skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gosh, I don't want to get into another argument on another site about Trump, but here goes...

People like the man because he improvises his press conferences. They like him because he speaks off the cuff. Why, because it makes them like him. It makes them trust him (believe it or not). They don't trust the responsibility of leading them to someone who is slickly packaged by political consultants. Like that or not, that's democracy. So the question is who can the American people trust? Who DID they trust? (apologies for the all caps, not sure how to do italics). The answer is they trusted Donald Trump. Why? Because he speaks off the cuff. For some reason that's assuring to people. So if a few dozen people drink bleach due to misinterpreting a press conference, but the majority of a 350 some million person country are reassured by his making comments off the cuff, then what serves the greater good?
You can use AWS, you just can't store any WalMart data there .. which is usually 30-90% of your data for your typical CPG.
I guess the concern would be kids as vectors? The death rates for people under 18 have been so low that that social distancing would be rather silly if it weren't for them bringing it home.
> unloading into a grain cart from a combine still has to be done by the driver.

Systems to have the combine take control of the tractor while unloading into the grain cart have been commercially available for a number of years now.
For those wondering where the rest of the $$$ went, the main other costs were about $5.8 billion to R&D, and $3.3 billion to “General and Administrative.” Although, R&D costs were very inflated in Q2, due to stock payouts and whatnot related to the IPO, in the other quarters R&D costs were well below Sales and Marketing. So normally “cost of revenue” and “sales and marketing” would be the top two categories, then R&D.

Realistically, they need to cut from pretty much everywhere, especially with revenue tanking during COVID. Even without that one-time IPO related payout of about $3.6 billion last year, they still would’ve burnt ~$5 billion. Their losses this year, with massively decreased revenue due to COVID, could probably be $10+ billion (if they didn’t lay people off). That’d be for non-IPO costs staying static while revenue drops ~35%. And I believe their nest egg is only ~$10 billion, so that’s very roughly around 1 year of runway, much too short. They need to cut a LOT of costs.
wtf -- you're 100% wrong. Common Core exactly shows you how to solve problems. It precisely does not focus on rote memorization. Yes, you need to memorize "math facts", but this is limited to simple multiplication tables (and similar). The entire point of Common Core is to teach multiple algorithms by which students can solve problems for which they recognize the pattern.

Back in the 90s, when I was in school, I don't recall this kind of rigor in math at all until I got to Calc 2 and needed to actually focus on memorizing patterns & rules for solving integrals. Everything, at that time, was rote memorization.
I have less faith in the government to give them anymore power than they already have.
The fact that he didn't literally use the word bleach but still recommended looking into injecting disinfectants at a national emergency press conference does not make it better.
> Everyone will catch this. To think otherwise is folly.

I have my hopes, if not at least until Winter.

Luckily, I have hobbies that are easily done without large groups of people and believe I can avoid groups of 10 or more people for most of summer and probably 50 people until September. (I've not spent more than a few minutes with more than 3 others for the last month and half)
I'm no expert, but this is the explanation I heard, and it makes sense to me:

You're judging the market by looking at the indexes. The DOW is 30 large companies. The S&P 500 and Russel 3000 are weighted proportionally to how large the companies are. Even the "small" companies in these indexes are larger than your local restaurants or misc goods / services businesses. The majority (maybe all) of these large companies will easily survive, and many of them are going to scoop up all the customers from the mom and pop shops that will fail because they don't have an aisle of "essential" goods to legally remain open.

Now, if you're retired and need to live on your savings for the rest of your life, where would you put your money? All the people who think the forced shutdowns hurt the wealthy really don't get it.
It's with your logic that we have the anti-vax movement, the anti-gmo one, flat-earthers and so on and so forth.
This is simple dogma, so I would encourage you to research and listen to the experiences of those on different paths.
can you please be clearer? What is false?

Do you think youtube is a platform? even, a monopoly of sorts?
"If you stomp on our freedoms, that has one ending, and that's violence", after talking about gun stores selling out of ammunition.

Something tells me the medical angle isn't the only one these guys are pushing.
Understanding the concepts is one thing, applying them is another thing entirely. The Rust compiler is an incredibly difficult beast to placate.
> I'm guessing that video is taken in the US since she is planting corn.

As a farmer in Ontario (Canada), I don't see anything out of the ordinary here...
And yet, as a human, that's probably where you should put your retirement savings.
I'll back that up with data from Tokyo. My girlfriend is a nurse at a hospital in Kita-Senjuu and they also haven't got any covid patients in the hospital. She thinks it's because they have a large maternity ward so they're trying to keep covid patients away from infants, but the point still stands that if covid was truly overwhelming Japan and Tokyo then they wouldn't have a choice about it.
How shameful it is to look at the failings of public education and respond by leaving school districts even worse off than before. What is the point of that degenerate logic? It's punitive to the kids more than anything, and not a worthwhile protest.

