skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The system is failing. Hard.

It has been for decades. Society was robbed for profits while sly politicians from all sides and parties got voted in because they always found someone else to blame while serving their corporate masters.

Now science, already under attack where not co-opted when it stood in the way of more profits, sold it's soul by keeping quiet while bogus about PPE and 'social distancing' got and is peddled to the public.

Will something rise from the ashes? For now our 'rulers' seem hell bent on doubling and tripling down on the same course that got us here in the first place.
> As Hudson put it, “there’s never been a better time to maybe fold.” That’s because, he explained, startups that merely survive won’t be judged merely against their peers that also survived; they will also compete with brand-new startups for capital and companies that didn’t need to hunker down during lean times.

Not sure how you got from his core idea, but how do you even guess to measure that?
The history of astronomy, navigation, the Catholic church... Would have been very different.
Agree with this. You can rule out battery circuity related faults by trying to boot with the battery disconnected and the charger connected. Be patient; it will take a minute to boot and emit the chime sound.
You should look at the breakdown of cases. I was very worried for Sydney in early to mid march. What I didnt see until later was the infection acquisition data. The majority of those march cases appeared to be infected citizens returning from overseas. Locally acquired infections were only 25% of cases at the peak. The local infection rate never really hit the scary 3 day numbers.
Don’t be obtuse. Observing some encrypted traffic going in and out gives away some info, but it’s nothing like the email addresses, addresses, names, and order history of all of your customers.

Amazon, if they wanted, could read stats from Netflix’s database about which movies drive the most engagement and use that to determine what to license for Prime video.

It’s the difference between root on the server and capturing encrypted packets on a network.
Individualism is strongest in areas where population density is the lowest. I would expect such people violating quarantines to not be a particularly big driver of the problem (despite being frontpage news, especially when a religion happens to be involved).

By the way the hoarding of paper products is a worldwide thing. It was problem even in Japan far before the US.
It’s totally different than agenda in Germany. Heads in the news can’t stop fantasizing about herd immunity. And this guy has a plan what to do right now.
> I'm no pharmacologist but I think we would be extremely lucky if one of existing antivirals also works here.

Even if the results are bad, it also depends on what they were used for, since the little evidence we have tells us that the sooner we act, the better.

Example: ritonavir was a letdown, but even in the NEJM paper the limitations of the study mention that the trial was done on people with rather severe sympthoms. At this point it was probably too late to make a dent in the infection.

The data on remedisivir (which came from two suspended trials due to lack of enrollment, so no statistical power) showed an almost-identical mortality between the two groups, but I'd argue that those (at least one of them was) were done on patients in severe conditions, so once again late.

Later trials which are ongoing are hopefully better designed (NIH's for remedisivir at least, Gilead's don't use a placebo IIRC) and will get us answers. IMO, even a small improvement on hospitalization rate would be a huge win for the ICUs.

That said, remedisivir is i.v. so this limits applicability to hospitals.
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> select b from nums group by a;

MySQL allows selecting columns that don't appear in GROUP BY clause. It is not good and allows you to shoot yourself in the foot. Gives you false sense of correctness, because, well, query works.

It just takes _one_ arbitrary value you happen to have in b and selects it.

As I'm mostly working with MSSQL and sometimes have to shoot queries at MySQL - is there any mode / strictness I can set to error out on these kind of queries rather than silently continue?
Thank you everyone for all the links. This is very helpful!
I've never had time off in compensation for time worked. If it's busy enough to require me to work overtime, it's too busy to take leave no matter how much I have built up.
Here's a good documentary on the topic: "Just Eat It"

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/just_eat_it_a_food_waste_st...
the fundamentals of computer science. Unlike many who comment here regularly, I am not a programmer or developer and though it might seem silly, the way in which a bunch of code written in a programming language of any sort translates to a computer physically or electrically causing things to "happen" because of it has always been a bit fuzzy. I know that electronic systems and machines translate all instructions to binary code but still, from there how does the rest happen? such as an OS on my laptops working the way it does, or more specialized: an unmanned spacecraft autonomously navigating its way through the solar system and doing complex physical tasks. Anyone have a suggestion for a good starting point on learning through these fundamentals and on upwards?
Why does quantum mechanics need complex numbers ?

Every time I read an introductory QM book / article, the complex numbers just come out of nowhere and no one bothers to explain how that makes any kind of physical sense.
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or because we've built up resistance to the most common strains.
There are old player models with both a vhs and a dvd writer in one box, that copy from vhs to dvd. That's a digitizer in a box.

