skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The measures depicted in Black Mirror are straight up torture. Loud noise to punish people who refuse to look at advertisements? That level of abuse should be cause for violent resistance.
The library + the community were unparalleled. I spent more time on those forums than anywhere else.
What is Facebook's supposedly compelling justification for for being behind Libra? On its face it makes about as much sense as having Facebook provide health insurance or a grocery store.
Answer is right there at the top of the comments.

Commenter:
"Anyone else having a hard time finding peer-reviewed scholarly articles saying that this is a safe and effective method?"

Video creator replied:
"It’s simply a piece of exercise equipment and does not warrant medical studies like some type of a pharmaceutical drug"

The answer is no. In all likelihood it does not work. Also the video thumbnail clearly uses different camera setups for the before/after, and the difference could be due entirely to perspective. Not to mention photoshop editing etc.

As well as there being no scientific evidence, I also doubt if there's any proposed mechanism by which this would work. Without mechanism or evidence, it's 99% chance quackery.
>Infection fatality rate was about 0.1%, however that's probably not representative of the general population.

That's something of an understatement - deployed naval personnel are almost exclusively young and healthy, putting them at exceptionally low risk of becoming seriously ill from COVID-19.
almost nothing is truly only busywork (besides, that’s belittling), so it’s better to employ people than give away money. employment has many beneficial side effects, like esteem, that free money doesn’t have.
If I recall right, you used to pick a music directory, and whatever you had there would be indexed and made available to all for downloading. Everything you downloaded would go into that directory as well. Once you find a file you wanted to download, you didn’t download from a pool of people like with bittorrent, but from that one specific user.

If you click on a username, either while searching or while downloading, you could browse everything Napster had indexed. If people didn’t configure Napster right, you could browse their whole C:\ drive. Good times.
yes. last I heard it's alive and kicking.
It's like HN discussion in here :)

https://seinfeldmemes.com/its-like-a-sauna-in-here/
Users shared folders in the Napster client and you could navigate those folders exactly as you imagine.

It was a great way to discover new music.
I would appreciate if you clarified what Dask is at the beginning of the post. I'm a Python developer and it's the first time I hear about it and I had to scroll pretty much to the end for a link to its documentation.
Remember when scientists in Italy were sent to prison for not predicting an earthquake correctly [0]?

I know this isn't really what the article is about, but scientists are allowed to be wrong unless and until politics is involved.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/italian-scientist...
Yeah, but I no longer care. Twenty years ago, or ten years ago even, I would be adamant about keeping up with the latest series.

Now, though? I don't care about "tha memes." I don't care if I'm current in my analogies. I want to take care of the people I care about, and experience things that enrich my life.

Other people can care about memes and such, and I don't think any less of them for it. Not that they need my validation. But my own world revolves around different suns now.
> Bureaucracy is universal

No, it is not.

In Canada the application process takes 2.5 minutes and the money is deposited 2 days later. Many people have already had $4000 deposited in their account (two payments), and will get another $2000 deposit in the 9th of May.

Just because something is terribly broken in one country, don't make the mistake of assuming it's universal
The underlying general point you are making is definitely valid, but there are now reserved cars on all trains during rush hours.
People follow that trend differently. Strong believers in free will tend to be especially against collective responsibility or guilt. I also don't believe there's any evidence that ethical systems or religions that traditionally deny free will produce less responsible societies.
X written as )( is the absolute worst. It always looks like two parenthesis when I'm grading student writing and I have no idea how to parse what they write.
UDF is secretly well-supported for read/write across devices. That said, exFAT or NTFS seems to be the right option nowadays; NTFS-3g works well on Linux, there’s various options for macOS (not perfect but oh well.)
I miss the free software activism bent of old slashdot. There was so much optimism at Linux and others being the way of the future, and beating Microsoft at the desktop. I feel like the Unix enthusiast's shift to the Mac kind of killed some of that. If people think a desktop ui is a "solved problem" (by Apple), there end up fewer people interested in those kind of projects. Now it's pretty common for a free software desktop to be a punchline in a joke, mocked as some infeasible fantasy and inevitable failure.
git rebase is akin to being a wizard but forbidden to use magic. I know it's there. I know it could solve a ton of my problems. But I can't use it because it would break everything from the feature-branch promotion model to my teammate's repos. It's basically useless to me, despite all the power it grants me.
Across the pond, we have many permanent laws which in principle have sunset clauses. It's an easy trick; you just have to be using the temporary powers to do something important at the time of the sunset. Most people will say "well, that does sound important, so let's give it another 5 years".
Yes, but this is a bonus on top of existing state benefits. And as mentioned upthread, it's actually proving surprisingly (or... not) difficult for people to actually apply, qualify for and receive benefits in some states.
Thanks. The pattern isn't perfect but the trend is clear. These are Season 1, excluding pilots.

