skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN slides further downhill every day. I made this account because I forgot my login when I wanted to post because I could not believe dang was letting someone who owned a product be an absolute asshole to everyone critical of it in the comments. I think dang said he would let him slide because 'the product was the guys baby and wouldn't we be mad if someone hated our product/baby'. Point being, moderators are human and have their own biases. When those align with your users, great. When they don't, it's the worst. Shadowbans for dissenters. Removal of proper posts. Instant killing of people's comments.

Everyone should turn showdead on. you will see some garbage, but probably 80% are either the other side of the conversation, or have the correct information, but the commenter has been shadowbanned, or one user -1'd them with an alt or 2 and there does the comment anyway.
I don't know ...

https://tsone.kapsi.fi/em-fceux/ - This is an NES emulator. The Memory tap in Developer tools says this takes up 2.8MB. Runs in 60fps on my modern laptop.

It seems possible to build really efficient applications in JS/WebASM.

Multiple layers of Javascript frameworks is the cause of the bloat, and is the real problem I think.
Difference being Trump has improved nobody's life
Not really. You need to be root to have the same experience as playstore - namely auto updates.
I don't think that an individual proprietor earning only 100k would have a motivation to do that. One can pay rent, buy vehicles, and purchase most everything else with cash. Why give 40% to the government? Social responsibility is great, but not if it's going to get you interdicted as a drug dealer.
All of them? How do you know this?
This looks cool, however can someone with some electronics know-how explain to me why the connections on most, if not all the keys are crossed? They don't look like insulated wires, though I could be wrong.
Except if you taxed those buybacks, they wouldn't be happening, or would only be happening at a much smaller volume. BBs are a way for companies to return money to investors when they don't know what else to do with their cash. This is how capitalism is supposed to work by optimising the allocation of capital.

What you want to do is create an artificial incentive for not returning the capital, which will lead to its suboptimal allocation. Companies will either sit on their cash, or they will be putting it into projects they would otherwise not be doing.
Yes, it's really annoying. It's that bad that I normally just queue for some personal touch with the cashier :)
Munsell's amazing! This similar to Munsell, but where his space was based on specific, literal sample colors, this one is based on a mathematical model -- but the experiments to determine that model were remarkably similar to his!

The core model is CIE Lab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIELAB_color_space

The a and b* parameters of that model are not totally intuitive, though; luckily, the same space expressed in polar coordinates has parameters that map really well to the same hue, chroma, and lightness that Munsell organized with.
It is surprising that this is not illegal. It should be illegal under GDPR as sufficient anonymized data should not allow you to connect the dots to do anything like tracking military personnel. Transporting sensitive military information over the Norwegian border sounds also very illegal under Norwegian law.

Back when Wikileaks released the Afghan War Diary, I wonder what would have happened if rather than a whistleblowers we would have people buying data collected from soldiers smartphones in order to reconstruct the material. It should be pretty easy to identify colaborators by which smartphone gets into contact with someones else smartphone thus reconstruct who is working with who.
This is my knee jerk reaction, but then I ask myself if I really want Trump (or Pelosi depending on your political persuasion) deciding how my search engine and social networks work.

Feeling a big "NOPE" on that one.

Customers need to make it unacceptable for FAANG to act this way... Good luck on that tho.

Unfortunately, they have been very good at slowly raising the temperature so the frog (read:us) doesn't jump out of the pot.
Better than the other suggestions, but my experience is that you run into Cassandra's limitations really quick: you can't query on non-primary columns, and you can't join tables without pulling all the data down to the client and merge manually.
Deno v.1 is out, try it out in a container
Deno v.1 was finally released[1]. If you want to test it out without installing it on your machine, or if you want to deploy your Deno application, you can run it inside a container[2].

[1] Deno v.1 https://deno.land/v1
[2] Deno in a container: https://javascripteverything.com/blog/post/2020-05-13_deno
Moderna shows positive results on virus vaccine trials
Getting F-Droid is not "hard" but it isn't easy, and IIRC Google's Android gives off warnings. (Also it isn't as refined as the Play Store).

I believe the parent was suggesting, like with Windows/IE decades ago, that Android phones may have to come with a prompt to enable alternative stores to Play.
But only if you set a security flag to "allow anything to be installed". I want a security flag that says "allow apps from sources signed by the following keys", where I can import app store keys from the app store(s) of my choosing. So I'm still protected, as long as I trust those app stores that I import.
I see the opposite almost exclusively... people that can talk a great game but can't actually write a line of code.
Maybe he would be just like you up to the point the copy was made, after that you'd have different experiences (even if it is by having a different perspective of the world), and maybe that's enough to have the sense of his own identify?

Maybe you'd be the same in a fraction of an instance in time?

Maybe you'd never be the same because the process of duplication is an experience within itself enough to develop a different self?

Who knows :D
The average townhouse is worth more than the average detached home because of where you find each type.
Road are also listed on city books as an asset, with a positive cash value, instead of a liability. But unfortunately, future road maintenance is a liability just like future pension payments, and cities can’t actually sell roads to pay for other things. That future payment is generally not accounted for anywhere by any city.

The accounting practices around infrastructure are quite surprisingly bad.
But there's bib review: https://docdro.id/aeeiUMn

> Historical controls are used in many previous studies in medicine. In this respect, the safety of Hydroxychloroquine is well documented. When the safe use of this drug is projected against its apparent effect of decreasing the progression of early cases to ventilator use, it is difficult to understand the reluctance of the authorities in charge of U.S. pandemic management to recommend its use in early COVID-19 cases. The effects of the chloroquines were first outlined 15 years ago by the CDC’s own Special Pathogens Unit.
That's somewhat curious. Do you know why screen does anything special with 11111111?
I shared this chart with a friend of mine who lives in the Bay Area: https://www.hsh.com/finance/mortgage/salary-home-buying-25-c...

She was shocked that, in most of the US, the median home price is at or under $300K.
This rationalization may have been valid at the time, but certainly the software has changed in the intervening 20 years such that it is very likely that the user configured their OS and environment to their preferred language weights -- at least their preferred primary language.

Given Google's wanton dropping support for RFC-compliant HTTPS in the name of changing times, certainly they should be open to changing this policy with the appropriate data.
Yeah I've usually heard that the derivative component is what gets left out, never heard of leaving out the integral
On the other side of the coin: Don't try to guess the user's location based on the browser's language preference.

It's not as common, but plenty of e-commerce type sites try to redirect me to their site for a country that's on an entirely different continent, based on my browser being set for a language that's spoken plenty of other places, too.
I am not a fan of software that taints the OS in this manor. While I do not play Doom on Linux, I suppose the way I would address this would be to PXE boot a Doom specific image and persist writable directories into a Doom specific NFS or CIFS share. That might be too much effort for folks that just want to play a game however. It works great for lab setups that require bare metal.
What you're talking about won't come without a revolution. Yes, a freedom movement kinda revolution like Boston Tea Party of 1800s in America or the 1942 Quit India Movement against the British. Today's people are probably too feeble for something like that. They're afraid of even speaking against the system/establishment even when they know that some parts of that system might be rotten to the core.
What If a Tech CEO Tried to Save the World with Geoengineering?
If you ever start to feel comfortable, to feel like you are a genius and you have a handle on everything that's when you need to worry. Imposter syndrome will drive you motivate you and spur you to continue to improve. However Dunning-Kruger will turn you into an intolerable a-hole that everyone wants to avoid and will ruin things.

To paraphrase Paul Graham, great hackers don't seem to wonder why they are so smart, but rather wonder why everyone else seems so incompetent.

The trick is just to not tie, your identity, who you are, your sense of self worth to how good you are as a programmer. As long as you can avoid that embrace the imposter syndrome and let it drive you to improve, for knowledge is like compound interest, a little bit more now will result in a substantial return on investment in the future.
We have elections coming. I am all for arrests, impeachments, and the like, but boy, it would be super helpful if we coul prime the pump by removing some of these ghouls at the top. That signals a mandate.

Many of you live in San Francisco. Your House rep, Nancy Pelosi, with whom I am sure you are familiar, has a serious challenger in Shahid Buttar. He is pushing to debate her, which should be the bare minimum for electoral rivals, yet AFAIK no date has been set. No one in the media or in the political establishment is holding her feet to the fire.

We could start there.
The conclusions from the first critical code review cited:

All papers based on this code should be retracted immediately. Imperial’s modelling efforts should be reset with a new team that isn’t under Professor Ferguson, and which has a commitment to replicable results with published code from day one.

On a personal level, I’d go further and suggest that all academic epidemiology be defunded. This sort of work is best done by the insurance sector. Insurers employ modellers and data scientists, but also employ managers whose job is to decide whether a model is accurate enough for real world usage and professional software engineers to ensure model software is properly tested, understandable and so on. Academic efforts don’t have these people, and the results speak for themselves.

https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/
Americans think they are better at social distancing than their neighbors
Good Remote Agile Practices – First Insights from the Survey
Moderators, why was this post removed from the front page (and the Ask HN front page)? It is newer and has more upvotes than many other submissions. Are questions like the OP's still allowed on HN?
Latin was a dead language when both Gauss and Copernicus were alive. Even within the time of the Roman empire, it went through crazy amounts of changes.

