skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually used free RSS reader-Tiny Tiny RSS,which you can customize any RSS feeds you wish.
If you want another fun particle detector project, you can build a cloud chamber with some dry ice and an old fish tank: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/january-2015/how-to...
Well, if you want to express nuance, Twitter might not be the medium for you...
> Keys = coins

Exactly... and if you steal the keys, you are stealing the coins.
Antibody study shows just 5% of Spaniards have contracted the coronavirus
> how does the Communist Manifesto drive an entire society, millions of people, to overthrow its familial leaders before the era of television?

It didn't and couldn't. That was the conceit and power behind Lenin's "vanguard" concept. Only a small minority needed to be ideologically driven; everybody else could and did join sides based on more practical, individualized motivations. See, generally, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguardism

That said, I'm not trying to opine on whether, when, and how popular book reading was or still is.
Does the _CDC itself_ want to succeed? People _without a budget_ have done a much better job collecting and publishing data on github. Why is this so insurmountable for the CDC? I'd ideally have a single source of information. I'd prefer that source to be the CDC. But they somehow, 4 months in (!), choose to publish a pile of steaming excrement instead of clean, curated, well explained data.
What is lost here by doing so?

If someone tries to imitate your Twitter account:

- they could clone your signed messages, but *you* wrote them.
- they could use a new PGP key to sign their messages, but they aren't claiming your PGP identity
- modern cryptographic algos have many resistance properties so your stated scenario is not a weakness
actual link: https://www.listennotes.com/blog/why-podcasts-are-my-new-wik...

What I hate is that I listen to audiobooks and podcasts all the time.

And no car or portable audio device acknowledges this fact.

Why doesn't anyone do skip-back and skip-forward and pause and where-i-am-in-the-program-robustly ???

I need dedicated buttons for skip-back/forward and pause. I need my place to be saved, maybe the last 5 places.

sheesh.
a heavily accelerated 49px by 49px gif seems okay
No, I don't think that's right. That was my initial impression also, but what's going on is that people are ridiculing the academic advisor who is working at the Council of Economic Advisors at the Whitehouse because his agency (a) released a tweet about Covid with childishly absurd mistakes in it and then (b) he vigorously defended it in a follow-up tweet.

The problem they are ridiculing is mainly that an observed time series that is going up and down with no clear trend is "modeled" with a polynomial that necessarily goes down, and that the tweet claims there is some value in the fitted polynomial.

Secondarily, the fact that the polynomial is described as cubic, when it appears to be quadratic.

Added together it makes it extremely explicitly clear that at the highest levels of American government, even in situations with the involvement of elite academic advisors, the actual technical content is utterly incompetent; childish; totally illiterate from a statistical point of view; bad even at high school.
Grubhub was caught creating sites for restaurants that didn't want them. Restaurants has to threaten legal action to get grubhub to stop.
Alot of big power diodes can also be used, and they should have a larger volume of silicon available. Presumably the snr will be worse. Maybe start by filtering for diodes with low reverse bias current but high forward current on digikey?
Dear Reader: A Letter from the Author of ‘The Giver’ and ‘Number the Stars’
The distinction is on which meaning of "monopoly" and "monopoly with respect to what". Yes, no telecom should be the only telecom in a region, but each telecom is granted an exclusivity (monopoly) on a particular utility line: cable companies are given (in most regions) exclusive rights to a region's originally TV focused fiber and coax cables and phone companies are given (in most regions) exclusive rights to a region's originally phone-focused fiber and coax cables. The convergence of all such lines towards data/internet-utility lines has let things like the Cable Act of 1992 declare a telecom not a monopoly with respect to a region so long as there is, for instance, a duopoly with a cable and a phone company. But there is still just one cable company with a (should be) regulated monopoly on cable lines and installations, and there is still just one phone company with a (should be) regulated monopoly on phone lines and installations. Those exclusive utility licenses themselves are still called and managed as intentionally granted monopolies for the public benefit (which is why they are regulated as such, and should be enforced better).

Yet even under this situation of "competition" between say a cable company and a phone company in most regions you have a duopoly and in very rare cases you find tripolies in the US. I did accuse these companies of swapping agreements in a friendly matter like if not exactly as a Trust to evenly distribute such duopolies and make it tough to enforce the places where the laissez faire regulatory environment around the duopolies have led to de facto monopolies by benchmarks such as which provide modern internet speeds at the neighborhood and/or building level. (It's been too long since the US was last interested in trust busting. It's also maybe been too long with the hand off the regulatory rudder for those cable and phone monopoly licenses.)
Well, the reason I say binding to data instead of binding to type is that runtime polymorphism on instances is one of the selling points of OOP. I think its a little overrated but that is a good reason to use OO if you need that functionality. If you're only attaching functions to a type there isn't much difference between "thing.fn(x)" vs "fn(thing, x)"
Hi Patrick. Thanks so much for linking this.

