of Steve Wozniak, and to the creative community that his machine appealed to. The rest was just business.

(If you ever get a chance, read the original manual included with that machine. It broke all the rules for manuals up to that time.)
> I do not understand, why so many people immediately deny the whole possibility that the virus came out of the lab, as if was some heretic idea.

Take some solace in that sentiment is shifting to "it's possible". A month ago when I asked about it here, my comment was not only heavily downvoted, but there was no support in the replies and my comment was flagged. Now at least there seem to be enough people questioning it that the possibility is at least being taken seriously.
Building an XDP (EXpress Data Path) Based BGP Peering Router
Name 5 people who will be remembered in 100 years and who had kids before starting their Grand Project. It's pretty hard.
Re-Idea: Why does HN need more JavaScript or “native JavaScript”?
Come on, it's not like Kasparov won all the tournaments. Magnus is far from invincible, but currently he's still dominating.
>> It's basically a sign that you've retired/don't have anything that important left to contribute other than steady-state levels of productivity.

That's a pretty blinkered perspective. For the large majority of people, your children are the most impactful thing you contribute. Say you have 2 kids. You marginally reduce your contribution to care for them but in return they contribute two whole lifetimes worth. Way more than you would ever add to your career.

Of course there's prudence in planning, but there are other ways to define your success and contribution other than your immediate economic utililty.
Do they have an analysis of why testing isn't ramping up?
Oh it seems as if your theme is using prefers-color-scheme to detect if the user is using dark theme and setting the background based on that. If I change from dark to light theme in system preferences, the background of your website also changes.
Sorry, you are new to Computer Science. Undergraduate CS only covers a couple of percent of the topic. Do you know distributed systems, machine learning, robotics, image processing, concurrency, NLP, programming language design, hardware design, computer architecture, software engineering, program verification, security, databases, computer graphics, computer history? Probably not.

Read : Abstraction and Specification in Program Development, then read all four volumes of Knuth's Art of Computer Programming. There are lots of courses on EdX, and MIT Open courseware.

Undergraduate CS is just the start, a tiny beginning.

The university is the best place to find a girl friend/ boy fried. Also a great place to make long term friends.
ACT requires prep. Ivy college admissions without legacy typically requires hiring an application coach 2-3+ years before applying.

The big things you lose by not going to college are dorm life and friendships/networking.
A few tools more powerful than to-do lists for productivity
> "probably 50-100 points higher than the world #2"

He can't be 50-100 points higher than himself. Hikaru is #1.

https://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men_blitz
Show HN: Built a job board for people who lost jobs due to COVID19 crisis
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22912001.
Being an uncle of 10 month now I have made a list of the things to keep in mind when I decide to have my own children. It's pretty short:

- Spend as much time with your child as possible and let them roam free. Just have a loose eye out and don't overprotect everything, children are really not that fragile. This includes letting them eat dirt and play with pets without worrying too much

- Children observe/copy/improve (and wil let you know when they are not interested in stuff). It's really fascinating to watch. Keep that in mind when you want them to learn something

- Let them play with other children without worrying that it'll be bad for them. Also don't be scared to hand your toddler over to some other family member to hold etc...noone will drop them. Humans intuitively understand how to care for babies/children

- Do research and base stuff on that (name bias and praising effort vs. ability are the only two that seem interesting on a quick glance)

That's all I got so far. And there's a certain set of values I want to teach but I believe the best way of doing that is by living it (be decent to people, be critical of yourself/don't take yourself too seriously, always stay curious about life, value freedom highly).
I'm on the fence about how scholarships should factor into the total cost of college. I feel like there is a decent amount of scholarship money freshmen year that disappears after that. So that the student ends up with a lot of student loans debt to finish school. It's all well and good that freshmen at an expensive college will be cheaper than some alternate school. Though is it really going to be cheaper overall? I don't think so and this is how lots of students end up with to much student debt.
Re-VALIDATION: This is about validation of the value of an idea, not technical validation.

“Who needs this and why” and “how will you know it has created value”
wow. How are we supposed to plan for future calamities like this we cannot predict what we are going to need for the next pandemic. Looks like we should overstock everything we could possibly ever need.
Stream the demonstration?
I did that on a TAA even though I was GATE, NMS, and had a perfect math SAT I 800.# It loses dorm life and social aspects, doesn't save much money, it messes up course scheduling, and there can be an impedance mismatch in terms of course content/prerequisites. I would recommend against it if at all possible.

# 4-5 years of Boston snow or flambéing in Pasadena didn't seem appealing.
Surely. It was not released on "official" Facebook channels.

That link likely takes you to a ransomware installer.
The DRM only has to function during the time where most sales occur for it to be worth it.
Because if it were the main priority, you would have no reservations using an inefficient but working solution like Electron, is probably what the parent means.
It is interesting to think about how long the exponential trend will continue before becoming a sigmoid.
It seems way too easy to cheat at this, I wouldn't trust any of those results.
Reasons coronavirus is hitting black communities so hard
Is the best thing a new high school grad can do to become more tech literate really brush up on their "Blackboard skills"?
"The rate of sustaining an injury while skiing or snowboarding on Swiss slopes was 2.8 per 1000 skier days on average from 2008 to 2010. The fatality rate was 0.7 deaths per one million skier days in the same period of time."

"In cars, one person died per 5.5 million passenger hours traveled."

So skiing seems 4x more dangerous.

Anecdotally, I've read that one hospital in the Swiss Alps was struggling money wise, because the ski season was ended early, and ski accidents were a major revenue for them.
1.2 Megabytes of JavaScript and 900 kilobytes of css will probably do that.

