skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's written by Matt Taibi, who is of a genre of journalist that succeeds more by tapping into and channeling public outrage than by straight reporting.

During the 2008 financial crisis in the U.S., he channeled left-leaning outrage against banks and financial institutions a la Occupy Wall Street.

More recently he's tapping into right-leaning outrage against the media, experts, and Trump opponents a la the "alt-right". See for example in this piece:

> In the Trump years the sector of society we used to describe as liberal America became a giant finger-wagging machine. The news media, academia, the Democratic Party, show-business celebrities and masses of blue-checked Twitter virtuosos became a kind of umbrella agreement society, united by loathing of Trump and fury toward anyone who dissented with their preoccupations.

This is basically a 180 degree turn from a-decade-ago Matt Taibi, who worked in the show business news media (Rolling Stone) and got famous for aggressively wagging his finger at people.
I remember that! it was on rec.games.programmer, wasn't it?
Have you tried lifting heavy weights? Follow a program like Starting Strength and make that calorie surplus work for you. Being skinnyfat isn’t really a compelling goal. Lift and gaining weight becomes a good thing, because it means you’re putting on muscle.
But... the overclocking is the official spec. It happens dynamically all the time, it’s not a knob you throw. If TDP is too facile, another more reflective metric may be needed, but for now it’s clear TDP for Intel is marketing not grounded in reality — and not directly comparable between products in their lineup let alone across brands.
Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections – Full Documentary – HBO
Venezolano y nunca ha oido un argentino decir "ponga huevo" "dejame de romper los huevos" ay chamo te van a quitar la cedula, Maduro, pero si tu viejo es yorugua capaz alla usan mas pelotas entonces.
I wish someone fused Cyc with a modern chatbot.
From 1M to Graham's Number – Wait but Why
There's other ways to do distributed DNS, I'm sure, than a cryptographic hash. I haven't looked into it much, but "Handshake" is a new distributed DNS system that supposedly works very well. I used to be averse to that idea, but this .org issue clearly shows we cannot trust icann much longer.
You keep cumin seeds, and then toast and freshly grind them the day you need them.

Same with coriander, cardamom, anise, cinnamon, dried chilis, etc.
People who also think John McCarthy has no sense of decency?

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Have_you...
The CA Governor Newsom had said on a press conference recently that they had increased testing last week by about 40%, and planned a similar pace in the weeks to come. Don't know about how that relates to LA or how accurate that is.

My go to tracking site https://covidtracking.com/us-daily/ doesn't seem to break down historical by state.
While both are personal servers, I think Urbit is (and can be) a lot more friendly to average person than telling Average Joe to setup a vm in digitalocean and then through some magic make it communicate with your friends.
The stupid answer is that a GPU is needed to get past POST. I need graphics to boot, and nothing more.

AMD has a "NUC-gap". At the high end, there's Epyc2 datacenter offerings, and going low there's the embedded line. And every device in between either assumes a discrete GPU (Ryzen 7) or is a wimp (G-series).

I built a beefy NUC-alike based on an Intel chip, because AMD has no offerings here. Google "Ryzen NUC" and the demand is evident.
You still need an at least mildly tolerant political environment, or else they'll just make censorship-resistant software illegal.

I hope to be wrong, but I think the current trend in the US is that direction.
whole spices preserve the essential oils better when whole.

roasting them whole and grinding them before use brings out the flavors since most of the essential oils have not evaporated.
I’ve done a diet in which I used packaged and prepared food for ease of calorie counting and ate about 1400 calories a day for couple months. I also did a lot more aerobic exercise than I usually did (running, bicycling, elliptical machines).

Result? Not what any of the “calories in calories out” calculators claimed. About a pound down. Should have been more like seven to ten.

What works for me: weight lifting, swimming. Both wildly more effective than they “should” be. Dieting and aerobic exercise do about dick-all to take fat off my frame. Try various things in various combinations.
Random question, do you guys have tried linear regression in place of Adam and was there a significant change in the training time?