Proposition 13 in particular was quite insidious to public education in California. Overnight, school district funding was slashed by a third. California public schools went from the best in the nation before prop 13, to like 38th in the nation today. The school district budget deficit has never recovered even after all the education bills passed since 1978.

https://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/mar/29/sorting-out-prop-13s-i...
Funny seeing this from on here from the FB group where the pilot posted. :)
Do you feel threatened by voices you disagree with? Aren’t dissenting voices and debate pillars of our democracy?
> When speech is being silenced (de-platformed)

This is a ludicrous equivalency; by this standard YouTube is also “silencing (deplatforming)” people who don’t have computers because it’s not giving them resources to help them make and post videos.

Deplatforming is not silencing. The default state of an individual in society is no platform. People who want platforms should build them.

> Personally, I think that education is always better than suppression.

You do not need to give people bad information to educate them. You only need to give them good information.

I can teach you that 2+2=4 without spending hours belaboring all the numbers that 2+2 does not equal.
Have you had a chance to make passive streams of income while you sleep?
Have you had a chance to make passive streams of income while you sleep through automation? Curious about the ideas.
Maybe not ego. You're probably right. I thought these mystery points feeded on inherent relevancy needs to cull, herd, and raise better content.

I guess its the question of how much down(vote)shun is ok.

If enough people disagreed with what I said, enough people would have saved time by not having to read a greyed out comment.
The unexpected remote working with Slack
Maybe they were wrong, and maybe they weren’t. If we can’t see their video, we will never know.
> Does it justify censorship?

Yes, they are wrong and they will cause deaths if they are allowed to peddle more unsubstantiated bullshit. This is not a philosophical debate, people are literally dying.
wow there is such a news which help to other people and also which help to someone click this link https://www.myapklab.com/applanet-apk/
Casio CQ-1 calculator and clock
Very fun when driving down I5 South to always see which new MAX arrived from around the world.
I don't think I'd get in trouble, but better safe than sorry, I guess </shrug>
This isn't true. Kids start learning algebraic concepts in roughly 2nd grade, and are well-acquainted with the concept of variables, algorithms, order of operations, roots & exponents, converting fractions to decimals & vice versa, etc before they get out of 5th grade. The only fundamental key concept I don't think they're taught, that is critical in algebra 1, is how to solve systems of equations.
If you really want that, it seems better to provide them properly like Rust proc-macros than to provide them in C++'s awful half-baked form.
The frustrating part is not that he says whatever he wants with no regard to truth or keeping promises. It's that people keep believing his words, and defending them, with no acknowledgment that he's doing so!
Genuine questions here - Why does Uber have 27000 employees? What do they with that many people?
I’ve heard of caffeine withdrawal. I didn’t think it was real. Or I thought I could handle it.

But if caffeine withdrawal, was what I got, then it is very real.

After I ran out of coffee, on day 1, I had a slight headache. On day 2, I had a very intensive headache, as if my brain was jello. I took some Tylenol for it, and it felt better, for a while. On day 3, I still felt uneasy, my brain still felt like it was swimming in jello. Not a good feeling.

I gave up.

On day 4, I made my coffee again, and consumed it. I was back to normal again.

It seemed as if coffee is some type of anti-inflammatory, that helps to keep your brain cells nice and tightly bound together.

If social order breaks down, then coffee is going to be short supply. People are going to have some bad days ahead.

Hopefully, Trump can order that coffee farms stay open, and Starbucks can remain open as an essential business.
Cheap Treatment for Covid-19 with MethyleneBlue that might be rejected by pharma
My `father is a pulmonologist(lungs specialist) in India and he has proven methods that have successfully shown great results against SARS-COV1, MERS, and other similar illnesses. He is pretty sure that the treatment will successfully work against COVID-19 as it has the exact similar symptoms. The same methods also work against SARS-COV2 !

He has written a blog of how to treat is with the really cheap drug/dye which is easily available in every drug store over the counter - https://medium.com/@dr.deepak.golwalkar/treatment-for-covid-19-using-methylene-blue-d23fc5a31a4d

My guess, that the reason that Methylene Blue(MB) is not a mainstream drug for COVID-19 cause it has several positive effects with not just lung diseases but many others; as well as MB(Methylene Blue) is easily and cheaply available everywhere. Which is a huge loss for the pharma industry!

