skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Staff at the local hospital in tiny Madill, Oklahoma, called the police in the early evening of March 24, 2011, for help giving Johnny Leija an injection to calm him.

I don't want to jump to defend the cops, but you bring up a point that jibes with my suspicion. Just look at that opening sentence to the article. Don't you suspect understatement there? Hospital staff deal all the time with patients who are upset because they're having trouble breathing, which is what I'm guessing someone who comes in sick from a week with pneumonia might exhibit. I'm quite sure calling the cops isn't their go-to protocol. So, if it came to their wanting to give him an injection "to calm him," I think responsible journalism would have tried to get a better picture of exactly what an "un-calm" Mr. Leija was like. I doubt he looked like he did in the first 7 seconds of that video.

That said, I am of a mind to believe that cops escalate too often, when they could deescalate if they tried. The bottom line is, if you ask me, there is more to this story.
How are you going to question a Twitch employee but not someone making the absurd claim that "most of the big streamers got to where they are by view botting"?

The bigger streamers that weren't already famous have had followings for many years, going from few viewers to the thousands they get now. Saying most of them view botted is pretty wild. I'd love to see some actual evidence..
Proper attitude. I run radio based streams. That means I always have to work with 100% concentration on _mixer_ / twitch. Even though I leave the metrics on, the work is always done for a (fictional) audience, otherwise the quality of my recording suffers (I record all my live session with audacity)

I stream for artistic expression, BTW so an audience or not matters little
Comment widgets like Disqus. You log into one once and you have your account on any website that embeds this widget. Of course, the tradeoff is that now Disqus can track the hell out of you.
Perhaps the then isn't a typo and the message is that this router is 50 times faster but not very useful so THEN you use laravel.
...but it's not a website. It doesn't list 10 cars, 1 family photo and the address on the footer.
Actually funny. Thanks!
You literally said it's just a guess. It's not. It's a scientific method of estimation which has known expectations of accuracy, and when done right, has a track-record of being able to provide reasonable approximations. Saying it's 'just a guess' implies something very different for which you are rightly downvoted.

Second, explaining the basics of random sampling by saying what applies to you, did not happen to apply to your friends/family, implies you have no understanding of the concept of random sampling either. There is absolutely no requirement for your situation to be the same as your friends/family to make this method useful, but by posting it as an argument, you imply that this does matter. For this, your post is also rightly downvoted.

As for 'static data', it's a sample to provide insight in a snapshot in time. It doesn't claim to be anything but static. It does exactly what it sets out to do.
Why America Can Make Semiconductors but Not Swabs
it is yahoo from the 90s

https://cdn.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/...

Nothing new under the sun
The lockdown isn't causing the economic crisis, the pandemic is. The economy would grind to a halt anyway without lockdown measures if the pandemic were spreading unchecked and a million [1] people were dying in the space of a few months. Everyone would be barricading themselves in their homes and not going out to restaurants and movie theaters.

[1] (70% infected to get herd immunity * 0.5% fatality rate * 330 million people = >1 million people).
The Frollo effect?

judge Claude Frollo longed to purge the world of vice and sin /
and he saw corruption everywhere, except within.
Personally I love it. Even when it doesn't work, I am happy to see the experimentation. Not everything has to fit my usual forms of consumption.

For those who don't like it, a normal article is just a keyboard shortcut away...
I've thought about how a hive would manage, but I suspect there are other weaknesses a hive would have that would come to light pretty quickly (you know besides lack of free will, and extinction from depression or lack of motivation). We probably need something new, but seem unable to experiment quickly with new ideas.
> as little as possible

I just opened FB with the cache disabled and it downloaded 5.85MB (19.76MB uncompressed).

