skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
R & D in pharma has been drastically curtailed, partly because of poor returns. Publically funded pharma research wouldn't be the worst idea, also because of the research focus. Right now the money ends up in sectors that are profitable (cancer), not in sectors beneficial to public health (antibiotics, neglected tropical diseases).
The Why and How of Giving Room for Failure
> "The amount of people who live in the world who do not change their default OS settings is higher than those who live in foreign countries"

They'll get computers with an OS and a browser on their language.

There are people claiming that in some places the computers will be in English even though people do not speak English... But this is such a suboptimal situation that I can't believe it happens in any large place, and those people will certainly learn how to set their browser locale.

Much more likely is that people will get a computer on a different variant of their language, like many countries in Africa that get computers set for the European variants of their language, so ignoring the variant may make some sense. But still it would make much more sense to not ignore the variant, and let people change it on your interface.

> "it is computationally expensive to read Accept-Language vs geoIP"

The cost difference is included on the page processing already... and in your firewall, and in your HA proxy, it's so cheap that every node on the path pays it just in case you want it for something.

> "obviously companies know what they're doing here"

Oh, sure.
Let me try an easy definition: consciousness is that which makes you get out of bed in the morning and get something to eat. Life is a series of experiences and choices and something needs to make those choices in such a way as to continue life.

If it weren't for consciousness your body would not survive, or grow to adult size, or reproduce. Of course, 'get something to eat' sounds simpler than it is in reality - you would need to be able to see, walk, grasp, understand the environment and objects at your disposal, shop, cook, earn money, be a functioning member of society - the whole bag.
Uber is up about 20% from the end of March.
If the program is just using mmap/munmap for memory allocation, then I agree with you.

But some programs do crazier things. Imagine a program that implements mmap of a file entirely in userspace. For example, say I have a file that's stored on a distributed filesystem that dosen't have kernel drivers. So I catch SIGSEGV in userspace and populate pages on-demand by fetching them from the remote server. Later on, the page hasn't been used in a while, so I munmap() it to reclaim memory. I expect that any further uses after this point (especially writes, which maybe I need to sync back?) will raise a new SIGSEGV which I can handle.

I think something like that, unfortunately, could be broken by changing all munmaps to be lazy...
This is great news! Uber had a great idea but is run and mismanaged by the scum of humanity. Perhaps Sons investments would to better in the hands of ethical leaders.

I'll never forget the day Uber deleted $300 I had earned right out of my driver account. I fought with them for a month and never got it back. The state and feds couldn't have cared less. This company has a license to steal. It's caught up with them.

I look forward to the day the robot takes over and fires everyone.
No, and it should not be... freedom of speech is a good thing.
Why would you want to regulate it? Consumers benefit from VCs subsidising Uber and food delivery.
ML Conference Munich 2020
Hey everyone, developer of new.css here. I've gotten a lot of valuable feedback from everyone today! But I get it, new.css is very basic, and it's not the traditional definition of a framework.

Please keep leaving your constructive feedback. I'm excited to keep making new.css something for everyone to enjoy.
That's an old, old trope. "Real men" do it the way that takes 3X as long and yields code with more bugs.
And then there's tossing gasoline on a pile of cash made on selling gasoline.
I use YNAB and do it all manually — as such, it's a notable mental and time commitment.

YNAB has a little feature called 'Age of Money' which I guess is like a reverse way of thinking about a runway. Maybe worth looking at?

In terms of the question asked — what level of friction people will put up with in order to get that prediction is interesting. I put a lot into my personal budget in order to get a crystal clear picture, so something that can provide even a vague idea for lower effort is bound to have some appeal. Depends on how the data gets in I guess?
Looks interesting. I wonder how feasible it is for a single dev / small team to keep such a thing going. The sheer volume of little problems (especially if multi platform) seems overwhelming.
With references, of course. ;-)
The complete failure to imagine an alternative to property/sales taxes and development fees during this crisis has been one of the most disappointing failures of politicians everywhere. We keep being told we need to suffer more and more with deeper cuts while living in the wealthiest country that ever existed by a wide margin.

This is absurd. There is plenty of money, we could tax something like 5% of stock buybacks and completely rebuild our entire society from the ground up.

Instead our leaders just keep telling us to toughen up and get stronger while flying jets overhead in meaningless salutes. They seem to be very bad at their jobs.
ARM will just get sold to someone else.

They own a bunch of Alibaba too, to be fair.
Apple prototypes are not public nor are used to inform major decisions about public health policy
I think the problem here is when buggy “science code” / “prototype code” is used to inform life-and-death decisions made in the real world.