And on what data you decide to move on to NN based model rather than using a simpler models like linear regression etc?
Even mass transit is experimenting with Flex semi-fixed routing.
His videos get shared like crazy on FB.

Take a look at his view counts in just the past month:

3.6M

5.8M

7.6M

6.8M

https://www.dropbox.com/s/iqssylubr7y503k/nats-what-i-reckon...
What is up with that fall protection? Mobile fall arresters are really not meant to be used with a loose pile of rope at your feet. And is that a shock pack? From this photo, it looks like he's going to be on the ground before it gets a chance to deploy.
Like many institutions that are failing during this crisis; this is merely accelerating a reckoning that was probably going to happen one way or another.

This doesn’t make it good or bad; it just is.
Calm your farm there sunshine.
That's assuming that people are arguing in good faith though. When 100 other people have rationally debunked them already and they still say the same series of falsehoods and gish gallop onto the next one when you point out its incorrect in the same way those other 100 people already have I don't see what benefit there is in engaging with them.

Some people argue about things to win an argument, not uncover the truth, engaging with them as if they are doing the former when they're really doing the latter will get nowhere.
My Pinephone UBPorts edition is on order: https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinephone-community-editio... . I expect it will be quite a bit unrefined initially but I hope to give it a fair try and contribute if possible.
The topic was an amusing anecdote from Peter Norvig with a tech slant. Other anecdotes are likely on topic

Regarding Obesity, I am not assigning blame or trying to make you feel bad. I’m calling the situation (that I too suffer from) a disease. There are various practices, with varying effectiveness for individuals, to approach the management of this disease. There is no fault in disease, there are only victims of it.

Portion control is one practice, as is writing down consumption. They might not be effective for you. I have been most successful with protein sparing modified fasts such as Lyle McDonald’s rapid fat loss and/or flexible dieting. He takes a very scientific approach to body composition and realistic food intake without shame.
the only thing better than selling addictive products like alc0hol nictine drugs....is selling mandatory products....that are patentable.

id be ok with bill gates and vaccines ....if amvaccines could not be patented by law. or vaccine patents only lasted 3 years. instead of .....20. and they could not be renewed by any trickery....
Not so much a recommendation on where to publish, but I do suggest you form relationships and connections with other writers. It may seem like a solitary art form, but you can’t do it alone.

Thy said, the platform doesn’t matter. No one will find your content unless you cultivate an audience. There’s not much difference between Medium and GitHub and pastebin as far as your audience is concerned. If you want readers you’ll need an outlet that has them already (existing magazine, for example) or you’ll have to learn about marketing and promotion.

Good luck. Keep writing! The world needs your stories.
Would you expect the list of packages on the live image to be the same as a new install (sans drivers)?
vaccine patents should be limited to 3 years without room for extension.
We would like this if they made us pay a lot less. Currently we are still paying the same amount in tuition, and some classes just provide a video a week and maybe a trivial assignment. It just feels awful and I dont learn anything from that type of experience.
You're lying to yourself. Your plate is still too big.
Good luck!
And creating a great culture is both difficult and requires constant upkeep.
Show HN: PandemiaMask – DIY mask design by professionals
1. Estimating the IFR is difficult because of difference in populations infected - in the end you need to make an estimate based on the best data possible. The Diamond Princess data was not biased towards the elderly as much it would appear as a large number of the positive case were in the crew who are younger. We also don’t know the true death rate as many cases were lost to follow up.

Even if the IFR turned out to be 0.5% in the end (I hope it is) this is still a lot of dead people.

2. Coronavirus are rather unusual for pathogens in that our immunity to them fades very quickly (less than a year on average) and you can get reinfected again. The question is if SARS-CoV-2 the same. We only have limited data so far, but if you have a look at figure 3 of this pre-print paper [0] you will see the antibody response has faded significantly 60 days post infection.

