skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, either purposely or naively, you're misconstruing the context and scope of a single quote as if you were a part of the other "tribe."

The "basket of deplorables" comment is widely and incorrectly assumed to be an expression of elitist disdain by "the left" for all rural white males, all Trump supporters, or everyone of lower socioeconomic class, when it rather explicitly referred to the - and I'm paraphrasing almost directly from the quote here - "racists, sexists, homophobes, xenophobes, Islamophobes" who took over Trump's base and steered it in an extremist direction. In other words, people who should be considered deplorable.

It may not have been a precisely worded criticism but it was an accurate one.

Thanks. I have absolutely no reason to reply to any of that.

I know the following from personal experience as a person of color, as a not completely hetero-normative person, and as someone who lived in the on-campus house of an organization that had non-gender specific bathrooms in the 1980's. As I mentioned elsewhere, tone-deafness and lack of self-awareness are often symptoms of someone having lost the ability to view others -- all others -- as fully equal in basic human being status.

Left as an exercise to the reader: Who exactly am I calling out here?
Depends on the channel you listen to.

This comment is just more of the hate-mongering. "I saw an article I didn't agree with: I'm being attacked!" In the same threads, we hear of the bubbles people build by reading only agreeable news. How can all that be true at the same time? It cannot.
What I'm asking is not unlike how society works. The law of the land is publicly available and it's a right of every citizen to know the rules that they're expected to abide by.

If someone reads all of the law and finds and exploits loopholes, did they really commit fraud? or is there something wrong with the law that needs to be fixed?
Indeed!

Checklists are key, but the pilot must be willing & able to take appropriate action when a checklist item fails or cannot be completed -- i.e., stand down & cancel, instead of "it should be fine...".

That failure to cancel is two of the three items usually needed for a crash (the failure itself and the bad pilot decision).
I'm curious about the note that you apply compression. Are you proposing your customers rely on your encryption rather than doing their own E2E encryption? If not how significant are the compression savings if you're just compressing encrypted data.
Small businesses innovate. Big businesses consolidate.

Figuring out how to maintain a small business pace of innovation while achieving the consistency and economies of scale of a big business is basically the tech industry's quest for the holy grail.
Adventures in RISC-V
The current post is a different Go implementation of the algorithm by https://github.com/steve0hh/ unlike the previous posts.
The conclusion you'd draw is the same using a P value and a confidence interval. Having a statistically significant P value, meaning a P value less than a given significance level, then implies that the confidence interval at that significance level does not include the null hypothesis value.

If your significance level is .05 (meaning you are willing to accept a 5% chance of a type 1 error in which you reject the null hypothesis incorrectly), you can use either a confidence interval or a p value. You could look at a 95% condfidence interval and see if the % faster time to recovery range includes the null hypothesis of zero, or you could calculate a P value to see if it is less than .05. Both of them will give you the same conclusion.

Based on the P values given, you know that the 95% confidence interval for % faster time to recovery will not contain 0% (nor will the 99% interval or the 99.9% interval). But, the % difference in mortality at a 95% confidence interval will contain zero, since p>.05.
NSA: Selecting and Safely Using Collaboration Services for Telework [pdf]
> Those with pensions tend to be union members

I still don't understand. Surely almost every professional has a pension, but few people are in unions.
>> a massive whiplash once we start seeing higher unemployment numbers

My bet is on this. A lot of people in the market and on main street are assuming that we'll be able to get up and running again quickly when we have better treatments and later a vaccine, i.e. there is nothing structural weighing down a return.

I'm not so optimistic because tourism and travel are huge markets with impacts on other markets. I also don't believe that the situation from 2018 until the pandemic was sustainable. Problems existed then, but were not exposed. There are leadership failures in different places, but it's hard to account for all of those across government and business right now.
Ah but there's alot more "front end engineers" who know some javascript in the world than graybeards who know how to write server-side code well. So the business case for saving money on new hires is a strong argument for "make a javascript mess".
I normally do not like listening to the "blunt talking" Michael O'Leary but there's something extremely refreshing about an airline CEO stating bluntly that airlines should NOT be given bailouts by governments. The way he sticks to to Richard Branson (billionaire living in a tax shelter asking the UK government to bail-out one of his ventures) is particularly satisfying. It's just after 3:45 into https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtccxnEmfeM
> Nope. Because they have already paid all of this in taxes. It means, that the 10 bn won't get 'invested' by the government in another project, e.g., welfare benefits, infrastructure, health, or education.

Knowing the German government, I wouldn't be worried about welfare and healthcare (they're too important to get the votes).

But you're right about infrastructure and education. You can throw defence and internal security with that.
god knows there are easier ways to make a C++ compiler vomit on you
Almost nobody assumes absolutely perfect information; even Adam Smith was relying on approximations of actual behaviour. Most economics relies on the assumption that information is close enough to perfect that we can just assume away any difference.