It is therefore rather irresponsible of the scientific community to allow such a bad state of code technical debt to live on for so long, when it’s dealing with a field that is inherently tied to the study of life-or-death scenarios (like we are facing right now).

The only way to avoid this inevitable conclusion of irresponsibility would be if the scientists behind the model warned that it cannot be trusted at all due to the potential of a large number of unknown bugs (did they?). Otherwise, either the scientists are irresponsibility incapable of understanding how to write reliable complex code, or were not honest about the trustworthiness of their code.
Zero allocation JSON deserialization tool with C# 9 source generators
Yes, "Chrome only" is bad, but the web, open standards, and open source are the solution to the problem being discussed, so putting Chrome in the same bucket as IE6 seems quite backwards to me.
Right - and it's unfair to the degree that it is true. For China it is MASSIVELY unfair - far far more than any other industrialized economy.
The collateral damage is immense, to both gig workers and in the case of food delivery, restaurants who do the actual work of making the food.

EDIT: I mean, just go UBI instead of advocating for siphoning sovereign fund dollars from ruthless dictators and unsophisticated investors like Masayoshi Son. Save us all the paperwork and bikeshedding about not being able to afford what we clearly (based on central bank monetary policy) can afford. I will certainly miss the Matt Levine pieces about these folks though.
> If the devil offered them $10 cash on condition that the world is swallowed in flames in 100 years, what's to stop them?

Umm... just knowing and doing what’s right? Is having children the only thing stopping you from doing that sort of thing (metaphors aside)?

You often get this from religious folk: “if you don’t believe in God, what’s to stop you from killing people?”. I would flip it the other way: is God the only thing preventing you from killing people? Because if so, that’s terrifying.
Thanks for sharing. WS is a great case study. I've known a lot of people who have used it and it doesn't have the sexual harassment and/or hookup thing of CS.

It also feels much more barebones, which I'd say people kind of like.
Woah, that's awesome! I had no idea this was a thing :) Thanks!
Exactly. So how would you approach this?

If this problem is not addressed, the internet may well segregate along national boundaries (just as you describe).
Question to the people in fax countries: are your fax machines still connected to a POTS line, or has the word come to mean a glorified "scanner that automatically emails at the push of a button"?
I'm getting a bit tired of seeing these bizarre and unsupported screeds from strongtowns. The idea that infrastructure is bankrupting the american city/town is totally unsupported. Spending on things like roads is a small percentage of government. As a random cite, the Urban institute puts it at 6%:

https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative...
15T quantum entangled atoms make a record-breaking hot mess
> vegetable oil is usually soybean oil

Every vegetable oil I've seen is largely canola oil.
Yes. Going after the crop of fraudsters and SEO scammers trying to cash in on the crisis is a fine idea. But between this and Podcast Addict, it's pretty clear they're just indiscriminately deleting everything or trusting and algorithm to make hard calls.

The odds are good they ban Red Cross or a reputable news organization.
I dont think it's that level of job that determines which economy became dominant. The US had policies friendly towards huge capitalist projects and funding that allowed for companies like facebook and google to form in the first place and reward immensely the people that took the risks to make that happen. You get as a result huge wealth inequality, but also huge concentration of international power since that's what you incentivized from the beginning. For the average worker its probably better to be in a country with worker protections, lower inequality, less concentrated power, etc. But that same system doesnt lend itself to creating multinational dominant corporations as powerful as many nation states
"Working with and enormous codebase" and "actualing ensuring it works" are two very different things.

Academic "scientific software developers" (lol) never have to prove anything works in production long term in majority of cases. They make a one-off project and never touch it again. So this generlization stands.

And yes, I am saying that they are eggheads.

Because this article and the covid sim clearly shows that "scientific software developers" (lol) must not be trusted with real world-affecting systems without some other real world developer checking it.

The fact is that the covid sim is garbage and anyone who tries to defend it does not understand programming and complex systems well enough.
I second that. University education in Electronic Engineering tends to favour rote learning over understanding.

People could be genuinely interested in this stuff if engineering tried to focus more on creativity than memorization.
As a European resident and previously lived in Asia and the US, I think that EU become a 3rd tier player in that game (user data) as stated by the EU Commission [1] due to an inability to develop those services by itself.

I mean, what's the EU option for whatssup?

[1] - https://ec.europa.eu/info/files/white-paper-artificial-intel...
Austin is not semi arid. Salt Lake City and maybe Denver are semi arid, but Austin is humid in the summer and almost swampy in overall climate. You aren’t going to see a hint of beige until you get way into west Texas.
> Those big sports teams are money-makers, not cost centers.

Are they actually, when all's said and done? (Genuinely asking, I've no idea). In particular, after the facilities are paid for? Non-education-related sports facilities (stadiums and such) are notoriously nearly always net costs to the government who subsidise them.
> No magic, just a custom scheduler for that particular thread.

