skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it really funny that it used to be peole would point to Linux usage in Microsoft as a "Hah! Look how crap Windows is!". In reality, this is just reflective of the fact that Microsoft is succeeding even without Windows, which in my opinion is quite an extraordinarily impressive manouvre. People think seem to cheer on the death of windows as if Microsoft were the same company as it was when people were booing Steve Jobs at the Macworld announcement.
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Apparently your threat model doesn't include governments and large corporations, who have done more enumerable harm (e.g. through the military-industrial-information complex) to people than small-time crooks ever have. Sometimes it seems more people want to live in prison (or a gilded cage), than in regular civilian life with all its attendant dangerous freedoms.

The point of the OP is that users can and deserve to have the reliability that cryptographically-secure boot systems provide, without the Big Brother backdoor.
I think the poster has a good point. It's not just the one submariner study he's referencing that's relevant, it's the decades of experience navies of various nations have operating submarine fleets - the armed forces are not shy about collecting physiological data in the service of operational readiness. If the headline article is correct, we should be very concerned that a significant fraction of the world's nuclear weapons are immediately operated by officers experiencing extraordinary CO2 exposure. Every submariner is green at some point (and there are female submariners as well) - how is acclimation handled?
Strong friendships are forged through shared adversity. Military probably ticks that box.
It works ok, with some applications on some compositors. But firefox needs to be built with patches for webrtc to work. Zoom only works on gnome (it uses a gnome-specific dbus api). Sway requires running xdg-desktop-portal-wlr, which is still very much a work in progress. afaik there isn't any way to screencast a specific window. Tl;dr; it sorta works, but not as well as it did in X.
The names of the people who paid for the painting. "Eighteen names appear on a shield, painted circa 1715, in the center-right background, as the hired drummer was added to the painting for free." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch#Commission
> Not every doctor exists to respond to an acute respiratory viral infection.

When you disallow elective procedures and everyone else stays away from hospitals for fear of catching the disease, they kinda do.
Looks amazing, sadly I don't.
I'm not so sure they'd ever even say yes to that.
How indeed. I think basically a rudimentary version might guess and then ask you if its mapping is right.

i.e. a modal asking:

"As done to MethodA, do to MethodB?"
"As done to VariableNameA, do to VariableNameB?"

And the B values would just be dropdowns that would let you correct it. Idk.

I'm just imagining what you could do with some decent speech-to-text, NLP, and an engine that understands code conceptually on a basic level.

"Create a new enum on line 14 called SuchAndSuchCategories, with the values A, B, and C. Replace the string literal on line 27 with SuchAndSuchCategories.B."

"Move method A above method B."

"Add a new method to class X called doSomething() that accepts three parameters: a string called A, a generic called B, and a SomethingClass called C. Inside the method, start a for-loop...."

Like, idk. These aren't repeat-after-me tasks but they're complimentary to them. It would just be great to be able to just talk code into existence.
Can’t most senior developers get an exceptional ability visa?
A Collective Booklet for Computational Womxn
> You have this backwards. It is miners who cannot ignore the interest of the users. Miners can only profit by selling the bitcoin that people want to buy, and the bitcoin people want to buy is the one which is inflation-free. The market decides the correct chain and the miners follow it.

The Bitcoin people will want to buy is the one with a network that hasn't collapsed. That's far more important than a little bit of inflation. Other cryptocurrencies without a fixed supply are successful as well, it's not the most important factor.

> If a majority attempted to mine a forked chain, the minority chain would just become unfairly cheap to mine (due to difficulty reduction), and cause more people to mine it again.

If a majority is priced out of mining, the network would be vulnerable to a 51% attack and blocks would take long time to mine until difficulty adjusts. What's that going to do to the value of Bitcoin, the "most secure" of all the networks?

> If bitcoin cannot be sustained by fees alone, the experiment is a failure.

If Bitcoin cannot be sustained by fees alone, block reward will return. What else do you think is going to happen, everyone will just give up on Bitcoin and make it become worthless, rather than accept inflation?

> That's because Ethereum is a personality cult and not an experiment in sound money.

The market has decided Ethereum Classic is not the way to go. I don't think that's down to a personality cult. The "code is law" attitude on the other hand is pure ideology.

> It is unlikely that a hard-forked bitcoin will ever gain traction. [..] Those with the mindset that they are in charge, rather than the market, have all left.

It will gain traction through the market if the situation that I described should arise.
Ouch! That is so sad on so many levels.

To be fair, I can understand when someone doesn't know that the shortcut key for the dev console is F12, but I would hope they would at least start at the "hamburger" menu to see if they could find it.