Most of it happens after the page has rendered, which is great, but that's a lot of stuff. There are 13.74MB of uncompressed JavaScript.
Your “point” was to be an asshole, and congratulations you’ve now succeeded twice.
Did they fix the "back" button? (I.e. if you click a link in the middle of a feed, then "back", do you get back at the same position in the feed?)
little hyperbolic and a tad too smug I think. I believe history will be a little kinder, all things considered.
Always have to give a low enough lower bound and high enough upper bound that your estimates are correct!
I've been using the new Facebook and the interface is even slower than before. It also feels (may not actually be) less information-dense, forcing me to interact with the page more to see the same information, compounding the problem.

This is on a i7 laptop.
Just wanted to point out you might’ve pasted the wrong snippet, which is about eBay’s policies.
In my experience light mode will work fine on things like e-paper displays, but when you have an emissive or transmissive display the bright light can be straining.

I also feel like dark mode highlights text more, making it easier to identify the text. If I use light mode in text editors I get completely lost very quickly.
And if one insists on comparing, Intel 10nm is kind of TSMC 7nm. However Intel only manages to make a few of their laptop parts with their 10nm, and with not great frequencies IIRC. So they are behind now.
> Anyone who doesn't isn't thought of as any better...

Not until proven innocent, no. We need hardware and software we can inspect, that's not an unattainable goal.

It may seem far away, but any other direction is even worse... so I'd rather head towards a goal that is far away than into a wilderness that is just as far away, but boring and empty at best, terrible at worst.
> Complaining about being downvoted is also not really good HN form.

True, and I generally try to avoid it. But sometimes pique gets the better of us.

> who don't agree with you philosophically

That's a pretty big leap you made. I tried (and continue to try) to keep my philosophy from being the focus of my comments. Perhaps you might be surprised to find yourself to my right, you never know.

As to whether the comment was broad and reductionist, who knows, it was a short comment on a huge topic on a niche web site. I wasn't trying to have a formal debate :). It also sounds like you took the comment a lot more personally than I ever intended.
Linux software RAID resync speed limits are too low for SSDs
With big companies should we (as in the world) not be singling out the actual people who make the shitty decisions in these big organisations. From the previous thread I got the impression that not all Amazon warehouses are equal. I have been in corporate companies where senior management make really rubbish decisions and hide behind the PR company releases. In the end it reflects badly on the whole company but it really is a few bad apples. Disclaimer I know nothing about how the whole PR world works.
From what I've seen, the decline in Swedish education started with moving primary education from centralised state control and funding to municipal control and (significantly less) funding.

Then accelerated with removing national testing, removal of grading of younger kids, removal of the centralised bell curve grading, the "friskola" reform.

Each change is visible in general statistics from the early exams in the university programs if you look at statistics going back to the 60s.
Oh wow, who would have thought weak labor protection laws and no unions would end up reproducing exactly the same conditions that lead to labor protection laws and unions?

I'm shocked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
I am not sure you put much thought into this. A life's worth is not infinite, so there must be some value associated with it. If the cost of doing something exceeds the values of the lives it is saving it is prudent to stop doing it. This is not unique to COVID-19, choices like this are made every day. We could prevent a lot of deaths by limiting the speed limit to 15 mph, but we don't because we value quicker transport more than those lives lost.

Also poverty lowers life expectancy. If we are not careful about how and when we open the economy back up, we can cost the hundreds of millions of people months to years off their lives. This has to be weighed against the amount of lives that are being saved right now.
No, you overlooked the "verified/unverified transactions".
I couldn’t agree more.

The COVID discussions have been the single most frustrating experience for me on HN since I joined. Ever single comment I’ve made downvoted, even accused of contributing to millions of deaths (an account which was thankfully banned for making the remark).

It’s only in the last week or two that it’s started to become remotely possible to have intellectual discussions on COVID, but it’s still overwhelmingly politicized and unscientific.
Too big to fail. I mean any other smaller streamer would have long been permabanned for all the nazi and misogynistic stuffs he did
I wish you'd done the trim work in my new house, then. Seems like these guys did it as quickly as they possibly could and then did their best RoadRunner impression.
Github returns:

> There isn’t anything to compare. We couldn’t figure out how to compare these references, do they point to valid commits?

