skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple more possibilities could be that smokers are less likely to notice any symptoms they might have, or are less likely to report those symptoms and get a test. Smokers are probably less conscientious on average - it's almost the definition of lack of conscientiousness.
The truth is out there and easy to find. He was an incredible man, and a personal hero of mine. But... https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/richard-feynman-physica...
Not exactly, but I have been using Tabletop Simulator to socialize with former classmates, and after this experience (which I would recommend, hands down) I'm dying to try their VR mode.
That's why I don't typically give recommendations. Even with apps like Signal, we should communicate what we can verify and can't.

We owe it to other people to communicate honestly.
Which faction of Labour won 3 elections in a row?
When the British government was choosing to go down the herd immunity path, it was the WHO that warned against that approach. It is not as if the WHO has no value.
I do not agree with the freeform nature of viewpoint.

The possibilities are boundless but you have to temper the boundlessness with the fact that our brains are biased and specialized to work in certain ways. Case in point can you communicate your entire post in terms of pictures? Is there any form of non linear diagramming you can do on a 2D canvas that can deliver your point better than text? If I give you the freedom of a 2D canvas to convey your point can you convey it better than the restricted form of text? No. In fact text was the best way to communicate your point. Restriction and lack of freedom are often more effective tools than ones that are completely unrestricted and boundless.

It doesn't matter whether you're a visual thinker. When it comes to parsing and conveying complex information our brains have a dedicated module for parsing information that comes in as a linear and serial string of symbols. If you can talk, listen read or write than you can be exceptional at writing programs that do this. Your brain is biologically biased to operate this way.

That being said if I show you a picture of a dog, you will learn more about what that dog looks like than any amount of textual description. There is no denying that certain things are communicated better visually and other things are communicated serially.

It's hard to delineate axioms that communicate exactly what is better communicated visually and what is better communicated textually. I can only talk in terms of examples: Your ideas on visual programming is better communicated through text, what your car or face looks like is better communicated through pictures.

One thing that has worked throughout history is a combination of text and pictures. Powerpoint. A linear slide show where each slide delivers serial text and pictures in parallel to the human brain.

The future of visual programming, if it occurs at all, will ultimately be some form of a combination of diagrams and restricted serial strings of symbols following the same principles as powerpoint. I don't believe it has anything to do with foundational computer science but rather the language must be built around the biases and limitations of the human brain. We build biased textual languages because our brains are partly biased towards text.

I have an idea about what that would look like and how that would work in terms of maintaining programmer productivity. Also I didn't see your dissertation (assuming your name is Don Hopkins) in your post.
I personally miss Windows 98. I'm aware of bugs and the boot time it took being longer than current boot times on decent machines. I miss the responsiveness of well-behaved applications. I miss having native applications. I miss having themes and fine control over colors and fonts that allowed me to change the look of almost every application installed due to everything being built with the same toolkit and inheriting the same settings. I miss being able to make pixel art in paintbrush (why did MS have to add antialiasing to paint?). I miss WEP games (Chip's Challenge is on steam, but I've never found a good Jezzball clone).

Also, I miss ZoneAlarm firewall. Windows firewall is sufficient for my needs, but I really wish there was a way to make windows pop up a prompt the first time an application tried to go online, and white/blacklist specific destinations from the prompt.

I miss browsing with less styling and images and such nonsense.
Show HN: BLDG EVELYN – a drama, fiction storytelling podcast
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Gravity wells. I only realised in my 20s that the only reason satellites can orbit the Earth without crashing into the ground is by going sideways really, really fast. So as they inch closer to the ground, they also travel parallel to the ground fast enough so that they stay approximately the same height from the ground.
Well, I'm not arguing for this system.

I suggested using corporate credit cards instead since there are already security mechanisms in place to handle those.

But it obviously require some form of trust in the entity you are interacting with.
Which leads to simple mistakes: http://zerooutoffive.blogspot.com/2008/10/1n-sin-x_21.html
Carnegie-Mellon and U of Washington (UW) are both top 10 for CS programs, so that's not surprising. I imagine high schoolers who are CS applicants are well aware of this fact.
I don't quite understand your objection to the tax code example. In every business domain there are real world constraints that cause people to want business rules of ever increasing complexity. The IRS cares about the definition of "income"; maybe your business cares about which ads get seen by which users or how much you should charge for a cell phone plan. What seemed simple at first is almost certainly incredibly complicated after 20+ years of exposure to humans.