3. I think it was pretty dramatic in Wuhan, Northern Italy and NYC, but I guess this is one of personal opinion. What is certain is if the number of cases had doubled the system there would have broken down completely.

4. We seem to be in agreement.

5. The reports coming out of Sweden suggest that the economic damage there is just as bad as those countries that went into an official lockdown [1,2]. All Sweden seems to have accomplished is the killing of a large number of elderly Swedes.

Most people are not idiots and they won’t put themselves at risk of getting COVID-19 if they have a choice, but there are enough idiots that won’t self isolate to cause problems. If the economic difference of going into lockdown is the same as not, then why not help idiots not be idiots.

0. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.15.20066407v...

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/coronavirus-sweden-economy-t...

2. https://www.thelocal.se/20200428/swedens-central-bank-leaves...
I don't have much experience in this area, but I know quite a few people in sensitive government positions (in Canada) and finding these things is pretty common. The main issue (as far as I understand) is that regardless of what you did, you are potentially a security risk if you try to hide the issue. I've led quite a boring life so it's never been an issue for me, but when I've had to go through security checks with the Canadian government, the advice I've always been given is that if you are completely candid about your experiences, then they basically don't care what you did. The main issue they are worried about is that you will be blackmailed. By telling your employer, that risk is mitigated to a certain extent.

Especially if you are not in a position to deal with sensitive data, and you were straight up in your interview, I would personally not worry. (Disclaimer: random dude on the internet that knows nothing about your situation --- this is not professional advice!)

Just a side not on worrying... I've had some health scares in the past few years which luckily ended up being fine. I thought about how I would feel if it weren't fine. I think one of my reactions would be to wish it were the day before I had found out about anything. You know... before any of this happens you are carefree and everything feels fine. Then you have a conversation and suddenly it's not fine. But in reality nothing has changed. So when I'm dealing with this kind of worry, I try to pretend that it's the day before I had that conversation. It changes nothing except that potentially I can have a nice day instead of worrying. Of course, easier said that done, but it's helped me a bit. I hope it can help you too.
How to Sell Anything Online
You're an idiot if you support slavery.
> Don’t try to build two-phase commit, instead go for an arbitrator pattern which essentially supports resiliency, retry, error handling, timeout handling, and rollback.

What’s the arbitrator pattern? Google failed me.
Odds are that is coupled to either CPU architecture or mobo standard, and they didnt touch either.

You should go AMD if you want PCIe4 currently. Which is a bit funny as Intel sells certain peripherals that supports it.
Great Point! I do read article where someone builds such cool stuff every now and then to keep in mind what's coming.

Anyway whatever works. Ultimate aim is to learn and have fun.
They have a16z Crypto startup school: https://events.a16z.com/cryptostartupschool/

Note that a16z typically invests starting at Series A, post-traction.

You might consider applying to MetaCartel.org - a DAO which gives small grants to people building web3 application.
Thanks, I knew both of those bits of info, but I didn't know about the guidelines and how to deal with the RPC issue, very helpful.
Should we fear AI in creative pursuits?
I asked 40+ founders & artists to define creativity, then analyzed how AI currently handles creative pursuits.
We have anecdotal evidence that one hiring manager says that they care about honesty. The same person hasn't said that they have actually had this situation happen, so it's still hypothetical. OTOH, there's also tons of vague anecdotal evidence that some hiring managers are actually kind of self-righteous jerks.

So we're not actually any farther ahead. Personally, the advice I'd probably give a person in this situation: ask a lawyer from the area. Compared to a FAANG salary, it's a cheap investment. I might also recommend paying cash, and not giving a real name.
It's true that it depends on the definitions of real/complex numbers. Many other things turn out to be provable from ZFC. A discussion about this, from the viewpoint of Metamath, is here: http://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/mmcomplex.html
You made a new account, called "cdcgovcovid", just to ask this?