It's because HN parsed the right angle bracket as part of the URL, so Github is looking for the branch/tag "v2.3.0>", which doesn't exist.

Same issue with your other link. snyk.io returns:

> Invalid vulnerability. This vulnerability does not exist.

The correct links are:

https://github.com/nodemailer/mailparser/compare/v2.2.0..v2....

and

https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:mailparser:20180625
It’s true that some animals can digest plants that we can’t digest. But there is plenty of evidence that humans can live perfectly well on a plant based diet if they eat the right plants . It’s not necessary to eat meat for getting nutrients.
Xxh – bring your favorite shell wherever you go through SSH
I feel a lot of people are missing the point of self-hosting here. Do we really want to run everything under the sun in three big cloud providers?
> but it may be necessary to eat some meat to get nutrients you wouldn't otherwise get from plants.

It is not necessary to eat meat.
Interesting to hear. I haven't gotten the new interface yet, so time will tell.

I think we need to shift back to 4:3 displays. Widescreen is great for consuming content, but we lose so much vertical space.
Quite sincerely, it's a total failure. I got the chance to try the new interface, and it's so slow that it's barely usable. It's even slower than the old website, that was already painfully slow.

Loading a random profile takes 8 seconds. Opening a messenger discussion takes 6 seconds. It reminds me of the new Reddit website. Facebook was more enjoyable to use 12 years ago.

It's really sad that in 2020, 10k+ engineers can't make a photo, video, post and message sharing website that is not a pain to use. We collectively failed as a profession. If one needs 2MB of CSS for such a website, there is clearly a problem.
Not sure of the status, but there is a project to get WebGPU working as a backend for OpenCV.js https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#53528827207352...
>Speaking as one who never was in any danger of voting for Trump, what would be my alternative? The warhawk spouse of a womanizing politician I tired of 20 years ago? OW, same shit, different decade?

Yes, between the "warhawk" with eight years of ancillary experience in the White House, who served in the Senate and as Secretary of State, and the reality tv show host whose only political experience was failing at a previous presidential run, the former was still the most viable candidate for the job, even though her husband got a blowjob that one time.
How does one find a trim carpenter (or any skilled tradesman) who has this level of attention to detail? There's definitely two tiers of work, someone who cares and work good enough for a rental unit, and you have no idea what you're going to get until it's done.
Pitch of the wing is NOT responsible for lift
If it was, planes wouldn't fly upside down. There is another factor which is what gives EVERY planes its lift, and that is THE CHARGE FIELD.
Miles Mathis is a mathematical and physics, as well as quantum physics genius, who has written papers which have revolutionized these fields. As a result, of course, he's been called everything in the book by mainstream scientists, who are at the same time furiously studying his papers.
Whose facts they cannot dispute.
Miles will someday be recognized, but not by this science religion.
mileswmathis.com
I prefer outlets that do their very best to attempt to remain impartial and present a "just the facts and all the facts please" view, even if we all know it's not 100% achievable.

I agree with you, this article is not that. If you listen to any economist, healthcare provider, or logistics expert, they will all tell you that this was the prudent choice given the worst-case tail scenario, and that this resource is one that has continuing value for some time.

But this article takes all that information and manages to paint that information in a negative light. It is "an opinion of the author" piece that even manages to express the opposite opinion FROM the expert opinions it reports.
> That SARS-CoV-2 was in our environment for months longer than thought, that 20% or more of Americans may already have antibodies

It's generally a good habit to do a little bit of simple arithmetic to see if the claims you are making pass a basic sanity check. If 20% of Americans already have antibodies, then how come NYC has 10x as many deaths per capita as the rest of the country? Did 200% of New Yorkers get infected?
Are these freelancer rates or bill rates to clients? Usually there's at least a 20% margin added to bill rates by agencies.
Facebook rendered just fine a decade ago. What changed between now and then, in terms of actual improvement to end user experience, to make it so slow this kind of crap is needed?