And most dvd-recorders have better comb filters and time base correction than most other things that have composite inputs, and especially the ones with a vhs player built in. They know they have to clean up a vhs's signal.

So if you're going to use home equipment, that is an easy way to get better than average input stage for analog video and vhs in particular which needs tbc as well as merely adc.

Capture cards actually usually have pretty crap composite input, even ones that don't even have any other input!

But if I cared about the capture at all I'd use a professional media service.

Capturing anything analog, especially for a one-last-time-then-live-with-the-result-for-the-rest-of-time... is ALL about the quality of the initial analog read, and that is the kind of thing where it gets better the more you spend, and tv stations and professional shops have $50,000 machines and the people to operate them that you just are not going to match.

But it can't just be anyone with an ad in the phone book that says we convert vhs tapes. Many of those are nothing but a dude no better equipped in either hardware or wetware than yourself.
Is the target an actual satellite in space, or is it on the ground / simulated?
Stay home is more commanding, is it makes sense as a general order.
Do ad-free subscriptions a higher price work, we don't see many of those offers.

I suspect the problem is although everybody sees the ads the value comes from the wealthiest section of subscribers. These are the people most likely to pay to block the adverts. Lose those and you will lose your advertisers.
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I need to get this down. Right now it's 8pm on a public holiday. I did a little over 8 hours at work between 9 and 5:30. I'm still working...

(Running two long running tasks in the background so it's not high focus stuff)
A galaxy doesn't have a hard edge, nor does for example the solar system. But - as far as we know - the density of stars drops really steeply at a certain radius. For practical purpose, we can take this radius as the "size" of the galaxy. The galaxy doesn't grow further than that, even if you keep exposing the photos longer.

Of course, there can be plenty of stars outside of that radius, but in a comparatively small number.
While I don’t have numbers, your questions are easy to answer: foods with more calories in them can power your home longer. A typical 700 calorie meal can, if used 100% efficiently, can power a 10 W LED lamp for about three days.
Other than the AlphaZero papers and DQN, maybe TRPO? (assuming we're talking about deep RL)
> Quite means something different. In British "quite good" is similar to "particularly good". In American it's more like "OK",

I hear this quite a lot. In my experience we (Brits) use it mostly in your second sense, to moderate statements. We use it as an intensifier more rarely and usually in specific phrases: "quite right", "quite the ...". I believe the key difference is that we use the word with greater frequency than Americans. GLOWBE [1] is an excellent resource for checking such hunches if you are interested.

[1]: https://www.english-corpora.org/glowbe/
Because large corporates couldn't monetise them with enough ads. Once the large sites had dropped support for RSS, everyone then followed.
The spirit isn't the name of some "greek goddess", it's the concept of victory and the associated conscious and conceptual space.

I'm not dumb enough to say that Nike is a reference to a dead culture from thousands of years ago. I'm saying that the concept and conscious idea of victory expressed as a piece of culture has existed for thousands of years, in roughly the same way despite the different window dressing; like seeing it as a god or as a brand. It's the same spirit in a different frame.

It's the same as the idea of a rich man being framed as Mansa Musa, Bill Gates, Aladdin from the 1992 film and many more examples. They all have similar culture connotations in some sense that make up the spirit of the 'rich man' and if you kill all cultural representations of the 'rich man', people will make new ones regardless of who it is. They will be framed in a way that is culturally successful at the time. Bill Gates is occupies the spirit of the rich man, framed as smart guy business savvy leader with a touch of ruthlessness. A catholic priest from before lutherian protestant reform would have occupied the spirit of the 'rich man' though he would have been framed very differently to bill gates, draped in catholic finery and religious imagery. When people want to access the spirit of being rich they would seek a catholic influence instead of a SV tech influence. Ages before that they would have saught the culture influence of Mansa Musa and his billions in gold. It's still the same spirit of the 'rich man', with different frames.

The same way Nike and Nike are the same spirit of victory with different frames.

Jesus christ. Read some Paglia.
> The actual debate is not decentralized/centralized, it's "should we allow contact tracing or ban it?"

Did you mean "digital contact tracing" there? Contact tracing itself is a necessary tool when dealing with a pandemic and I really do not see anybody arguing against that. Of course there's a lot of trade-offs and questions like voluntary/mandatory, usage restrictions, etc. but I feel like decentralized vs. centralized debate was a good first discussion to have in a democracy.
Many descriptions of flight focus on pressure differentials. I think it's much easier to think about in terms of Newton's 3rd law. The plane simply needs to redirect enough air downward to compensate for its weight. The energy cost change the direction of the air (via the wing) is very low (similar to how a train does not lose much speed when the tracks curve).
As the article the grandparent links to shows, RH is maybe the singular example of a big successful pure OSS software company. It seems almost all other big successful OSS companies have adopted some kind of 'hybrid' strategy such as open core, many after first unsuccessfully trying to emulate RH.

