skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Au contraire! I've studied conspiracy theories a lot!

This is a great example: take something that did happen (experiments 40+ years ago), combine it with something more recent people know about in passing ("Men who state at goats" - which I'd note was exactly about how it didn't work at all), and then use it to project into the idea that it must be more advanced today and mysterious forces are using it.

Indeed, the idea of taking something that did happen, and then weaving it into lots of other random things to hide it in the noise (like this comment does) is a tactic often used by intelligence operatives. There's a conspiracy theory for you to think about!

I'd note that there is no evidence given at all.

The OP could have spoken about the recent IARPA SHARP brain stimulation program[1] which is probably the most advanced research in this area. But clearly they didn't know about that or they'd also know how hard it is to make work and how far away from mind control it is!

[1] https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/sharp
If the NIH grant scheme was not a zero sum game then this would be reasonable. A scientist with real results missed out on a grant that they would have got if Julia had not made this error.

There is a fundamental issue here that is not being discussed is that is the science funding system incentivises people rushing results out and not check if they are real. If Julia had been more careful she would have found the results were false, not published, and not received a grant. So much of the problems with a lack of reproducibility in science is the direct result of people rushing to get out “novel” data and not checking if it is real because if they do they don’t get funded.
Roughly 25% of males in the US 35-44 had hypertension in 2010, and this grows to over 50% by 55-64, an age I don't think anyone would consider especially old: https://www.heart.org/idc/groups/heart-public/@wcm/@sop/@smd...

Basically everyone who dies from this has a preexisting condition, but basically everyone in the US will develop at least one of the big three (hypertension, diabetes, or obesity) at some point.
Oh agree 100%. Theory doesn't help much if you can't apply it.
Oh, I wouldn't bother. Just be aware that squealing "racist!" and "traitor!" in the direction of putative (by dint of race & region) wrongthinkers provides a powerful endorphin hit to some. Like nosepicking in toddlers or cribbing in stabled horses.
> I’m running my project with ts 3.6. Library upgraded to 3.7 and adds null chaining operators. Now my package is broken.

Isn't this similar to not upgrading node and using an updated version of an npm package that calls a new function added to the standard library? All npm packages have a minimum node version, and similarly all deno code has a minimum deno version. Both use lockfiles to ensure your dependencies don't update unexpectedly.

> Or, I’m using strictNullChecks. Dependent package isn’t.

This definitely sounds like a potential problem. Because Deno enables all strict checks by default, hopefully library authors will refrain from disabling them.
9,999,999 results in .0000009 seconds.

Result 1: not even close

Result 2: that's the opposite of what I asked

Result 3: not even close
> Please look at any of the numerous models available online which account for all factors, and you will see how badly herd immunity idea would end for all age groups.

If you fixate on only "flattening the curve", then you have a point.

But if you look at this from an overall public health and economic policy, then shutting down our economy for the first time in modern history is not obviously the right decision at all.

I don't believe lockdown still serves a valid purpose. I think we should take the ample data made available from China since at least January (!), analyze it for a couple days, then move on with our lives like every flu season. If wearing a mask is part of that, fine, supply them.

One thing to keep in mind is that one of our most important US statesmen is California Governor Gavin Newsom, and his first concern will be his future Whitehouse run, not public health policy. So it's in his political interest to continue the lockdown forever, since he will be criticized if he ends it and mortality spikes.

For those unaware, the Wuhan "bat collection" lab was actually a documented corona genetics factory funded partly by the US govt. This should get very interesting in the coming months!
Only MK Ultra (which this article is about!) is anything resembling mind control.

Apparently I'm paying more attention to what this is specifically about than you are!
I don't think she's a bad person, and I appreciate her response to the situation.

But building a year (years?) around a project, attending multiple conferences for it, bringing up a couple students on a research idea, then finding it's all a software bug? That's a nightmare.
Oh whoops, I'll add it in. EDIT: It's a damn blogger encoding error.

Yep, it's 5 million iterations.

I will update the post with list.macros immediately!

This is my CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU N3700 @ 1.60GHz

Edit: it is updated. :) list.macros has been inlined in the snippet.
San Francisco and Oakland have implemented a 'slow streets' initiative, gradually closing off some streets to through traffic (residential/emergency vehicles only) to allow more room for exercise. Predictably people have begun to deploy street furniture of their own (flower planters and so on) to make it more permanent. Nobody wants all the traffic and associated pollution back. Hard to predict how this will pan out as the necessity for social distancing recedes.
I agree with the result here, that the iPhone SE is going bring down the average price of buying into the Apple universe. I'm not sure the average Apple customer is doing this kind of math to justify their purchases. I think you are projecting far too much rationality onto the Apple consumer.

