skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've got it backwards.

One gets a call from the bank, they give you a number to ring, you type the number in to Google search, the results come back listing that number and the bank's name -- identity confirmed!?!

The fraudsters just need _a_ website listed by Google.

My insurer called me out of the blue: I said I'd call back. Their number was not listed on any of the companies websites. I called the company, and said what has happened, took them about 10 minutes to confirm they'd called me and that the phone number I was called on was valid.

As it happened someone was trying to commit insurance fraud, saying we'd crashed in to them; but that's by-the-by (ie not relevant to the main story).
Another thing to note is that since a lot of Neapolitan pizza makers conduct the entire fermentation at room temp, salt percentages are important and can change throughout the year with ambient temps.
>Household ovens can barely hit 500F

There's a hack you can do where you use your oven's self clean function to reach high temperatures. Most ovens have a physical interlock preventing you from opening the door during a self clean cycle though, so to work around that you'll have to void your warranty and saw off the lock.
Damn, the pinsa is delicious. Very hard to find outside of the Roma/Lazio region though.
Unity and Godot are popular ones.
The thing is most lies and manipulation do not happen by stating false facts. They happen by ignoring (and never mentioning) the facts that do not fit the narrative and by pushing the ones that do. Or by presenting facts in a misleading way (like confusing CFR with IFR, or eliminating context).

And I am afraid I do not know a mainstream media that doesn’t do that on a massive scale. The WSJ perhaps. Certainly not the NYT.
Understood, what I was refering to is this [0] which seems to disable the kernel_task profiler, not the kernel itself.

Again, I haven't done this, too scared ;D

[0] https://blog.viktorpetersson.com/2016/01/03/how-to-fix-kerne...
Because that's not what you were saying: You literally said a 2D engine barely deserved the name, and that it was usually not worth the hassle to use one rather than writing your own.

This reeks of moving the goalposts.
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle unoriginal? Enlightenment Europe is similarly the work done by a handful of geniuses participating in an intellectual culture. We can patently see their originality - what makes you so sure the Greeks did not have the same?
They're both "magic fairy dust".

Melding code and data into an "object" is a natural thing to do --- in some cases. In others, it creates more problems than it solves.

Similar holds true for functional programming.

Bottom line --- there is no universal "right way" to develop software.
Aristotle is difficult to read, for a number of reasons. The main one in my opinion is that it is so dense of inestimable content that I am overwhelmed at every paragraph.
Report from the February 2020 ISO C++ Meeting (Core Language Working Group)
They don't have a 32-bit version anymore. That's sad. I know that Ubuntu has dropped 32-bit support but I was hoping that Xubuntu would still provide it.

Will the same happen for Lubuntu? Currently, there's a 32-bit version for 19.10, but they haven't released 20.04, yet.

I have several 32-bit computers, so I need a 32-bit OS for them. Are there any good lightweight 32-bit distros left with long term support?
Golden Delicious were my favorite variety as a kid/teen in the early 90s, and they never seemed to have the problems you describe back then. Very crisp, with just the right amount of sweet and juicy. I started noticing them going downhill probably in the late 90s or 00s-- I think something went sideways with their cultivation &/or supply chain. Similar thing happened with Red Delicious, I can occasionally still find a good one but they're usually inedible.
The median sales price for a house in the US is $327,000[1].

People buying houses for $1 million are wealthy by any standard.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS
I've only really heard about this policy at some of the larger companies more recently. I didn't know it is becoming a common thing.

I guess it's just another sign of corporate hypocrisy - please provide references when applying, but we will not allow you a reference when leaving.
You know what I might just try that.
> And the same average joe benefiting very little if at all from paying too much. Its like buying La Ferrari which all experts praise, when all you need is to drive 80kmh to next town.

But that isn't usually why these studies are often referenced, and certainly wasn't what the OP meant. The argument presented is often that there is no difference between high-end wines and low-end wines, which seems to be demonstrably false. That's not the same thing as unless you're an expert, you won't be able to tell the difference.

The reality is that wine appreciation, like any field, requires experience and knowledge to build "taste." This is pretty obvious when it comes to other things - no one would suggest that you could understand or appreciate the nuances of a WW2 film without knowing what WW2 was, but somehow when it comes to matters of taste in art, food, etc., the totally-ignorant person's opinion is equal to the expert's.

I'd say it's far more likely that contemporary culture is aesthetically/phenomenologically illiterate.
> Native apps are loved by developers but they kind of suck for usrs.

Don’t you mean to say the opposite? Most proponents of PWA’s I see are devs claiming that writing native apps is too hard, but most users prefer native apps because of better integration and performance/efficiency.
The vast majority of all friends you meet tend to fade away. It isn't that you aren't friends anymore, it is that life has pulled you in different directions. It may help to realize that if you were put back in a work/school/whatever situation, you'd almost certainly enjoy each other again.
I regularly make outgoing phone calls where I need to request payment details. Out of all of those calls, only one person expressed concern about providing said information so I provided them with three options: pay in person, pay online, or look up our phone number and call me back. Apparently that was enough verification for them, so they provided the information right after I finished the sentence.

