skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you heard about Game of Thrones or Westworld or Stranger Things, or most recently, Tiger King, you'd realize this is very much still a thing for a large population.

This isn't the same thing.

In the 1990s, everybody watched The Simpsons. Even the people who hated it still watched it so they could complain about it. It was on broadcast TV so everybody had access to it. And Friends, and Cheers, and so on.

Game of Thrones is on HBO. If you have Netflix and not HBO, it's not there. Stranger Things is on Netflix. If you have HBO and not Netflix, it's not there. A lot more people watched Friends than Game of Thrones, because Game of Thrones was less available and had much more competition.

You can find a website full of fandom about Game of Thrones, but you can find a website full of fandom about Battlestar Galactica. Passion and popularity are not the same.

Popularity is what matters to the zeitgeist. It's not a matter of being able to find a place where all the Game of Thrones fans hang out and whinge about the last season, it's about being able to go into a room full of normies and make a reference to last night's episode and expect nearly everybody to get it. Which isn't really a thing anymore.
> Lack of evidence? Again, they're holding VPLs to a higher standard. When a language like Ruby appeared, nobody asked for proof. Simply creating something that some programmers liked was sufficient.

If there was a visual programming language with anywhere near the popularity of Ruby, I'd be willing to consider that maybe the idea has some merit.
WebAssembly is also trying to close that small window in the web.
DNS level adblocking is possible untill DNS over HTTPS becomes the standard.
Ah, you are indeed correct.

I should have said, "there is no theory there, it did happen". But there was a conspiracy indeed.
or write 9 like in most parts of Europe, as a lower-case g, and write the letter g with a loop.
That chart is funny. The title is “unprecedented spike”, but it just shows that such outliers have occurred regularly.
Wouldn't it be simpler for facebook and for its users if they just implemented some sort of "FB Pay" equivalent to WeChat Pay that's tied to their messenger app and be done with it? I'm definitely missing a lot here as I haven't kept up with the latest libra updates but I seriously fail to see why making or calling this a cryptocurrency is the way they chose to go although I'm pretty sure there's a fair amount of greed and powerplay behind this.

Tbh, it is starting to sound a lot like some sort of real world e-coin that is tied to some of the least privacy concerned corporations, banks and governments and with none of the advantages of an actual decentralized cryptocurrency. It looks as it will basically be just an analogous to marked dollar bills but with easier digital traceability? Or am I going too much into conspiracy theory territory?
I'm imagining adding content based on the most common questions, and providing a low-friction way for students to ask questions about the content. Good teachers typically modify their future delivery and presentation in response to student questions. This would be no different.

So far, I've done pretty well learning from textbooks and videos. It's rare that a live professor adds much value for me vs. some of the best professors online. That said, I'm a mature student so I have an approximate knowledge of many many things. Usually they're not able to answer my questions better than StackOverflow, Physics Forums, or HyperPhysics, etc.

I would be starting with bread and butter 1st year physics. Getting to graduate level is aspirational, but I don't see any obvious obstacles.

Most University teaching is not that good compared to the best teaching available online. Frankly, outperforming random profs at random schools is a pretty low bar. I've already done this just by tutoring.

Obviously 1-on-1 is better and distorts any tutoring vs. group class comparisons. But I'm envisioning this app as being more customized than a group class, with the aspirational goal of approaching individual tutoring once I have enough student data.

EDIT> I should correct: the real value-add I've had from professors is when they've done the content-development work to put together organized course materials and/or well-thought-out problem sets well-curated suggested readings.
I'm wondering if it would be confusing with just a dot inside the circle.
Online dating also started to take off about the same time that smoking in bars was banned. Between online video games and online dating, the options for "socializing" after work have increased substantially in the last 20 years.
Which Xiaomi? Comparable how? I haven’t seen the latest releases, but I remember the fastest Xiaomi phones being more expensive than this. The SE has a flagship chipset.
yep, and that's why it is set as my primary browser, sadly integrated browser in the apps is still chrome :/
Apple Finds No Evidence Hackers Exploited iPhone, iPad Mail Flaw
> Where is the counter for the children that die because not getting immunized

They don't die. They are protected because the vast majority is vaccinated.

It's something called herd immunity. You seem like you should have heard of it.

> for weakened immune systems that lockdown causes

That's not a thing.