Apple doesn't like to create confusion around which product is right for users. The clear iPhone SE buyer is the lagging customer who, when buying the iPhone SE is seeing a technology upgrade given how far back they are. They don't want to pay the extra $$$ to skip too far forward into the future.
Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist
It's a short, introductory LinkedIn article. If you want more depth, start with his recent book on debt cycles. I'm guessing his next book will have more as well.
https://service.mcafee.com/webcenter/portal/cp/home/articlev...

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/mcafee_consumer_pro...
I beg to differ. The comment was perfectly reasonable in my view. I also learned about someone new, namely George Friedman.
Sure, but JavaScript and J2EE aren't the only options. You can use a language with more built-in functionality, reduce the use of unnecessary external libraries, and/or limit those libraries to ones from trusted sources.
These aren't mind control at all!

Saying "the intelligence community is horrible" isn't the same as "these programs were prototypes for still-ongoing [mind control] attacks on the American public."
What I meant by state is status. As in, this type of humble retro styled application is where we find GPT-2 in 2020 instead of dominating the news cycle with what you claim it is so good at. If it excels at text, where are the fake articles and tweets? It's just not that good.
The problem is every second developer is also passionate about building dev tools. The market is naturally over-saturated.

The world does not need more dev tools.

There are bountiful real-world problems out there itching to be solved with software for the developer who can overcome their one-dimensional interests, to stop harbouring in the safe waters of the abstract and embrace the real world. Take up a hobby as distinct from programming as you can tolerate. Instead of that next industry meetup, go give a hand in your local community.
See also https://www.hedgewars.org/

An similar open source native application for Linux/FreeBSD/iOS/Mac/Windows.
Zero. While coffee smells nice, it all tastes like ash. No, it is not burned; I’ve had pros coax me into a sip of the best they know. Ash. Also, I get tired when I take caffeine. The best pick-me-up for me is a light, high protein snack.
> AFAIK you can bypass this by using dxgi flip model so no additional latency is incurred.

Using the flip model only eliminates the latency if DWM promotes your window to a hardware overlay. On Nvidia systems this is simply not supported, so the latency is always there and it's impossible to get rid of it. Maybe DWM supports overlays on Intel or AMD, I'm not sure. It would be interesting for someone to test this.

> There's still is going to be 1 frame of latency from the vsync though.

Vsync does not inherently require any extra latency. You can render as close to vsync as you like to reduce the latency an arbitrary amount. That's what VR compositors do. All you need to do is ensure you can't flip during scanout and you can't get tearing.
Classic ad, run in theaters, against Pay TV:

https://archive.org/details/Drive-inSaveFreeTv
"30-minute toy-store shows." Which arrived in 1984.
Where I work, all teams have different point systems. When we need to do high level planning, we used a normalized "sizing" system of small, medium, large, huge. They give some numerical values to these and use those as points. They're less accurate on a per story basis, but they tend to average out quite well.
Good point, but at least in Mac I don’t think you can easily write like that to a partitioned device that’s still mounted.
Angr is a static analysis and symbolic execution framework. It contains many components. It's built around Valgrind's VEX IR and provides an API that allows for lifting binaries from various architectures to a common IL. Angr also provides libraries to aid in CFG recovery, concolic testing, and other program analysis techniques. Angr does not do software emulation and is used mostly for static analysis.

Qiling is almost entirely dynamic. Qiling provides an API that allows you to instrument and emulate binaries. It's an extra layer on top of Unicorn (a library that can emulate CPU instructions using QEMU). Qiling contains ELF/PE/etc loaders and kernel syscall emulation. Think of it as qemu-user but with a Python API allowing you to install hooks, set breakpoints, read/write to memory, etc...
> Technology in China is still by and large imported / copied.

When I visited China, I felt like I was in the future. We have fallen behind, and we literarily have shipped the "Arsenal of Democracy" to China. Their airports are bigger and better, the high speed rail was amazing, and the subway system was simple to navigate.

China has innovated in important ways - they have beat us to 5G, and they have weapons systems that could take out our best aircraft carriers and satellites.
The man the myth the legend!
Back when memes were just called "image macros". Something Awful is still going but there is nothing remotely funny or new there.
I'd try it again, the popularity has gone way up - last I checked, it is at >100k concurrent players on line.

It's definitely lost some of the nostalgia, but it makes up for it with a load of new content.
not websites but I miss IRC and Usenet
This assumes that you can splinter developers, the community and all their efforts into two new things and still have the same operational power.

The act of killing off V2 gives downstream developers the right to stop supporting it; regain some focus.
Dalio admits in this that he didn't see the pandemic coming.
Thats one thing the pandemic has made clear - how many jobs are unnecessary.
Might sound weird but I do really miss that old msn.com homepage, that super weird home page always made me excited back in the days.