They have more JS and stylesheet to present their website about books ... than actual books have letters.
Asian countries have not contained all viral outbreaks in the past. In both 1957 and 1968, Asian-origin flu epidemics killed millions. It's possible that containment could have been achieved if every country had swiftly followed Korea's example in early February, but there's no precedent for containing a human-to-human transmissible disease with millions of cases across the world without a vaccine.
They want reliable UDP, not TCP. They state that very clearly.
Another twenty-year professor here. I would just like to point out that this article is articulating -- with absolutely accuracy and lucidity -- every college administrator's worst nightmare. They've all been discussing the possibility (that parents and students will make this very decision) for weeks.

It might be the right decision to make, but it would be absolutely catastrophic for most schools.
Thanks for the advice, video + voice over explanation incoming on Monday!
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Why does London have 32 boroughs? [video]
Sunday 19, 2020 New York Times Front Page with Art
How do you know it's complete nonsense if you have no knowledge on the subject?
@arpitbbhayani - this is very interesting. you are one step away from building "reliable functions" - the basis of Azure Durable Functions and Uber Cadence.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durab...

A durable function is a state machine that can be replayed.
related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCtAdgpW_Vs
> So, that's actually not my argument. But, though you're trying to dunk on it, it is a solid argument. Here's why: the cryptography in DNSSEC is obviously outmoded (it's PKCS1v15 RSA signatures, most of them 1024-bit,

Root zone has been signed with 2048 bit keys since 2016. Large numbers of domains are signed with 2048 bit keys, too.

> If we started from scratch, the very first thing that would change would be the notion that cryptography is too expensive to support online signing, which is one of the two original sins of DNSSEC.

Online signing still looks really expensive. Asking an authoritative server to do a 2048 bit signature per answer is costly, given the other conversation you've followed me into and argued basically the other side of. Especially since work you do to make DNS authoritative servers verify things is easily used for DOS, unlike work done for prefix verification in BGP).

> don't know what BGP has to do with any of this

Because we're in a thread talking about preventing BGP hijacking of prefixes with crypto, and the tangential discussion of preventing DNS hijacking of names with crypto (DNSSEC) came up. Some arguments you presented against caring about DNS security work equally well wrt: caring about BGP security--- who cares if someone intercepts our traffic, we're probably using TLS!
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Machine learning can now tell the difference between dog and human ancient poop
Could link directly to https://hyperskill.org/
and the disclaimer in their terms is of importance:

"Hyperskill is a part of JetBrains Academy's learning experience. While most of learning will be happening online on hyperskill.org, some parts of the service are accessible only via JetBrains IDEs."
This book looks great, and I can't wait to pick up a physical copy. Thank you lihaoyi!
There is no significant evidence that suggests aerosol transmission is a statistically significant source of transmission.
One very important thing to note is that the Oxygen - Hemoglobin dissociation curve has a sigmoidal shape. It is not linear. After a certain point, around 90 %, there is a very sharp drop-off.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen–hemoglobin_dissociati...
Clicking on a link and having it open in a new tab/window should be a user profile setting that's turned off by default so the current behavior remains the same, but users that prefer this behavior can override the default.
Hi All,
Couple of my friends lost their internships because of covid19 crisis. I saw many others in my friend circle losing their jobs.
I built this free job board site so that people with jobs can help others know if their teams are hiring now.

I built this using python and django.I am still learning the framework.

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Once you are five years out of college, your resume lists work experience and the year you graduated from college. Most folks won't care whether you were the hotshot that got early admission, or the kid that took an extra year to finish university.

The framework I would use here is: is this a reversible or irreversible decision? Some factors I would consider:

- Do you think you will enjoy it? For me, it was four years of responsibility (buying groceries, doing my own laundry, learning to cook) but also four years of freedom (choosing my own bedtime, dating without being judged by parents).

- Can you defer an offer / reapply next year? (Ask the admissions department; most of the time the answer is yes, but there are details.)

- Do you have peers from high school that are going this year? (No one I knew was still hanging out with their high school friends after Thanksgiving, but I found it helped with the loneliness of the first week of living in dorms.)

- Do you have a place to live if you don't go to college? (Does your job cover rent for your own place? Alternatively, are you on good enough terms with your parents to stay in your bedroom / in their basement?)

- Would inertia lead you to never go to college? You may find it harder to go to college once you have a comfortable adult quality of life. If this happens to you, would you regret it?

- Will you have opportunities to socialize in college? (Dorms, student clubs, student newspapers, etc.)

- Do you think the job market will have recovered by the time you graduate? (I started my Bachelor's in 2009. On the other hand, folks are saying that the current recession is worse than the '08 crisis.) Where is the breakeven point for lifetime earnings between current job versus post-college job with college debt?

- What are plausible bad-case outcomes for each path, and how can you mitigate the downsides? Time-box this to maybe an hour of research: you want to be emotionally prepared for this possibility but not let it become all-consuming anxiety. (Consider: What does the world look like if we don't find a vaccine?)
Cool data dashboard with preparedness scores for every single county in the US
I use OpenCore but have switched my Hackintosh system over to running in a VM (using GPU passthrough). It's easier for me to backup / make changes this way, and there is only a minor performance hit. This is a Geekbench run from my VM (Core i9 10940x with 4 cores passed through): https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15395105

I have a Windows 10 VM running on a same system too. It may not be suitable if you require virtualization inside macOS itself though. Nested virtualization doesn't work too well with the Android emulator, in my experience.