This may be a stupid question but ... what are you looking for in the "affiliation" field in the Application?

Just a bit of background. This was practically made for us. We've built a "Social Operating System for the Web", an open source platform that lets any organizations have their own Facebook-level online community as easily as they can have a blog with Wordpress. We have poured years into this, attracted 8 million users in over 95+ countries, and are definitely in it for the long haul. (https://qbix.com/platform)
loving the python3 makefiles
None of that really addresses the public health policy question of what to do about drugs/compounds that are identified as strong candidate treatments.
Very specific big tech. There has been far more blatant antitrust behavior from Amazon lately for example.
You could, as a quick hack on desktop, use Local Overrides: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/01/devtools#o...
As someone who is on the liberal side on incarceration issues: what does arguing in favor of higher incarceration rights have to do with being a “hatchet man” for the President? Especially when the President in question has made strides in reducing mass incarceration that even Vox had to admit were extremely significant: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/12/18/18140973/state... (
System-security-compromising anti-cheat spyware? What happened to IDKFA?
> Why'd it take me 10 years to realize I could listen to a podcast or audio book and code at the same time without losing much productivity or comprehension?

I absolutely can't listen to any podcasts or audiobooks while working, I will simply tune out all the noise and focus all of my attention on the task at hand. Then the podcast simply turns into background voices that I don't listen to (I also easily tune out any nearby conversations in open office settings). By the time I'm done with my task, I have already lost too much of the conversation so might as well just stop listening. The good thing is that any noise doesn't hurt my productivity, because it just bypasses me completely.
And over 99% of OCaml projects don't use objects at all. You would be hard pressed to find an OCaml developer who would care if objects were just removed from the language entirely.
There are a few things that cause me serious frustration. One is when a lay person will talk about medicine.

Making drugs is a ridiculous process. I had the pleasure of listening to a physical chemist describe every single step it took for his team at Abbott labs to take Lopinavir/ritonavir to market. It is incredible how difficult it is to go from novel molecule to phase IV. Every single thing he did he had to, by FDA guidelines, be written and documented appropriately. Everything is highly scrutinized. With medicine we need to be right and we need strong scrutiny, because when there isn't oversight shortcuts are made. That's just the federal guidelines, the chemistry behind drug production, and this is something I find interesting but strongly dislike the amount of math behind physical chemistry, is intimidating. Some of the questions that need to be answered are: Does this molecule affect any enzyme? Is this enzyme hypothesized to be in a disease process? What is the structure of this molecule? How is it made? How can we make more? How can we make more more efficiently? Does this drug work in people? What's the dose that needs to be given to have an effect? What is the dosing ranges for a given drug? What are the serious side effects? What are the moderate/mild side effect? How is this drug cleared/excreted? Are there certain populations which this is contraindicated in?

These are some of the main questions that are answered when taking a drug to market, which is why it usually takes 10 years and billions to go from novel molecule to FDA approved drug.
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Without creative destruction in software, there is no Linux, there is no GCC. So no Apple macOS, all PC's run Windows, and likely there is no iOS/iPhone.

Microsoft would also [1] own the internet. Their browser IE would be the only significant consumer share, there would be no Mozilla, no open source browser. So no incentive to open the browser up to plugins. Microsoft would hold all the information on consumer browsing habits. Would they permit other search engines? Unlikely if there is no antitrust regulation compelling them to do so.

But that was then. I think your premise is, we more or less have all the software technology we need why do more, unless it comes from an incumbent, in the form of incremental improvements? Why shouldn't Apple, Google, Microsoft shut down their app stores a little more? Keep the development in-house. What's the point of allowing this creative destruction from 3rd parties? More and more, we only get these increasingly tired, corporate innovations. Fewer ports on computers in the name of locking down devices to make them less 'hackable', more restrictions on these OS that increasingly feel like sandboxes, because why bother giving users the unfettered ability to create stuff, it just allows more creative destruction. Why should corporations knock it out of the park when they can just suppress upstarts with unfair competition?

By the way, antitrust regulation also prevents [2] Apple, Google, Adobe etc suppressing developer salaries. Remember antitrust law also shares incentives and motivation, to encourage progress.

