skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> then we're going to need someone to hand classify a bunch of things which is expensive, slow

True. But not impossible.

And I would recommend comparing effort to potential reward. Imagine, just for fun, the possibility that HN could find a way to discuss climate change[1] in a disciplined, truthful, and non-heuristic manner. What might the value of that discovery be? And if we could find a way do it, perhaps others could as well?

> and only as accurate as the person making the judgement call

How deeply have you thought about that? Like, say it was an engineering problem you've been asked to solve - have you put as much effort into thinking about it as you would if it was a paid assignment?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws

> In other words, we'd just be making ad hoc judgements again, but calling them something else because we made those ad hoc judgements in a csv instead of a comment.

Do you realize you are:

a) predicting the future

b) making several assumptions

c) utilizing loaded terms (which is harmful not only to others, but sometimes also to oneself)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_language

> The other issue is that communities are dynamic, and behaviors trend.

This is true.

> You're probably not going to see a flat correlation, you're going to see something that resembles a wave function.

Your prediction may be correct. But it also may be incorrect.

[1] A topic we seem to loooooove to talk about as if it only involves climate science, and has no psychological aspect whatsoever.
React, Vue, and Angular all use a virtual DOM, which means they're already deprecated 5 years from now. A virtual DOM is dumb.

SASS, SCSS, LESS, etc are kind of great though. It sucks you have to compile them to css, but you can do this:

.App {
.Topbar {
.Logo { color: green }
}
.Content {
h2 { color: orange; }
}
}

Saves a lot of time and effort.
It seems like it’s always the “next generation” of AI that will start to show results but this promise has been made over and over for 40 years. The improvements that Siri and Alexa have brought to personal assistants may have more to do with their connection to cloud services than with the natural language processing improvements, even though those have been impressive.
Thanks for making Oragono! I've been meaning to upgrade my setup with some of the newer features, but honestly the binary I installed years ago just runs so it hasn't been a priority :)
> The quality is not amazing but I'm surprised this is supported at all.

I find this line hilarious for some reason. Reminds me of the line about being a tourist in France, "French people don't expect you to speak French, but they appreciate it when you try"
You need to run SPC f e D to do a 3-way merge of your .spacemacs everytime after you upgrade Spacemacs.

As changes to Spacemacs are made, there might need more or less things in the .spacemacs file. So you always need to do a manual merge of the changes.
"Oh there's radioactive material in every food now, why would you complain about that? That's just a default."
Data's brain is a pretty explicit reference to Asimov's stories and their positronic brains.
With Static Site Generation, you can use React to generate plain HTML/CSS/JS that you then deploy as your actual website. Seriously, this tech is very very fast. Just check out how fast these websites are:

https://spectrum.chat
https://vercel.com
https://gatsbyjs.org
Testing does nothing to address infection rates. Either you have the infrastructure in place to isolate spreaders or you have no alternative to nip the epidemic in the bud by quaranting everyone.

The first option is not on the table with covid19 because asymptomatic and presymptomaric carriers can walk freely among us weeks at a time without anyone having a clue.
>I'm thinking Ryzen.

Good thinking.

>the video card doesn't come into play much for server stuff, right?

No. But it's still important if you use it as a workstation at all.

>I don't need a great video card. Some simple games, sure, but mostly for coding, transpiling, running servers. I'll probably run linux.

Then go with AMD for graphics. They have full documentation and good open drivers, unlike NVIDIA. They have performance, unlike Intel.

>transpiling is heavy on the CPU

Yes. And parallelizable. You want a lot of cores if possible.

>What's a good PC build for development

I'd try for a Ryzen 3700X with some radeon gpu (5500, 5600xt, 5700 depending on how much budget you have left and how much you want to run games)

For RAM: DDR3200 or 3600, 32GB minimum (2x 16gb for dual-channel).

For storage, some M.2 SSD, 512GB or more.

Definitely do not cheapen out on the PSU if you value stability and/or durability of your hardware. Likewise about the case. PSU+Case should outlast everything else in your computer, and survive as you replace motherboards and CPUs.

Do play with pcpartpicker.com.

This list assumes you already have PSU, Case, Keyboard, Mouse, Screen like most people here already does: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MwRBdm
Defcon Has Been Canceled
> I'm quite sure calling the cops isn't their go-to protocol.

You'd be entirely wrong. The major hospital in my state capital, where I work as a paramedic for the EMS system, 400 beds, a 5 unit secure mental area in the ED, serving a population of 200,000...

... has 4 security officers 24/7.

"Tiny Madill, OK" has a population of 3,000. The "hospital" is a glorified urgent care (https://www.alliancehealthdurant.com/alliancehealth-madill). If they have 24/7 security, and that's a big if, as I've delivered patients to and from similar hospitals in the outreaches of our county and surrounds, there would be most likely 1 person.

