skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Me, I'll run my Freenet nodes in anonymously leased VPS, and access them via Tor.

Some would say that's the way to do everything. But it doesn't exactly make it easy for the average Joe.

And that's kind of the point too. Police behave badly more often when there is a network with 500 people on it because they don't really understand it and nobody is paying attention to anything. But when there are only 500 people on it, the 500 people can all be using five proxies and blockchains and credit default swaps and whatever else.

Meanwhile by the time it's popular enough that Joe wants to use it, it's also popular enough that Inspector Clouseau is no longer on the case by and large.
Also "zile"
Thank you. In addition to the docs on turning.ml, you can find a few examples for the book “Statistical Rethinking” implemented using Turing in https://github.com/StatisticalRethinkingJulia/TuringModels.j....

We are currently also looking for students to help us further improve the documentation and tutorials in the course of the Google summer of Docs. Some possible projects are listed here: https://julialang.org/jsoc/gsod/projects/#turing_probabilist...

Please reach out to us if you are interested.
YMMV. I chose 'materials' instead of courses specifically since I've found books to be more useful.

A course, or any kind of structured learning, is just a foundation. I would still expect to spend hours outside of the course, but with a good background I can now search for more specific things than if I had started w/ a blank slate.
I want to mention a Yubikey alternative that runs on open-source firmware and software: OnlyKey [1]

It has an onlykey-agent that works as an SSH agent [2]. It doesn't work as a GPG agent yet though, they are reportedly working on it.

[1] https://onlykey.io/
[2] https://docs.crp.to/onlykey-agent.html
i have discovered it and wanted to share it :)
You probably know this, but for the benefit of other readers, bipolar disorder masquerading as major depression until flushed out into mania by SSRIs is a common (and dangerous) enough misdiagnosis that psychiatrists avoid prescribing SSRIs for depression until they're confident that enough time has passed that they're not dealing with bipolar disorder. It's basically the go to example of one disorder being mistaken for another.

There's a milder form of bipolar disorder called cyclothymia that is rarely diagnosed unless a patient seeks psychiatric care for a different reason. Estimates suggest it's fairly common, potentially up to 1% of the population.
I support this! Have been trying to use VS Codium[1], but R Studio keeps pulling me back in. An alternative with some nice R plugins would be fantastic.

[1] https://vscodium.com/
Doesn’t having the same key on multiple devices kinda ruin some of the point of the yubikey? What if you wanted to revoke one after you lost it? Also, how do you store your gpg key? I have a couple yubikeys, but I have different keys on each of them, and I find that works just fine.
Lem hated Tarkovski's "Solaris".

Strugatski brothers hated his "Stalker" based on their "The Roadside Picnic".

Tarkovski was always making his own movies based on his own (understanding of) stories. Basing them on other people's work was just a pretext :)
The feedback solicitation was in regard to a diversity seminar which James attended. The document was initially provided to HR, but received no response. James waited a month before starting to share it on the discussion forums.

If Google HR was going to have a problem with what he wrote, then mentioning that to him privately when the had the chance would have been the appropriate move. Their initial silence is a big reason for why things turned out the way they did.
Ask HN: What are less known hard Sci-Fi books to read?
From the popular ones I've read quite a few from Ian Bank's Culture series, but en summe they feel a bit like spy stories with a bit of cyberpunk sprinkled around.

The Three-Body problem was good, but still very pale in comparison to Permutation City, which I just discovered recently.

Anything along the lines of Permutation City, Asimov's works, Lem, or something like Martian Chronicles (e.g. about facing a totally different culture).
Well, I guess by "class fields" I actually mean two different things: class-typed fields and fields of classes :)

First of all, reference counting only happens for values of class type, plus closures and probably things I don't know about. Though, since copying a struct copies its fields, copying a struct containing a class-typed field will also produce reference counting; that includes String, Array, and Dictionary.

But also, shared mutability only exists for fields of classes (regardless of the field's type). When Swift decides to pass structs by pointer, those pointers are shared xor writable, similar to Rust; so if you have a pointer to a struct containing a string, the compiler can assume the string will stay untouched even if you run some arbitrary other code (as long as you don't mutate it yourself). Of course, unlike Rust, Swift doesn't let the programmer decide whether to pass structs by pointer or value (even with `inout`/`mutating` it's not guaranteed to use a pointer)...
Just started using playwright for automated browser e2e tests and so far it seems very promising. I have run into a few issues where e.g. clicking buttons more than once, but have had to punt on it for the moment. Coming from webdriver/selenium, definitely excited to dive deeper into it.
The current 280k death toll would be higher and and heading towards 1918 Influence deaths with many hospitals being overwhelmed. That's what the lock downs are preventing, and that's why things aren't as bad as the models predicted, because we took action to slow the spread of the virus.

