skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's as if the rich assume that things will change for the worse for them if universal health care is enacted.

Well, it depends on the implementation, but Bernie Sanders has been on record numerous times as stating that his Medicare-for-All proposal would absolutely ban private insurance. Elizabeth Warren is another Democratic front-runner who indicated that she's on board with that, though her proposals didn't necessarily reflect it.

For what it's worth, the M4A _plan_ from Bernie's camp that I've seen didn't actually specify that it would eliminate private insurance, but he's also been keen on reminding us that he wrote it, and knows best what's in it.

So while it seems unlikely to me that political reality in America would prohibit banning private insurance, there are definitely those who espouse banning it for the greater good, so perhaps that fear isn't wholly unwarranted.
Sounds interesting...

And then what? Can one grab the source and compile chromium or firefox in such a way that it can use JIT and all the other things? Would that even be "supported" as a compile option or up-to-date branch? I thought PROT_EXEC was limited to Webkit.

Curious what the next steps may be / what details I'm unaware of
Frankly, I think that's a bit of an over reaction. Scrubs are normal and I don't think it's true that a drive read a month will wear them out. Sequential reads are easy on drives.

Encryption, only if that's really important to you. I don't think most people run with two NAS drives but you do need to find a way to backup what is really critical/important.

My article is geared towards home users / hobbyists and I wonder how many people have syslog running. Just plain email alerting would be a good first step and probably sufficient.
However, dealing with the novel corona virus isn't necessarily a scientific problem, but more of an engineering problem (as opposed to a problem to be solved with common sense).

Science tries to remove inprecise assumptions. Engineering accepts inprecise assumptions and works around them, e.g. building in a safety factor; using masks when there is some evidence they lower R0.
False. Check Nokia Android phones.
I still can't get over the fact that apple is still putting in less than 2000hz batteries. Sure the life is great the first year, but as they make updates and increase the processor usage, suddenly that battery can barely last a day. I know people hate phablets, but if that gets me a 2 day battery life, so be it.
Horrible article. Its deeply internalized racism. I know many of the criticisms are true, and as a statistical generalization I might agree that an Indian is more likely to e.g seek a way to circumvent the system than someone else. An outsider looking at Indians as a homogeneous group and seeing those patterns might make negative inferences about all Indians.

But when a person who does not embody those flaws blames himself for the ones that do - its because he has become accustomed to seeing himself as an outsider does, as an interchangeable member of a group called "Indian" instead of as an INDIVIDUAL. Being stereotyped is simply not your fault.
You are offended by the name of an open source project ?

Your life must be easy.
It kinda does, though.

I like that HN has a very high bar for humor, and cracks down on soft-pitch puns which are an attempt at a long chain of groaners.

Reddit exists, and if you like that, you can get it on Reddit. Here it's just noise. We have other bad habits ;)
Humans already have two "gyroscopes" in our ears, which for most people work well. It's really no surprise that bicycles are more popular than segways.
Yeah at least this doesn't look as sinister as a bare board, looks like a gaming unit or something.

I do like that aspect of it being like a "pet" hence the title but yeah.
> Imagine going to your boss, asking to do a complete re-write because you feel disgusted by the code base.

You may have skipped some steps here. How do you know if a computer program is badly designed? You don't initially know it because you went through a checklist. (How would you know to apply the checklist?) How do you let your boss know it before doing a total rewrite? That is a totally separate question.
Ok, I agree to some extent. CO2 emissions are analogous to a madman releasing a slow-acting airborne poison. The government should use its force monopoly to stop the madman.

Unfortunately, any tax is another dollar toward government expansion. The madman should directly compensate his victims.
iirc modern Icelandic is somewhat mutually intelligible with old Norse, to the point where students can read 1200+ year old Viking writings with only a gloss, like we might read Shakespeare. Icelandic is unusual among languages for this though.
Clickbait headline.

Author conveniently forgets to mention that the 865 has hands down better AI performance which is considered a key benchmark for high end devices. Multi-core perf is neck and neck.

https://techyorker.com/qualcomm-snapdragon-865-vs-apple-a13-...
Al Alcorn talks about NTSC color artifacting in early home computers
They could be using those libraries to make market items being sold.
The goal here was to give the money out ASAP as businesses and their employees had already been forced to shutter by the pandemic and lockdown orders and were rapidly marching toward insolvency.

Stuff like the 9/11 compensation fund was on a much longer timeline and was also much smaller - the 9/11 fund was open ended, but ended up being about $7 billion, compared to the $349 billion PPP.

Remember the PPP is intended to give out money to the entire country and that is a huge scale. There was no available mechanism to give out the money, the SBA administers a EIDL grant/loan program but lawmakers on both sides of congress didn’t believe the SBA could give the money out fast enough, so this system of having the banks get money from the SBA was created.
Amazing. I didn't know it was possible to write to a VIEW.
Saddam used a modified business yet to attack an American frigate
Keep your day job, for a while.