> If we had a counter for all the deaths

You're in luck: almost all the statisticians are trying to switch to all-cause mortality. That should be the definite answer to all your questions.
You could also use a VPN to your home network.
This should be something that can/will be resolved by testing. I find it unusual that no medical authority is going on record as saying there's any long term immunity granted by infection, and that the WHO is being extremely clear in the lack of evidence to support such a conclusion.
No Lockdown in Sweden but Stockholm Could See Herd Immunity in Weeks
OP is describing a prison.
This is offtopic but I really wish that they re-added the graphs in the benchmarksgame.
Anecdotally I have several friends who run small businesses that received funds. My employer did as well.
It would be easier to build a time machine. Search Google for plans.
But you’re on your own if there is a kernel exploit!
Thanks! I’ll check it out and update the post.
> since the advent of vaccination

What do you mean? There were vaccines in 1918.
Star orbiting Milky Way’s black hole, moving exactly as Einstein predicted
Sorry, but that is a naive view. If you destroy the life savings of half the people that had the courage and interest to start a business, you’ve removed them from the game. You can’t start a business with no money. Do you really believe in this environment that millions of people will suddenly have the newfound urge to invest all of their (depleted) life savings in a small business? Many of the businesses that closed were profitable businesses in every sense. The government essentially outlawed most small businesses but left the business owners holding all the liabilities of their business. Few small business owners are wealthy enough to eat that kind of loss.

Imagine if the government unilaterally destroyed your house but left you with the mortgage. What are the odds that you can buy another house at that point? Pretty slim I’d say.
Kudos for writing an article about that. Most scientists just don't care. Reproducible results are still considered overrated.
You can interact with legitimate financial institutions in the normal way under your public identity. You've just got to make sure you don't share that identity with your bitcoin counterparties, which will limit your ability to exchange bitcoin for things of value such as fiat currency.
To be clear, NY handled everything poorly. Taipei has a metro. It's fine.

New Orleans has no metro. It's fucked.
I truly miss what.cd. I spent so many hours listening to music, finding old, new and eclectic music, chatting in the forums and debating on the individual torrent comments. I think I actually shed a tear when I saw it was closed. Thankfully there has been a real attempt to replace what we lost.
Labour came very close to winning in 2017, a fact which your rather terse summary glosses over. Who knows what might have happened if the Blairite right wing of the Labour Party hadn't been actively sabotaging Corbyn's campaign.
"What" replace "Oink", and "Redacted" replaced What. It's all still out there.
I am working on a web browser(Including rendering engine, not webkit). The codebase is in D.
This site is still online but I have no idea if it is the same. https://www.ca-zeb.com originally called zebulun… It started as a hacking challenge and they created something called CyberArmy with ranks etc… It was a really great time as a kid.
UK was early out of the doors with 80% wages furlough.

It gives both employees and businesses the ability to survive the period and come out of the other end able to get straight back into work.

But who knows how long that lasts whilst there is a likely recession on the cards next.

And so the government takes on 100 years of debt by giving future taxes to lenders.
Sending money to friends/family around the world is still a lot more difficult than it should be. Facebook is already the central hub for lots of families and communities, so being able to easily send money over Facebook would be nice, and having that tied to a specific traditional currency would be a bit inconvenient.
Isn't Elon Musk the guy who's always giving away free bitcoin on twitter?
It’s a relatively new one:

Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi and Kati Halper.
A tiny wrapper around mysqldump utility (Node.js)
Good, let Libra die for good.
Some of these are still around, but none are in the form I remember them:

NSider Nintendo forums

slashdot

somethingawful

facepunch

reddit

freenode

digitalgangster
Do you know how that broke down by room? Is there data on that? I wanted to make a map by room of infections, because that data point should be useful, e.g. was the rate higher or lower in rooms with outside access? Crew versus passengers? I just don't know of it already exists, or how to source the data.
It's hard to see this as "managing up" given the broader Labour Leaks context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22858570
GoodBye Linux: The Next OS
Looks like it's Awesomplete: https://leaverou.github.io/awesomplete/
It says "Leaflet" in the corner: https://leafletjs.com/
That's the power of owning the education system, the media, and all of the big tech businesses.

You don't need the presidency when you can make the presidency meaningless. Look at Trump -- every time he tries to take any position at all, he gets wrecked and ultimately loses. The media destroy him, the tech companies disband any gatherings of his followers.

Besides, unlike the left, the right and Republicans are a fractious, disunited lot. They can't hardly agree on anything -- too many incompatible viewpoints -- so they're almost completely ineffective anyway.
He can't buy all the companies. That's only 1% of just the NYSE market cap.

What is the max size of asset that can profit 4%/yr alpha from insider trading?
Thank you for this - and the references to how you came across the concept.
I was personally only recently introduced to anki [1] & [2]

However, I tried it out but I couldn't end up using it to 'remember books' or broader concepts that the books convey indirectly. I've started summarising books and using a manual form of spaced repetition to remember them better.

Do you have any advice on organising such knowledge better?

