skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a lie. When God created everything, he made it seem it was older.
A man who fought in WWII for 29 years
On top of that, somewhere around 20% of the "common cold" viruses are coronaviruses.
Wrong. Telling people how to find people who will share copyrighted content isn't copyright infringement. Sharing copyrighted content is copyright infringement. It's a rather obvious difference. In either case, I side against the copyright owner.
Well there was the contempt of court and all with Bill Clinton…
If you're talking about Freakonomic's episode with him then it's widely considered to be the worst episode in the podcast. Just read the comments: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/ajit-pai/

He does uses simpleton sort of language and pretends to be friendly neighbour but if you pay at least a little bit of attention then it's just full of lies, diversions and every possible argumenting fallacy.

People were actually really upset with the host for allowing this.
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas. A gigantic nuclear furnace.
And an archived copy of the repo: https://web.archive.org/web/20200411155357/https://github.co...
One other aside, I'm often reminded of:

There's a saying "Those who can't do, teach."

I think, on the contrary, a good teacher has to not only be an expert on a topic, but has to poke and prod it further, then distill everything about it down to the essentials to turn it into teachable lessons.

Anyways, I figure that I have a certain amount of knowledge in my head. It would be nice if I could spread that knowledge as far and wide as possible, since that could ignite a bit more passion for good software and solid automation in others.
Thanks, I just learned about PopCornTime and will tell people about it
This piece is kind of fluffy, I don't see why it's on the front page. Not particularly insightful.

From my experience, Filipino's speaking English as a second language generally have difficulty fitting in with Western culture when working remotely. This requires extra communication and emphasis on expectations to get everyone on the same sheet of music. Clearer explanations are required than with native English speakers.

One example in the text. The OP misinterprets the Basecamp message that 5 people in a room for an hour is a 5 hour meeting rather than a 1 hour meeting.

> Had the Meeting Organizer took notes from the Very Important Meeting, three hours would be saved.

No, it's a 5 hour meeting because there are 5 people in the room. If you have a billable project which 5 people each put an hour into, you bill 5 hours for that project.

Writing for communication is different than writing documentation. Communication centered around meetings is different than asynchronous communication. The OP is bundling all these things together in one post.

A good portion of the article is on how to write well. This is how you write an essay, not how you talk to people.

My two quick points shooting from the hip...

1. Every group you need to collaborate with is different. By "group" I'm including situations where the group might just be a single boss or client. Your job is to adjust to the communication style of that group. Some groups like to communicate in fragmented "texting" speech. Some groups communicate in perfect English. Best to adjust or you won't get much further than that.

2. Be authentic. Write like you speak. Start out speaking like you would to any person you might encounter in public. Then you can adjust based on the group. If you're trying to appear as someone you aren't, people will see through you quickly and you'll look silly. It's also refreshing to be speaking to regular people. If you have deficiencies, let them out so that people can help.
But those tourists are long back home so their numbers are not showing up in the stats of Vegas itself.
> If you're young, strong, and healthy, your chances of dying from this are basically zero in any common sense way

There are zero longitudinal studies about the long-term effects of infection. For all we know, young healthy people could appear to beat the virus, only for it to hide out and plague you with severe health problems down the road. We could have an massive epidemic of a neurodegenerative disease caused by Covid-19 twenty years from now.

I have no desire to roll the dice on that even if the odds look good for me at the moment.
The smart ones are playing the arbitrage game, by living in an RV and keeping costs down.
I do think it makes sense (as, well, majority of people don’t use it to get free videos about how to install Linux), but it’s very very tricky balance, and each time they’re being pushed there should be a lot of discussion and scrutiny.

Compare that to gun rights discussion. Apps like popcorntime are similar to assault weapons - cool tech, but not much legit legal reason for an average joe to own it. And they both make illegal activity much, much easier.

Note - before someone says that I equal downloading movie to killing people. I don’t, but framework of legal thinking is similar.
Unboxing Apple's 700 Dollar Wheels
I would need to see some sources on “They come from particular schools, live in particular cities...”

Even if this were true, (which I’m highly skeptical of) why would this even a bad thing? I mean, if we’re talking about elite papers such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Washington Post, etc.. it wouldn’t shock me at all to hear a number of them went to elite universities – a number elite doctors likely come from difficult medical schools.

I’m also not convinced “they” all share the same beliefs, not convinced of this at all. I mean, if you want to declare that media sources who prefer the Democratic party exist, sure but for every single one of those there’s at least one Fox “news” equivalent. The simple fact of their existence doesn’t mean certain people have a monopoly on information. This argument would be as ridiculous as when people in 2017 were screeching (US) liberals run the world all while the president, both congressional houses, and the supreme court were conservative... the concern wasn’t based in reality, at all, and it’s the same with their panicky “liberal news” conspiracies, I see no evidence which shows conservatives voices aren’t being heard, none.