A-Team (1983): 49m

MacGyver (1985, original): 48m

Quantum Leap (1989): 47-48m

X-Files (1993): 43-44m

Monk (2002): 44m

Eureka (2006): 44m

MacGyver (2016, remake): 42-43m
stylegala, cssbeauty and the other css-oriented design sites and attached communities
This is the real dystopia. Ever talk to the adtech experts? The question they ask is how can we display the ads that people will enjoy seeing the most? Hence Instagram is effectively all ads.
State of Vue.js (From Vue's Founder)
Article titled _How to Manipulate Files and Strings from the Terminal_ does not mention terminal-based text editors. Brushing that aside, it also does not feature `cp`, `rm`, `find` or `git`...
North DPRK Digital Atlas
> The act of killing off V2 gives downstream developers the right to stop supporting it

Seems like a strange way to give developers more "rights".
Thanks for sharing. I didn't mean to invalidate your experience by listing what I thought represented rock-bottom -- I was just tossing a couple of examples around. I agree that we all have our limits and that's usually when the self-destructive thoughts begin.
The PPP loan program is ripe for moral hazard. Zero accountability. Banks have no incentive to spend time to underwrite because it’s all guaranteed by the government (e.g. fraud, gaming the forgiveness period, extracting assets and bankrupting company). Would be surprised if there were more business using the money in earnest to save jobs than not.
1. Cancel rent payments, mortgage payments, and property taxes. People simply stop paying and stay where they are, no enforcement burden and no distribution necessary.

2. For landlords who cannot sustain the loss of cash flow, offer to buy them out at market price and then hire them as property managers for their previously owned properties.

With essentially zero overhead, you've eliminated small business's first or second largest expense (payroll and rent). If they still can't make payroll, it's not a super huge deal since those employees also have their rent frozen.

Now the economy can hibernate.

When we're ready to resuscitate it, do a direct stimulus check as you reopen businesses. Let money start flowing without any component going to rent for some amount of time until we're back on solid footing.
WeChat Pay
Just tried Pyright and it's incredible. Wow; why in the world don't they include this functionality in the regular extension? Thanks so much!
Hotline servers.
The old avclub

Dense layout with links to all the new reviews with grades, by section (music, film, etc), no infinite scroll. Quite a few other websites were like that, you could get the gist of all the new things at a glance, now they all feel dumbed down
Build a Sophisticated Microscope Using Lego, 3D Printer, Arduino, & Raspberry Pi
no hope for open source?
The greatest and in some sense heartbreaking admission of error I know of, is Frege's letter to Bertrand Russell:

https://sites.tufts.edu/histmath/files/2015/11/Frege-Letter-...

Russell himself says "As I think about acts of integrity and grace, there is nothing to compare with Frege's dedication for truth."
Does anyone really have the time and motivation? It seems like so far there aren't any alternative clients (basic web wrappers don't count) for services that need it the most - think WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, etc?
Wikipedia has a huge list of mod implementations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation
I'm not sure what you consider "higher-end", but the list of supported devices is pretty long: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/#lenovo_thinkpad
If only advertising was so opaque.
Is there the possibility that these test results are wrong? The spread is far wider than what would be expected and that means that quarantining and contact tracing would be eseentially useless. But we've seen that both are very useful.
Tribes are non local? That's a pipe dream. Every minute 23 girls younger than 18 married in a pre-arrangement. If a 35 year old man would trade a goat for a 13 year old girl in the developed world than the tribe would hang this man before midnight when the news reports on this extreme form of child abuse. When it these things happen outside the Dunbar number in developing countries we don't give a fuck.

Today 600 million women are alive that were sold before they were 18 to the highest bid, around 200 million also received a physical downgrade by butchering & cutting out a part of their vagina.

Tribes are hyper local.
I miss Google from when it first started getting popular and overtaking Alta Vista and the other search engines. It feels weird to say now, but it truly felt like magic how it provided such better search results than its competitors. I wasn't tied to any one search engine then, and many of my searches were done on multiple search engines, with lots of wading through results to _attempt_ to find relevance. But with Google, almost every time, its results were almost exactly what I was looking for.

Though I guess it's not so much the site itself I miss, but the feeling of witnessing magic, for a little while, until I just got used to and expected such good search results.
I'm not familar with pyre, but i have experimented with some security static analysis tools. The one's i have experimented with take some normal program and try to analyse it. The analysis is usually far from complete, and as a result has so many false positives that its difficult to adopt.

Anyways, i would say those are rather different from systems where you give an actual proof of correctness.
Of course it does. You asked for an arithmetic right shift. What were you expecting to get???
A glimpse of the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
Ditto. AutoRune and later SCAR, Sleepwalker, et al were huge inspirations to teenage me. I spent a lot of time bugging Dylock and Kaitnieks for Delphi help over IRC.