Behavioural economics has proven unreliable, with results that are (at least) difficult to replicate, and non-predictive.
The constitution only has power if people are willing or motivated to enforce it.
Why rubberized interfaces are essential today, a 2 minute vid on Beads language
Ok. You seem determined not to understand his point. I'm done here.
Show HN: A puzzle game for learning stack operations
I've been building a small puzzle game recently to help me learn stack operations for forth programming. It's available here:

http://itwont.work/stackgame

Very rough right now (no visual design to speak of, small number of human puzzles, puzzle generator tends to spit out terrible ones, incredibly long load times) but hopefully it should be fun to play with.
Yea, if it’s faster via VPN that’s a strong hint. If you want proof you need to examine the internet between you and the site. If a VPN connection that uses a specific router to to the site is fast, your connection through that same router is slow, and you can connect to some other site through that same router and get a fast connection, then that’s a smoking gun that your connection is deliberately slowed.

That said, it’s not easy to prove it’s your country/ISP doing the slow down vs that website slowing down connections to your country.
Mercatus is not exactly the most unbiased source that exists.
Uber operates in: ride sharing, food delivery, bike messenger, corporate travel, freight, helicopter, and gig economy jobs, and more - and these are just the publicly launched products. Each of those lines has its own external _and_ internal products, with their own features, and their own regulatory burden. They each have their own cost structure and incentive models. They're live in over 900 cities across 85 countries, many of which have their own local regulatory burden such as NYC.

Then, on top of that, you've got 91 million monthly active users. Assume each one takes only one ride per month, and only 1% of them have some kind of issue that requires them to reach out to support - that's still 30,000 new issues per day many of which will require coordinating between both parties involved in the transaction.

Do they have more employees than they need? Define need. It's easy to hire above what's necessary to sustain operations when the cost of capital is cheap. More people can develop new products and grow margins for the business overall. But Uber is seriously far from "an app together with some driver administration" any more than Amazon is "a website with some seller administration."
Armed men with guns were militarily consequential during the Civil War. Today, they are a danger only to civilians.
I wonder if this gets the CNN headline treatment like the original story did...
Edit: Apparently a lot of users on hn in Cali. I'm just throwing random states names out there.
You sound like Dennis from Always Sunny talking about how girls need to sleep with him if they're alone on a boat because of the implication of what would happen if they refuse, but denying that he actually said anything threatening.

> "I don't need to explain what a 10-20% death rate would do to society, however."

Yes, you didn't claim anything. But the implication is clear. When I responded I assumed you meant 20% CFR.

> Yes it does. Basic economics. With everything being equal, the size of an economy is linearly proportional to the number of persons.

I don't know what else I can say other than this is a dumb statement that you just made up.

* It's not a basic tenant of economics

* All things aren't equal, ever

* It's not a linear relationship, nor even always positively correlated over time depending on context

And lastly if you actually believe your math, then its clear that for any realistic death rate the economic impact is negligible.
Improving Equality and Productivity with AI-Driven Tax Policies
Yes, quite the contrary. It's one of maybe 10 five stars airlines. It's an elite airline.
Sorry, you're right. I did the arithmetic wrong, thinking that 1M deaths would represent 3% of the population, instead of 0.3%. My mistake!

The rest of my point still stands.
>Apple is not an advertising company

Except when they are

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074
> My understanding is that most evidence points to order of magnitude more lethal even when the hospitals aren't overflown.

If those mortality estimates were based on the number of positive test cases, then they're very likely overblown. Recent seralogical studies indicate that the number of positive test results are likely a small fraction of the total number of cases, and likely the most severe subset at that. None of this is to say that it's less lethal than influenza, only that the situation is developing rapidly and any given mortality estimate may well be outdated.
Yeah, both companies existed to "disrupt" the traditional taxi industry and I think they succeeded. Traditional cabs have changed a lot (while continuing to charge what rides actually cost).
Voting predilections in the US are strongly correlated with the highest attained educational level of the voter. "The Media" as a monolithic structure has a higher average attained educational level than the country at large.

The "why" is obvious; I find a better question would be, are they wrong?
Perspectives on the Pandemic – Professor Knut Wittkowski Update Interview
I was under impression that executive class adds most value in a company which might be the target market of this airline company.

It seems I've been proven wrong already.
Does anyone have a mirror for these? They were super funny
> It's easy to look down on people lower on the socioeconomic ladder.

That's not who's protesting with assault rifles demanding that their hairdresser show up to work.

People who are "lower on the socioeconomic ladder" are the ones going on strike for PPE, hazard pay and sick leave that the media are dutifully ignoring.
End game is:

GOP knows they're gonna lose the election. They want to hand the dems the worst economy possible.

Then, 4 years down the road, they can start campaigning against "do-nothing-dems" and point to the horrible economy they had to start fixing.
Survive Covid
Taking settings for FreeBSD and blindly applying them to OpenBSD isn't a great idea, yeah.

Running the defaults is a good place to start, but if you don't get the results you're seeking, the linked articles show a lot of settings that are worth looking at.

There are a lot of settings that are reasonable to tune for specific uses, which is why they're configurable. Knowing which ones to poke at first is a good thing.
That reminds me of a time I was working at a site delivering a big project.

They had put up a big temporary building next to the project building to hold a lot of additional engineers. The temporary building seemed to be the commerical equivalent of 10 double-wide mobile homes side by side with the side walls removed. There's probably a name for it. The end result was a ramp from the main building, leading up and turning into a long room maybe 200' long and 40' wide filled with lots of desks with engineers.

There were also columns every so often for network and power drops.

There was also a thermostat every 20 feet or so. (see where this is going?)

I happened to be working late one night and entered this room after everyone was gone. And the funny thing was, even though it was cool outside, all the AC units seemed to be running and making a lot of noise.

Walking down the middle of the room and looking at the thermostats I realized what had happened. Everybody had their own "comfortable" and they were all set to different temperatures. The result was at night you had heating and ac running, sometimes right next to each other, in an epic battle.

I went to each thermostat and set it to the same value, and within a short time equilibrium was reached and the entire room quieted down as the compressors and fans wound down.

Thinking back, I wonder how long my fix lasted.
I would prefer that states have more power and we further decentralize authority away from the federal government. This will limit the see-saw that occurs whenever the president switches parties.
Lots is being done to lessen the effect on the lower socioeconomic ladder. My state has a $600/week stipend for all those unemployed. In many cases this is more than they earned while employed. Sort of a temporary "basic income".

So its unevenly applied (not in every state). That's an issue to bring up with your state representative.
I'd hold off banking too heavily on anecdotal data. That's how everyone got all worked up about this reinfection story a few weeks ago.
I wonder why we have collectively decided to make society so competitive. We have more technology and resources at our disposal than ever before. We could make things easier on ourselves not harder. What’s the point? (I don’t believe all the competition and thrashing about is improving performance. Did stack ranking improve performance at Microsoft?)
Reinfection can occur with most viruses when a person is exposed too soon after the primary immune response. It takes a while for someone to develop full immunity after recovery. This happened with H1N1 for patients back in 2008.

https://www.virology.ws/2009/12/28/reinfection-with-2009-inf...
Vaccinator Quest
I hoped for a "wha-pssshhhh" noise (like a super fake slap). I was disappointed. I would also settle for "TROLOLO!" or "START THE GAME ALREADY!"

I am curious to see this actually used. If I were a presenter I would not use something like this (distracting, potentially irritating). As a viewer, I'm ok with a Discord/other chatroom running separate from the meeting. Questions from the separate room tend to percolate up to the main meeting room if no one knows the answer.

My experience with medium/large presentations is all college lecture, so take the above with a grain of salt.
Its easier to be in better financial shape if you are taking in more federal funding than you are contributing via federal taxes. 8 of the top 10 states that take more funds than they contribute are red. Exceptions are Hawaii and New Mexico.

Good read on the matter:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-s...
Initial data acquisition and keeping the data updated are vastly different tasks.
Awesome, thank you for checking it out! Yes, Dashboard reporting needs to be improved greatly. I'll get to that after courses are launched.
I think the truth is no one really knows what's happening, and won't until whatever "reality" is anymore finally hits. Don't buy into the HN "it's already priced in!" rants. I have a fair number of acquaintances in finance and plenty of 30 year industry vets, who are they type that aren't surprised or concerned about hardly anything, are absolutely scratching their heads right now.

The obvious problem right now is, supposing you're a 100% sure that things are going to get worse, where do you put your investments if you're a large firm? Sure if you're a HNer go ahead an buy some put options. Bond rates are extremely low right now so that wouldn't be a wise investment especially if stocks, rational or not, keep going up.

Even though everyone knows this will be bad, nobody knows how bad or exactly what it will look like. So it's very hard to price that. It's almost like we were in a terrible accident, and are still walking around like normal because of shock despite missing a limb.
It seems to me that the culture is largely forced down or forced to shape on us from the top, especially in the US. The elites, the billionaires and the wealth owners don't want much harmony because they can squeeze the lower layers at their benefit. The current culture appears to have something to do with this but in fact it's a side effect of this increasingly growing gap between the rich and the poor.
Keystone Interface
> more CPU intensive than alternatives like a WebGL renderer, but for now that's a tradeoff worth making

Mixing traditional React with WebGL is another option. There's react-three-fiber[1], and custom/simpler hybrids are also possible. Though I've not tried server-side rendering.

[1] https://github.com/react-spring/react-three-fiber
I think we are doing something very wrong with electric airplanes- namely, the idea, that you have to have one craft that has to archieve vtol lift off. My Question: Why?
Why not a tug drone, that gets a plane up to altitude in a VTOL way, fly with full battery capacity and then land with a rotor arrest like a helicopter - with the tug long detached and returned.
Yes, we are doing E2E encryption and compression between the Lynk Infrastructure and Lynk Clients. As with Ngrok, for a quick hosted tunnel our encryption will be more than suitable, and we are working to release a self-hosted version soon that will allow you to bring your own certificates (for both ingress traffic and the traffic between the Lynk Client and the Lynk Infrastructure).
> In a sane GUI this 1000 widgets are not created at all, only the visible ones are created

As a side note, this gets a little bit at an issue I feel pretty passionate about, which is that HTML is not a language for laying out interfaces, it is a user-facing interface itself. HTML isn't for programmers, it's for users.

The sane GUI you're talking about is essentially virtual rows, they're just baked into many native toolkits. A native interface doesn't insert everything because it doesn't have to, its interface is purely visual. If there are accessibility controls, they happen through a separate interface. If there are keyboard controls, they're based on the widget, not based purely on the content.

This is not a universal opinion, you will find people who disagree with me on this. But I think the web is fundamentally different than that. The web at least attempts to force your text interface and visual interface to be the same.

I'm not sure if it was to you or someone else that I mentioned that many apps (even native ones) are really just interactive documents when you think about their data separate from their styling. In my mind, the innovation of the web is that it acknowledges that, and it forces your interface to be a pure XML-like tree. And then you can put some styling on top of that with CSS if you want to. There are a few exceptions to that, but for the most part, HTML doesn't really let you hide a ton of information.

So imagine if you were building an app in GTK, and GTK said, "okay, first give me a pure-text representation of your interface that I can pipe to a terminal. And then I will allow you to position boxes on the screen, but only from the text that you told me I can pipe to the terminal."

That's a very different paradigm than how most other application frameworks work, and I think that the DOM's insistence of not having a lot of opaque data-bindings where possible makes a lot more sense when viewed through that lens. That lens also helps explain why some devs (myself included) got very annoyed about Google messing with that paradigm because they had their own 'cute' idea for web components.

The downside of this paradigm is that the tools you're talking about like data-bound lists aren't natively built into the DOM. You end up needing to use 3rd-party Javascript libraries for them. But for the most part, due to Javascript's popularity, those libraries are easy to find. Although due to Javascript's popularity, sometimes they are of dubious quality. :)
Are you in the USA?

Pensions are defined benefit. That is, it is specified exactly how much money you will receive in retirement.

A 401K retirement plan is not a pension. You save your own money and possibly an employer contribution, and you make your own investment decisions. The value goes up and down in accordance with what you invested in.
Or even proving that has happened on any level.
Speaking of meals: US food banks have been reported as having 6 mile long lines and were required by Dept of Agriculture to maintain a 5-6 minute questionnaire (per meal recipient) up until a week ago.

Unemployment rate is underreported because states can't bring applicants onto their rolls fast enough for demand (if the state even accepts the applicant).

Rent payments, Mortgages, credit cards defaults are all growing. Once people exhaust their stopgap measures, the pressure for civil unrest grows quicker.
My company has a residential proxy network that lets you test endpoints with requests from residential broadband ISPs all over the world. Some of our customers are using our network for exactly this use case: https://packetstream.io
I've been playing armchair QB for 20 years, my QBR is 91. Nobody is seriously saying index all of the world's information in a weekend. They're saying that the tech to index the web and otherwise has increased in the last 20 years, which enables you to do more. Google isn't even a great example, considering how intensive it is at scale. There are a lot of apps, especially with user created content, that don't have that issue at all. Your argument is the other end of I can build Google in a day, it dismisses criticism by making it absurd.
This is actually a similar approach to how next.js deployed to vercel (previously zeit) works by default. Each page or api endpoint is served by an individual lambda function so they can scale up or down independently

https://nextjs.org/docs/deployment#optimized-for-nextjs
Well, you don't have any options on Android (regarding support for extensions).
But I'm very content with Yandex (no Google Play release logs though).
I always find those numbers interesting. IIRC, they come from the Taxpayer foundation and generally stop at “zip code where the Feds send the check”.

Hypothetical example: The DoE wants to build a supercomputer from XBox 360s (ASCI RRoD). They select UNM as the lead contractor and write a check for $101M. UNM buys $50M in XBoxes from MSFT in Seattle, and another $50M for compilers and professional services from IBM in Armonk, NY. Did NM get $101M for their taxes, or $1M?