Anyway, I’m dubious about the idea that almost all news people come from the same class, same schools, and same cities. Unless you’re simply saying elite journalists come from the best journalism schools, at which point it shouldn’t really surprise anyone.
looks like its only the desktop version, which is available on wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20200411155357/https://github.co...
I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple and Amazon join in to these kinds of things soon as well :/
Wrestling seems to have done well enough. Maybe that's the future for other 'sports' too.
No, he shouldn't. What would be the point? We don't even know if having had it grants future immunity.

But beyond that, this trend I've seen of people thinking they had it because they had the sniffles is dangerous if it makes them think they're now somehow safe.

If we learn that people who've had it have resistance then we should all get tested, capacity allowing.

Having had a cold at some point is almost irrelevant, because it seems that most carriers are asymptomatic, and that most people with mild covid19-like symptoms don't actually have it. The predictive value really isn't that high.
Is this an actual, full archive?
I'm curious to know whether platforms ever even bother to evaluate takedowns, beyond the most basic fact-checking (e.g. the item to be taken down is spelled properly). It seems like one of those cases where the risk of getting it wrong outweighs the benefit of trying to discriminate between good and bad requests.
This is why I regularly back up my github repos (via git clone --bare, then compress and archive). Mind you, I do nothing that even comes close to piracy, and the vast majority most of my repos are private, but it's a nightmare scenario to have your third party dictate when you have access to your source code and pop up surprises like this, whether by having some asshole try to extort you, or by the git repo having a data disaster with your repo.
I have strong convictions about business communication.

Efficiency is key.

Every character is one brain processing unit.

Time is all we have.

Agreed.
Yep that’s the one. Like I said, he gets away with sounding like he cares.
Require isn't exactly the right word. If they don't they lose the DMCA safe harbor. If it's really obviously not an infringement there isn't much harm in that.

This is the reason that you can't use weak (or even unambiguous!) copyright infringement to take down popular sites-- their hosts will just forego the safe harbor, perhaps in exchange for indemnification.

Private parties? No such luck.
You can have multiple Git remotes or none at all. Unlike torrents it doesn’t help you with discovery of peers with mirrors, but other than that there’s probably a hundred copies of this repository sitting on people’s hard drives.
Show HN: I trained GPT-2 to write like Goop
Note that I did post about it twice (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22589339 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22743353) in the past, when the promo was ongoing, and those posts didn't front page.

And I admit, it's not just "make something free and sales go up"—I've probably spent more time during this lockdown working on tying together social media + YouTube videos + book marketing, once I noticed the uptake on the free offer.

The strangest thing to me? The 'ignition point' for going from a few hundred to multiple thousand copies of the book being given away in just a few hours was a LinkedIn post that was shared pretty heavily.

LinkedIn... seriously!
> Vegas also doesn't have a subway system, which was cited as why it spread so rapidly in NY.

There's no real evidence to support the thesis that the MTA was a primary vector of spread in NYC. Granular data of infection rate by neighborhood is spotty, but the data that does exist doesn't show any clear trends towards increased infection rates nearer subway lines. And the borough with the highest infection rate is the borough with the least transit ridership, and the borough with the lowest infection rate is that with the highest transit ridership...

(Source cite: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2020/04/15/the-subway-is-...).
My experience in therapy mostly focused on taking responsibility for my emotions. Usually the therapist would ask what was on my mind, and I would talk for a little while about the usually stuff that makes programmers sad. He would then guide the conversation to show how I could take responsibility not for the situation, but for my emotional response. At least that was my take away, I can’t say for sure that was his goal.

Do I think that your therapist would judge you for your problems? Absolutely not, if they are even an OK therapist. They are professionals, and are not trying to be your friend.

Another thing. The first therapist I went to sucked. She had me doing worksheets and other stuff that just didn’t work for me. I ended up switching (my wife made me switch) to a new therapist and it was a huge difference. If you do end up trying therapy, remember that this is a professional situation. You wouldn’t go to the same bad sandwich shop for lunch every day. If your therapist isn’t working for you, and you have given them a honest try, just switch therapists.

Ultimately, therapy was a leap of faith that I’m glad I took.
By that logic, Google is aiding infringement.
I'm skeptical that the total amount charged would be the same if it were mandatory. I mean, consider backup cameras on cars. Do they cost the same after being required as when they were luxury options?

That is, doesn't price discrimination generally allow companies to extract more money overall? And in this case it's contrary to public welfare.
I can't contribute a lot; I'm not a programmer, and I've never started a company. Though I've always loved tech, I guess I was never that idealistic about anything. I've ridden the IPO bandwagon, done the acquisition thing, done the bigcorp thing. I've been "in the industry" for 25 years and I guess I've burned out a few times, but usually it was about the company I worked for and team I worked on at the time.