JIRA seems like another great example, actually. JIRA's key feature is that any organization can customize workflows in whatever way they want. Is it slow and bloated? Yes, all that customizability comes at a cost, even if you don't use it. That customizability was driven by customer requests.

My organization uses Pivotal Tracker. It's fast and friendly. But it has exactly one workflow and if you don't like it, tough. They aren't going to sell a lot of licenses to Fortune 500s that way.
Yeah, and for exactly the same reasons.

In old days swap was necessity to keep system up, but nowadays you need it only if your dataset is really big (other than some weirdness in kernel, that actually like to have some small amount of swap to do cleanup and maintenance)

And if you have that problem, you have custom solutions that implement memory hierarchy for you, that give you much better result, as they can work across all the layers (cache/hdd/sdd/net/etc) in much more effective way than generic, software agnostic solutions focused just on one dimension.
This was immensely informative, thank you for that link. CRIU looks like an awesome project. I can't believe I haven't heard of them prior to today.
I'm confused. Your original post says you received a $500 surprise bill but this comment implies they were billing and withdrawing funds monthly from your bank account. Which was it?
I don't think you read my comment. Well before covid hit, their launch cadence was dropping dramatically. They still have DoD and NASA missions, but those aren't enough (look at the manifest) to sustain a company of that size.
Funnily enough, the geniuses at Reason made the same mistake in https://reason.com/2020/04/25/no-poison-control-calls-arent-.... There is no data on poison control calls after March, which means there is no evidence that poison control calls have spiked since Trump's press conference. That doesn't mean that poison control calls haven't spiked since the press conference.
With the amount of copy-pasting going on it should be required by any company developers at this point to attach SPDX copyright and licensing statements [0] to everything that passes through their text editor. I recently watched a talk at FOSDEM about a neat tool called REUSE [1] that will audit your project for these statements and spit out a bill of materials.

[0]: https://spdx.org/using-spdx-license-identifier

[1]: https://reuse.software/tutorial/
I thought we were having a discussion in good faith

I see instead that you are just interested in furthering you partisan asshattery.

It's been fun, but I'm out.
Also, gun laws.
Tech for good during Covid-19: Therapy for nurses, baby food, and an online
I suspect some of the difference is due to having lead-free fuel these days. And less pollution generally.
This must be why beard stroking is effective.
I don't have any OSX boxes, but wouldn't bind-mounting the real the /some/where/nix to /nix solve the realpath problem? No need to write to / either (as you would have to do with the symlink approach).
I would assume corona-side-effects (depression and domestic violence because of forced isolation, deaths from other causes due to lack of medical workers, stress, less healthy lifestyle, economic reasons,...?) to be a major factor too. It will be interesting to see if anyone has the courage to investigate all the causes of deaths when (if?) this madness is over.
This is a video. I didn't watch it; I'd expected something to read.
I would have to recommend watching Exam (2009)[1]. Being a teenager these days feels like taking an exam where the questions are invisible; everyone is suspicious of or hates you; the timer is ticking down in front of you; and you're constantly being monitored by the cameras whilst simultaneously having to find ways to game the system.

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exam_(2009_film)
We would have won if it wasn't for ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth
Add-ons are allowed, even welcomed by MS.

Of course, the trade-offs of "sharecropping" on someone else's platform are always there, from a strategic point of view. MS can wake up one day and rewrite Outlook in Rust, forcing you to rewrite from scratch or making it impossible in practice. But it's a possibility much more remote, imho, than the chance of making significant money with yet another exotic mail client.
That doesn't follow at all. Open or not has nothing to do with it. It simply means the app is badly designed.
Sorry, can't get web publishing advice from Wired. https://i.imgur.com/FaX02Aw.png
Ways of Going Live
Lifespan productivity, from teens upward, has increased, but rewards haven’t kept up. And why should those rewards keep up, when the status quo already creates an environment of increased competition with small financial reward changes. This does create a set of negative externalities though, which one can begin to observe in increasing stress, lower sex drive among 20 year olds, deteriorating social safety nets of retirement for future generations, increased levels of student debt coupled with lower first-time home buyers, entrepreneur rates that haven’t kept up and greater number of companies consolidating. There has been a lot of costs to the centralized gains born from social and material pressures that have been the boon of previous decades/generations. The bill is overdue.
Initially, licence the software as AGPLv3. Then, if necessary, assign copyright to someone like the FSF or the Software Freedom Conservancy who has the goodwill to attract sponsors to keep up a suit for as long as necessary.
This is 100% accurate.

I don't understand why people on this forum are so uncomfortable when it comes to nuance about interpersonal behaviour across genders.