To a hw company, I think the issue of how to monetize SW is to some extent clearer as well as pretty different than for a pure sw company. You're selling a tangible physical product, but customers are not interested in the raw hw but the complete package of hw plus supporting sw (drivers, SDK, whatever) + support. So you have to choose what is the appropriate model for you. E.g.

- Use profits from HW sales to develop OSS that makes the HW more useful to customers, and thus increases HW sales. For instance, one argument in favor of this would be that drivers included in the upstream kernel and user-space software in distros makes it easier for customers to use your HW. And you'll get OSS brownie points which might also help drive sales.

- Or make the SW free but not OSS, in case you're worried that your competitors could just take your OSS and use it with their HW.

- Or make proprietary SW that you sell in addition to the HW. I'm not sure customers care about how you split the total bill they're paying, and free (as in beer) software is certainly a lot easier to deal with for customers (e.g. license hassles). But again, it depends.

- Oh, and another potential advantage of the OSS SW model is the 'commoditize your complement' angle (do a web search on that phrase if your unfamiliar with it). tl;dr You can use OSS SW to undercut a pure SW competitor, as your income is protected by your 'HW moat'.
It's a long road to the top (i.e. something like a python program), but you can start at the bottom and try to understand how basic hardware gates (and/or/xor/register) work and can perform extremely elementary yet useful tasks.

Then it's just a "simple" matter of stacking up a billion of the things to get them to do complex programs.
Thanks for sharing. It is impressive to me that a city of Oslo's size was able to achieve that. I know of one similar sized city in the States that has similar high-level plans to re-route major roads and highways, but they never make much progress beyond committee meetings.
But Ansible is an incomplete and extra part of software just to make your operating system behave like you want it to. Why not just pick an operating system that behaves like you want it to from the ground up?
The site has FB share button, enough for FB to track.
And not just recently, it all really started with lens flares.
Sadly this trend will continue. There will be a lot of wastage because our society and systems were built on higher levels of consumption, for better or for worse.

There's momentum built in a system of scale and we're seeing what happens when the end consuming falls off the charts.

Once society starts back up, we'll see the opposite where we'll be angry there are shortages of things we expect even though we're "back online".
Squint really hard with me... From an environmental point of view I think its encouraging there is so much headway we can collectively make by reducing waste than hoping new tech and infrastructure will allow the same level of consumption

https://www.nrdc.org/resources/wasted-how-america-losing-40-...
High-quality advertising is more important in the information age, not less. I still buy magazines every month, in large part because of the advertising. Skimming through the ads gives me a quick overview of trends in the market, but it also provides a sense of which companies are serious players. A single advert might just be a pack of lies, but multiple full-page adverts every month for several years is a costly signal that the company is playing the long game. Such a large investment in advertising is only viable if you're selling a lot of product and you're confident in the quality of your product; if you're selling vast quantities of total crap, word gets out very quickly and you don't stay around for long.

Targeted ads and online reviews don't provide this signalling value, precisely because they're relatively cheap and efficient from the seller's perspective. Any two-bit operator can cheaply buy a bunch of five star reviews on Amazon, then relaunch under a new brand name when the real one star reviews start flooding in. If I see a lot of targeted ads from the same company, they might be engaging in a hugely expensive media blitz or I might have been identified by their algorithm as a total sucker. Untargeted mass advertising tells me that a) the company is heavily invested in their product and b) all my peers are seeing the same adverts.
What are the differences between Nebula's old design and the new architectures of graph DB?

Any open source graph DB that uses a new architecture?
Consciously separating them in your mind does nothing for the reality that the concepts in the ad exist in the shoe for everybody who does not reject it.

It precisely is his own terms, you can choose which spirits you want to participate in, or none, as you have just shown multiple times.