It doesn't sound like the poster's complaints are anything tech-specific, just that (s)he chose to deploy their optimism in the general direction of the tech industry, and can't deal with the fact that the industry just doesn't work in an altogether idealistic, altruistic manner. I question whether their subsequent employment is truly "better" in those regards, or if their standards are merely lower/more cynical.

I don't know how to say "don't have expectations that high" in a way that's any more useful than telling a depressed person to "stop being depressed", but while I can see WHY they've burned out, I just can't come up with a "solution".
About #6: Measure each bear and write it down, but also takes photos, preferably the three bears in the same photo with a ruler and a coin for scale. For bonus points do this each hour.

I don't like that the recipe is too loose with the concentration of the salt. I tried to look at the numbers an 1 tablespoon is not enough to get a saturated solution. (I need 5 in my approximate calculations.) I'd prefer to use a saturated solution, because it's better to reproduce the result. It may be too much for the bear. (The saturation level changes with temperature, but let's ignore that.)
Why not? I live with three other people. Surely we can sit together, given that we're already spending 24/7 in the same house?
> I feel like as a society we've swung so far away from institutional trust that now nothing good can actually emerge.

You frame that like society itself or the people that make up society are somehow at fault. Perhaps the issue is that elements of society like Apple have taken actions or have failed to take actions which would have engendered the sort of reaction that you would prefer to see.

If Apple wants my trust they need to earn it.

Why should I give Apple my trust again after being burned by them repeatedly?

Does Apple even trust me?
They are required to wait 10 days, or that's just their minimum timeframe?
A "few weeks on the ICU"? Oh come on, that's melodramatic for the great bulk of the cases if you are healthy. You aren't going to spend "weeks" on a ICU, believe me.

self-infect and self-quarantine, so you won't accidentally spread it to the immune repressed or grandma or whatever. Not only is this not "unconsciounable", I think the opposite. I have great respect for people who put themselves out of their way to protect other, less fortunate people.
I received bogus DMCA complaints (over Big Buck Bunny, lol, multiple times), and Google stonewalled me when I tried to find out the identity of the complainant so that I could litigate against them.

I expect situations like that contribute to the lack of response, along with the fact that providers often ignore DMCA complaints or put things back up without following the statutory takedown period.
Live sports has been the last gasp of cable TV bundles for so long now. It's frankly astonishing that more people haven't cancelled en masse. Or maybe they have and earnings haven't been released yet.

And good riddance. I look forward to being able to stream individual games on demand.
Your friend probably signed up for 3x years.

Also I use magnet links to download drivers and OS’s all the time. It’s not illegal, although it could be used as such - at least the same way a website can. Shall we start DCMAing chromium or Firefox? Obviously, you can use the web browser for nefarious purposes.
People coughing or running a fever should be at home in fourteen-day quarantine, not flying on a plane, masked or otherwise.
Let's sail the high seas matey!

https://github.com/Igglybuff/awesome-piracy
Yes, I can. They should do their job of vetting the apps. They have a disclaimer that it will take 7 days then they just reject it for being tangentially related to Covid even if it could have a positive impact.
Breakfast and lunch is ok, once you start talking "free dinner" it gets suspicious. Also, there is a huge problem where the "young" never truly become adults and learn some life skills. I quite enjoy making a meal, while I work my way through a nice craft cocktail, while there is a good track playing in the background. I zealously guard my time after work for sports, hobbies and for people near and dear to me.
Apple complies with warrants, yes. Do you think they should not?
>A required retraction is not much of a legal sanction.

It gives somewhat of a hint about the nature of the settlement, which in most cases is private. There do seem to be a decent number of settlements; my guess is the most egregious cases all settle, and the ones that move forward are harder to win.
From the Gita (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita) to help you :

Karmanye vadhika raste, Ma phaleshu kadachana
Ma karma phala he tur bhuh, ma te sangotsva karmanye

You have a right to “Karma” (actions) but never to any Fruits thereof. You should never be motivated by the results of your actions, nor should there be any attachment in not doing your prescribed activities.
because apps are generally about getting people to pay for stuff without thinking about it, requiring the CVV will likely have a noticable impact on sales
Everyone is going to catch this. A vaccine will not exist for another year. The world can’t be shut down for another year. When everyone eventually catches this, some will have permanent lung damage. That sucks. Pretending this isn’t going to happen is foolish.
The point behind civil disobedience is that you knowingly break the law because you both believe the law is absurd AND you’re prepared to accept the legal consequences in the hope that society will look on your example as the punishment not being appropriate and change the law.
They’ll go after those too later, but that’s a manual process.
You're right that's a fair question. My comment was trying to highlight the robustness of the system more than uptime being a good metric for quality. By that I mean that I didn't _have_ to reboot to keep the system healthy enough to stay alive. That's unfortunately not the case of some other hardware I deal with.