Why that account name?
Good point. So providers must also be immune from legal pressure.
Opening the economy will kill people. Keeping it closed will also kill people. It's complicated. Is anyone modeling this?

Back of the envelope: if 500 million people lose two years of life [1], that is 1 billion years lost. Assuming Coronavirus takes 10 years of life on average from 10 million globally, that is 100 million years lost.

[1] According to this article, poverty reduces lifespans in the range of 10-15 years.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1...
As someone who hasn't read much on this, why is selling the .org registry to a for profit company bad? My understanding is that .com and others are held by for profit companies. What other issues were there?
I’m not particularly convinced consumers want to pay with micro-transactions nor that it makes financial sense for producers. What’s the experience? Do I need to click a button to commit to paying someone $0.01/week or is it somehow automatic? Because if you can get 200k people to make the decision to pay you a penny a week I think it’s likely you could raise your price and get 50k people to pay you a dollar a week.
Shameless plug - my co-founder and I are working on a somewhat similar tool called [Foundry](https://foundryapp.co). It automatically creates a development environment for you that is a copy of your production environment. You also get access to a copy of your production data and real-time feedback through our REPL tool - we evaluate your code every time you save a file and send you back the output.

So far we support Firebase and their Firestore, RealtimeDB, and Cloud Functions. In action, the development with Foundry looks like this:

- (1) Start Foundry session in your terminal

- (2) Specify a slice of your production Firestore/RealtimeDB we should copy for you

- (3) Specify what Cloud Functions we should trigger for you and with what data

- (4) Every time you save your code we trigger those functions as you specified and send you back the output

Every development environment is created for each developer separately on the fly (it takes less than 30seconds to have your environment ready). You don't have to wait minutes for your Cloud Functions to get deployed. You get a response usually in just a few seconds.

We are also working on a new feature that will make it possible to have one "master" always-online environment that is publicly accessible.
Active Learning: Speed up training data cycles with uncertainty sampling
Why would the tax people care at all? They are more likely to take your salary from the two jobs, add them up, and charge taxes on the results.

Where I work, a side job is legit (with the obvious caveats, of course!)
I agree with that PRs are a foreign concept — but branchs and cloning is text that almost always appear on introductory git tutorials which make them friendlier than the other terms.

I actually just realized that if SourceHut has a site (like git-send-email.io) that explains git that uses the terms ‘ref’ and etc... (so that a git newcomer can build a proper fit mental model), this problem goes away. Not sure if explaining it easily would be possible though.
Maybe he's not as as mellifluous as that, but here's a recording Mitch Bradley singing the Open Firmware theme song! But at least he's more mellifluous than Richard Stallman singing the Free Software song.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844026

That same Open Firmware Forth system [1], which was developed by Mitch Bradley [2], was not only in the PowerPC Mac bios, but it was originally used for the SparcStation boot roms, and eventually in the OLPC, and it was even an IEEE Standard 1275-1994!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Bradley

In fact: the Open Firmware boot loader and plug-in card firmware interface technology, commonly used by both Sun and Apple, is the only firmware standard in existence to have its own theme song [3] !!!

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20070204145613/http://playground...

: OpenFirmwareSong ( - )
\ By Mitch Bradley.
\ Sung to the tune of "The Flintstones".
𝄞
." Firmware" cr
." Open Firmware" cr
." It's the appropriate technology," cr
." Features" cr
." FCode booting" cr
." Hierarchical DevInfo tree." cr
." Hack Forth" cr
." Using Emacs on the keys," cr
." Save in" cr
." NVRAM if you please." cr
𝄒 cr
." With your" cr
." Open Firmware" cr
." You can fix the bugs in no time" cr
." Bring the kernel up in no time" cr
." We'll have an FCode time!" cr
𝄒 cr
\ Thank you and good night!
reboot
;
I wish i had the option of turning off the ML autocorrect since it sucks but leave some basic features. Google is always all or nothing, it's fucking stupid. Like, i have to turn on my location history to give my wife my location in Google maps, no thanks, but it would be nice to share with her without that privacy busting crap.
> Rule of 3 in conversation. To get to the real reason, ask a person to go deeper than what they just said. Then again, and once more. The third time’s answer is close to the truth.