And in those cases, absolutely calling LE is the go to. Hell, even my hospital described above does, when someone proves problematic, violent.

> That said, I am of a mind to believe that cops escalate too often, when they could deescalate if they tried.

Very true. I train new EMTs and de-escalation is a big part of their patient/ scene communication training. I repeatedly see LE on calls I am on undoing whatever de-escalation my partner and I have done.
True, just think they need to embrace the fast development cadence of develop and just make that master.
A realistic speedup to expect from vectorization is probably closer to 10x. Other overheads start to dominate once you've optimized your inner loops.

It's also not reasonable to expect to vectorize everything; for example a web server is unlikely to benefit from vectorization.
The other issue here is that there IS an economic justification: everybody bid up the price of storage. If it costs me $60 to store a barrel I can sell for $10 later, then I'll pay someone $40 to take it off my hands now. An asset became a liability, hardly a rare concept to anyone who has owned a car they had to pay someone to tow away... CEO is just passing blame.
Preprint: Zinc+hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin may improve outcomes in Covid-19
The point is the criminal organizations aren't going to simply disappear if/when drugs are legalized. They're going to pivot to some other illegal activity to preserve their livelihood. Perhaps more conventional crimes like money laundering, loan sharking, and political graft will be less violent. But they certainly survived the end of prohibition without going legitimate.
Fred Brooks was accurate about most things, yeah. It's hard not to envy him; he got to work with (and write a book with) Ken Iverson. Can you imagine? People back then really had all the luck!

...at least as far as computers go, anyway.
Thanks for looking at it. It's very early stage, so yeah I will definitely hit you up when its a bit more polished.

Thank!
Yea: at-risk populations should be protected. Even with a complete lockdown, nursing homes are being decimated. Politicians have no interest in admitting their failure. It's clear that Cuomo is being hailed as a hero, despite thousands of old people being lost due to ineffective measures and ineptness.

None of these politicians have an interest in bringing attention to the complete tragedy that happened under their watch re: the most vulnerable.
This seems correct.

It looks like the employer interpreted the message as a type of ultimatum. In the face of such an ultimatum, they basically have no choice but to treat it as a resignation.

The ultimatum is a very dangerous negotiating tactic, and generally harmful to long-term relationships. As an example, I recommend against posing an ultimatum to a spouse or partner.
This is backwards of what science does. Science doesn't really rule things in, rather it rules things out till there is nothing left. For example, take the discussion about D614S here. The original claim was that D614S makes the virus more transmittable, and the author claims this is wrong. Who has the burden of proof? It is the researchers that claimed D614S made Cov2 more transmissible. The author here points out that there is no selection pressure here and that there is a more reasonable solution to the results. Occam's razor is in play.

So not all arguments need a burden of proof. It is the one that is making the claim that has the burden.
Agree to disagree. Giving people money will solve exactly zero problems.
Nonetheless, I get excited when I come across research like this

I don't, even though I did a phd in this type of research (analog neural computation with novel memory technologies). You either design specialized HW for the best available algorithm to solve a task of interest, or design better algorithms for that task. Do not try to design better hardware for poorly understood algorithms, especially when these algorithms don't really work (82% on MNIST, really?). If the task of interest is image classification, either focus on accelerating convnets, in which case all you really need is a fast multiplication of large matrices with enough precision, or focus on developing better algorithms (capsules, attention, neural trees, etc), in which case you use GPUs until you beat the state of the art.
lol no, "Did Reason fall out of favor" does not logically follow from "I figured facebook.com would be next". you were simply too optimistic on Reason.
No, and FB themselves discourage this in their documentation.

Regardless of upgrade paths, React <15 would still let you use HoCs w/out adding excess element nesting.

I don’t contest that the older React tended towards div-itis if you weren’t careful with how you used it. But this thread was about Higher Order Components (or wrapper functions), which don’t have any inherent effect on nesting.
??? It talks about miniscule droplets that could stay in the air for minutes, and move downwind quite easily.
Ask HN: Do you have stocks of companies you disagree with?
Disagreement may be moral/ethical, fiscal, mission or vision, etc.
I used it a few years ago and I thought the US was pretty good on iOS at least.
The Swedish approach places the onus on the at-risk demographics to isolate themselves. If you are worried about your parents (and I would be), then I'd help them in their self-quarantine.
This sounds awesome. C is my preferred language and I use it whenever I can and when it makes sense. I'd love to see this code. Is there a public repo for it?
AI in Hiring – trends and challenges during the time of crisis
Sure, that's a trade-off you have to make a decision on when designing the core architecture. If your users are sitting behind corporate T1 connections near an AWS data center bundle size doesn't matter at all. If your users are still on 3G phones it matters a ton. For somewhere in between it becomes a business decision: how much performance are you willing to trade for developer productivity?
there is such a thing as a frontend stack
No. Those stats are exclusive counts. For the most serious offense only. So inmates who raped and murdered their victim are tallied under the “murder” column.
theyve been talking about this since 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxPtYJRjLL0 i reckon it happened over the course of 2018-19
YouHole
What's Different This Time
Yeah that's fair. The stuff the author is working on in the GANs space is fascinating though.
>I can only see that being attributed to two things

Two more things: 1) introducing (or the halting thereof) infections to at risk populations (the whole NY nursing/retirement home fiasco, or the Italy hospitals being points of transmission, or dorm style living in Wuhan) and 2) approaching ~50% of herd immunity.