Your anecdote reminds me of the dot com days when I was trying to hire some network engineers. Their only qualification appeared to be they passed some certification test on Cisco gear. The only questions they asked about the job were "how much stock will I get?" and "when do you think the company will go public?" It was easy to not hire them, even when we were really in need of people.
If you remove the requirement of having to commute into the Bay Area, finding a place where you can bike every day of the year just becomes even easier. The American Southwest probably has a dozen places that are LGBT friendly and you can bike all year in beautiful nature. For half or less rent.

If it's anything like Seattle, there are great and beautiful communities a few hours away - you get the same weather and even better nature but it's too far to commute. And they're a lot cheaper.
1 is insufficiently clear. Is the endgame 1) getting new infections down to such a small number that they can be individually detected and isolated, 2) keeping hospital utilization from overrunning capacity while allowing the population to reach herd immunity, or 3) staying in lockdown until we have a vaccine or cure?

Until this question is answered clearly and officials show that whatever goal they set is achievable in a reasonable timeframe, I think it’s unreasonable to expect people to continue to comply.
We had a big spike in Quebec after spring break as people returned from Florida and France. The province is still the worst in Canada. BC took note and advised people not to travel for spring break (our break here is later). BC is doing very well by comparison.
I just don't buy it. If they were aiming to return to semi-normal life, they'd announce we're transitioning away from "stay at home". It seems very much like they're aiming to open up the bare minimum amount required to avoid riots or economic collapse, and people will continue to be ordered to stay at home.
No where in the article are any mention of the methods or statistics used by PUBLIC officials to make this decision. No mention about California’s or LA County’s current infections (68,000) and or deaths (3,000).

Relative to the stats, this is a tyrannical power grab by the public officials of a state with the population of more than 40,000,000.
There's hundreds of people using these on public roadways. Check out the official Discord and the various Community Discords centered around it.
While there is a requirement to social distance, at least in the Bay Area there is no requirement to wear masks while walking outdoors.
Edge is a wonderful site.

Richard Dawkin's answer[^1] to "What scientific idea is ready for retirement" significantly shifted my view of the world.

[^1]: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25366
May favourite was the one that never got used. For years sub-editors hoped that former Labour leader Michael Foot would be put in charge of the organisation overseeing the decommissioning of weapons in Northern Ireland.

... just so thy could write:

Foot Heads Arms Body

Sadly, it never came to pass.
Ask HN: How to avoid people mistake your hobbies as profession on social media?
Hi,

I am an avid 3D printer hacker/aficionado. I never plan to turn it into an economical endeavour. It is entirely an hobby for me. I never want to get into business of it. Unless it is purely software.

Professionally, I have been a programmer, web developer, app developer etc...

I notice people mistake my 3D printing hobby as my main profession. Since I can not post projects I do for my clients as openly every day.

I think this has a negative effect on how/what I am perceived as. I think this may effect my chances of being recognized as a hardcore developer.

Do you face similar challenges?

How do you tackle it?
The article quotes 56%, as the negotiated rate on NiH projects, not 54%, but the rate varies by funder and by project. The 2/3 number is from an actual project I had insight into as the base overhead rate.

What's a little bit hidden there is that MIT dips into these funds multiple times, in pretty complex ways. For example, a sponsor might pay overhead and graduate student tuition (which just flows into MIT's general coffers). Or graduate student tuition might be waived, and the sponsor pays just overhead. Or a donor might pay overhead when the money comes in, and again on specific purchases. Or capital expenditures might waive overhead. Etc. The level of complexity is high, while the level of transparency is low.

I'm not claiming any of this is unique to MIT by any means. It's just where I have the most visibility.

What's cute is that MIT claims to lose money on everything. In the article you cited: "'We lose money on every piece of research that we do,' says Maria Zuber, vice-president for research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)." You'll find similar statements about educating undergraduates and tuition. And just about everything else. I've worked through the numbers at some point, and MIT only loses money with clever accounts; it's good PR to say MIT subsidize everything it does, but it's often not a reality.
If anyone else is struggling, there appears to be a typo in the instructions. You need your rate to be below something like -.12 m/s, even though it says -.2 m/s. I failed twice because of that. If your rate is blue, you're good.

Fun little simulator though. The "flat earth" setting is a nice touch too.
Please don't dismiss results just because they aren't 100% descriptive of the normal population.
"assuming a physical basis as explanation is prudent" yeah, good luck making physicality relevant for most explanations. My wife asks why I didn't put the laundry away, for instance. "Physics!" I declare triumphantly.

Now, if I put music on and rub her back a bit... Well, ha! There's the magic, my good sir.

Imagine walking into a film studio with the idea of film production based exclusively on the principles of physics. No. Magic and physics are no more opposed than biology and physics. When hidden (psychological?) forces clearly underlie economically valuable phenomena (architecture, music, media, etc) respecting the magic is closer to the truth than reducing it to physics. Physics just isn't the right explanatory level.