But maybe you think 50 million deaths are worth keeping the economy rolling along (and that millions dying and health care failing wouldn't effect it), while the epidemiologists of the world don't know what they're talking about.
Opposite. I got lonely, so I went to Houston to visit family. I typically eat super healthy, exercise daily and do strenuous 16+ hour outdoors adventures on weekend days. Now, I just eat a lot, drink beer and watch TV. I lost all my fun outdoor activities, inspiration and what I do for stress relief.

More to do with being on lockdown than WFH.
I think the thing at the top of the rocket is meant to be a launch escape tower.
Gimballed engines should give more than enough control authority. Look how the tumbling SpaceX booster regained control after relighting one of its engines [0].

All in all my first impression of the Lego rocket was that it is far too small (or short) to get to orbit and replacing the second stage with even more payload... well, that's not even a rookie mistake.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkR7iaim4aw
Lem posited a question: what if we encounter an intelligence that is so non-human as to be unknowable?

He explores this in "Eden", "Solaris" and "Invincible". All three are highly recommended.
They're cutting only Intel instance-type pricing, a signal that AMD and ARM instances are relatively more valuable?
> the best way to settle this may be for McDonald’s to release its own surveillance video footage of the incident–an ironic possibility given that the dustup seems to have started with the staff’s own concerns over recording

Isn't it interesting? Authorities like to surveil everyone but hate being surveilled themselves.

Steve Mann coined the term for the idea of surveilling authorities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
Why giving back is my most valuable tool in weathering a crisis
It could be decoy program to hide development of an intercontinental ballistic missile?

I haven't seen any LEGO centrifuges in stores. Those could have been hoarded by someone to encrich LEGO uranium?
split_at_mut is for borrowed references. That's the case where I said it does work out of the box with fields, since you can take mutable references to disjoint fields, and the borrow checker allows it without you having to do anything special. But if you want to take an owned pointer to an object and split it into owned pointers to its subcomponents (which only makes sense with Rc), I don't think the standard library has a way to do that for either fields or arrays.
And don't call it the "Spanish Flu," it's the "Kansas Flu."
My college house mate built his own Olympic lifting setup in his tiny bedroom. Slept at the foot of it.
In which cases do you need the minimalism Gentoo provides?
Moms of Science Fiction and Fantasy
The thing is, once you accept the premise of panpsychism, you sort of have to at least sit and think about whether a direct action might be possible somehow.
> Point being, your brain is like a washing machine. If it goes out of balance, sometimes it will only oscillate further out of balance unless the process is arrested.

Turbofan engines are a far more dramatic example.

That's a great metaphor. Thanks :)
That’s a real “blast from the past” vibe. I’m absolutely impressed!
C/C++ are a joke? What is your operating system, by far the biggest program you run, written in?
Tolkien Symposium on Fantasy Literature
I meant just taking the photos. Structure from motion algos know how to locate the images against themselves as long as there is sufficient overlap.
If the web payments api was more used that would be a good way to do it. However, Amazon success doesn’t just rely on simple payments, but supply chain, logistics and overall ubiquity in the market.
Many of those strengths can be eroded for sure, with time, but not by the corner shop alone that decides to open a Shopify store...
Neat. Good job, that was not easy for sure.

Welcome to the Builder Club of people building for the sake of building. It is great.
Different states are in different situations, so opening up his Fremont factory is its own situation. California is already opening up and the state and Fremont has approved Tesla's operation as critical, but Tesla is engaged in an ad hoc struggle with Alameda County.

With Texas reopening the race is on to control the national narrative of COVID. If Texas successfully reopens without being forced to retreat later, it will only strengthen the WH narrative that much of the economic damage has been self-inflicted by blue states, and that further aid would be unfair to red states.
Not everyone can take up banks for a sellers mistake
Tracking Covid-19 excess deaths across countries
Another view might be that this means you are investing in the community behind it and some of the leading people who hopefully will help to ensure that the project lives on.
Hubs Cloud
> For the few patients whose oxygen saturation measurements were between 85% and 93%, the difference between the smartphone estimate and the ABG device varied between -5.5% and +2.5%. In other words, the readings become less accurate as the patient becomes more hypoxic.

That's accurate enough to tell whether you have serious Covid in many cases, especially if your baseline reading is 99% like mine. "No evidence" has killed a lot of people in this pandemic by discouraging practices that work but haven't been RCT'd. "Should not be trusted" because something has error bars, even when they're smaller than the dangerous range, could kill even more.