Is it any surprise that institutions would not know how to handle their customers seeking verification when it is rare and at least some of the people who claim to want verification have a very low standard for evidence?

I suspect part of the problem is the minimal effort put into most scams, which is where this story is sobering. The people involved in this scam were clearly willing to lay down the framework to take a smaller scale crime and escalate it into something more profitable. While many of us may seek solace in our own practices being able to filter out the type of scam described in this story, the real question is when (rather than whether) these people will find an approach that exploits our own vulnerabilities.
Hacker News: where we pine for expressive, DIY web of the 90s/00s but pour scorn on anyone adding character to their projects today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis#Modern_...
Solving Problems with Dynamic Programming
My problem with the whole thing is that even the companies doing it right aren't initiating it. They need to verify at their end first; and they need to initiate that.

This is our password & credentials, now please confirm your identity.
Likewise. A good kdb dev is a very rare and intelligent beast, hats off.
I'm just too stupid to be able to comprehend much of Kx's ideas and so R was just much more appealing to me.
Doesn't that defeat the purpose then? It's no longer using scientific notation.
Step 1: Get a well paying job at a big tech company. There is very little luck involved in this, just get really good at algorithms. No need for a famous school, specific degree etc. It requires intelligence, if you don't have that then you need luck.

Step 2: Save more than two thirds of your take home salary, you can still live way better than the people sweeping the office floor.

Step 3: You now have a ton of money saved up, take whatever risks you like or just retire early.
Officially, I understood you couldn't use dry yeast, that has changed it seems: https://www.pizzanapoletana.org/en/ricetta_pizza_napoletana

That being said, you can probably use a smaller amount of instant yeast, it definitely shouldn't be replaced as a 1:1 with regular yeast as the fermentation time is an integral part of the flavour profile.
An important thing to keep in mind is that even without herd immunity, the transmission rate gets lower every time a person obtain long-lasting immunity (assuming such a thing typically occurs with this virus). Keeping the transmission rate down around 1 becomes increasingly easier and requires less severe protocols.
Everyone at family company was friendly at lunch, it's just the we didn't socialize after work at all (well a couple of times). The younger company regularly went drinking together.
Using Tailscale for Home Server
The general rule for small (single-developer or maybe teams of single digits) studios is "make games, not engines".

Turns out people don't play engines, they play games. Just finishing making a game is hard enough and most don't make it that far. If you have to finish your engine before you start the remaining 90% of game development, well, keep your day job.
As an Italian, I agree with your wife: my countrymen can be downright racist when it comes to food. Often they struggle to accept even other Italian food that is not from their own city. Then again, that's how Italian cuisine managed to survive the industrial revolution whereas others didn't make it.
> The US government pumped trillions into the military, which in the end did not have much return on investment

Arguably it is one of the more successful socialist policies - certain parts of US would be economically devastated if not for the military related production.
Using tibbles outside of tidyverse can be dangerous.

df_iris <- iris
tb_iris <- tibble(iris)

nunique <- function(x, colname) length(unique(x[,colname]))

nunique(df_iris, "Species")
> 3

nunique(tb_iris, "Species")
> 1

Imagine now using some complex function from a repository (i.e. BioConductor) that works on data.frames and passing a tibble to it.
was close to building a house earlier this year (early March) and was talking to two lenders about construction loan. being self-employed was an extra small bump for underwriting, and I asked about loss of income because the covid19 stuff was just starting to become big news.

Both indicated that their underwriters would likely check up after closing - 30 or 60 days after - to check on income at that point, to see if there were problems, and that this was somewhat normal for them with self-employed folks, but wasn't anything related to c19 (which... I suspect some changes may occur to underwriting and loan processes in the aftermath of c19). They indicated this was just something that happens to 'a moderate portion of self-employed borrowers post-closing'.

I'm not sure what they could actually do to you if they found your income had gone down or away post-closing. I was going to ask in our next call, but ... we're probably putting that whole project on the shelf for now.
You might also find Weinberg's 'An Introduction To General Systems Thinking' of value. Weinberg was heavily influenced by general systems theory, as illustrated by referencing Fisher, and he wrote the book as a way to introduce others to that line of thinking.
If the WHO said 'drinking bleach not recommended', would a video recommending drinking bleach merely be setting a stricter standard?