If you'd like to learn more about definitions of magic that aren't "phenomena that don't actually exist", I recommend Penelope Gouk's work on music, science and natural magic in the 17th century. It's about the magic involved at the formation of the Royal Society.
This is great; a significant portion of potential growth to Microsoft's revenue tied to Linux is good for Linux and continued investment in Linux from Microsoft.
Well, to my mind you seem too hasty to conclude it's false. Sure, statistically there is a very small non-negligible chance that exactly one person will survive, but realization of an unlikely event is no short of a miracle. To conclude that it happened randomly seems as naive as to conclude it happened purposefully. If your guts tells you it was a random event that is just fine, but be aware it is a metaphysical axiom of yours
In a similar spirit, another very useful Windows tool is Windows Keyboard Layout Creator. I first started by editing the US English keyboard to have an AltGr key which produced Turkish letters like ğ and Ş, and just recently I added a Greek dead key which lets me type α, γ, Ω etc with two keystrokes. What's really nice is that the usual keyboard is a single Win+Space away so my friends don't need to struggle when using my PC.
> For most of the country it's worked

Do you have something that reinforces this? JHU dashboard data extrapolation (https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map) and revised models (https://www.livescience.com/trump-administration-models-pred...) starkly disagree.
There's something unsustainable about a "team" analogy... just as there is in a family one. Netflix may be the rare example where an elite sports team analogy applies, but... That can't be more than a rare exception.

Ultimately, sports is different just like family is different and the way those things work relate to those differences. Sports is objective. Work isn't. Managers, players & spectators all know if they're playing in the A-league or the local league. In workplace culture, implying that you're not in the A-league is taboo. Remember that "elite" means very rare, and usually short lived.
You appear to understand this stuff better than me, so you've gotten me a bit curious; how did something like Java NIO work before kernel 5.1?
There are ways to do it with out "HR Drone" spying

and further if you are saying things that would get you in hot water with HR then it is unlikely that a verbal conversation is better, in fact in many of these instances having a record of the conversation can be helpful....
#1 likely isn't possible in the US.

The actions you take for #2 and #3 are similar, and which one you wind up implementing depends largely on how long the vaccine takes to develop.
It's the "we" (I live in Alberta) I was originally referring to with the 3.5% test positivity rate.
What's nice about the EU there's 27 different parties and jurisdictions and home markets involved in regulation (note that the EU does not have regulatory powers, merely strong recommendations that nation states should implement at their earliest convenience which may very well be decades into the future). This creates a field in which it is much harder for a particular commercial party to get the upper hand.
React Native for Windows and Mac
This is the main topic in The Innovators Dilemma, it's a pretty interesting book if you like this sort of graduation of companies
I like the birthday paradox analogy. Nassim Taleb, Black Swan author, has a paper on the same idea. https://www.academia.edu/42223846/Ethics_of_Precaution_Indiv....
Why is this better than Mermaid? It works in Markdown, you can version control, and Git(Hub|Lab) displays it automatically.

I'm really curious. Maybe for doing something programmatically, but GraphViz may be better.
I'm describing a facet of human nature.
How many marriages has he wrecked now? His character wasn't obvious to people?
MacOS implementation here https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-macos
A new phishing attack is targeting Microsoft Teams users
Fed Ramp Storage for Home Office Use
tl;dr oversupply. nothing unexpected here
Or it trickles back up to wall street:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/singl...
Maybe they want to diversify risk.
Based on the US candidates that have come across my desk, I'd agree with that!
Hackers targeted the Nicaraguan Forest Institute to expose deforestation
Here is the link to Mermaid: https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/
I liked some of the ones after the second more than the second. But I honestly wish I'd stopped at the first. It is such an amazing story that gives life to an incredibly interesting and well built universe. Then, having built that wonderful universe, the follow-on books got bored with it and decided to focus on ... fancy sounding bullshit, for lack of any better description. Going back to the first book, I see that the flaws were there already, but they were in service of building the world, while that relationship flipped afterward.
Do you think anyone in their wildest dreams back in March imagined that hospitals all over the country would look like ghost towns? I’m pretty sure we were expecting hospitals to at the very least be experiencing high loads in the midst of these lockdowns.

You know, it IS possible for both “lockdowns work” and “the models and experts were a bit off base” to be correct.
It may need some support from the host if it doesn't have any local persistent storage.
But the spreading continues, and I can see it taking multiple generations to make a clear trend. It's not like in 2 weeks there are 10x more people, the R0 is not that high. You have to have enough to be noticeable compared to the previous visible amount.
I had to move from Digital Ocean to Azure recently because my customers didn't know DO and thought they can't trust them. I was super happy with DO though. Azure is the ridiculously expensive without bringing any benefit. Sure, there are client tools but I don't need them. It seems to me every click I do on the Azure portal makes the costs increase by a few euros. I wish Digital Ocean would be accepted by more corporate clients.
As an employee it is. As an employer it’s not.
If you know of any polls about compliance with stay-at-home orders, I'm all ears. I get the impression that pollsters are deliberately avoiding asking about it.
This is actually recognized in the article itself (but who has time to read that when you can reply to just the headline and perhaps the first few paragraphs, right?)