When I had some downtime a year or so ago, it was really interesting to revisit the reverse-engineered clients (a la RuneBot, PowerBot, etc) and taking a look at how that was done then and now. Actually made me somewhat working with Java again.

Very cool to see other folks who found themselves on a similar path thanks to that community!
Show HN: Find music artists similar to the ones you love and play their songs
Shows and networks have already been doing this for a very long time.

https://www.hypable.com/how-i-met-your-mother-is-inserting-n...
Fancinating. Would like the papers you collected. Thanks in advance.
Yes, a tick up and right at the bottom of the q's tail is clearer.
No- that's the opposite direction I was trying to describe. Not a closed loop system. Draw, treat, replace.

Whole blood drawn into a bag as if you were donating, then treated separately (maybe even sent to a lab), and then transfused back into the patient.

The closed loop systems are what create a lot of the complication and expense. ECMO (or similar) definitely doesn't simplify anything.
Our eyes are less than 3" apart and we achieve "acceptable" depth perception (at least at close range).

What if we had two cameras 12" apart? What about 60" apart (opposite corners of windshield)? How much easier would that make the depth perception problem?

From a quick viewing of Tesla's autopilot info it doesn't seem like they are doing stereoscopic vision with their cameras. Why not? Too hard to do?
When do you need to? If your family never drives, you wouldn’t see a need to.

It’s almost like asking “well wouldn’t you want to be able to go camping?” Sure, if you grew up camping you might know you want that. But if you didn’t, why would you even think about going camping?

Similarly, if you’ve only lived in a city where you can hire a driver (cabs, moving vans, etc) as needed, why would you ever think you need to be able to drive? What is the situation you’ll be in where you need a license?
Macintyre (2009):
Parents wearing masks reduced the risk of contracting influenza from their sick children by 74% (95% CI: 33%-91%).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2662657/pdf/08-...

Jefferson 2008:
Wearing masks reduced the risk of contracting SARS by 68% (95% CI: 60%-75%). Wearing N95 masks reduced the risk by 91% (70%-97%).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190272/

MacIntyre (2015):
Use of cloth masks instead of surgical masks increased the risk of infection by 13x (95% CI: 1.69x to 100x). Cloth masks filtered out only 3% of particles, versus 56% for surgical masks.
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577.short

Overall, these findings are suggestive that the infection protection factors are broadly similar to the total filtration efficiencies.
Wow, that sounds awesome. Now I'm sad I missed out on this!

Admittedly, what I like about Spotify is how easy it is to share music with other people and discover music from my friends just by looking at their profiles or what they're currently listening to.

There are even certain livestreamers I follow specifically for their taste in the music that they play in the background.
I didn’t find any valuable insight in this. Get help and build for the future... ok? Also, I felt his anecdotes barely got whatever point he was trying to make across. And half the post consisted of name drops of people I’d never heard of.
You joke, but this does smell pretty severely of corruption. Corbyn is very unpopular with the Labour establishment.
They will eat you.
I'd like to see some general best practices/architecture. Something that would fit a large range of web applications, not just the one I'm making.

For context, below are some details of what I plan to make.

This web application will have:
- user provided content
- login/sign-up
- email notifications (sign-up, user comments, etc)
- limited number of users at the beginning (less than 100 per day). But I want it architected in a way that allows me to scale up when the time comes.
- Standard web application security patterns
- Standard web application performance patterns (load balancers, containers, CDNs, etc)
- Secrets will be stored in Vault (or similar)

My planned full-stack is:
- Vue
- Vuetify
- PWA
- SSR
- Apollo GraphQL + Hasura + PostgreSQL
- Node or Python
Hey, if anything can handle the volume it's the cobol.

But you'll also have an explosion of the bugs and exceptions noone ever wanted to pay to fix that get manually sorted every morning by the two 67 year and twice retired old devs who didn't get laid off to save money.
Looking at it again I didn’t realize the following sections were actually part of that header because the headers were the same size and style. I thought it was only that one paragraph about Jedi. That was my fault.
People who die from the virus usually infect many others before death. There isn't really any selection pressure for keeping the host alive.
agreed, having a license is still useful for renting cars as needed, which i do periodically myself.
Yeah, it had a setting for that.
All these conspiracy theories are getting out of hand ...
I half agree with parent and half agree with you.

On one hand, economic models are political platforms.

On the other hand all the -isms are very loaded topics due to decades of misrepresentation (as is the nature of politics).

But, I think this post isn't the place to discuss it.
Your comment is vely insightful. I first played runescape in 2001 I think (and then I came back later), and I had never thought about it the way you describe it. I too learned a lot of life skills: scamming, bartering, arbitrage, and quite a few social interaction skills despite being online. My best friend had some weird pubescent (text-based) sexual things with weirdos claiming to also be 13, or whatever we were at the time. It was a precursor to AIM for my small group of friends. Scripting/botting that game taught me a lot of basic skills in computers.