Your argument seems to rely on the fact that we know the WHOs recommendation on masks is wrong.
Using this exact reasoning I have gone from microbrew IPA:s to cheap straight vodka.
That's a good point. It's sort of a "problem of the expert" - as you become better at something, the number of people with your level of knowledge becomes smaller and smaller. Since you have less experts or challenges to go up against (or indirectly, exams), your skill level drops.
My opinion: There's more we can learn from fiction than we think.

By analogy, creativity, perhaps even reality distortion. I don't think we should solely rely on non-fiction and proven methods to teach or grow. Indeed, if we did that, we wouldn't grow at all.
as I reported else thread, I have been following these reports for a few weeks now, and there is often a sharp drop at the end which goes away on the next report. I think it is an artifact of their modelling for delayed registration that forces a regression to the mean.
I was on 2708
In 2018 excess deaths increased at a roughly consistent rate of around 7,500/week to 113,302 excess deaths in week 15 and then stopped.

In 2019 excess deaths increased at a roughly consistent rate of around 5,100/week to 56,806 excess deaths in week 11 and then stopped.

In 2020 excess deaths increased at a roughly consistent rate of around 2,500/week to 27,552 excess deaths in week 11 and then started increasing at a rate of around 15,600/week to 105,564 in week 16.

Again IANAE, but different flu strains have different mortality rates, but broadly similar behaviour in that they mostly go away after winter. The step change (caused by COVID-19) is the difference, and the new excess death rate is much higher than the 2018 rate.
Don't inject disinfectants, Lysol warns as Trump raises idea
It is time to shut the computer, take a deep breath and see if you can do a long walk outside.

Bezos is making the most money of everyone living. Many of the scandals happen when the founder is retired or dead.
Dough will rise just as well without any added sugar -- the starches in the flour are the primary food source for the yeast. If you don't believe me, try it yourself. The purpose of sugar in doughs is to assist browning -- especially at home-oven temperatures -- and "improve" the flavour. I personally prefer baking dough without sugar, but you do whatever you prefer.
That is the point: the "drawing code" is perhaps 20% of a game engine.

You are missing asset management (loading, streaming, caching...), audio (big enough to split into libraries and actual audio engines), input (of different kinds), networking (big enough to split too), AI, scripting, physics...
Is HN the only place that happens? Has anyone found another site that has a lots of well organized quality intellectually stimulating content?
Google has been pretty open to letting creators share. Apple is like a dictator decide who is allowed to share.
If you need "training" to understand such a basic thing you have no place in a fraud department.

I am skeptical of training because I've seen a lot of people do the training sessions and parrot out the knowledge (thus pass any tests) despite not understanding the underlying reasons, so when faced with a slightly different situation than the one in the training session they will fail spectacularly.
I see. Thanks for the reply. The official ProtonMail response seems legit enough.
Well that settles it, we better wait 30 years before we start testing a vaccine because otherwise it may be dangerous. And then wait 30 years again before releasing it.
There is Dhall (https://dhall-lang.org/).

The overall loss of expressiveness is surprisingly small, but the number of details you have to work around is annoying.
And "Baba Is You": https://twitter.com/mattar0d/status/1109987662608384000
I've heard it mentioned but haven't had the chance to look closely.
Thanks for providing those. Interesting reading however:

The first article is talking about rhinovirus not corona.

The second article just says we don’t know, but it does mention monkeys developing a strong immunity.
I am about to quit tech (being a programmer) in a couple of weeks. I mostly tell myself it's due to improved mental health.

I always assume that 95% of programmers have some mental disability to do what they do. Nobody with a sane mind can sit in front of a black screen with white text for 8 hours each day solving weird shit.

I started as a CS student and totally sucked at programming, wanted to quit. I finished my Bachelor and started at a StartUp. I totally loved it. I could build things they way I wanted, had a great CTO who helped me along the way.

But of course, you are getting ambitious, so you move on. Next company, higher pay, more complex problems. At some point I switched to freelancing and did 3-6 months gigs for several companies.

Now I taught myself Systems Programming, got a job at a really high paying and interesting company - so it seems.

What I figured out: No matter how high the pay was, the problems were always bigger. I quit a project early despite them paying me 20k a month and I was basically sitting my time up, nobody cared. I couldn't do it.

Now I realize, the ones who are really good at programming have some mental disability which lets them focus on this one thing for hours day in and day out. There is no way you can compete with someone further on the spectrum then you.

Then, what's the point?

You are either wanting to improve, but the better you get, the more challenging the environment. And the problems don't stop. The higher the pay, the more shit you got to eat. That's the whole point.

So you either give up, accept your situation and have a life outside of work, or you switch careers.

My problem is that I just can't seem to find the right company with the right people. Both smart, interesting but also ambitious. You either have super smart introverts who don't want to talk and socilaize, or you have fun people who can't code shit.

I had my first interview at a semi-technical role and boy this was the first time a job interview was fun. People talked, cared about how you present yourself and just didn't want to get as much money out of your mind as possible.