For example it's pretty common to find people who can read Latin well but pretty rare to find people who understand in what time period and circumstance an /m/ would have nasalized the vowel before it. Could they "speak Latin"? It wouldn't really be the same. It's a bit like learning Esperanto.

I think it's quite likely that modern communities speaking Sanskrit are a little blinded to this sort of thing by pride in the cultural heritage and identity that Sanskrit represents.

My larger point is we don't really know what kind of utterance a casual street speaker of Latin or Sanksrit was capable of. It's very possible that something like a palindromic poem is impressive to modern eyes and ears in part because native speakers no longer exist.

Another example in English. You might be surprised at how people without much education can improvise a freestyle rap. How will that look to somebody studying current English in 1000 years? Will someone make comments like yours about the astounding difficulty of execution? I mean, yes, people doing this are clever. Not everyone can pull it off. But it is derived from existing casual speech patterns and recognizable as such.
Isn’t this already taxed since it’s income?

Can someone explain to me the obsession with buybacks and not dividends?
The one I've been daydreaming about is to force publicly-traded companies that operate in the United States, whenever they issue stock, they have to issue 20% of it to the US Government.

They don't pay taxes. So, fine, issue stock to the government. The government can hold or sell the stock when it makes sense.
> But how come people have different pain thresholds then?

Different signal sources and also differently configured/trained systems receiving and interpreting those signals.

But practically, it makes more sense to use the instrument already evolved and trained by their own experience to measure their pain: the person themselves.
Good luck selling that to the wealthy. German public opinion refuses to support even their own neighbours in the European Union...
Those security issues would have been rendered moot by the sandbox if they went through the Play Store.

But really? That's the card you're going to play? That "every app has security issues" so this is okay?
Yes. They are partially liable if you went through them.

Censorship of any content implies approval of all remaining content. One can't be protected from liability as a common carrier if one is curating.

So if you have been provably harmed by anything Google has served you, you can sue the owner of the content and join Google as a defendant.

(Not a lawyer.)
It's three different pieces, published by the author on a weekly basis for the last three weeks. So your argument is kind of moot. I didn't post each piece more than twice.
I think I got a better insight into PID from this one page from me entire control engineering course in university
For Some JPMorgan Staff, Remote Work Could Become More Permanent
Not just less, there would be none and it would have all been given out as dividends. Stock buybacks are just dividends reinvested in the company for you.
Thanks so much for taking the time to look at this. I absolutely understand your concerns and I would be equally skeptical if I was reading this. Ultimately, anyone is free to repeat this analysis independently and see for themselves. Everything presented in our report is evidenced, recorded and cross-checked very extensively over a long period of time in anticipation of this. You'll also notice that we try to include as many references as possible to independent analyses and articles

Re manipulation of app pool, we searched very extensively both on our own and using outside services like AppFollow and AppFigures to get global rankings and these really were the top 20 we could find. You'll see that by the last one, we are reaching single-digit ratings, so we capped it at that. There are some other apps that match the "safety" keyword, but are not relevant to this study. For example an enterprise app for managing OSHA reports or a passive police scanner. If you can point us to an app that should be on the list, we will happily update this

Re more disclosure, this definitely should be read critically and with the understanding that we are one of the people in the space. From my point of view, I see the word "Parachute" on the URL, nav bar logo and author before getting to the title of the blog post. If you have a suggestion on how to better elucidate this, please let me know. We do believe that companies have the right to shine light on something, even if it's in the space in which they operate, but the reader should be fully aware of this at all times
Yeah, that's going to work really well for the average consumer....
Again, totally agreed that Grubhub should've made microsites more obvious to merchants during the sales cycle. But it's not PR spin - to a merchant with 0 online presence (more than you'd think), the value is demonstrable.

No company lines out every single little thing they do during a sale because the whole point of using a company like Grubhub is "we'll take care of this eCommerce thing for you." I'm with you in that they should've been more explicit about microsites given that more and more owners have to be aware of their online presence. I believe it's an understandable mistake given Grubhub's size, and that the amount of feedback around microsites was likely really low (or else they would've gotten ahead of it).

I also understand your skepticism given that Grubhub hasn't done a great job of handling the narrative around these things.
Bonuses end up becoming political exercises. If you can keep bonuses aligned with value, that is great but I've seen otherwise many times.

Serious question - are there really many bad ways to bump up the stock price?

There is financial engineering (like stock buy-backs), you can just disallow that and remove the problem.

There is unnecessary M&A, but if the employees are running amok with unnecessary M&A, you have much bigger problems.

There are illegal things -- but we have the law to take care of that.