Here are 5 of the reports of Methylene Blue showing really good results - 3 are formal research documents, 2 are informal

India(same as above): https://medium.com/@dr.deepak.golwalkar/treatment-for-covid-19-using-methylene-blue-d23fc5a31a4d
Chinese: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-17718/v1
Paris: https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/subs/article/view/888
Germany: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29732571/
Brazil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jK6RiFi2hA
found this today, hope it helps you too
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23015186
Great. Don’t have problem with that. Why do you?
Elements for a New Growth Narrative (OECD PDF)
Depends on your contract. It’s not uncommon (or even necessarily unreasonable if you’re a full time employee) for a contract to stipulate that any code you write during the period of your employment that you make use of at work is owned by your company. I would imagine there are exceptions to this - I don’t think an employer could make a case that they own your Emacs scripts if you use them both at home and at work, and they certainly couldn’t try to take ownership of your side hustle that has absolutely nothing to do with your job - but for a fairly niche tool which produces value at your job, I think they’d be at least trying their hand at holding onto the IP if/when you leave, and restricting you from selling it on the side while you’re still employed. Probably also depends on the culture at your workplace and how decent your managers/bosses are.
Def Leppard "Behind the Music" talks about the drummer's car accident and recovery.

His seatbelt cut off his arm, and the family living at a nearby farmhouse included a nurse, who initially responded.

When recovering from limb injuries, there's some surprising possible side effects:

1) infection or circulation problems can kill other limbs. People with kidney damage or sepsis often lose all four limbs.

2) Overexerting during recovery (or even later) can cause an overuse injury to the healthy limb. For example, climbing out of a bathtub with one arm can cause nerve or muscle damage that effectively kills the good arm.

3) The embedded Time reporter during the Iraq war who threw the sticky bomb out of his team's Humvee lost his hand. He initially tried a modern prosthetic, but changed to a hook since it was 100% reliable (strong, waterproof, certain), and the fake hand wasn't.

For One Reporter, Embedding Is Journalistic Folly

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=642278...
At least it’s in line with their reasoning: https://geekgonecrazy.com/2020/04/27/de-googling/. But yes, the threat of lock-in/deplatforming/being at the mercy of a massive corporation is still present.
I still don't understand why people are moving from G products and use Apple+self-hosted? The author is saying he is hosting the e-mail server but, for example, not an iCal server.
Farmers are already monitoring their crops by sensors in their equipment, in the fields, in drones, and by satellite.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_agriculture
IMO most app-based services like Duolingo will help you to learn basic grammar rules and random vocabulary but learning a language requires speaking it under time pressure to living humans about changing topics with shifting social context, so no matter how good Duolingo gets it will only get you so far.

In other words, I’ve never met someone who actually attributed their success in learning a language to Duolingo or any app like it. I do hear a lot of beginners who can’t consistently form grammatically correct sentences lavishing it with praise, however.

Old school services like Pimsleur’s tapes, or for more advanced users services like FluentU can help get your listening skills up, and language specific publications like the Chairmans Bao for Chinese can work on your literacy, but ultimately there’s not much substitute for speaking with a teacher or friends (my experience with HelloTalk for connecting you with conversation partners has been mixed - better than nothing but its not like the prolonged exposure & relationship building of a real friend, nor the targeted learning and crisp explanations from a teacher).

But yeah if you’re just getting started I personally enjoyed learning through Pimsleur - no fancy app, just mp3s, and it gets you speaking with time pressure from day one - if speaking is your main goal, this was the fastest way for me to get started, and you learn from exclusively listening to people pronouncing correctly (unlike taking a class, where you’re exposed to everyone but the teacher butchering the language), so I find I sound much better than any of my classmates in class nowadays.
Making Backup Validation Easier
The majority, of course, aren’t reassured by these antics and this is why he’s wildly unpopular including in the poll linked above.
How is a custom domain "SEO abuse"? I'm really not understanding what nefarious intent you're accusing the Economist of here.
The stall speed for something small like a Cessna 172 is in the ballpark of 60 mph, so those definitely need to be strapped down if there's a chance of even a simple severe thunderstorm. But for something like a Boeing 737, stall speed is more like 125-150 mph (depending on flaps configuration). If surface winds that high are a real possibility, airlines will do their best to relocate the planes, because there are too many ways they can be severely damaged even without taking off while stationary.
Different people have different means and need. The restraints are in a tough place, but so is everyone who can’t wfh in tech. Some people can’t make rent or pay their mortgage, and paying a markup for takeout is frivolous
Nightmare is a strong word, but it is very hard. We have a 3yo, a 3rd grader and a 5th grader. If it weren't for the 3yo we'd probably be in decent shape because our kids are generally pretty mature and well-adjusted, and academically competent. That said, they've had to not just focus on continuing to learn the curriculum, but also learn a bunch of new tools (with little help), and also learn to type because handwriting isn't really an option anymore. They're struggling through the "this is the first time I'm alone with a computer" growing pains. The toddler is the real monkey wrench, to the point where I've started trying to split the older kids' schedules so one focuses on school in the morning and the other in the afternoon, and they split time interacting with their little sister. It's not remotely fair to anyone and I feel horribly guilty about it, but it's where we are right now and everyone's making the best of it.
I've done some WFH days each week in the past and been quite productive. I've been doing quarantine work for 7 weeks now and I feel like it's fucking with my head and I can barely get any work done. This sucks. I'm considering asking for a week or 2 of unpaid vacation.
Ok, I'll take a closer look. Just for reference, many studies have been done which show that for every bit of information you ask for, you'll get a magnitude of people drop out. So though these may be "nice" they're probably best left for later in the relationship. Get the email, so you can hit them up, and get feedback or whatever, but think of it like a relationship. You're asking all of these details, AFTER you've asked about what books we like and don't like. I've already given you a TON of info, and you've given nothing in return, and not promise of what you will give.