[1] https://ncase.me/remember/
[2] https://superorganizers.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-learni...
Thanks for those links! It seems https://www.data.gov/ is a great source for US tap water data used by both websites!
It puts into perspective just how much our understanding of the universe has grown in the last 100 years. Of course, this is true for all kinds of sciences, but still, this concrete example gives me goosebumps. Just 100 years ago, almost within one lifetime, top scientists were not sure whether there were galaxies other than Milkyway. And today, we are observing quasars from the beginning of the universe and gravity waves from colliding black holes.
> Given that it seems like Libra wants to be an actual currency and comply with pretty much the demands of a national currency, which is to say stability, availability of monetary policy, features to clamp down on terrorism finance and compliance with domestic law, wouldn't it be much more sensible to elevate this entire project from Facebook to a national one?

Having it tied to the US dollar would be a huge pain. Many of us live elsewhere and use other currencies; also using dollars brings in a huge regulatory regime that people may not want to be involve with (e.g. if buying/selling Libra means I have to file a US tax return then it's a non-starter for me).

> Get more economists on board to design the institutional infrastructure, people to get the legal compliance right, and then make it the e-dollar. (or something more global in cooperation with other states). Isn't this at the end of the day what people want out of this, the digital equivalent of a normal currency?

What are those people going to bring to the table that Facebook et al aren't already doing? They have a bunch of major payment networks involved, they've got the institutional connections and huge legal compliance departments already. Being tied to a particular national government would likely be more of a handicap than a help, as the project would then be exposed to much bigger political considerations.
A Furry's Guide to Digital Signature Algorithms
Weather Underground.... classic

Up until 2015 Weather Underground was the top weather website, had huge amounts of information density, easy to navigate... fast

I'm not sure what the current incarnation of Weather Underground is, but it is nothing like it's former self. Wunderground was sold off to... IBM? and then later... The Weather Channel? At some point the "classic" website was finally turned off for good. It was a sad day.

Ever since ~2015 there hasn't been a good, "go to" weather website. Dark Sky came out not long after wunderground classic, and it looks like recently Apple bought them. Dark Sky is no Wunderground Classic, but it's a good attempt.
3dfightclub - timed 3D modeling battles where you had short (or sometimes long) periods to make a render of whatever the given prompt was.

Community votes on the winner, winner got to pick the next prompt.

Made some lifelong friends there.

Also the original yourethemannowdog.com
All of my childhood memories have been restored!
We don't know if infection provides immunity, so they could be repeat infections, or even viruses that never cleared.
Morticians, I heard they make a killing.
> There's no such thing as 'MIDI music'. MIDI is a communications protocol to transfer encoded performance data between electronic sources and sinks.

Why can't I just as easily say that

> There's no such thing as 'sheet music'. Sheets are a communications protocol to transfer encoded performance data between human sources and sinks.
If you want to use this new Clojurescript workflow with React Native, check out Krell: https://github.com/vouch-opensource/krell
Same thing happened this time in the US, with Trump/GOP and Bernie
Open Call: How do we exit surveillance capitalism in digital life?
I'm curious how they determined if inmates were asymptomatic. If it was just asking, the symptoms may be under reported. In prison, you try and appear invincible, your survival depends on it, so I could imagine many people saying they are asymptomatic when they are not.
Windows Sandbox – light weight playground for R&D, tutorials and workshops
Has anyone ever managed to get autoformatting (Prettier etc) working on Django templates in VS Code?
I think you might have misread what I’m trying to say. Human labor is becoming increasingly unnecessary, with the key point here being increasingly.

The pool of available work will never completely disappear, but as the job pool decreases in size due to being replaced by some combination of machine/computer, providing stimulus through the intermediary of businesses begins to fail as it no longer reaches people efficiently.
301 redirect to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface
Then instanceof will break for all native objects. Who writes code that checks instances across window boundaries? This is flawed beyond the idea of how to properly check an instance, it's bad architecture - the result? This post, and probably more subtle bugs surfacing along the way.
J. F. C.
A dot inside could be mistaken for theta, especially with a bleedy pen.
Didn't the Pixel 1 only get updates for 3 years?
Thanks for your thoughts! I'll try and make it easier to "explore the world" as you said, definitely going to remove the "zoom in". I initially tried to keep the data shown on the map compact to keep the page load time reasonable, I'll see what I can do!
Were the tests described in this article PCR- or antibody-based?
Soulseek is still around?! TI(honestly)L
So many assumptions, I highly doubt from my time being in prisons others would think... Oh man that guy has the cold.. He must be weak.
The Open Information Ecosystem
My naive understanding is that the empty storefronts offset as a tax loss from a more lucrative line of business from the matrixed holding company that owns the property. The empty storefront on 5th Ave. doesn't matter to the owners because the numbers work out on a spreadsheet.
I've had no trouble using angr on real binaries, including self-modifying binaries.

> [Qiling] is an extra layer on top of Unicorn (a library that can emulate CPU instructions using QEMU).

This is what is mostly confusing me -- angr has support for unicorn, so how is it different from angr's support of Unicorn?
On Android there are options such as the open source Blokada [1] that abuse the VPN features to block ads in all apps.