That's why they call it work.

It's a tough job market out there right now. Even if you're working on your own thing I'd hold out a little bit longer and try to use your day job to fund your side project.

It's tough for everyone right now, stay in a safe financial place at least 12 to 18 months till this pandemic passes.

Check out StartupsForTheRestOfUs.com podcast, start from episode 1 in the archives. I think it will resonate with you.

Compartmentalize your day job as just work.

Focus on your software/side project to keep things interesting.
Google favors more natural language queries. Using ”map values from the range [-1,1] to [0,1]” (the text you chose to tell us what you mean by “map -1 1 to 0 1”. That probably is telling) gives me https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1567823/how-can-i-m... as top hit. That gives the answer (x+1)/2, which, IMO, is the most natural way to do it.
The primary fault that causes bikes to mix poorly with pedestrians occurs between the handlebars and the helmet. Bikes are, in fact, super easy to operate in close proximity to and at the same speed as people who are on foot. The trick is to not have it between your legs.
GitHub released their new notification UI to everyone
Usually, you don't. What kind of messed up requirement is that? Do you want the sky to be green at sunrise tomorrow too?

On the exceptional case where the user is on the clear and there is an unavoidable reason to create this beast, you create a separate numbering application, that uses database transactions that are independent from the ones of the main application and only cares about numbering. It will still have holes, but few enough that you can manually inspect every so often and explain why they happened.
They say this leak might enable more malware developed targetting these games.

The code seems to have already been leaked 2 years ago.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/599332362?t=03s
There's a substantial limit to public knowledge about those methods and APIs. We've been able to discover more of them, and more that work on current versions of iOS than other teams. Those techniques unfortunately go stale very quickly and most of what you find stopped working in iOS 12 or earlier, yet people still rely on them and think they work.
Yes of course. No matter what you do some percentage will try to game it, however the simpler the system the less complexity there is to hide in (fewer attack vectors to protect). There are likely a finite, very small, number of ways to game this that we'd need to guard against. Let's start a list, because I really don't think there's that much to worry about!

- More kids? OK that's probably good for an aging society, but do we even dole out money based on dependents? Should the government be in the position of subsidizing people having kids in the first place? Since it's adults who are directly impacted (losing income from a job) that's who we target. We can always address dependents through another program if needed, but that'll require a whole other level of complexity.

- Intercepting cheques? Are we talking about a subset of elderly or disabled who can't cash their own cheques? How do we handle social security cheques today? Maybe we would need more measures to handle this issue due to scale?

- Illegal immigrants? This one is a political quagmire. In my opinion they deserve the same benefits, but that's a very controversial opinion, and not something I'd want bogging down immediate assistance to everyone else. Ideally this is something the entire country would get to vote on, understanding that it will have a huge impact on a lot of industries.
Supermarkets in Europe unable to deliver groceries because of GDPR
If he didn't have to install drivers, because they're available / checked, then it wouldn't have messed things up.

On macOS, I have 0 need to install drivers.
On windows, I'm not sure because I haven't used it in such a while, but afaic remember, windowsupdate has updated drivers suppiled by vendors. And that actually works.

His comment is similar to:
I compiled a kernel modulue, and loaded it.
When I do my regular uprade / dist-upgrade, and now I'm stuck with a vanilla drivers. The only way I can fix this is to alter the Makefiles, and compile from scratch.

Oh look.. 1 google gives the exact situation actually:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/492217/nvidia-driver-reset-a...
> Will their peak infection rate go over hospital capacity?

https://www.icuregswe.org/data--resultat/covid-19-i-svensk-i...

First bar graph is total number of patients with covid-19 in ICU care in Sweden. Blue is yesterday's numbers, orange is today's numbers, including backdating of cases.

So probably not, is the answer to your question.
Do it. You'll be ok.
> Ah, so now the "attacks" are "unjust"

Not sure why you're repeating what I just plainly said like it's some kind of gotcha you've dug up... yeah I think they're unjust that's why I mentioned it.

> Feel free to bring evidence to this discussion

I don't really understand which point you want evidence of? Do you want evidence that they're an educational provider? Or did you want evidence of what rent seeking means if you're still confused about that? Or evidence that Lambda School isn't forcing anyone to do anything and isn't taking away access to free education?

You're making up a lot of arguments that I didn't say - like that you can't get an education for free, or that they want you to work for free. Sorry I can't give any evidence for those because I don't think them!

> Does that include your PhD [2] and associated academic career?

Yes. That's typical.

> it is not the typical experience of PhD candidates to get their education for free.