I wonder what today's version is. Maybe Fortnite?
Damn, now there’s a name I haven’t heard in years! +1
> I urge you to put a clear message at the top of the github about your current status of involvement. It may encourage others to step up and take the reins for a while? You've done an amazing job, maybe a break is in order!

No worries, I'm still accepting PRs and occasionally moderate discussions when they are in need of moderation.
I use fixer in a client project (started back when it was free, now i think it's a couple bucks a month)... Never heard of Frankfurter, but if it's the same guy that's super interesting and I too would like to know the backstory
I really like not having a Physical Home button on my iPhone 11 Pro. Going back to a physical button and less possible screen size seems like a backward move to me.
I don't think it would be considered cheating. It's more like a poker player with a way too obvious tell that is used (abused) by the other player to gain an advantage in the game that should be random.
> It's the same for personal finances. It's actually inefficient for people to save for a rainy day because everyone has a rainy day fund when only 5% of people need it in a given year.

I get why it’d be inefficient to store inventory, but why is it inefficient to save? You get paid for it and you’d want to have money lying around anyways for retirement.
Apple Confirms New Warning Affecting Almost All iPhone Users
That study is n=4. They didn't have enough statistical power to make any conclusions of that sort.

Incidentally, if you look at the SK study's actual data, it appears that the cloth and surgical masks reduced the concentration of the virus by about 0.5 to 1.0 log units -- that is, by 66% to 90%. However, those results results were not statistically significant, because n=4.

Nancy Leung, from Benjamin Cowling's lab in Hong Kong, did a much better study, n=114. They found that surgical masks did confer significant protective benefits.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2.pdf
Doubtful the sheeple would resist. That would take too much effort. It's just easier to watch the commercial.

Wasn't there one that just paused the video, and would not continue until you watched the ad? The advertisers have to crawl before they can run. But if they had their way, loud noises would not be beyond their acceptable measures. I mean, they did spend all of that money producing the ad, so the least you can do is watch it.
I agree that no one insight in this essay is especially surprising. But I think the right way to think about this is Paul Graham's framework http://www.paulgraham.com/sun.html.
Paul points out that if you are talking about very general topics, even a small delta of novelty is useful.

I think that describes Ray's work here well. He is talking about a very general topic (the narrative arc of history). It's hard to say anything completely new about a topic like that, but something that is only slightly new is still valuable.
We really have trouble learning lessons as a species. 1919 is calling.
So I know a guy that he bought some real estate he owns 3 properties I think. He isn't a millionaire just a software engineer working the 9-5 and the properties exist mostly to help him prepare for retirement. Now he has some money set aside so that if one of his properties goes dormant he can cover it for a while, but if he were to lose all three of them at the same time. That would be bad.

Then you suggest the government can just buy him out at market rates. Who decides what the market rate is? What if the government decides to value the property for $50,000 less than it is worth?

Well suddenly he has just had $150,000 taken from him by the government. When things restabiloxe what do we do then? The government owns tons of housing? Who is going to manage and administer that? If they dump them than all that you've done is transferred the properties from small owners to massive multi-million dollar firms that managed to take the hit. What about people who got laid off and still don't have a job after it is over? Because it was a result of the coronavirus do we just continue to say it's okay don't pay rent? If we do that guarantee a year from now tons of properties won't be paying rent still.

It sounds like an easy and simple fix but it is usually more complicated than that and drastic decisions made will often have downsteam effect for years and decades that we can't see now.
Parrondo’s Paradox
A digital currency needs an infrastructure to run on, so there will be always fees of some sort. Credit cards have fees, Bitcoin has fees.
https://www.agner.org/optimize/ is the best.
Hi! I'm the writer.

I figured git deserved an article on its own, rather than mentioning it in passing in a bash article.

About cp and rm, I actually wrote about more basic commands in the previous article, also linked there:
http://www.datastuff.tech/programming/terminal-tutorial-more...

Though seeing your comment makes me think I could just combine both articles into a longer one.

Thanks for the feedback!
CPUs can execute multiple instructions per clock cycle (recent x86_64 can do 4-5).
However, instructions can take 1 or (commonly) several clock cycles to complete, before their results are available for any instructions depending on said result to start executing. Such dependencies are the babe of superscalar parallelism.

But sometimes things that look like dependencies are fake.

XMM0 = XMM1 + XMM2
XMM3 = XMM0 + XMM4
XMM0 = XMM5 + XMM6
XMM7 = XMM0 + XMM8

At first glance it may look like you have to calculate these instructions serially. But, by renaming the last two `XMM0` you eliminate the dependency on the specific register, and can calculate instructions 1 and 3 in parallel, followed by 2 and 4 in parallel.
Did not find the information on the website: this is the fixing spot rate only right?