[1] https://blokada.org/
In my personal opinion, better that than trawling slowly through traffic jams. If their train system is over capacity, more people moving through cars would be even more of a nightmare.

The feeling of independence (or not feeling like “cattle“) is substantially reduced in big cities, where you are subjected to a lot of traffic rules, overcrowding of cars, jaywalkers, accidents, potholes, diversions, expensive parking space... I could go on.
Coronavirus will change airlines and the way we fly
The landlords have bills of their own. Very few of them own their properties completely (which doesn't make sense anyway with low interest rates).

If you stop rent payments then you must also help landlords and property owners with their mortgage.
Some people read HN from their phones.
Indeed. What is unbearably slow is creating the whole software with formal verification, not just the core algorithm.
Those are just the ads you recognize. How many ads do you see in a day that you don't even recognize as ads because they're not obvious or obtrusive, they just subtly bring your attention to a product that you never would have thought or cared about without it. Quiet product placement, ads disguised as news, fluff science sponsored by corporations, then there's those big companies that create lifestyles around their brand and people become so entrenched in that company's products, they don't even think about the fact they've never even considered an alternative.
Electronic Frontier Alliance member Eyebeam seeks applications that consider how art and technology can challenge dominant notions of access and how together we can shape a more equitable future. How do we begin to exit surveillance capitalism as the dominating form of digital life and what can replace it?
Sourcetrail is one such app. It recently went open source. I’ve been trying on spare time to contribute to it, it currently supports C++, Java and Python.

I’m looking at ways to improve the analysis to get more detail from apps, but it’s tricky. As far as I know, nobody’s made an ontology of computer science or source code patterns yet.

Creating the graph is easy compared to how much you might want to do to interpret it. Then we’ve data flow graphs to consider, and UI component graphs, dependency graphs, supported platform annotations, and ideally, telemetry from code execution in tests and production, and each can supplement or annotate control flow graphs and source code.

It’s a problem we’ll solve as a community but it’ll take a number of years before it’s general purpose enough that step one is load a program and step two is read and modify it... with everything you need neatly linked and annotated...

https://www.sourcetrail.com/

https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail

https://www.patreon.com/sourcetrail/posts

For more on my thoughts of “understanding code automatically,” see https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail/issues/750#issu... as an example.

My preference would be just as books, programmers and IDEs build mental models from source code, that eventually we could generically go from a collection of source files to identifying languages, build commands, and app starting points to multiple layers of graphs: control flow, data flow, cross-project references, and eventually — help programmers like an IDE would, but smarter, more like documentation written by a human with annotated examples from test cases and live code, etc.
Where do get the idea that half of SF has been exposed?
Word has never had markup though. Nor have most people ever written markup. Why would they be trying to write markup?
Absolutely you are. The tweet makes no mention of his girlfriend having dated Newman, only that her phone connected to his wifi. Hearing that pitch, I would assume that the drama of the episode would be working out why, not a presumption that they must have dated.
Probably a generally higher quality of life, in a country run by people who genuinely care about the wellbeing of other people. Unlike the current lot of soulless right-wing ghouls.

Corbyn was the best Prime Minister we never had.
Hi, I had a quick look at the post and it didn't seem that it was part of a canonical series of posts. That may room for improvement on the website design.
I don't have in depth knowledge about the app. It saves contact based on Bluetooth. At this stage I don't have much more info than what's in the main link or other recent news articles.
The NYC DPH reports both a confirmed and probable death count. The sum of those, as of Saturday, is 16270
https://eng.uber.com/
They already do this
Greedo, no. haha. They're not on record yet because the tests are under way. Had they found an early failure that shakes the foundations of medical science, they'd have shared it. Especially in this news cycle which overwhelmingly favors negative information.

It's like saying "I find it very strange no scientists came out on record this week with a study showing water remains wet -- does it?! How can we tell if we don't check again."

Lack of proof of an affirmative is not proof of a negative, and especially not when plenty of other evidence points in the direction of the affirmative (again, not conclusively).
kuro5hin, slashdot as it existed back when, dejanews, and s bunch of video gaming sites that went extinct
I'm not sure, I didn't understand fully the bug involved. Possibly such a control group would show the dependent variable as a constant plus some random noise. It is totally expected behaviour for variable.
Suspending mortgage payments should be looked at also
Modern processors are so complex that changes sometimes have paradoxical consequences, simply in a kind of chaotic way. That seems to be the case in what you describe. Those are typically not robust effects though, and changing seemingly completely unrelated things might put the perf right back at what you expect.
I'm still working on my bachelors with eventual plans to go on to grad school, but I don't envy anyone really. I looked up the definition of envy, just to be sure. If I came close to envying anyone, it'd be people who are born into significant wealth, but I don't even really envy them.

I guess I just figure if there's something I really want then I will do what it takes to get it.