Let somebody enter the books, then give them results right away. THEN you can start asking for more info if they want to make an account, etc.

You are going to face a huge uphill battle with the structure you have now.

As I'm typing this, I'm even reconsidering if I want to go through all the trouble of entering my books again, because you still haven't shown me that there is any value there.

Also, if you're algorithm needs to know my age so you don't recommend children's books, you've got serious issues. I just gave you 5 books I like, and 3 books I don't. No children's books in there, so why would you recommend children's books?
My 1.5 year old is not in school, but I’d like to wonder aloud how damaging this might be to our 1 year olds.

Our daughter was in daycare at 2 months (both wife and I work full time). She adapted and quickly developed a very strong and social personality.

She was totally the type of kid that would greet new people, very confident. Even finding the occasional random grandma to pick her up.

Now when she sees people on our walks and doesn’t wave or give any indication that she wants to interact, she definitely more frightened of things than she used to be.

I fear this whole thing is messing with her personality.
What do you mean? Everything is available online and can be delivered to your door. About the only thing I don't have access to is little boutique shops. I can even get weed delivered via app.

That being said, I don't think anyone is looking to spend money with unemployment at 20%. People are using their stimulus checks to pay down debt and buy diapers. Belts are being tightened. Rent is not being paid. None of this is a recipe for consumer spending without a sustained injection of cash. $1200 buys three weeks rent in a 1 bedroom apartment in LA county.
Your naïveté and misinformed idealism are quite amusing. Uber had to solve huge problems in realtime marketplace management, mapping, transport economics, financial systems, safety and fraud prevention to make the magical experience of pressing a button and getting a ride possible anywhere in the world.

Don't assume you have the answers that a twenty thousand organization couldn't figure out.
Perhaps people feel like these dissenting voices are threatening the pillars of our democracy!
One of my fears initially was that this pandemic would end up cementing an advertising corporation as the permanent middleman between teachers and students from this point forward. Hopefully schools become less "Googley" after this, not more.
Building Nubank – The Evergreen Cache
(Isn’t it technically an “iCalendar server”, as iCal is the name for the client that Apple used to make?)
hoarding top-notch engineers in their pocket while they have enough capital?
Ashes and the unavenged: The unsolved murder of Jillian Fuller
Interesting train of thought, but most of the example feel to me like overly-specific, "premature optimization".

The thing is, software developers are already roughly incentivized to optimize for efficiency. And UX designers are already roughly incentivized to optimize for smooth interaction.

There are a few tragedy-of-the-commons cases; web ads being the obvious example, both in terms of bandwidth and in terms of client-side CPU usage. There's also the fact that developer time is so much more expensive than cloud hosting, which incentivizes companies to be careless with their server usage. These could possibly benefit from some kind of carbon tax, to help align incentive.

But the other thing is: the vast majority of this cost does not come down to what the author is talking about. Crypto mining is an enormous expenditure of energy for dubious purpose. I would wager it creates more carbon than the entire internet. And streaming is several orders of magnitude larger than regular web pages (though this is already strongly incentivized to be as efficient as possible). I cannot imagine that optimizing YouTube's logo even registers in comparison to its video streams.

All in all: it's a good lens through which to look at things, but most of the emissions sources are either a) already being made as efficient as possible, or b) created by parties who could not be bothered to care without an adjustment of incentives.
It is tough because it's different. Don't throw in the towel, innovate. New patterns /method will have to be used. This is an opportunity, if we figure out how to do this right, education can reach everywhere in the world.Think about the potential.
How do the returns on this kind of spending compare to spending on more traditional capital assets?
I know it's not your team, but now that it's going in Windows kernel, maybe you could ask around... Any plans to support QUIC for data transfers from/to Azure Blob Storage?
Of course it's possible to return to in-person schools. Some countries never closed primary schools at all. Education is essential, and it's totally worth accepting some risk.
Can API vendors solve healthcare’s data woes?