But the better question is what is the future without without creative destruction, without shared incentives and competition? We have the answer in thousands of years of monarchies. Monarchies are a stagnant form of human development, they have no incentivize to upset their current order so they constantly suppress change. We don't celebrate this ancient monarchy or that one, like we do federated political systems. Compare the cultural developments in ancient Greece's federated city states vs surrounding empires. Or the Roman Empire, when it was ruled by the Senate, before emperors ran it into the ground. Or the Gutenberg Press, that brought printing to the European states where publishers were incentivized by profit, compared to dynastic China that developed the technology hundreds of years before, which helped trigger the Renaissance. Or Britain after the Glorious Revolution broke the monarchy's monopolies and led to the Industrial Age. Or the Jamestown settlement after it began profit sharing to motivate the colonists, in the face of failure, which directly lead to the political institutions which created the United States of America. Without power sharing, all civilizations degrade into inheritance systems, where opportunity is few and far between, unless you go rogue.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/6/17827042/antitrust-1990s-m...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/final-judgment-0
No, that's what I thought at first, but that's not it. See my post elsewhere in this thread.
I agree. In believe such opinions are shaped mainly by the media. So I'd argue these people are in fact ill-informed and to be more blunt, not that intelligent after all.
Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources
> The statistical community has not been doing well with the coronavirus epidemic.

I'm curious how you concluded this. Can you (or anyone) recommend a reasoned evaluation of the existing models? We've got a few months of hindsight now and I'm curious hear what any reputable data scientist might have to say.

I see criticism of the models online (in op-eds and social media), but the criticisms are usually agenda driven and opaque on technical details, which isn't particularly helpful.
If you use HN for race war we will ban you again. No more of this please.

Instead, if you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it.
Nope. I use Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo daily.
Yes that's exactly right on both counts.
Stuff like this makes me glad that I use my gaming PC for almost nothing but gaming.
"Here is your Romex watch"

This is the true effect. It gives you something similar, but degrades your brand name and sidesteps the law.
Does DDG support the site: search modifier? I find that to be much more discoverable and usable than remembering a laundry list of !commands.
Can you steal keys? Can you "steal" a song? Is it a copyright issue? IP issue? I'm genuinely curious what this concept maps onto.
versions of you could not exist in all worlds, but there are still an infinite number of universes where you exist
This is one of the reasons most of my websites have no ads on them. One of the problems is that people don't want to put their money where their mouth is.

I get feedback that I'm writing valuable and interesting independent content, but people don't promote my work by sharing it around and very few people kick money my way. When I complain about how I remain dirt poor and people on the internet expect writers to be de facto slave labor, I get told crap like "Get a real job."

Advertising is how much of the internet is funded. If you think it's a cancer, help fund things that aren't using advertising to deliver value. Vote with your checkbook, as they say.
TSA to Check Passenger Temperatures at Airports Amid Coronavirus Concerns
Please do not post in the flamewar style to HN. Providing correct information is fine, snark and swipes are not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://archive.vn/8JkAa
This is my all time favorite animation of how a solid rocket works https://i.imgur.com/E7J8pxF.mp4

so yeah it is all burning at the same time

In the OP's video, it looks like the fire is magically coming out of thin air... it'd be hard to do the animation style I linked at the distance in OP's video though, so I'm not sure how they could better animate a solid fuel rocket
I'm with you on this one, and the downvotes are peculiar to me. The death rate in the under-45 bracket doesn't matter to me and I don't know why the thread root author focused on it except as reassurance for that age range. What I was trying to call out is that even in that age range that observed death rate shouldn't be reassurance to justify going out-and-about.
Doesn't this apply to almost any large bureaucratic organization or system?
A moving average would make sense, but cubic fit? WTF? In epidemiology, is there a theoretical basis for death rates to follow any type of polynomial trend with time? If you measure say, drag force vs. airspeed at finite intervals, sure, use a second-order fit. Drag varies with the square of speed, theory predicts that relation. But there isn't such for death rates, is there?
I stopped using CoffeeScript just because JavaScript fixed most of the issues that got me to use CoffeeScript back in 2014. Once ES2015+ became well supported, I decided I'd rather write code in the language that the interpreter understands, rather than something that precompiles. CoffeeScript isn't bad... it's just not significantly better than JavaScript is today.