Really not sure what you're talking about here - almost nobody pays for their PhD education in a STEM field. In fact you typically get paid to do it. That's not just special scholarships it's just the way it works. I don't know how you think a STEM PhD works?
Tangential (and noob) question: Could there be an encryption+compression scheme where:

1. Sender sends an encrypted stream at K bps.

2. Server takes the encrypted stream and compresses it, without decrypting anything. It then sends encrypted+compressed stream at J bps (J<K) to end recipient.

3. The end recipient decrypts the compressed stream using a key provided by the original sender, not the server.

This with reasonably secure encryption and reasonably size-efficient codecs, obviously. So the step 2 would add compression additional to the compression of the original codec.

Is this mathematically possible?
Woohoo bury mob
Yep! As far as I'm aware, a number of military services (I think the USAF) have been public about using Moloch on their networks. It was money well spent by DARPA.
HN ain't the place.
How we made common front end mistakes impossible by porting to TypeScript
How to Resolve an Outage in 2020
There's an absence of evidence that this is actually true. Tests are in short supply even in places with their own biotech industry; countries which are reliant on importing tests have no accurate picture of what's happening.

Ecuador is an example which has crossed my radar: ~10,000 confirmed cases, but overall death rates are way up and they're digging mass graves.

We would all love to believe that heat and humidity will blunt the spread of this virus, but I'm not seeing nearly as much evidence of that as I would like.
Ah thanks, I assumed it was an HN inside joke and I was a bit lost

Cheers
if you're seeing walls of warnings about useEffect, or having trouble adding a modal to your app, then you probably ARE doing it poorly, no offense intended.

It takes a while to really grok top-down data flow and how react components should be structured, but when you do it's magic.

As to useEffect, try not to use it. It's mainly for when you need to touch something completely outside the React tree.
There's no AI benchmark at that URL.
I guess I just never encountered the 3,5,6,7 bytes word types.
The real argument is whether the restaurant is safe to open back up, and should be allowed to be opened back up. In hypothetical, if it's determined to be safe due passing pandemic, then of course the employees should have to go back to work at their prior jobs if it's an option. If they have a problem with the pay, they shouldn't be working there anyway.

It doesn't really matter because that $600 extra per week will likely end before the restaurant industry recovers, and we'll all be arguing different things then.
If I recall correctly the iPhone 8 actually lost battery capacity because they needed space for the wireless charging system. So if they wanted to use the same case design (to save money on re-tooling/re-use existing assembly lines) and keep wireless charging it might not be avoidable. We'll likely know more if IFixIt or similar do a tear-down.

I do agree though that even with potential battery savings from the newer CPU architecture, it could be a problem in the latter half of the SE 2's life.
I think the biggest effects here are 1) whether the society is very large, and 2) whether it's made up of different groups of people who don't know each other very well. Both of those things make it difficult to have trust- or reputation-based systems. Religion and morality themselves must play some role, but I'd want to control for those first two things before I tried to draw and conclusions.
When I was in high school, I wrote programs for TI calculator to help on quizzes. At 15-20 I gamed quite a bit and did some server maintenance and set up. I tried learning HTML and making sites but never really got into it. I also built many computers for myself and friends.

At 26 I was studying criminal justice, then I had some health issues which would affect the physical aspect of the job, so I switched to CS. I used to think I was stupid because when I tried HTML everything seemed so hard and took long. Then in my CS program, while still dealing with health concerns I did exceptionally well in almost every course, always top of class and I learned that it is easier for me than others.

Before graduation I had job lined up. I am making decent money in non-tech but interviewed in quite a few companies and got offers, they never matched the amount I worked from home though, so I did not make the jump. I also realized I'm a pretty good self-learner and now read books and do online classes non-stop.
I recommend looking at the source of your anxiety. Are you falling behind with your work? Do you have a lurking bug outstanding? Are you stuck on a problem?
Google to Donate Istio to a Foundation
There are cash-only doctors, or doctors who will accept cash as payment, and for what it's worth, the discounts for not using insurance can be substantial.

More importantly to me though was this less-talked-about perk of having a doctor who -- once he knows he's not just going to receive a negotiated rate from an insurer -- will actually take a little bit longer with you and hear out your complaints. Knowing that if you take longer, he can bill you more is actually a net good, IMO.
> Prolog can occasionally feel more general purpose

That's subjective; Prolog is/was not intended to be a general purpose programming language, as little as e.g. SQL. And human imagination and perseverance make it possible to reach the goal even under the most adverse circumstances. If you make an effort, you can also build an HN clone in Assembler or Brainf*ck. You cannot conclude from this that the language is intended/suited for this.

> yet in some sense this is like stating about Scheme that "you have to write functions which are then evaluated"

No. There are different ways to evaluate rules. If you don't like SLD then the tinkering begins if you want to stay in Prolog.