But there's a spooky-action-at-a-distance between that scheduler and the code that's running on the thread. Code that's meant to be pinned (and may behave incorrectly if not pinned) looks no different from any other code.

> Not to mention that they have different design goals: Rust, like all low-level languages, has low abstraction (implementation details are expressed in signatures) because, like all low-level languages, it values control more than abstraction. Java is a high-level language with a high level of abstraction -- there is one method call abstraction, and the JIT chooses the implementation; there is one allocation abstraction, and the GC and JIT choose the implementation -- and it values abstraction over control. So whereas, regardless of constraints, Rust happily lives with two distinct thread-like constructs, in Java that would be a failure to meet our goals (assuming, of course, meeting them is possible).

Java isn't positioned as a high-level, high-abstraction language and that's not, IME, the user community it has. It's a language that offers high performance at the cost of being verbose and cumbersome - witness the existence of primitive types, the special treatment of arrays, the memory-miserly default numeric types, the very existence of null. I've heard much more about people using Java for low-latency mechanical-sympathy style code than people using it for high-abstraction use cases like scripting or workbooks. It's always been advertised as a safer alternative to C++ - rather like Rust.

(I'm all for trying to expand Java to be useful in other cases, but that's not grounds to sacrifice what it currently does well. For all the criticism Java attracts, it is undeniably extremely successful in its current niche)
This seems related to the concept of Last Thursdayism - if the world was created last thursday, how would you be able to tell the difference?

You have some memories of earlier times than last thursday, but there's literally nothing that prevents them from being indistinguishably fake; your consciousness could be existing in a simulation that started five seconds ago, and there's no way to disprove that.

But the reasonable answer to that is if it's not possible to tell the difference, then we define that to be the same consciousness; so that the answer to the question "if we are not only not the same consciousness after we fade away by daily sleep, etc.., but we are constantly fading away in short cycles" is "it's the same consciousness, period" by definition.
> we could tax something like 5% of stock buybacks and completely rebuild our entire society from the ground up.

Let's see a source or even back-of-the napkin calculation on this
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It's just a slight misspelling. It should be "tortious" instead of "tortuous" [1]. Interestingly, my spell checker does not recognize the former, but it does the latter.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tortious
PID loops are simple and effective control solutions and are relatively easy to incorporate into embedded controllers as well. Generally I have left out the integration step because it can easily cause instabilities, even with a wind-up preventer.

When things get more complicated like with flight controllers or advanced motor drives PID is not recommended. Another problem I've seen is people gloss over tuning a PID controller properly too.
History of the Suit: The Evolution of Menswear from 1800 to Today
Hell just plain ole support. I got locked out of my Couchsurfing account twice and getting in was a pain.

I also dispute the "get a VPS and ship it" for 3/month -- there are a lot of images on Couchsurfing, and a userbase that's non-trivial in terms of size.
I suspect one big difference is that when you have young children is that you can't bend on "No, I can't work." When you don't have young children you can bend (even if you don't want to), and you say "No" but do "Maybe."

I've seen this with people before they have kids and after the kids are a little older. They occasionally bend and work a bit extra, check emails after hours, etc, and then before you know the it the manager expects this person is available since they did it before.

Sadly, at one company where I worked the young single person had to lie and say they were heavily involved with educational activities at their church and they couldn't work extended hours because of that. I know they were not 100% honest about the hours required for that, but management needed some mental excuse to say it's okay for them to just work normal hours. It's stupid, but sometimes that's the only way to do it.
Apple preventing the sale of a product != Apple not selling a product.

I don't ask Apple for permission to visit a website on my iPhone. Why should I ask their permission to install applications? Would it be so awful if I were allowed to run my own software?
"some DILLUTION of the word "consciousness"

Fixed that for you and ... agree on all counts.

I feel like while we can't explain consciousness yet, it isn't hard to make well supported conjectures about what it needs.

First, what I experience and call "consciousness" involves an awareness of a dynamical thing, me, for my environment (a gravitationally organized semi-2D place), myself externally (i.e. controllable hands and feet), my own internal responses to the environment (sensory perception, reinforcements, patterns), and the fact that this awareness on my part seems to be encoded with information that is used by my dynamical response generating apparatus.

I.e. Self-reflection does not seem to be segregated from other forms of information used to generate my responses: My awareness of self is not just in a spectator role, since it influences action.

The fact that self-awareness is not segregated from responses creates a wonderful side benefit: I can share my self-reflection by communicating to others about it.

If you took away any part of what I just described, I don't think I would continue operating in a way I understand as "consciousness" and my behaviors would certainly be very different. I don't think other's would describe me as "conscious" either.