It's good to have the information out there that this is an inferior way to check, but I already assumed that was true just because it was only a phone app. "Possibly-inaccurate and free" is the choice I want to make with my health. I have low risk and it leaves more oximeters for others.
Oh it's the master himself - maybe I will! Thanks for your work.
I’m waiting for Godot 4.0

(runs and hides)
Show HN: MailPhantom – Keeping your email address invisible
Been reading HN for some time now, but this would be my first post.

https://mailphantom.com/

Copy and past from the site:
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The use of unique password are considered best practice, why are we not doing this with email addresses as well.
MailPhantom aims to achieve this, with an added benefit, you'll see which service providers or mailing lists are sharing your email addresses.
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This is basically a MVP, and may likely break somewhere.
But if there is a lot of interest I may build/work on it more.
I have used it in its current state for a few months now.

I welcome any feedback :)

^C
Huh. I didn't know that. It wasn't well enough known in the mid 90s. But perhaps it was by the mid 00s, which is when I was properly diagnosed.
Here you can see it working:
https://youtu.be/Xirli3qDJlU

It's mostly set and forget. You need to change rollers after few 50-60kg run.
The design is such that you pay for what you need. To do what you're looking for, that is, a linear access on multiple components without jumps nor anything else, there exist groups. They are the fastest thing you can imagine because you iterate literally N arrays for N components in order with no jumps nor branches. They affect performance on creation/destruction though, in order to speed up quite a lot linear accesses.
Also, views are such that it doesn't worth it creating a group when one of the components involved in a query is assigned to few entities, since the view internally uses the shortest pool.
And so on, there are tons of details and use cases. The documentation (the wiki, not the README) contains all the details but it's pretty big and takes a while to go through all them.
The fact is that a real world software isn't made only of linear accesses, so the whole library is meant to allow optimizing the given access pattern when needed.

Feel free to ask if I triggered you and you want more details. ;)
Reach me out here, on gitter, discord, by mail, whatever...
You may want to read the recent discussion on HN about OnlyKey before using one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21884184
Not according to my third link:

> Even in the most brutal of circumstances, people did not have to kill and only some chose to do so. So, far from simply ‘finding themselves’ in inhumane situations or inhumane groups, the murderers actively committed themselves to such groups. They actively created inhumane situations and placed themselves at their epicentre. This was true even of concentration camp regimes:

> > Individuals demonstrated commitment by acting, on their own initiative, with greater brutality than their orders called for. Thus excess did not spring from mechanical obedience. On the contrary; its matrix was a group structure where it was expected that members exceed the limits of normal violence. (Sofsky, 1993, p.228)

> In short, the true horror of Eichmann and his like is not that their actions were blind. On the contrary, it is that they saw clearly what they did, and believed it to be the right thing to do.
Supporting embedded gists is hardly "supporting code". We're talking about fetching one additional iframe plus a third party script per code blob, for what should be inline HTML plus ~30 lines of CSS (check out pandoc rendered HTML with syntax highlighting, for instance). The page you linked also demonstrates visually broken embeds with extraneous white space on the bottom; hardly a glowing endorsement.

I get embedding Codepens and stuff for rendered code. Embedding gists for static, verbatim code is just sad. (Not saying it doesn't have its uses, but having to use it is another matter.)

But this is far from the most annoying thing about Medium, so meh.
You should read Spaceland by Rudy Rucker. It’s a hilarious 4D riff on Flatland. A venture capitalist in Silicon Valley gets harassed by a 4D monster called Momo
A quite long summary:

The title is a bit misleading, it is not really about the risk to have millions of people developing Tuberculosis due to lockdown, but rather to the bizarre assignation of research resources. After all, one quarter of the world's population is thought to have latent infection with TB.

Dr Lucica Ditiu who is the Executive Secretary of the WHO Partnership, "Stop TB", says that for 100 years we have had only one Tuberculosis vaccine and we have only two or three potential vaccines in the pipeline.

So she says that TB scientists look with amazement at a disease which… is 120 days old and has 100 vaccine candidates in preparation. They think this world is really crazy.

She argues that not only we do not have a good vaccine against tuberculosis (in children, the vaccine decreases the risk of contracting the infection by only 20% and the risk of infection becoming an active disease by almost 60%), but we do not have a vaccine against HIV, and no vaccine against malaria, etc..
thats frickin ridiculous and weird.
Many of these "disorders" manifest before reproductive age; depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar, even schizophrenia occasionally.

Think about the condition we currently call the "disorder" ADHD.

We can easily imagine how the behavioural tendencies ascribed to it would have been beneficial in hunter-gatherer times; i.e., it would be beneficial to the tribe for a certain number of people to be restless and explorative, rather than being conformist and content doing repetitive tasks. Same goes for bipolar; think about how many of our leading writers, inventors, musicians are diagnosed bipolar, and how useful it would always have been to have had a few people with that kind of creativity and propensity for bursts of novel productivity in the tribe.

And I can easily think of ways depression and anxiety are adaptive and supportive of survival, rather than not (for depression it's the ability to contemplate/reform a troubled life, and anxiety it's the avoidance of danger). Even schizophrenia in certain circumstances.