> I'm not sure that is necessarily a good thing

It is. E.g. MOP in Lisp is something extremely powerful. With macros you can do things that languages like JavaScript (or Prologue) can only dream of; but you know that yourself for sure.
Isn't the key actually that they have the same moral compass, rather than them being more morally correct (objectivity is a long story on this subject)? That leads to fewer disagreements, as everyone comes up with the same answers for what's right and wrong.

As soon as you have a heterogenous group arguments will break out about what's right and wrong, how people should live, who gets what stuff...
There's a project that pulls it off, but as you would expect, device drivers are missing for almost everything like WiFi, etc..
Good machines compress time for tasks. Dishwashers still need human stackers despite reducing an all day job down by the river to 3mins of stacking/unstacking dishes.

Compressing design work from hours or weeks of thinking about different forms down to a few minutes of machine learning pattern recognition cpu cycles, means we have to move our knowledge work from massaging clay into new Porsche designs to higher level abstractions about what function in society cars can fulfill. The abstractions get higher, we can fit more into our time on this planet and the detailed oriented will be required to keep all of this from breaking down and succumbing to entropy.

Humans at the bottom of the chain will have nothing to do except hold the world together, people falling out of work, machines breaking and money and time being wasted away on excessive drug use and manufacturing for pleasure instead of progress too much can grind this potential for new life to a halt.

Agriculture is direly needed in the dirty thirties if we are to avoid repeating the hunger caused by the dust bowls in the 30s. A green base is fundamental to surviving the crash of the roaring twenties. Automating farming and increasing food production to multiple times of what the US can demand is a life saving purpose. God only hopes you have ‘nothing’ to do when it comes to crass commercial works. Building self sustainable farming for homes so that families can survive on and off grid is also has a potential for great application.
for owls ?
You can't compress properly encrypted data.
Agreed. The extra $600/week is going to run out long before the restaurant industry recovers.
Unfortunately the ones I know were not translated.
It is worth saying that TedX is a collaboration and the actual talks are not as directly tied to the TED organization.

But I do think TED Talks have jumped the shark, probably before that talk.
Do all the commodity home NAS support email alerts? I've only ever built my own so I had to make use of the OS that managed the drives.
Ideally software would present the user with the option of going into "maximum security" mode, which limits functionality in favor of a reduced attack surface. Then the user can decide for themselves if they are willing to make such a sacrifice.

As an added bonus, it provides users with interim fixes for situations like this, where the exploit is known and in the wild, but a patch is some time away.
The supposed "age of mass misinformation" isn't as big of a problem in Sweden as it is in the US.

For one, test scores and reading levels indicate the average Swede is far better educated than the average American.

Second, Sweden's media industry doesn't have competing private 24 hour cable news conglomerates fighting over eyeballs. In Europe, government financed media is more common, and thus there is not the same private incentives to drive fear and anger.

Does Sweden has issues with misinformation? Of course (mostly around fear of immigrants). But they don't have anywhere near the problem we have in the US with misinformation.
The switch has issues, but the bricking was because one of those dumb docks was putting 9 volts on a pin that's supposed to be using 2 volt signals, if I read the spec right. And the switch tolerated 5 volts there, too. Putting more than 5 volts onto the non-power pins is such an obvious violation that I can't blame the spec for that fault.
I don't think you can assume that non-covid-19 causes should be lower than previous years. For example, the main cause of deaths in normal years is cardiac problems. If Covid-19 is discouraging people from seeking help, and especially from going to the emergency room when they they think something might just possibly be wrong, then you can get a big increase in cardiac deaths.
I presume they took it as an attack on Go. Truth is, it's an attack on the library developer who themselves may have found their keep-alive solution by stumbling blindly on it.
Revoking JWTs and JWT Expiration
Japan > USA > Russia, in lawful citizenry. The order is the opposite in religiosity. Japan just has a coherent society.
You can reduce nearly any action of consequence to sound trivial in this way. "Changing some bits," "writing some words," "rearranging a few atoms." It doesn't add much understanding.
I think your household electricity prices just need to reflect real market prices. For example there were times in germany this year, with negative power prices, because the wind was blowing strong and all the wind plants generating more than anyone needed.

But for me as a customer, the price was as high as allways.

But if customers could react to that (automatically), you could have all sorts of jobs waiting for it. Bitcoin mining, dryer, charging batteries, freezer full power ... would be good for the grid, too, to balance it.
This :) Financial independence is not really about the amount of money you make, but the amount you spend.
It sounds corny, but there are plenty of people with every kind of income who'd have to find a new place to live if their income was halved in a few months..
On the flipside, there are also plenty of people who could manage just fine with half of what they earned.
My upkeep is about 15% of my salary, and I'm not highly paid.

Alternatively, become stupid-rich before quitting your job, but, that's statistically not going to happen, and you're actually less in control of that than you'd think.. Plenty of people work real hard to achieve that and their hard work only gets them to average, while others just happen to be at the right place at the right time.