Also Friendfeed, shame to Facebook that they dissolved my first and best social media web site.
The world order, in terms of socio-economic and politico-legal structures, is for sure changing, but it's more a matter of demographics and communication.

We have shattered certain assumptions about the world economy to ensure the continuing welfare of the oldest of us. This is an unprecedented act of selflessness by everyone younger than seventy-ish, because we love our elders so.

The real change in the world order is logistical, which has caused significant re-pricings of almost everything (even the things that are roughly the same price are so in a very different set of market conditions).

It is no longer a matter of how nations compete but how they collaborate, and the markets are adjusting accordingly.

I'm quite optimistic, but then I study Science.

[Edit (apart from mis-spellings)]:

The shattered assumptions pertain to debt management by governments, which are trivial compared to the volume of daily trading. We are in for a reckoning on resource measurement hopefully not of catastrophic proportions and this pandemic is merely a spur. In a nutshell: money fails dimensional analysis.

[Edit the second]:

By the way, if any of you would like to get together and discuss type theory and dimensional analysis and maybe reach out to the folk on the n-category cafe and lambdatheultimate and suchlike I'll happily help. We've a problem needs solving and Hacker News is populated by folk who like solving problems. I'll end (cheekily, give it a search engine result) with a reference to Terence Tao: A mathematical formalisation of dimensional analysis. I keep coming back to this blogpost. The subject kinda weirds me out.

[Edit the third]:

Removed the first paragraph as snarky, mea culpa
As one of my coworkers put it:

"A talented programmer can write and verify 4 lines of code a day"

seL4 has some cool ideas, but I can't stress enough how miserable it is to develop for.
"notice" is a bad word for it, I should say I don't care. The browser scrolls, the apps launch, the keyboard types, all that happens at a reasonable pace. I don't notice frustration with the performance.
CPU speed alone doesn't indicate overall system performance, nor do synthetic benchmarks. The PPC mini had a discrete GPU with dedicated RAM, and OS X at that time was mature on the platform and very performant. The first Intel mini was a Core Solo machine that was horribly underpowered, had Intel GMA 950 graphics not even powerful enough to properly render QE/CI without stuttering, and was hobbled by a very slow system bus. Intel Macs didn't start performing better than their PPC counterparts until Lion was released and the second generation of Core 2 CPUs with faster system bus and higher clock speeds came about.

I get the point you're trying to make, but unless you owned both the last PPC mini and the first Intel mini at the same time, as I did in 2006 (and still do), you have no idea what you're talking about.
> I am surprised it's not already become the dominant new car type

Well, there is not the battery capacity and the company make no money from them so they don't sell them.

> It would take a system more like Tesla's to keep up

Pretty much all companies have started working on that. The big issues they usually put together tons and tons of vendor software. Another big issue is that some of their lower level parts are not upgradable at all, so even if you can upgrade your main computer that does not mean you can be quite as complete as Tesla can be.
The old Slashdot. I also had a website called hardcorelinux.com where I evangelized Linux, and I miss that too.
Perhaps at the time he figured he had more too lose if their business relationship was to sour.
Prison demographics are very different than cruise ships, so might be interesting if different
If you're in a situation where you need to be wearing gloves, do you really want to touch your phone?

(Before anyone says winter, you can get gloves that work on touch screens and therefore would allow you to enter your passcode).
Some more movies in no particular order if you want to explore more of psychological horror:

Pandorum

The Lighthouse

eXistenZ

Videodrome

Hellraiser (I’m a fan of the series, some are better than others)

Blue Velvet

Mulholland Drive

The Thing

American Psycho

The Fly

Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1978 version with Leonard Nimoy)
>I miss the web then in general. It was full of basically honest information rich stuff.

Completely Agree. People use to share honest information, no conflict of interest, and doing so purely because of passion.

Now that got me thinking. Did the introduction of Web Ads in large, generating vast amount of profits leading to SEO, page spam, content farm and generally lower quality of information?

So in good intention, we hope the web to have a sustainable ad business model, has actually lead to the fall on quality of the web?

Or would the web still have been like today even if we had no ads.

I am not sure if this is true, but this could be another example of good intention leads to bad outcome.
There's no way to avoid such incentives here. Being allowed to keep the grant creates an incentive to publish incorrect results in the first place. "Gosh this seems too good to be true, but let's wait till the system has invested another million dollars in my career before investigating the process too closely".
Jennicam

I’m not a perv; it was novel.
I happened to start reading it a few weeks ago. The book is even better than the movie, and the movie is one of my favorite horror films of all time.
Fark, Plastic, Metafilter

Metafilter still exists, but the culture changed to the point where most discussions became a meta-discussion about how the discussion should be allowed to be discussed. And it just wore me out.
You could use `git worktree add` to avoid messing up the main working tree.
if you look at cargo ship over time. we are building bigger and bigger cargo ship while everyone's blue water navy have been diminishing. it will be interesting if U.S. exit the global stage and stop patrolling the ocean.

are we going back to colonialism era where everyone build up a navy to escort goods or we are at the point that we can trade goods peacefully without a strong Navy escort.
Don't believe your lying eyes/ears. This guy is unfit to run a Wendy's let alone a country.
Data science lesson 2: selecting data using SQL
> Other tries to have "10% using the promotion store at this online store" whatever that means. Probably stuff you never needed in the first place.