Feynman was a brilliant genius and educator. He also had some fucked up attitudes towards women he considered sexual targets (less so those he saw as intellectual peers). These are both facts.

The second does not negate the first. We have to understand and embrace both.

My suspicion is people get into such deep denial about it because they themselves hold indefensible positions. But recognizing problematic behaviours does not taint the entire person. Acknowledging that you have opportunities for improvements with egalitarian treatment of other genders and races does not make you a bad person. Feynman can't change - his attitudes are frozen in stone, or at least in the written word. The rest of us can though.
Fair enough. My point was coming more from the view that we still treat women like second class people.

600 million women were married before they reached 18.
200 million women have experience genital mutilation so I think it fair to say in most cultures the accepted behavior of women is severely restricted in every possible way.

The women I met have all surprised me with a daily desire for sex activity. Many of them have had slut shaming experiences while growing up.
Insults are feedback, like it or not
What role for campuses in times of distance learning?
Flask Boilerplate – Windows95 UI Kit
First, I am relatively familiar with the admission process at Cambridge and noone gives a crap whether you were on a robotics team at high school + the rest of the extra-curricular jazz. Personal statements mostly just get ignored. Have no idea about the US thouigh, maybe its very different over there.

Second, I know several people from a generation born it the 50s and 60s whose parents either directly forbade them going to the university (rural France, woman's place it at home) or had to put up with conditions unfathomable to most of undergraduates today. The last 2-3 generations are historically unbelievable privileged. But sure, 'It is no party'.
Lost me on this: "We then detail evidence from the one study
that implicated an olfactory origin for this behaviour:"...

One. Okay. Helps explain 'may reflect'...
I bet this isn't going to help. Scams and misleading ads will persist.
I think it's pretty clear which ones are good vs. not so good.

Wikipedia links to something obscure, which most readers won't have heard of before, about which there isn't necessarily a good general-purpose article or blog post out there, can be great HN submissions. Recent examples of good ones:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22880696 ("Dueling Scar")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22844118 ("Guédelon Castle" — but we probably should have changed to https://www.guedelon.fr/en/introduction_75.html)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22800433 ("OK Soda")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22622574 ("1% rule" – surprisingly, not previously discussed much)

A Wikipedia link to something well-known, for example that has been discussed many times on HN, or about which one can find an alternative article that goes into more detail in a less dry or predictable way, is not such a good HN submission.

Plan 9 is in this second, off-topic/generic class. Other recent bad ones:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22981218 ("Esperanto")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22927001 ("1989 Tiananmen Square Protests")
Seems like a perfectly good request. Stores have an incentive in providing this information, as they currently have to pay employees to provide this information directly to customers. When I was a retail employee (Kmart, in the 80s) it took a long time to learn this information, and it wasted a lot of my time. (as often as not, I had to ask someone else for the first few months)

I wasted a 3-4 minutes of a Safeway employee's time in this way the last time I was there a few days ago (I couldn't find birthday candles).

Theoretically, the solution you described would probably save a ton of money overall. I have no doubt it will exist in the not-so-distant future.
I have tried that one. Actually I do enjoy Poker VR a lot. It's probably one of the few decent experiences for social.
Master the Web Storage API (2019)
Show HN: Talkie, an app for system-wide push-to-talk
> Willpower is like muscle power: the more exercise, the stronger they are; the more will power we have, the more self-control and courage we have.

IIRC: studies have not validated this
Thanks, that does give it some sense. It would still feel wrong if I saw that here, but at least I can get where its coming from.

For reference the only medicine ads you would see on tv here would be for every day things (paracetamol, eye drops, ...) or for BS like homeopathy.
Is there really no intuitive way to communicate the answer to that question without needing 10 years of grad math? I find that to be somewhat hard to believe
I've always had a fascination with tracking things myself. I remember daydreaming when I was younger about wishing I had some kind of way to see how many of some particular food item I'd eaten over the course of my life, or how many words I'd ever spoken. I never got too heavily into making my own spreadsheets, but I got into tracking running and walking with apps like runkeeper, using a site to track every movie I watched, tracking each video game I owned and whether I had beaten it yet, and when I couldn't find a good site for tracking the TV shows I'd watched I did make a very simple spreadsheet for that.

Over time I've pulled away from the practice somewhat as I've started to think the obsession with tracking my activities was detracting from the experience somewhat. I'd end up thinking more about adding to my total miles walked on my tracker than enjoying the walk itself. On a level as granular as tracking 10-page chunks of books you must be getting distracted on some level from the actual content, I would think.