For my Pi I regularly update without a reboot, but that might not be enough for kernel updates. I will look more into it.
Hey HN -- I had a slow weekend and built this thing. It's a little game that displays a sentence, and you decide if you think an ML model generated it, or if it's an actual quote from Goop.

I fine tuned the model (OpenAI's GPT-2) using Max Woolf's gpt-2-simple and by scraping articles from Goop's "Wellness" section. I generated predictions by feeding it a few words from the opening of actual Goop sentences (not sentences it was trained on) and seeing what it spat out.

There aren't many quotes (something like 25) in it right now, but I can add more easily if people have fun with it.
Predators help prey adapt to an uncertain future
It’s a tool that has the stated purpose of violating copyright and essentially stealing. Even though you could use it for legal purposes, their website specifically says “watch TV shows...”

If the creator isn’t getting paid for you to watch, then it’s theft. Doesn’t matter if it’s stealing bits, or stealing gold. It’s theft. Rationalize all you want, but if the owner of the content is having their content used against their will, then you are violating their rights.

If the code were an ATM pin code cracker, would that be any different? After all, money is just data right? Just bits stored at the bank.

Let’s also stop conflating “open source” with “right to steal.” Completely different things. If you download a pirate movie, that’s theft — it weakens the concept of open source when it gets lumped into the movement for “free” content.

It’s ironic that a lot of open source people love to talk about licenses — while desiring enforcement of those licenses while at the same time arguing that the license to use someone else’s work is fair to violate.
Referring to stack allocation as "static allocation" is just not something I've seen before. I suspect you're simply in error; maybe you misheard someone saying the phrase "stack allocation", or you've been talking to somebody who misheard it that way. You can statically allocate a local variable in C, for example:

static char *err = NULL;

But that specifically does not allocate it on the stack. Both heap allocation and stack allocation are dynamic, not static.

There are things that are a bit more of a gray area in C and Unix and Win32/64 — are "statically allocated" variables of a shared library really statically allocated if they aren't there when the program starts up and they may be at some unexpected address? — but this is not one of them.
Meh, the lung damage was "mild" in the bulk of the cases.
> Github has no discretion in this process

That is absolutely untrue. Github could ignore the notice or put the content back up immediately. If they do so, they may lose the DMCA safe harbor for this complaint-- but if there is no credible infringement, that isn't of much consequence.
I would be careful btw, I remember there being different clones of popcorn time and who knows what you're executing on your computer. There's also SickChill and CouchPotato but I haven't tried them.
Yeah it's really self righteous of an Apple employee compare their employer to the entire international multi decade effort to develop and distribute life saving and civilization changing vaccines.
> Apps like popcorntime are similar to assault weapons

All analogies breakdown under close scrutiny.

What I don't understand is why people contiue to make analogies where none are required.

The arguement against Popcorn Time is simple and straighforward: It is overwhelming used to circumvent copywrite / avoid paying for access to content.

Whether anyone agrees with that argument or not is immaterial to my point: we don't need to compare the arguement against to anything else because its meaning is self-evident.
> Unlikely. Improved estimates (thanks to serological data) for infection fatality rate range from 0.3% to 0.5%.

This seems optimistic. I did the math last week, and 0.2% of New York City had died either from the coronavirus, or from something that was probably the coronavirus. About 21% percent of New York City was testing positive for antibodies. (Both deaths and antibodies are lagging indicators of infection, although a noticeable fraction of the deaths lag by quite a bit.)

That would give us an IFR around 1%. If we needed to have two-thirds of Americans catch the virus to reach herd immunity, that would be about 2 million dead. With any luck, some people are already immune. And as you point out, variation in susceptibility may stop things earlier than that.

The are some nasty side-effects in some percentage of survivors: Impaired breathing and damage from blood clots seem to be two of the most frequently mentioned, and Wuhan is apparently seeing a spike in dialysis patients.

The CDC is predicting 3,000 deaths/day in the US by June 1st. This seems plausible: We'd only need a few other metro areas to have a NYC-style spike.

So far, several countries do seem to be able to control the virus. But at this point, I increasingly fear that the US will not be able to do the same. We don't seem to be able to ramp up testing, and we haven't gotten the infection rate down to the point where contact tracing would work. And significant portions of the US seem to be giving up on control and going for a herd immunity strategy.
You are not wrong, but note that "memory" is not just RAM, it is also the disk space that is needed for swapping pages in and out. So, the required address space you keep referring to is not some cost-less abstraction; rather, it does in fact correspond to some physical bytes - no matter where they reside at a given particular moment, and it looks like the thing does actually need more than 4G of those.