There are extractive measures (e.g., squeeze blood from workers, suppliers), but if that is allowed, then the "value" you see from that is likely also "value" you'd reflect on the annual bonus.
> an alternative to property/sales taxes and development fees

Development fees are a one-off revenue stream, and could fit the Ponzi scheme assertion. But property taxes? These are recurring, and could be turned to sustainably fund a community's costs.

> we could tax something like 5% of stock buybacks

Within the scope of the author's argument, this would be worse than property taxes. It's an unpredictable revenue stream. And it's unrelated to the liability side of the equation.
Are you arguing that there haven't been varying levels of unity and partisanship within American history?
9 years after launch, Terraria is finally complete
Not for nothing, but more than drone deliveries, we need to make sure families like this have access to daycare for their kids.
Back in 2008-2009 my then PI tried this: it worked for a while, but then it proved to be untenable. Not because there wasn't enough money (there was) but because the university did not like the idea to get someone on board just to help researchers develop software, and thus there were so many roadblocks at one point that it was impossible to go on.
https://archive.vn/YXqxL
That worked really well for Windows....
roads certainly do need to be replaced, i.e., repaved. in my three weeks of travel in china, i never once encountered a single road worse than the roads i encounter everyday in a major metropolitan city in the u.s. and i pay heavy taxes.
It's worth noting that in a pandemic situation, waiting before taking action is "making a decision"

Shutting down the economy is costly, yes, but allowing a virus to continue its exponential growth with all of the unknowns that entails is much more costly in expectation (we can only speak in expectation given the unknowns)

Whether or not this model should have been the basis for such a decision I don't know, but it's important to keep in mind that taking proactive steps in a pandemic is conservative
Is it not. For example hardware acceleration is terrible under linux.
44 is indisputably a minority.

It is still enough people that I wouldn’t want to see the corresponding headline.
That’s just an illusion to me. The word conscious is a subjective construct and awareness has always been associated with it as a necessary role in expressing consciousness exists. Well if a person is just metaphorically a domino like everything encompassing his/her existence and there can be conflict between the parties to a significant degree. Then it’s arguable that neither person is truly aware but just similar to a character in a cutscene of a video game. All of us just acting out without any control to what the story entails. Similar for the discussion at hand. I think it’s a philosophical issue and where human language attempts at making it seem more possible than it being an illusion but is in fact not the case.
How does f-droid police "shovelware and spyware"? Or just outright malware? Surely they will remove it? In which case your favourite app might be "arbitrarily removed"?
Hackers threaten to release Trump’s ‘dirty laundry’
> dictate what we can install on our computers/smartphones

Can they though? Android does not make it difficult at all to install apps through stores other than their own Play Store. A quick internet search reveals that there are at least a dozen other options for users to download apps to Android phones.

I agree that a devices OS should allow alternative means to install apps, but Android has clearly done this.
Delivery services have monopolized many peoples restaurant ordering habits. Many restaurants have their own delivery service, but people don't use it because they order from grubhub/doordash/uber eats instead. If the restaurants take themselves off the services people don't order from them anymore.
I would say that is more ahuman than anti-human, in the same way one can be an atheist rather than a theist. Cryptocurrencies don’t have any regard or deference to humanity, because they lack agency. How then could they rise to become anti-human rather than simply ahuman?
That sentence is so extreme and definitive that it's most likely provably false.

Separately, opinion polls show that plenty of people support the current US president, so, regardless if their lives have been "improved" (whatever that means), those people will be upset if the president leaves.
> There is more in life than being rich.

Yes, of course.

> Everything else is lost in US with immediate job termination, no thanks.

This doesn't matter when you save $60k/year from your $250k FAANG job. Job termination just means a long, fun vacation before you look for your next thing.
I started adding type hints to some Python code the other day and something in my brain was like, "WTF!? Just use Haskell!"

When you add types to Python code it tends to destroy the elegance and readability of it, which is Python's main advantage over other languages.

If you're paying the overhead of adding type information already, you might as well use a language like Haskell that makes it first class and unlocks a ton of power and elegance (and convenient tooling.)

Python has a sweet spot but IMO explicit typing draws it away from that. Python is a very complicated and sophisticated semantics that acts like a simple and easy semantics. It's a delicate balance.
Somalia is the type of society that aligns with libertarian ideals. "Let the free market work it out."
Why was the mobility for women bad? Was it sexism?
Transistor Count: A Flawed Metric
You are right.

We could spend less money on healthcare by adopting Medicare4All or similar.

We could cut the military budget _dramatically_ without impacting our national security.

And yet both parties have done little but increase the extent to which our countries is beholden to banks.
They wanted high orders for the negotiation when getting a new restaurant signed up.

"Hey in the last month we delivered X amount of your food! If we don't list you then you'll lose those sales."