My guess is:

- Desire to offload more processing to end user machines to save compute

- More and more ads and user analytics in order to pick which ads to show

- More engineers that irrationally hate the simplicity of PHP

Duct tape on top of abstractions on top of duct tape in order to make a document platform behave like an application platform. Isn't it time to just replace web browsers with something that doesn't suck?
take a picture of the driver and compare against ID photos later? for most vehicles, the set of possible drivers on a particular day is not large. it doesn't have to be perfect, just enough to make the charge stick a good chunk of the time.
Good points about engaging in this work has changed the ways the author both thinks and feels about the landscape and ecosystem.

We've been learning about permaculture (old school Holzer, Mollison, Hemenway style) and small-scale homesteading for about 8 yrs now. Started from nearly scratch, in terms of practical gardening.

Every bit of work I've done with bees (solitary mason bees) and other permaculture (garden, orchard, efficient irrigation solutions, swaling, synergistic plantings, etc) has been fascinating.

The permaculture philosophy itself is more broadly-applicable than agriculture, in terms of a systems based view, but a lot of the practical instantiations are in ag, heating, irrigation, animal husbandry, etc. There's a lot on offer for many people who would be attracted to HN. E.g. looking at the thermodynamic aspects of siting water tanks, passive solar, masonry stoves, etc (physics and biomed background b4 software). Cost-wise and energetically a lot more scalable than widely existing solutions.

Also improved my perceptive ability and appreciation for natural surroundings and different human landscapes.

Anyhow, I'll get down off my soapbox now, but it's been a surprisingly rich vein of practical innovation and fun.

If you're curious, check out "Gaia's Garden" by Hemenway or one of Bill Mollison's books (former in Portland, so small yards, latter doing more wide-reaching stuff in Australia and developing nations).
I've got a big text file of 6502 machine code I wrote a few years back that I pull out and marvel at from time to time. One of those things that you have to be fully in the "zone" to pull off, so it seems like magic to present-day me.
Rights are a commodity in the US, you just buy them like orange futures or oil tankers.
Install Dat protocol support in Firefox
My big hope is that technology will evolve to a point where we don’t need physical bodies anymore and pretty much live in cyberspace.
Actually in a relative sense the pandemic clearly helps Intel.

Their problem right now is that they have an inferior process and their high margin datacenter parts[1] are in critical danger of facing competition from devices fabbed by TSMC and (to a lesser extent) Samsung.

Their offerings in the market now, though, are still winning and Intel is making a ton of money.

So the net effect of a downturn is that the future market, the one where AMD is competetive and Intel needs to drop prices, is going to shrink in total dollars. That's a win for Intel, comparatively. It means the window into which AMD could have jumped to steal revenue is smaller, and Intel has more time to catch up.

[1] Remember that most of the money in the CPU industry is made in the datacenter. AMD having better desktop parts doesn't affect Intel's bottom line much as long as they remain competitive in servers. (AMD still lags with laptop devices too, which are also a bigger market than desktops).
Sweden’s Relaxed Approach to Covid-19 Isn’t Working
Looking at the systems on existing jets that have been successful and not, it should be obvious that this is a very bad idea.

Kudos to the sales team that got this to happen though!
Thanks, that's very interesting. Appreciated.
Lecture-style, didactic teaching is significantly better than conversational/Socratic teaching in most circumstances. I assume Finland’s new approach will perform similarly to the conversational style, which is to say poorly.

Students can get the best of both worlds if:

1. Students get the best didactic instruction for any given subject (supplementing your Calculus class with videos from the best online Calculus class can help achieve “best” here, in lieu of a really good teacher - hybrid online+in-person teaching can also be formalized as the default approach).