And of course when we invoke Occam's razor, it makes far more sense that these genes are there because they're beneficial, rather than being there due to a historical accident.
The Dodo Bird theory may, as it states, be relevant to therapy, but it holds no water for psychiatric treatment. Some mental disorders are known to respond radically differently to certain psychoactive medications. SSRIs are a canonical example. They are an effective treatment for major depression, but in bipolar disorder they cause rapid cycling and increase suicide risk.
This so much. If you were active outdoorsy person with pretty cool active life, WFH and all related can be a bit of a disaster. We can still go out, but doing anything with real risks is supremely selfish now. As in Europe, we can't travel in other countries. Being in place surrounded with beautiful France and having Italy within 1 hour drive, this severely restricts where we can go.

Also, I've been previously hitting gym 4-5 times a week on top of that, WFH can only go down in such scenario - I still try to motivate myself with some basic weights I have found at home, but it ain't the same as using ie squat rack with proper weights for example. At least running is +-same.

Human interaction is a topic on its own, I feel sorry for many single folks or those in relationships that aren't living together. In many cases it must be stressful.
7 years ago maybe.
The author ASSUMES that not asking questions was the reason he got rejected. That may not be true and it is likely the rejection had much more profound reasons. Yet he proceeds to write a blog post about that.
Not many replication crisis results have come out with "Oh, the headline experiment turned out to be unreplicable, but fortunately all the other ones derived from it were rock solid and it was just a quirk." In many cases those experiments are the only underpinning for their conclusions, because ethics boards won't let us try them any more.
Awesome ! But Wouldn’t ZeroNet be a better fit for this case ? Changes propagation is built-in
Text adept lacks a "folder view". if it were not for it. and "open folder".

For now, lite also lacks "open folder", but it shows tree view of current directory atleast
I'm curious how the automated market makers keep the prices in sync across exchanges, any more detail you can offer/links to further reading?
I wonder if there’s a correlation between usage of debuggers vs printf, and the different strategies you all have taken towards reading.
Or rather, a function from one package can be extended with methods by other packages.
Modern day journalism (even at MIT) doesn't care about citing the sources relevant to their story. It only cares about clickbait headlines.
Firefox on macOS also gives me a blurry result on a retina display. However it seems to work great on macOS in Safari and Opera (Chromium).
Connect Android Device with WiFi Within Android Studio
I know of it. The main issue is it has a 30 second execution script time limit for custom functions [1].
So if you want to build anything that could take longer than that to execute you need to make sure to write to the spreadsheet before 30 seconds elapse and have a recurring scheduled function that completes any unfinished jobs. Gets tedious and failure prone quickly IME.

[1] https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/services/qu...
Create Regions in Android
Consciousness Is a Big Suitcase (1998)
Analyze Stacktrace in Android Studio
Maybe it's the wrong approach, but I treat an entire interview as back-and-forth conversation… especially for a specific position.

Questions demonstrate curiosity in the role you're being hired for and give you an opportunity to demonstrate knowledge about and empathy for your ultimate end-users… not to mention allowing you to get a feel for the culture of the team and company you're about to spend a large amount of your time working at.
My god, they even have a working link to a zip file containing a Netscape Navigator exe. I hope that's on a CDN.
I hate antialiasing. I absolutely cannot stand blurry fonts. First thing I do on a Linux box is install the ambiguously licensed "mscorefonts" and disable antialiasing everywhere possible. That is explained in the font-howto that may be a bit outdated now.

Verdana for the interface, Times New Roman, Courier New for monospace ... aaaaahhhhh!
We’re already locked for twice as long as we were for Spanish Flu.
(January 2020)

Money was returned over two months ago, but the case continues:

https://reason.com/2020/03/04/dea-returns-82k-life-savings-i...
> So she says that TB scientists look with amazement at a disease which… is 120 days old and has 100 vaccine candidates in preparation. They think this world is really crazy.

Expecting a correlation between media exposure and vaccine is completely silly, and using it in an argument even more. HIV has had much more exposure, probably trillions invested globally, and still no vaccine after 40 years of research.
You might be the only one who believes a conversation loses all value if someone benefits from it, and who thus reduces an otherwise interesting discussion to "just an ad."
I learned about Carbon maybe three years ago. Back then the README example looked like this: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10369094/30791512-...

Now it looks like https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8397708/63456416-b... complete with weird cursive font and all.

IMO this niche obsession with cursives, ligatures and stuff in programming fonts actually hurts first impression for a significant percentage of people landing on this README.
Permutation City is one of Greg Egan’s better-known works, and I strongly suggest you look into the rest of his ouevre which (aside from his Orthogonal trilogy) tends to be of a consistently high standard.

https://www.gregegan.net