1) When did NY state stop putting exposed/infected patients into those facilities? That's going to have a outsized result in the stats, given the segment vulnerability. Same for Italy hospitals being overwhelmed without PPE.

2) Not saying it's what is at play (yet) here, but infections will naturally decrease as a greater percentage of the population gains immunity. It's what has to happen as the population approaches herd immunity. (So about 30% if herd immunity is 60%, which is plausible, given the recent estimates of 20+% of the NYC population with antibody presence.)

It's why exponential growth (for resource limited kinetics) ends up being an S curve and not a runaway exponential curve. The inflection point might not be at exactly 50% for a number of reasons, but it's good for a rough starting point.

Additionally, it will be difficult to distinguish if the stay-at-home orders are effective due to the entire population participating, or if it's tied to specific population segments. Meaning the percent of the population active vs stay-at-home isn't independent of transmission numbers. The active sub-population might be closer to herd immunity than the stay-at-home crowd.

This gets more complicated as you take into account the risk levels of particular patients.

There's potentially a lot more going on. We need some scientific causation, not just correlation.
More stupid media trying to cause outrage when a month prior the outrage was there's not enough medical resources.
>It's pretty well established that CAPEX is the source of security in PoW not OPEX

You're literally the first person I've ever heard express such an opinion. Could you give citations for "pretty well established"?

Multiple, please, since it's "well" established. Preferably ones that have citations at the bottom? The document you linked contains no citations and is thus an opinion piece, not an academic paper.
A browser extension that automatically filters out Karen from your feed would yield better results, but they wouldn't want to alienate their core users
To me, Brad Porter responded like an engineer, that is, his total focus was on technology and process (valuable, to be sure), but had no human focus. Tim, otoh, did, and that is what struck a chord.
You're assuming people are able to sign up for unemployment... So many states are having so many delays to get it.
The Most Misunderstood Force in the Universe
Azure, IBM, and Alibaba clouds support SGX—anyone want to brick some monotonic counters?
Rust Verification Tools
That’s one of the possible options, the other would be replacing chown, chmod, ls, etc (as the BSDs do)
Orca: an esolang for audio-visual live coding
Could that not be easily done as an add on that utilizes the callback approach? The parser library could offer both APIs and the caller could decide which to use and what to do when running out of memory etc.
The DooM-chip It will run E1M1 till the end of times
Ever since my first IT job back in 2004 setting up spam filtering I've been told that any e-mail server can be crashed. Executing a DoS on an e-mail service is among the simplest kind of remote DoS you can do.

And this is about new nodejs libraries that aren't even mature yet. I'm talking about actual mail services based on Postfix and Exim.

Last time I migrated a Sendmail setup to Postfix back in 2013 they actually shutdown port 25 when receiving too many connections. That's funny. An MTA shutting down its main port because it can't handle the connections, while postfix replacing it can handle it just fine.
Another old but good one that seems to be forgotten is ASN.1 (BER/DER). It's the basis of X509 certificates, and just "deals" with that.
About two months ago I delivered to a private client a (monthly-basis) prediction model for ethanol prices that included Brent -- in logarithm -- as a predictor.

I know the monthly spot average of that statistic (fetched from FRED, the Fed of St. Louis system) won't turn negative, but still...
> That's exactly the reason why their government gets away with it

So it's not the death camps then? Hmmmm... I must say that I remain totally skeptical as to your assertion.
It was announced on Twitter just a couple of days ago: https://twitter.com/keenanisalive/status/1258152669727899650
It used to be much harder to get lazy content marketing pieces to the front page of HN.
If you're doing it to an alternative port, why are you reverse proxying in the first place?

Another option is to reverse proxy to a cloud provider that can provide a static IP.
I honestly have no idea how you are able to reason an idea that a full blown epidemic does not disturb a national health service.

Moreover, it seems you're entirely oblivious to the fact that covid19 infections are known to trigger cardiac and renal and even neurological problems. Thus if you were honestly concerned about heart attacks and strokes and other conditions then you most certainly wouldn't be putting up lame strawmen like those.

And God forbid that a nation needs to spend the citizen's resources caring for the best interests of said citizens.
I've been working towards making something like a 4D Descent, but I keep getting sidetracked by problems like 4D physics, collision detection, and mainly how to model interesting 4D objects.