I still use that tracking site for movies and I do use Goodreads for books, and I find them great resources for figuring out what to read/watch next, but those are now more secondary to the actual enjoyment of the experience itself.
I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that having antibodies for a virus does in fact protect you from the virus. Like it's baked into the definition of "antibody". That's why it sounds a bit misleading to me.

But I have Biology 101 level of knowledge, so I'm curious to learn why it's not misleading.
Well, if AWS was drawing $15/mo for 4 years from your banking account, as far as they knew you were a happy paying customer. How would they know otherwise? Sounds like you got in a particularly unlucky situation, but I don't think most companies will react sympathetically to "Oops my monthly subscription during the past 4 years was entirely by mistake and I didn't notice that until now. Can you refund the 4 years' worth of money?"
How would you publish it so you would earn enough to pay salaries to all employees involved?
Automation is not a bad thing. We should endeavor to make things as efficient and labor-saving as possible.

Without a mechanism like UBI, however, wealth will get trapped into increasingly concentrated funnels and effectively stagnate. This is bad not only for the people that get left behind, but also bad in general for the economy as a whole as an economy sustains itself on the constant flow of back and forth between buyers and sellers and consumers and suppliers.

As more and more people get replaced through automation, the available pool of money from consumers decreases. If it gets to a point where this becomes too low, the economy effectively comes to a standstill as the products and services companies can offer, even as they become increasingly cheaper to produce due to the productivity gains from automating away human labor costs, stop getting bought due to insufficient funds from consumers.
If it has dark mode and good Linux support, I'll buy it. Will try out tomorrow.
It's an open-source private client written for UO but it's meant for playing on private servers instead of the original servers.
not VR, but plenty of people are socializing and "partying" in 3D worlds: https://opensimworld.com/
Why wont you talk about the predicted numbers? It would be more useful than cheap shots. The paragraph you quoted is unrelated to the prediction.

p16: "In the most effective mitigation strategy examined, which leads to a single, relatively short epidemic (case isolation, household quarantine and social distancing of the elderly), the surge limits for both general ward and ICU beds would be exceeded by at least 8-fold under the more optimistic scenario for critical care requirements that we examined. In addition, even if all patients were able to be treated, we predict there would still be in the order of 250,000 deaths in GB, and 1.1-1.2 million in the US."

We achieved better results than the best case estimate for the US in that paper, and not by a little.
AWS and GCP Are the Real Winners in Snapchat’s Growth
My take on this fabulous story is he is imparting the following key lessons:

1) As smart as you think you are, or as smart as you think OTHERS are, EVERYONE goes through moments when they feel stupid, overwhelmed, and overmatched intellectually.

2) Even the smartest people are bad at some things (e.g. reading blueprints)

3) Ultimately you have to be comfortable with asking stupid questions, ESPECIALLY when people think you're smart. (Note - he didn't ask hoping he asked something smart, or provided value. You have to have the intellectual confidence to look stupid sometimes)

4) Your instincts will still help you even in situations where you are overmatched or under-prepared. Have the humility not to over rely on them, but don't hold back ideas - you never know when they might be helpful.

These lessons are universal for any professional.
Typepad (paid user since 2004)
vrchat on steam seems like the one with most people
The timeline does not match up between the 1920 recession/depression and the 1918/1919 pandemic. The end of WWI was a much larger deal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_of_1920–21

Try charting the pandemic here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_of_1920–21#/media/F.... VS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#/media/File:1918_s...
Maybe the blog of Prof. Matthew Green of JHU is of use. Specifically, the two-part series about zero-knowledge proofs. Part II discusses non-interactive ZK proofs. Part I is really required to grasp the extension to non-interactive ZKP's, so you may need to read that first.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/01/21/zero-kno...
Research “marketing ladder”.

Not too much different than where music and albums are today... the money’s in touring, performance, etc.

If my favorite bands had to,live off album sales, those bands wouldn’t exist.
Sure, the first space would be full width, the second would be half width but would also cause the one before it to become half width. You wouldn't really see that there were half width spaces until you edit, but they are there as soon as typed.
It's not my specialty, but there are easier proof today. Probably 5 years of graduate math is enough ;).

@GP: I'd recommend to try to read an understand the proof for N=3. (And why that approach does not extend to bigger N.) It requires only undergraduate level math and it is much much much easier. It uses very different tools, so it will give you very little insight of the general proof, but it will give you some taste of the problems of the proof.
Publishing on you domain (with a email capture to build an email list), and republishing it on Medium kind of give you the best of both worlds.