This is one where I see how it can be very helpful, but I don't have the first clue on how to go about it. Simply asking to "go deeper" is often met with a "what?"

> Before you are old, attend as many funerals as you can bear, and listen. Nobody talks about the departed’s achievements. The only thing people will remember is what kind of person you were while you were achieving.

This one might be true for funerals, but definitely not for obituaries.

> Art is in what you leave out.

As an aspiring writer of fiction, this was the only one I could not understand at all, yet really, really wish I did.

> You really don’t want to be famous. Read the biography of any famous person.

True, but I believe there's a difference between "fame" and "distinction". Striving for the latter might not be all that bad.
Filmmaker: Can't be moon landings were faked. We couldn't make cameras lie yet
But peter, don't be fooled, those are not pairs, that's a seq!
I’ll go one further: tell your friends, family, and people that you see donating free content to censorship platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube that they are harming society by doing so.

It will eventually be a matter of life and death. We can’t wait to respond until then.

https://sneak.berlin/20200421/normalcy-bias/
To my mind, "poised" in this context is roughly synonymous with "ready". If the official position of the project is "don't use it yet" then it's not ready yet.

The future implied is the completion of the action one is ready for, not further work of preparation for that action.

Your take may, of course, differ.
This is barely fascism. This is the logical conclusion of capitalism.
I think you misunderstand qppo. Their main point is noting the privacy-exploiting dark patterns of the forbes website. This point is a relevant response to OP because it is about privacy.
Thanks for early warning. Will have to keep that in mind.
Yep, that's the bit I was missing. I think a lot of us just buy pre-ground so it's important to make that point.

It probably explains why I pour a few tablespoons of cumin in everything (apart from it being great).
> Why should Google be required to host data for an enemy state?

For the same reason the telephone company isn’t allowed to arbitrarily cancel your phone service based on who you choose to call with it.

> YouTube's policies reflect mainstream social mores.

This is precisely the problem. Before, the bar to be silenced was the law; now the bar to be silenced is arbitrary application of “mainstream social mores”. Surely you see the problem there? Have you never derived benefit from media
or creative works that fall outside of “mainstream social mores”?

Even if you haven’t, YouTube’s been deleting videos of war crimes in Syria, making it harder for investigators to track them down and document them. How’s that for “mainstream
social mores”?
On a side note, on Firefox Android the page here freezes for about 10 or 15 seconds while loading. It's really annoying.
Molecular switch plays crucial role in learning from negative experiences
Our redis guys do that as well, but it has ran out of memory on big days. Couldn't pop out of it fast enough I guess.
The curve is beyond flat. It's trending down. The refrain was "flatten", and we've decimated the workforce in order to overshoot the mark.
So i'm a new dev and we have a system like this at work, I had kind of assumed it was standard in the industry but clearly, considering the replies that is not the case. You can check it out here:

http://runbot.odoo.com

(it's an internal tool, don't look for a pricing page)
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There's probably 10s of thousands of crackpots making documentaries full of falsehoods out there that all sorts of "platforms" choose not to air - is that wrong too? Should we give equal airtime to each individual regardless of the merits of their ideas?
> I think we should favor manpages over Stack Overflow, documentation over Google

these are not really comparable things. I definitely don't think that Stack Overflow should replace man pages, but I still find Stack Overflow valuable. It's value is in finding how someone else solved a problem similar to the one you had, or where you go to ask other developers for help when the your attempt at finding the needed information in the documentation has failed.
Off-handedly casting Google and Apple in the same lot with CPC sponsored phone companies is absurd.