2. Students can be fast tracked to higher level classes if they are fast learners (with no formal limit on how high they can go)

3. There is no limit on the number of classes students can take and get credit for. Simultaneous with in-person instruction, they can take federally funded online classes that they get grades and credit for. Ideally, enrollment for the online classes should be on a rolling basis. If a student wants to start a new class at the beginning of November and spend each holiday break bashing out an online Intro to Python class that they’ve been itching to take, let them, and give them the resources they need between those breaks to solidify their learning.
It's simple. They are being classified as covid. https://imgur.com/a/spXA4q8
> Now you have to figure out how to run a CI on a build server. Deployment on your production systems, be it containers or even not. Monitoring, alerting, profiling, tuning under load. You have to support a new database connection library with new shenanigans.

Most if not all of those items are either trivial or non-issues.

In fact, I would argue that deploying a Python app is a far more convoluted process than getting an ASP.NET Core app up and running.

With Docker, the problem simply disappears.

Getting it to build and test on a CICD pipeline is as hard as typing $ dotnet build, or $ dotnet test.

> All of that is possible, sure.

Not only it is possible, it's laughably easy.

We are supposed to avoid our problems, not perpetuate and aggravate them as eternum because we are too lazy to look for ways to make our life easier.
That changes nothing about it being a TOS violation.

I don't particularly agree with it, but thats what it is.
The Yahoo I knew and loved from the 90s manifested as a web directory:

https://www.ttcs.tt/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/screenshot-of...
The 2MB of CSS is needed to justify that headcount.
Why on earth would someone talk to their doctor with such a product?
> the features of X that almost nobody used (X forwarding, for example).

Plenty of people use this all the time. It's probably the single best thing about X.
Facebook used to be reference for speed and usability

On web, for a while. Remember when Facebook's iPhone app came out, it was a disaster. It was so slow, I could open the app, then take the elevator down to the basement of my building, drop off some outgoing mail, and return to my apartment before it finished updating the news feed. It was legendary in its time for its slowness.

At first, nobody complained because there weren't a lot of "apps" available. But then all the other apps came out, and everyone complained for years that all the other app-building companies could build responsive apps, but Facebook couldn't.

Then one day Facebook updated its app and it was a little better. Then another update came and it was good enough, and everyone stopped complaining and forgot.

Last day I entered again for curiosity. It's so sad. Strange interface, slow, unresponsive. It's sad.

I only use Facebook once a week, to update the page for a web site I manage. It is terribly slow on web. On both of the computers I use it on, loading the first page takes upwards of 15 seconds. Clicking on the text field to enter a new post takes eight to ten seconds for the editor to load.

I don't know how people who are addicted to Facebook manage to use it so much without going mad.
It never occurred to me that this could be the reason for dark mode blurriness, but it makes sense intuitively. (Think you mean "constricts" rather than "dilates" though.)
Is it also not the case that if you're not looking for work, but do not have a job, that you're not counted as unemployed? You're simply not part of the labour force, despite perhaps being willing and able to work in more favourable economic conditions.

This is at least the international labour organisation (ILO) definition.[0]

This is always a bit tricky as it means that when people are discouraged from finding work (e.g. because it is hopeless and they cannot find a job) and stop searching, that they fall outside the unemployment figures. This undervalues true unemployment a bit.

This may help explain some of the discrepancies in the statistics.

[0] https://www.ilo.org/ilostat-files/Documents/description_UR_E...
Agent-Based Modeling Will Unleash a New Paradigm of Machine Learning
You might find this article on "Adjustment Reactions: The Teachable Moment in Crisis Communication" [0] (1/17/05) interesting. I found out about it through the peak prosperity daily COVID-19 updates [1] back in mid-March.

[0] https://www.psandman.com/col/teachable.htm

[1] https://youtu.be/ogf6Hru2trE?list=PLRgTUN1zz_oeQpnJxpeaEkFim... (queued up to when he talks about this article)