Also, I find it interesting how many people like the Python syntax but hate CoffeeScript syntax. They have a lot of similarities.
I don't have an example at hand directly involving Google or Amazon (though these may well exist), but if you'll accept a case in which another cavalier tech monopoly has directly contributed to massive loss of life, there is the case of the ongoing Myanmar genocide:

In August 2018, a study[86] estimated that more than 24,000+ Rohingya people were killed by the Myanmar military and the local Buddhists since the "clearance operations" started on 25 August 2017. The study[86] also estimated that more than 18,000 Rohingya Muslim women and girls were raped, 116,000 Rohingya were beaten, 36,000 Rohingya were thrown into fire,[86][87][88][89][90][91] burned down and destroyed 354 Rohingya villages in Rakhine state,[92] looted many Rohingya houses,[93] committed widespread gang rapes and other forms of sexual violence against the Rohingya Muslim women and girls.[94][95][96] The military drive also displaced a large number of Rohingya people and made them refugees. According to the United Nations reports, as of January 2018, nearly 690,000 Rohingya people had fled or had been driven out of Rakhine state who then took shelter in the neighboring Bangladesh as refugees.[97] In December, two Reuters journalists who had been covering the Inn Din massacre event were arrested and imprisoned.[97]

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

The company involved, Facebook:

is Facebook really doing all it can to try to halt the spread of violence? Not according to the United Nations’ Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, which released its own report on Tuesday looking into the causes of the genocide that has taken place against the Rohingya in that country. Among other recommendations, the UN report says any commercial entity doing business in Myanmar should not “enter into an economic or financial relationship with the security forces,” including the military police, known as the Tatmadaw.

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/facebook-un-myanmar-geno...

With no absolution at all to Beoing for its impressive death count, 24,000 souls, and tens of thousands of rapes and beatings,, in which Facebook's negligence played sufficient role for the UN to specifically call it out, is more than a couple of planes-full, and is why what happens online is in fact as serious and consequential as can be.
I think this was a long time coming. However, I don't trust the current administration's motives for doing it. My instinct is that this is just some behind-the-scenes string pulling to eliminate an entity that is seen more as a political threat than an economic one.
You still didn't propose a solution. You just said you want to regulate advertising industry but how will you do that?

There is a clear precedent that fining doesn't stop companies and political systems won't overfine. So are you going to fine companies more? Are you going to limit the number of fines and dissolve the company? Are you going to propose another GDPR-eiqsque but for advertising? Because GDPR helped big companies - especially ad networks. What happens when companies become too big (as if they aren't already)? Do you really believe government can always do what it wants with the big companies?

No. History has proved it wrong multiple times. Companies used to slave and colonize countries. Today, they probably won't do that. They can just push misinformation and change behavior by manipulating what you see/hear/read. They are going to affect your government officials and policy makers. Those use facebook and google too probably. Your president use twitter, are twitter's algorithm manipulating him? Have you seen his feed? What if his feed is an echo chamber?

What is the actual regulation? I am not against change but if you don't specify how, then I am not sure it's a conversation worth having. Everyone wants things to change. Some people would like if everyone moved to fb. But without explaining your position with actual stats, how your solution will likely affect the problems, how am I going to differentiate your proposal from several thousands asking for more consolidation i.e opposite of what you are asking.
Anyone else find it peculiar that he keeps calling Lansing a small town?

It's not only the capital city of the state, but it's generally divided in peoples minds into the four cardinal directions, so North Lansing, South Lansing, East, and South. This is important because each area is not only fairly large, but is also very different culturally from each other.

In fact East Lansing (still Lansing!) is the home of Michigan State University. That's hardly what I'd call a small school in a small town. East Lansing is practically a city unto itself.

Out of the 300 municipalities in the state of Michigan, Lansing is the 5'th largest by population.

I understand he's trying to evoke a certain emotion, but to anyone who is even remotely familiar with the area it comes off as pandering and dishonest.
I came to the same realization, but it was unnecessarily difficult to see through all of the snark. If all parties had simply focused on the salient points of disgreement rather than snarking at each other, it could have been cleared up much more quickly. The GP is right; all sides should be embarrassed.
I am not really sure about the value of this philosophical positions, since the ones i have seen, simply suggest to ignore logic for a little bit, to obtain the result they feel is correct.

The suggestion by Penrose that consciousness is connected to quantum state, and so cannot be copied, or computed on any classical turing machine fitting in the universe, is an interesting way to circumvent strange predictions of functionality, but is not very plausible.

And Jaron Lanier from your other comment explicitly suggests to not use approaches like that, because it would weaken vitality argument, when proven wrong.
Well, they were created in the 8086 or 80286 days where you had 640k memory (or less) and possibly floppies
Bush senior was big on incarceration and the war on drugs was a central tenant of his platform. It's pointing out that he [Barr] has a long history of doing what the President wants for political purposes.
Did they get bought or something
You'd sort of have to distrust the ability of any economist who wasn't good at squeezing the most out of a compensation system.
I haven't looked at any of their data. I do recall seeing criticism, and I'm not gonna defend any agency headed by someone that Trump picked. My point is, I don't think Birx's comment was meant to be helpful or even constructively critical.
Thanks. I'm of course familiar but hadn't considered this light.