What Marc's done with Miegakure, from what's publicly visible, is pretty incredible. I have no idea how he's managed to seemingly create a coherent 4D world while only being able to view a slice of it at a time. I guess it's a bit like using ed instead of a modern text editor.
Will do. I’ve heard that they also have less expensive HDD options. Scaleway disk storage is all SSD and not cheap.
A Podcast in Words
A hello world react app with everything you would typically need (redux, router, etc.) starts at 100K+. Svelte is a couple K.

A react app has massive abstraction to render on every frame, Svelte compiles out the framework to render instant straight vanilla js (wins all perf tests).

Pre-compiling allows for beautiful syntax and more flexible app structure, since you aren't limited to the runtime.

SSR and code-splitting are significantly easier and more straightforward.

React is designed for a billion-user site and it shows.

There really is zero cost to pre-compiling except mind-share, and only benefits. Of course an F100 company has many concerns above tech awesomeness, so no judgement on your selection criteria. But I assure you this movement is coming, react/vue/angular will adapt/change and/or people will move to Svelte-like solutions.

You can already see it happening in the article facebook released today [1]:

"By using rems, we can respect user-specified defaults and are able to provide controls for customizing font size without requiring changes to the stylesheet. Designs, however, are usually created using CSS pixel values. Manually converting to rems adds engineering overhead and the potential for bugs, so we have our build tool do this conversion for us."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23116300
https://blog.aaronbieber.com/2016/12/29/don-t-use-terminal-e...

Accepting the terminal version is accepting an inferior environment with no upside.
My experience:
The first thing I see is a big in your face "please accept our cookies so that this will work!"

Uh, what is it? Do I want it to work? I tentatively click "YES COOKIES"

Big cookie plea is now replaced with a big "Sign in with Google/Slack"

Hold up! What the hell is this thing? I am not just going to potentially link you to my slack or gmail!

There is a sandbox mode button? What is this thing, why would I need to run it in a sandbox?!?!

The only way to know what this is or will do without actually trying it is to watch a youtube video and the explanation doesn't even come until 20 seconds into the video!

I imagine this would have gotten more traction on HN if your page contained even a single line of text explaining what this is: an interactive sound board. Rather than forcing users to watch a video or try out some unknown thing first.
Another thing I like to put in commit messages is the ticket# (of what ever bug tracker you're using) of the feature/bug task that drove the change.
Maturity matters, unfortunately. I've been looking for a chance to try out Sapper but I wouldn't feel comfortable recommending that we start a major new project with it.
Why not just have everyone code in Javascript now and forever?

Same reason we didn't settle with everyone coding in C. Or C++. Or Java. Or Python.

The web is just a method of distribution. Not every problem or domain takes equally well to each programming model or language. It would be nice to be able to pick a tech stack that works for my domain and the characteristics of my project, rather than picking a tech stack because of how users access it.
In-person DEF CON 28 cancelled
http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

Thread on the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480157
Ask HN: How long is your .bashrc file?
I keep my dot files in a git repo and I add useful aliases and functions to it as needs come up. I love automating shell commands and have for over 10 years. I've got my own little shell API at this point, and it's fantastic.

I took a moment to reflect on it a little earlier and realized I have over 3,000 lines in my .bashrc file! Maybe this is a dumb question, but hey it's Friday ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How many lines is your .bashrc?
Seriously. I'm kind of excited about it. I definitely discovered something amazing here... I can do more than React, Vue, and Angular combined with a very tiny "framework". It doesn't have a virtual dom, so it's not really a framework, it just makes it quicker and easier to make auto-updating HTML Elements. You could mix it with anything else that uses HTML Elements no problem. Also, it leverages native code for everything, doing as little as possible in JS.

The real trick was something I call Source Derivation (SDx). I'm certain it will be a language level feature 10 years from now.

I'd like to release it soon, but I'm afraid of doing it alone. It's depressing to put a project out there, then have to be alone as nobody cares.
"No economic justification"? That has to be faux-naïf. Yes, I was shocked at first to hear of prices turning negative. For about thirty seconds. Once I learned that the oil had to be delivered somewhere without enough storage, and under conditions of extreme low demand, it was perfectly obvious that you'd end up paying someone else to take the oil off your hands. Either Peterffy is too stupid to understand mass-media reports on his own field of business – not likely – or he's disingenuous, which says something about how he sees his clients.
Gitui release: terminal UI for Git written in rust
What simple Ajax system?
The sound notification definitely compounds on the distraction. Not only is there the jarring sound or ringtone but the brain's knee jerk reaction of hatred for lack of respect of others around them. I've grown to hate the door knocking sound that Samsung uses.

Oddly when a phone is vibrating, even if left on a solid surface, I don't find it nearly as distracting.