If ads are capable of brainwashing, why wouldn't they just put out an ad that removes the idea of disagreeing with ads forever? It's nonsense. Where are these totalitarian ads that prove that you have no free will and are open to manipulation all the time? Why do people rebel against foreign ads?
As far as I'm aware BT still have normal landlines to most areas - the phones are separate from the router, they don't go through it first and even support old pulse dial phones.
Just because you live in a more developed country, it doesn't make you responsible for well-being of people from less developed ones. We're adults who are capable of making our own decision decisions and being responsible for the consequences, and this modern leftist rebranding of white man's burden is a bit insulting, to be honest.
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Origins of human language pathway in the brain at least 25M years old
Read "Charles Petzold - Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software", it is a good starter.

https://www.nand2tetris.org/ may also be insightful, but I did not look further into to.
Any chance you know any repair place with great board repair capability around South East Asia? My MBA 2011 is alive without battery, screens and everything work fine. But the previous repair shop jumped something in a weird way and my backlight doesn't come on with battery plugged in. It's been sitting still for 4 years..
Tactless? You should see what Google and Facebook's ad targeting ML will guess about you.
Hijacking this comment, but it seems likely to attract the right sort of crowd..

Can anyone recommend a Mac/web Gmail UI with exceptionally fast hotkey interactions? The Gmail web interface has slowed to the point of un-usability for me now.

Command line (Alpine, etc) would be fine, but my Gmail account is secured by work and has the required access control settings disabled.
I suspect most low income households in Denmark are going to be able to afford that, just because it can displace other much more expensive forms of entertainment.
What does their backend look like that a 30 character string for gender could end up containing a limitless amount of text?
The problem with this description is that you don't need a fancy shaped wing to fly, a flat board will work. Aerofoils provide better efficiency but are not required.
> I wrote this piece: Why hackathons are for wankers!

Do you know the meaning of a wanker?
Because the federal government has control over fiscal and (indirectly) monetary policy. It can literally print money and borrow at rates which no single state can. It has an independent power to levy taxation against the citizens of those states.

If the US states were literally independent countries, then they'd be able to do more. They're not, so the federal government should be doing a lot more then it is.

Your taxes pay for federal government. An entirely different set of taxes pay for state government. _Why_ are you not demanding better service?
In most physics courses, you’ll hit conservation of energy even before it’s presented in thermodynamics packaging. This kind of calculation should be less than a week’s worth of casual effort for someone who is familiar with algebra.
I like the Swiss approach to overtime.

1. It can only be demanded for exceptional circumstances, with justification. "Poor planning or lack of staff are insufficient." [1]

2. It must be compensated with 25% extra salary, or extra holiday (if the employee agrees). An employee cannot waive their right to this.

3. Even then, there is a limit by law on the number of extra hours you can do in a year, [2] says 170 hours per calendar year. Got a big crisis in January? Employer had better start planning ahead so everyone's time budget isn't exhausted by December.

4. Like many countries, Switzerland has an exception for "management". So you don't call your cleaner a "facility manager", the Swiss law specifies this as "management AND earning at least CHF 120'000 a year". [3] For context, according to expatica [4] the OECD calculated the Swiss average wage in 2017 as 62.3K.

I personally think the principle that you cannot be expected to work "all hours that are necessary" unless you're paid around twice the average salary is brilliant and gets rid of a lot of potential abuse of this rule.

[1] https://www.legalexpatgeneva.com/employment-law/contractual-...
[2] https://www.ch.ch/en/overtime-and-extra-hours/
[3] https://www.kmu.admin.ch/kmu/en/home/concrete-know-how/perso...
[4] https://www.expatica.com/ch/working/employment-law/switzerla...
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The scale? Yeah, the scale is much bigger. Conditions for animals? Not much different than 100 years ago [1]. And I'd argue they are better in many cases (and in many countries).

[1] https://io9.gizmodo.com/utterly-disturbing-century-old-photo...
Any satellite is likely going up regardless.

It may make it safer if you help stop bad actors getting access to what will be there anyway. Some terrorist would probably love to steer one satellite into another... or whatever options control gives.
Valid point. Thank you for pointing that out.
I spend a lot of time on Hacker News where, for a time at least, articles regularly appeared here about the desire of Sam Altman and Elon Musk to institute a UBI. A quick search would readily turn them up.

Sam Altman has grown quieter about it, but his desire to make it real persists. He put $5 million of his own money into a UBI experiment when he was president of YC and, more recently, he backed some presidential candidate who was proposing UBI as part of his political platform. I think the candidate's name was Andrew Yang.

My proposals:

We fix the housing supply issues we have and institute universal health coverage in the US. Those two things would go a long ways towards improving things for the lower classes.

I don't necessarily think it's impossible to have a UBI alongside "other nice things." I just know that what I've read so far doesn't at all bode well for UBI being a positive.

Should I start hearing different things, I would be amenable to changing my mind. Given some of what happened during the pandemic, I'm cautiously hopeful that someday things will be different.

But today does not seem to be that day.
Is it just me or someone else also read all the 49,667 bytes of Toilet paper orientation.