And FOIA about the COVID-19 response are unlikely to require digging in to some archive, and are of limited use when fulfilled after it's actually over. This is what the mentioned suit is about.
Show HN: Push-to-Talk for Pulseaudio
Push-to-Talk with libinput + Pulseaudio
All societies that primarily aimed at equality have harmed their members. All societies that have aimed at top-quartile growth have their bottom-quartile more prosperous than those who've aimed at minimizing Gini.

Empirically, it has not led to happy people.
My roommate moved out, and we couldn't fill the room in the coronavirus world, so we started a mushroom farm making a couple hundred pound of oysters per week and haven't looked back:

https://heartymushroom.com/

Stamets taught me that one cubic meter of soil has 7 miles of mycelium! I think we have a lot to learn from the digestive tract of nature :)
It's such a cool idea, imagine a webfont that changes slightly each page load.

I could make a document that slowly became more illegible after each new visitor, just for fun!
I mean it's literally the same thing as affirmative action.
I'm using ahk to record programming tutorials without a typo. It pastes very slowly, one character at a time and it appears as if a person is typing: https://winkeltriple.tumblr.com/post/177397119146/recording-...
> I can only assume that people ignore the very obvious "magical thing" that is happening in their own heads due to ideological commitments to physicalism or something.

You nailed it. People think that accepting consciousness is hard is giving into religion.

It need not be that way.
Sounds like a terrible idea.

Doesn't closing SpaceX also have national security implications?
Microsoft Azure Demonstration – Azure Container Services
Yes, I live in LA county and I understand the angst, but I think it is overboard to claim that residents are going to riot because they won't be able to go to a crowded bar in June.
I think the answer to "Can AGI become aware?" is yes, but deep-learning is not the way to get there. The reason why there are very different types of neurons in the brain is that those neurons have different functions they perform - the total number of functions is low, but the nested effect is profound. I think the key is in understanding how we humans use concepts first, fully understanding the underlying functionality and various graphs of relations, and then building that active system in the form of an AGI.
Fortran Standard Library
nah its pretty straightforward w/ higher order fns.

one of many possible solutions:

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> they run a self contained Linux image the only thing that is accessible to the host is the streaming interface.

That's more or less how the Phi coprocessors presented themselves, with the exception you could ssh into the coprocessor and install software on it.
> He said it was a hold over from the cast system

I was with you until the "cast (sic) system".

> you are held in more esteem in India when you manage more people.

You can replace "India" with literally any country in the world. Managers and bosses always are and always have been held in more esteem than leaf node workers, in every society past and present. It's got nothing to do with the caste system.

Personal anecdote: I caught up with an American friend from school after about 15 years. He worked in some kind of product/project management role. When I told him I was an engineer in the Bay Area he said "Oh, you're just a programmer?" (OK so he wasn't a great friend, and that was the last time I spoke to him...)
I spent a good half hour composing a reply and then I decided to defer to the expertise of someone who's spent the last decade and half grappling with the Indian education system.

Full disclosure: The author is a friend.

https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/9B4x2LbRpZuwuFz72g9f3O/The-...

https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/RybPVLh2hlTYsSBycUIzgM/The-...

(edit removed an irrelevant link)
Whats special about that site if you dont mind my asking?
Furthermore, it only banned the sale of said tokens to americans and in USA - if TON is so great and certainly profitable, I'm sure there are lots of wealthy Saudi or Chinese investors that would be glad to invest. It's just that the "greater fool" theory of investment fails if everyone knows that they won't be able to unload these securities to unsophisticated mass market in USA.
> A single physical neuron is equivalent to an entire artificial neural network.

In what world is a neural network required to measure a change in voltage?
What are the odds that a similar extension happens in the Bay Area? Any rumblings from the local health departments?
I don't really understand the definition argument, I cannot imagine a definition of consciousness that feels like it's in good faith and sufficiently difficult to capture intelligence and consciousness. Either you make a definition that seems we can clearly make that system eventually, or the definition is something that most would call unfair and narrow. Can you think of a "fair" definition that seems like AI systems couldn't get there? If not, this is not a valid counter point, and more of a communication problem.

Any definition about a subset of tasks or creativity clearly is possible by AI systems, given the progress we're already seeing.
A straightforward legal fix is to make location one of the things you can't ask about during hiring, like age, marital status, or disability.

All they should be able to ask is what fraction of their work hours you're available for. It could be that everyone must be online 9-5 PST, or there're a few hours of overlap, or there's no expectation of common work hours as long as you "get your work done."