And none of these seemingly necessary complicated and recursive pre-conditions for consciousness shout out as reasons to include individual electrons as co-conscious in any way.

Question: Assuming an electron has consciousness, what experiment would you attempt to falsify that?

I am anti-electron on this issue. :)
Nobody is forced to work for Uber and the like, restaurants can also ban these services.
You can always set a referrer-policy HTTP header on the origin site to prevent the CDN from getting the path (or even the domain) of the web page. They’d still see user IP address but on its own that’s not very useful.
Went looking for citations:

https://www.ausa.org/articles/russia-gives-lessons-electroni...

https://mwi.usma.edu/text-messages-hell-restraint-informatio...
I've long wished there was a more encompassing alternative to F-Droid, which would include the same payment facilities as Google Play (paid app, in-app payments, subscriptions), allow proprietary apps (but still give FOSS as a search filter and show it as a prominent feature on the app page), and offer plenty of user curation features ala Steam and make filters optional (which would allow communities of independent reviewers to vet apps for child-safety, not being COVID-related, etc... and users to chose whether to restrict themselves to that selection or not).

It's quite amazing when you think about it, that two US companies have absolute power over deciding what 99% of people in the world can do with a device that many would describe as an extension of themselves.
So do the locusts benefit from all the free food all these farmers have neatly planted close together.

The article is from 7 years ago, but it nicely describes the consequences of the larger "sharing economy" that we're experiencing now: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/04/03/the-locust-economy/.
There is no law that says “play nice”. What laws are they in breach of by only allowing certain products to be sold in their store? Every retailer has the right to decide what is sold in their store. Especially since Android is supposedly “open” and you can sideload.

At various times, HN users want the government to decide what gets sold in Apple and Google’s stores and decide what Amazon can and can’t sell. I’ve even seen that they want the government to intervene when it comes to how the game console makers operate. I guess if it were up to them Nintendo should be forced to sell “Debbie Does Dallas” next to “Animal Crossing” in their online store.
> I hope this gets rid of the "out-raise your competitors and spend ridiculous amounts of money on ridiculous money sinks" strategy forever.

Why? If you're a startup and a competitor does this and it leads to them losing value, isn't that a good thing for you?

The only people who lose in this equation are the ones who accepted those risks. The market will eventually correct itself.
And how long before Google decides that all detected side-loaded apps are harmful and automatically removed?
It has been reported that Scotland's mountains had glaciers up to about 1700:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-258...

Edit: I spend a lot of time the Scottish mountains and I'm fascinated by glaciation so deeply disappointed that I missed them by such a relatively short period of time.
> It looks like this is the author's fourth post and s/he hit a home run with the top post on HN. But that's rarely how things work.

This happened to me. One of my first blog posts pre-2005 made it to the front page of Digg/Reddit. With only AdSense ads I managed to make $20-$30 day for a few days. I tried writing a few follow ups but never again "caught lightening in a bottle".

IF I had kept blogging consistently, I'd now most likely have a nice side income.
10 years ago, Stackoverflow was fantastic. I feel a bit like its usefulness has dwindled.

But it's never been about debugging deep problems. Nobody can look at what's happening in your debugger. It's mostly useful for how to use specific libraries and frameworks or basic language features.
universities aren't aws nodes that can be instantly spun up to meet demand. it takes time (and possibly more land) to build new buildings and hire new teaching staff without compromising the quality of the education. the wealthiest institutions can afford to ignore ability to pay, but most need a certain fraction of their students to actually pay the full price.
Cloth Masks Are Useless Against Covid-19
This is a tired argument. We live in a society, not Somalia. Government exists to regulate to protect citizens, and I'm starting to believe these arguments are put forth to give these monstrosities more time before death gasps.
Telcos and utilities are regulated as common carriers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier
An anonymous blog platform that offers a permanent and trusted Delete button could both let you change your mind about a former opinion and offer a fix in case of accidental slip-up
Why the sudden popularity of markdown these days? I do not understand.
I've spent some time in the HCI community, even going to a SIGCHI once, and my take is that input methods are a very wide open field. So it's easy to get work here.

Some of it can be downright sexy, and giving good demo gets you more prestige and money. I'm sure GATAP is no different.

What puzzles me is that we're certainly headed down new roads that other groups have paved already, like two-way audio interfaces and AR/VR. Tactile is great, but also presents a huge gap in affordances. Any interface you need to train for is a failed one. Anyone with an AirPod and Siri has moved a generation past a clickable headphone button. So why keep pursuing a one-dimensional interface method like a hoodie string?

I get that there's an application here in decoding waveforms using "AI" to translate signals to gestures. And maybe that's the point.