Programming is great, but a too big of a power for smart people not to make use of.
If America has a civil war I predict that so called journalists will be tortured to death until real journalism returns.
> the other party might not be willing to go to literally all costs to save a single life.

That's an easy thing to say if the cost you pay is working from home and not going out on the town.

Not so easy when the cost is the end of a small business you worked years to build.
> In general, most researchers have failed to find greater variability in either sex in any area that is consistent across cultures and not confounded by social factors.
I personally don't like philosophy books. I think there's more to be learned about philosophy by reading about specific topics, rather than actually reading about philosophy. Some exceptions like Plato, etc.

Absolutely agree with history being useful, though. Any particular periods of history you think are essential to know about, and any particular great books on them?
Posting separately so as not to distract from the point about the data: I'm sorry (for myself) to be driven to being snarky/whatever, but I don't get why this isn't completely plain from that excess deaths chart. I don't get why people are trying so hard to insist that there isn't an issue. Really, wtf?
But we aren't doing something simple like that, we are building monstrosities based around the theory of micro-services in the cloud. Kubernetes. It takes hours to get a development environment put together to try and reproduce / debug a problem. We are adding complexity instead of keeping things simple.

And query tuning isn't that difficult. Spend a few hours on this site and you will be better than 90% of devs out there: https://use-the-index-luke.com/
I think it's more nuanced than that. If you hang out with them outside of work on a regular basis, then maybe they are genuine friends and that's great. The problem discussed is a different situation: You get along great with your colleagues, however you never spend time with them outside of work. Then let's say that getting along well with them nudges you to stay at the company longer even though your company/position is not a good fit for you and you should be looking for better career opportunities. You finally decide to leave the company 2 years later, then you realize that these colleagues weren't really friends after all and you should have started looking for better opportunities way earlier.
I don't know, I tend to cross over into whatever part of the business if someone seems cool and just ask them to grab lunch or a drink. One of my closest friends is a management person I worked for and asked to grab drinks with when she quit. She's 20 years my senior and now we take girls trips and know each others family and friends. I think it's all about putting yourself out there and occasionally sitting through a painfully awkward lunch.
LineageOS 16.0 (Android 9) for Raspberry Pi 3
Self Isolation Activities
Yeah, I assumed the GP meant the American-style student loans that you need for your tuition, not the kind that exist in countries with public higher education, where you use them for e.g. rent or textbooks or hardware.
Single-Photon Detectors Build a Super-Fast Camera
Aerospace Engineering Courses
I hope there was an
R 2d2 release at some point...
You could start with the bureaucracy of the Holocaust, perhaps?
Jeff being back to day to day will make a difference. Ex-amazonian, I've seen a lot of people go work for them recently and more than a few are B, and at least one a C level players.

OP1/OP2 presentations in front of Jeff will make a difference.
Just finished moving from Lubuntu (LXDE) to Mate. I loved LXDE and still think it is the best balance between no-nonsense "stay out of your way", almost all the stuff works and tweak your preferences. Sadly, that project is dead and has been replaced by the arguably better LXQt.

I don't think LXQt has reached the same maturity as LXDE just yet, but surely will eventually.

Left with the task of choosing a new daily OS, I played around with Lubuntu and LXQt, i3, XFCE, Mate and reviewed some others including the interesting NixOS.

Ended up choosing Ubuntu Mate because even though it's a heavyweight, I feel it has made a lot of right choices and works great. Even detects external monitors on plug/unplug.

If Pop!_OS was out already, I would have considered that, but so far Mate is really good.
HN has plenty of rules that remove content "based on the content itself". For example, HN bans job ads (outside of 'who is hiring' threads). There are no circumstances where a job ad post is allowed outside of 'who is hiring' and YC-funded companies, not even "in good spirit". Similarly, the HN FAQ says not to post comments complaining about paywalls, and there is no 'unless you are civil' exception.

Again, does banning content from an internet forum inevitably lead to "oppression" or "bad outcomes"? If so, why hasn't this happened to HN/Reddit/Twitter/etc?
so you’re suggesting entire regions go down at once or one of the AZs? An entire region doesn’t go down. So again, you are not building for high availability.
I like how the article starts but I think it got lost a bit in hypothetical and anecdotes towards the end. Not holding it against the article though. As the article rightly points out, anything involving sex drags in biases as well.

I wonder how convergent evolution [0] fits into this? Maybe one form of reproduction leaves a large niche open for another type of reproduction to fill in.

Could it be that there was sexual reproduction first and asexual reproduction came later? We always assume the other way around. But maybe conditions were initially always stressful and only after conditions improved (I am thinking of conditions on Earth when these single cells organisms were evolving) did asexual reproduction start.

Last question, is meiosis and mitosis the only two way to reproduce? I had never really though about it until now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution