skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've taken exactly the wrong lesson from this. It actually reminds me of the Southall Rail Crash. What we actually did after Southall was mandate Automatic Warning System for passenger trains. Faulty AWS? Train can't enter passenger service. Driver isn't paying attention? AWS brakes the train to a full stop. But what the unions wanted instead was to add more drivers. Sure, the unionised driver was inattentive, but if we have two, or three drivers in each train that'll be mitigated. Your reasoning is like theirs "Let's do the thing that failed even more until it works".

Security based on the automation works really well. How well? Google drove phishing of its employees to zero. Not just technical employees like my friends, but random sales people and other non-tech roles, because they were mandated to use Google's security that relies on automation and not a vague human judgement. They don't need to know why it's safer, they don't need to pay attention in a class, the automation doesn't care why they aren't supposed to give their Google credentials to "Oogle" or "Goggle" or "Gøøgle" it's just designed to not work when things don't match.

I'm not a Google employee, I'm just a user, let's walk through what happens to see how automation saves us every single time, resolutely and without fail.

I visit google.com which is really Google and I sign in. I am prompted to press the button on my Security Key (a physical object). Since I'm at google.com the Key will present credentials for google.com proving I've still got that key to google.com

Later I am fooled (maybe by a malicious ad) into visiting a site that is not google.com but I think it is, my adversary is very sophisticated and resourceful. The site looks 100% the same as the real one, but of course this is not google.com. It might be anything else except google.com, but for the sake of clarity let's say it's crooks.example

I try to sign in. The crooks have two options:

1. They claim to be google.com, which they aren't, the automation rejects this and they get an error, if they like they can present me with the error, but neither of us can do anything with it except say "Huh, that's an error".

2. They admit they are crooks.example, which is true. The Key happily gives them credentials for crooks.example, because that's who they are. But these credentials are useless for attacking my Google account, why did they bother getting them?

Notice there's no human judgement involved. This system is equally happy to present credentials to nazi-scumbags.example or cat-videos.example. But what it refuses to do is give the nazi-scumbags.example credentials to cat-videos.example or vice versa no matter how much the user is convinced it's fine. There's no "Are you sure?" dialog, there is no "Press OK to proceed" step, it just does not work.

An insistence that we should just add more humans, like at Southall, is simply motivated reasoning, and has no basis in the observed facts. Automation works. You should resort to human judgement when automation isn't an option, it should never be your first choice.
You can only choose to self isolate if you have the means to give up income. Needing to come up with necessary expenses like food and utilities would be understandable, but the largest bill is rent which is a mostly product of our financial system rather than an intrinsic requirement of existence.

I could be in favor of lifting shutdown orders if there were a corresponding federal push to either halt such payments or reimburse people (federal is where the bulk of the money is distributed/printed). But without that, it's disingenuous to frame the situation as some kind of choice, when it's really the same unempathetic turning of the screws on the marginalized.
fuck the government and fuck you if you support this
The Gnome Shell Calendar to Stop Over-Consuming the CPU, Eating Up Battery Life
and here I thought that using “arguably” in my post would communicate that not everyone might agree. - Oh well ...
Are you not aware that "lockdown" covers a wide continuum of practices?!

Ease up can mean a lot of things between what we have now and no lockdown whatsoever.

What level of easing depends on the goal and the data showing what level of control is being achieved.
I didn’t say it was against the rules, just wondering if it is as uncommon as I think it is.

Perhaps someone can point me to links of recent/popular Show HN posts for paid (not freemium) products?
Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life
> an any lawyers chime in here?

They're too busy, on the clock
> Rather, I trust Apple, and maybe Google, to do what they say they will do

For me SV of the past some years or so has and not even started to repair that trust.

I don’t think your phone logging proximity to every phone it’s been near is similar to browser cookies.

Historically, I’m skeptical that it won’t almost immediately be abused and will remain optional.

There is no going back from a government sponsored, first party system like this. So there is no need to rush in now.
This study suggests that the resulting rise in deaths isn't immediate. That it isn't measurable now does not mean it isn't coming.

>1 %-point rise in the unemployment rate raises the risk of dying next year by 6%.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02779...
What is your evidence that hospitals in America in general, and in California, are anywhere near being overwhelmed? I've cited evidence which shows the opposite--they are very far from being overwhelmed.
The judicial branch is supposed to rely on facts and logical arguments. That is not how “America” writ large, however, is “supposed to work.” If that’s what the framers anticipated, they would have have had the other two branches likewise run by unelected subject matter experts with life tenure. But they didn’t.

The fact is that the world is too complicated to figure out via facts and logical analysis, and that’s why ultimate control of policy rests with elected politicians. We’re seeing this play out at a grand scale right now. In the US, classes are cancelled for the rest of the year. Meanwhile, German students went back to school a week ago. And in Sweden, lower schools were never even shut down in the first place. Logical analysis doesn’t tell you what are the appropriate trade offs between keeping the economy running and keeping people safe. What the purposes of the welfare state should be isn’t a fact waiting to be discovered through empirical methods. These are all political judgments. Even where facts and logical analysis could play a role, it often doesn’t, because experts don’t agree on often very simple facts, or the experts’ answers are too complicated to be actionable.
> Ease up how? I mean, what's the specific proposal?

Not sure how to put this but if you're advocating for the side that wants to confine seven million people to their homes and shut down nearly all commerce you're the one that has to come up with the specific proposal.

The objection is that there doesn't seem to be any kind of numerical metric to determine the success of this shelter in place policy.

It's public policy. So what are the stated goals of that policy, and what are the criteria for determining success?

It is a serious fucking problem that people aren't even really trying to answer that question any more.
And there's the strokes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/24/strokes-cor...
What if you can only have fun making the puppets while simultaneously murdering someone? Following your logic, Disney endorses murder. Complete nonsense.
I think the "harm from unemployment will swamp harm from C19" argument will get stronger the longer lockdown lasts, but that the ~month we've had widespread lockdown orders is not close to long enough to make the argument without clear data. We have strong evidence that explosive C19 case growth kills lots of people; that's a hard data point to overcome.

If you want to be frustrated with the unbounded nature of the crisis, I think the right place to focus that anger is on testing; in Illinois, we have something like a 22% positive rate on PCR testing, suggesting we're not testing nearly enough people.
Unless the armies of bots out there started spending real cash for products after those ad clicks, I'm going to stick with "a lot of of people click on ads".
> it's not about money in my opinion and is about deaths

Are you aware of the fact that people die every day to e.g. deliver groceries to your store, harvest plants, build houses etc pp? Do we shut down all activity that will lead to somebody somewhere losing their life?
Totally agreed. I'm wondering if Twitter still supports SMS in India, but unfortunately can't locate any page that lists the countries they're still supporting.

Bizarrely, the relevant link in their help center is broken:

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/supported-mobile-c...

It used to work:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200420041309/https://help.twit...
Ease up by returning to normal economic activities, but with mandatory masks and gloves for most workers and consumers, while strongly encouraging social distancing.

My current belief, based on experiences reported in other countries, is that this would be enough. There's not much evidence that total physical lockdown is necessary for everyone regardless of their level of vulnerability.

Not a doctor, not medical advice, etc.
>The problem I see with that statement is that it's difficult, if not impossible to falsify.

All you have to do is take a look at hospitals in NYC to know how wrong you are and right the person you responded to is.

>Someone in my neighborhood spent their life savings on starting a gourmet burgers and brews joint

Holy shit won't someone please think of the gastropubs. This is why I'll never believe this is a good faith concern for the people that really need our concern right now: no one ever says "I know a delivery driver" or "I know a busboy" or "I know a janitor" that needs help. It's always some lifestyle business owner that we should be weeping for in these outcries.
Snap: A Microkernel approach to host networking
`this.foo = this.foo.bind(this)` and then the new feature of method properties `foo = () => this` vs `foo() { this }` are constant sources of confusion for people who aren't well-established in Javascript/this. Not to mention function() vs arrow functions.

All exist because of the idiosyncrasies of `this` that you may be discounting because of your familiarity and already being over the learning curve that ensnares people daily.
A practical reason you can’t just allow the compiler to do it is if you are doing goofy things like overlaying two structures, void pointer manipulation or casting one object to the format of another because you know the first n number of elements line up anyhow, or if you’re changing specific bytes as memory manipulation and not by the object itself.

Typically if I define a 8bit as the first element, I need to be certain those 8bits are first even if that wastes three more bytes to align on the next variable.
10 years ago, did you have to tap "no" through 2 separate alerts to view a tweet in your web browser rather than the app?
For a nonprofit entity that I am affiliated with, we had a very high engagement (free) Facebook presence that eroded over time as organic posts get crowded out.

So you end up boosting or wasting money on ads. In my (limited) experience, ads weren't effective for us as they were too local and the audience was limited. Boosts were effective but expensive.

The funny thing was the our highest conversion paid event advertising was the old fashioned newspaper.
Correct. Driving somewhere doesnt increase risk, any more than walking near your home. In a large city you are probably better driving outside the city.
As a lawyer, I can chime in here. Annotated statutes are special. They have cross references to the cases which cite to the statutes. So if you're doing research on a statute, the annotated version will have the letter of the law word for word, then at the bottom it will have a little topical index (with topics based on a part of the statute) under each topic will be the cases citation which addressed that topic and a brief 1-2 line description of what that case held. Generally, one of the publishers puts them together instead of the state because it takes a lot of legwork and constant updating as new cases interpret the statute. State laws and statutes are obviously not something you can claim is your intellectual property but when they're annotated you are actually reading a lot of stuff that isn't the just the statute.
And those consequences matter. You can't handwave them away and pretend they don't exist.

Don't forget that you work in a fairly unique field. Many, many occupations cannot work from home.
GitHub repo: https://github.com/hse-project
Understanding Error Boundaries in React
I drove passed a testing center in Aurora at the Premium Outlet Mall (I-88 & Farnsworth) twice this weekend, both Saturday and Sunday morning. They opened at 8am each day, and had reached capacity shortly after. I agree that testing efforts deserve the ire of the populace.
55th Anniversary of Moore's Law
Is "AI Generated SEO Articles" the new term for a spam bot?
The situation is rapidly developing. Our knowledge is constantly growing and will continue to do so. Under these circumstances, I don't think moving the goalposts is avoidable. Nobody is hoping for magic: they are waiting till it's safe to go outside. Perhaps a vaccine will make that a reality in...a couple years? Regardless of what the government does, I say, prepare for a long haul.

On the one hand there is a tremendous amount of real damage being done by everyone sheltering in place. On the other hand it's not the government's orders that are the direct cause, so much as the virus itself. We are in a global pandemic. It is unprecedented. Telling everyone to go outside again is not going to magically make it happen.

Can you imagine re-opening schools right now? Summer camps? It would be sheer carnage, and those who do want to protect themselves will be less able to do so. It would just shift the pain points around, and cause a lot of deaths right away. Would that be worse than it is right now? Probably. Would it be worse than another six months of sheltering in place? Nobody knows!
No - it's a natural product of competition, the pressure of which exists regardless of your legal structure. A sole proprietor running a courier service will need to differentiate himself relative to the other courier services, and the potential customers of such services place immense value on timeliness. Even if the courier were a non-profit, for it to be selected in favor of a competing service it would need to choose the basis upon which it wanted to compete and excel at it. USPS is sufficient for many things (e.g. 70% junk mail), but it's not a market competitor. Where it matters, there's a need to differentiate to survive. When our business needs something overnighted fast and reliably, it's always a private carrier for a reason that doesn't involve its legal structure.
Citizens United was obviously correct. (While it’s not dispositive, look up which side the ACLU supported in that case.)
I'm painfully aware, which is why I asked the question. Who would you like to see back to work, and are you certain they're not already on the list of essential positions?
Ginsburg daughter is a copyright law scholar who is very pro-copyright. Ginsburg's decisions tend to be very reliably pro-copyright on a court where consistency on copyright matters is utterly lacking among all the other justices. As compared to Ginsburg, it's a crap shoot how any particular justice will decide a copyright case.

I personally don't think this is a coincidence. I would guess that Ginsburg's thinking is heavily influenced by conversations with her daughter. Or perhaps Ginsburg's strongly held opinions on copyright influenced her daughter's career.
The only one here parroting message boards in a pseudo-intellectual manner is our HN internet points medalist.
To me the post sounded like there should be scrutiny of caffeine consumption as there was scrutiny of alcohol and nicotine. And I tend to agree with that. It’s a psychoactive substance that causes physical addiction so people should know the facts.
It's a fun reference, but it's very different. It's a CPU rather than a language, he implemented it, and it was designed to be easy to implement.
I'm sure the lawyer actually said something much more nuanced that meant more or less the same thing but didn't rise to the level of an actual threat to subvert proceedings in bad faith. Anything that is said between counsel is admissible in court, and if the Disney lawyer did that, not only would that hurt their defense, it could mean ethics complaints and sanctions for the lawyer, personally.
Looks pretty cool when you make it to the GitHub (https://github.com/hse-project). Order of magnitude performance gains! I imagine most of that come from skipping the Filesystem layer and just hitting the raw Block layer directly.

I am curious about the durability and how well tested all of that is though. On the one hand, filesystems put a lot of work towards ensuring that bytes written to disk and synced are most likely durable, but OTOH Micron is a native SSD vendor so they've probably thought of that.

I'm also curious whether RAIDing multiple SSDs together at the block layer and then running HSE on top of that will be faster or whether running multiple HSE instances (not the right word, it's a library, but you get what I mean) with one per drive and then executing redundantly across instances would be faster. Argument for the former is that each instance would have to redo the management work, argument for the latter is that there's probably synchronization overhead within the library so running more in parallel should allow for concurrency and parallelism gains.
> This is not the time for egocentric defiance of the recommendations from our leaders.

This is not a fair representation of the alternative and contrary viewpoints.
Did you know that you can't use copyright to protect an algorithm?
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I think most of those things could be solved, along the lines of

1) Just swap out the diff algo, keeping the rest of git intact.

1a) Is already done for most popular languages.

2)+2a) Save the comments verbatim, with whitespace. Shouldn't shake up the normal AST very much.

3) No counterargument here, they would lose the cases that currently slip under the radar.

But yeah, you're probably right... Too much work. Shame we didn't have this from the start.
People are irrationally terrified by COVID. There is of course a rational level of respect we should have for it, but people are TERRIFIED. That's why you are getting downvoted (and I will too probably).
Even with all that, on the most crowded day, it still is a marvel and worth going. You'll miss out if you have the chance and don't go.

With that said, I did find Avebury much nicer as you can touch the stones there!
What if Alice and Bob get together and decide that one of then does the same thing like Disney, and the other takes the other to court in order to create a precedence.

Same outcome, just Disney is not involved.
Why is this press release getting massively upvoted?
I hope projects like http://gltr.io/ can eliminate this type of content from search results, or at least give me a browser-based alert when I encounter it.
Much better link: https://github.com/hse-project/hse

PR is insane hot air referring to another hot air product (can you even buy their 3D Xpoint devices yet?)
> First of all, let’s be clear: for a lot of algorithms adding call overhead around them is free because the cpu predicts the call, predicts the return, and uses register renaming to handle arguments and return.

This is only thinking at the hardware layer. There are also effects at the software layer.

Function calls not known to LTO prevent all sorts of compiler optimizations as well. In addition, as Jeff says on this thread, not being able to inline free means you get no benefit from sized-delete, which is a substantial improvement on some workloads. (I'd cite the exact number, but I'm not sure Google ever released it.)

Source: I literally worked on this.
It’s a little scary.

I was laid off last year from a non-tech job and at the time, had savings and unemployment to not worry about paying $1800 for rent plus reduced additional expenses for a respectable while (without losing everything) but it's a very different story now.

Since COVID, my landlord said he could let me defer payments for a few months, but honestly that’s not helpful at all since I’ll have to pay in full eventually.

I previously felt relatively comfortable with my opportunities to find new employment in marketing or a career switch to product management. But now, cash is low and what few jobs are available are flooded with applications and high competition from all the layoffs. I can't even get a food delivery gig because they have so many applications.

It could be worse, but my wallet and savings are taking a serious beating and probably will for quite a while.

So if anyone has ANY marketing or PM needs or questions......... Say hi, email in bio! Happy to connect at the very least.
Are women adult human females?
maybe this is actually a good thing if it makes junky SEO articles even more ubiquitous than they already are. it will force search engines to adapt and filter out this kind of noise, increasing quality in the long term.
I thought I had seen multi master stacks. For peripherals I know I’ve seen 20 concurrent this n the Nordic S132, definitely not 8 as any BLE spec limitation.

Yes. That’s what I said, beacons are advertising packeting with the connectable flag cleared.

You misunderstood, there is no bidirectional in my post. Just two transmitters and two receivers.
It claims to fix MongoDB
Disney ruined Star Wars when they killed the EU.
The room is only for sleeping. Everything else is massive crowded common spaces
Um, I'm not sure if you're being serious, but there are plenty of ways to gradually re-open. As an example:

step 1) re-open elementary schools

step 2) re-open middle schools

step 3) re-open high schools & colleges

step 4) re-open all small businesses that do not result in gatherings of more than 2 people in one place, then 5, then 10, then 20, then 50

I'm not saying that's the right approach but there is certainly middle ground between current shutdowns and a total re-opening of society.
I'm of the opinion that kelp farms could be a huge benefit to humanity if we could scale them up enough.

Your work seems worthy of an AMA if you ever have the time.
> "Not sure why people have issue with "creative" as a noun, this has been the standard in advertising for decades."

Probably the same problem some people have with the term "Human Resources". If you can be reduced to a "Resource" then you're basically just meat (or it can feel that way).

When you use the term "creative" as a noun that way it sounds like a brain in a jar, and if the brain misbehaves, it can be replaced.
We don’t know enough so let’s stop the economy while we find out? That is not typically how we do things, because it’s not a rational response. For example, we didn’t know whether holding a mobile phone close to our ear for extended periods of time leads to serious health issues, and there was suspicion that it does. But we didn’t prohibit it — we let people decide for themselves, and it does seem the risk was lower than suspected.

What’s happening now seems more like a knee-jerk reaction than the result of a cost-benefit analysis.
Needing At-Home Workers, Call Centers Turn to People with Disabilities
No. We are allowed to drive. All workplaces are open except for places like restaurants, personal service businesses, gyms and theatres. Other businesses just have to ensure distancing.
They've been around for well over a decade.
Out of curiosity because I have little to no knowledge of immunology: what do you think that means if someone that already had the disease can be reinfected? Does that have any implication on the efficacy of a vaccine?