I respond to those 10% aggressively. I can assure you those 10% off at Walmart is used to purchase durable, essential goods. Those 10% off at Advanced Auto Parts are used to purchase parts for my 98 Toyota Camry that I love to maintain myself and has 270k miles on it. There is no reason why anyone here cannot replicate this when I can.
Hey, Bill Wadge was a prof of mine! It was a topics in Artificial Intelligence course just before the Deep Learning boom. It was all about entailment and modal logics and frankly seemed really out of date. It was interesting, however.
As a note on sample size, given those numbers the general fatality rate would imply eventually 25 deaths.
> Lots of gas stations violate this "legal prohibition"

Uhm technically yes, but functionally no.

When gas was routinely $3.5/gal in SoCAL (where I live), credit price used to be $3.5/gal and cash price $3.4/gal.

My credit card gives me straight 5.2% cash back on purchases at the pump.

I hence pay $3.3/gal - still less than the cash price of $3.4/gal.
Then you crack down on such sites. It will prevent the vast majority of gambling from taking place, which will be a net plus on society.
"actual Computer Science is not writing a VBA script"

This seems a little like saying "actual motorsports is not riding a scooter". However, I took the class to get my motorcycle license from a guy who had experience racing scooters in Europe.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sipscootershop/17709340698/
White to move and win: beautiful van Breukelen puzzle (c. 1987)
That's not what that report say.

Apple takes most of the profit in the sector, but the other companies are profitable, at lower levels. Eg, even the low end Chinese manufactures: Chinese smartphone brands operate at low-profit margins, but better than in previous years, even though they are expanding outside China and also penetrating high-tier price bands.
I don’t think density matters as much as you think it does. The evidence seems to be that people are mostly contracting the virus in indoor spaces like offices, restaurants, theaters and churches, and people in low density areas go to offices, restaurants, theaters and churches that are just as crowded as the ones in cities. In high density areas people live in smaller apartments that are stacked on top of one another, but it’s not like the virus is percolating through the walls and ceilings of your dwellings. The only real difference in exposure to the virus is public transit.
Thats too funny. And honestly, the fact that the game translates to the real world directly like that just blows my mind. I met a guy at a hackthon during uni who ran Sals realm of runescape. He told me that the selling the website basically payed his (canadian) tuition in full
You can also check out shadow-cljs which has great support for React Native development. I've been able to easily keep my project up to date with the latest React Native versions. Plus with shadow-cljs you also get access to all of npm in a very straight forward way.
You're probably right, but I think that's flawed. We still don't know how many people are completely asymptomatic. It's a very weak assumption to base this argument on.
I think so too. the other side of this question is why do so many people sign up for cs majors
Oh yeah, so many hours spent reading all the original Quake sites back in the day, Joost Schuur's Aftershock, Blue's Quake Rag, sCary's Quakeholio, Redwood's Quake Stomping Grounds... such an exciting time, it seemed like there was something new happening every day.
Back in the late '90 I was into game development I used to visit flipcode.com [1] daily for image of the day, tutorials and the forum.

[1] https://flipcode.com/
Ask HN: Do you want an App that teaches you Physics?
I'm concepting an app to teach Physics. Rather than a collection of free resources, this would be a curated, somewhat opinionated adaptive learning system. The eventual goal would be to be able to take a motivated high-school student all the way to graduate-level physics. Initially, I'd consider aiming for the content covered in a standard full-year introductory university physics course (Mechanics + Electricity & Magnetism).

I know that there are developers and engineers out there who would like to learn more physics, but either need the structure of courses, or don't have much time.

Would you pay for this? I'm thinking a Netflix-ish subscription fee. iOS, Android, PC, Mac, Linux.
Kaitnieks SCAR right? I was pretty involved in the cheating scene for RuneScape since around 2001, which I credit with getting me in to tech.
I dont buy that. I dont miss 9600 Bauds modems, Windows 95 or monochromatic monitors. But some things were better before. Not every current thing is better, give me the Godfather 1,2 and Silence of the Lambs versus all movies made in the last 10 years. Compare the kind of discussions you could have in Usenet (cranks included) or the first blogs to the things you see in Twitter or -shudders- Facebook.No contest there.