skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second that. And every time the sentiment of most commentators is pure vitriolic. I really don't get it. Unless it's coming from laid-off workers - which I can understand and empathize. But I highly doubt it. My understanding is that people here just hate IBM because it's old and out of fashion mostly mirroring the same valley sentiment towards anything and anyone on the older side of the road.

The amount of misconceptions that are passing in a lot of these comments for facts is astounding. Many pretend that they don't know that IBM is one of the major PaaS and IaaS cloud providers. Others pretend that they ignore all the R&D done in IBM. Others still ignore the fact that IBM is one of the most open source friendly companies out there. And others still forget that it is probably the oldest IT company around that has reinvented itself more times than Elon has begged for public attention.

Anyway. Each with his own opinion. Luckily business out there has it's own as well and places its money on it.

With that I'm not trying to absolve C-suite from their responsibilities or their shitty management that will leave thousands of good workers high and dry. This is a different issue altogether but like I said the hate in these comments have nothing to do with it.
Until AWS and that ISP apply the same policy...
> i would argue the patient cannot be price sensitive. The utility of staying alive is infinite - therefore, a patient will pay _any_ price for a procedure that saves them.

The vast majority of healthcare is non-emergency care. It's either preventive health checkups, or planned treatments. The price elasticity of demand in healthcare is virtually identical to the price elasticity of demand in food. The utility of not starving to death is infinite — therefore a patient will pay _any_ price for food that nourishes them, right?

The huge flaw with that argument is that the value to the patient might be infinite, but the cost to provide it is not. In an open market, competition brings down the cost to the minimum possible value — unless you have barriers to entry or a cartel.
Both 10ms and 150ms are bad results for trivial HTTP requests to localhost.
How much of its tax base will CA loose to other states/countries over the next 10 years if WFH does become a thing?

CA should really think super hard about incentivizing those leaving SF/Bay Area to settle elsewhere in CA. That will be a net benefit for California.
Instead of editorializing the link, people might be interested in reading the actual post from the source that explains the discrepancies. https://www.facebook.com/westernlakesfd/posts/26948211474688...

That post does not say it was fake news. It does say that the picture used was not of damage caused from such a fire. And the purpose of the story to begin with:

"While infrequent, there have been cases in the recent past were reflecting light placed through a clear bottle was able to focus onto a combustible surface and cause a fire. This has primarily been through water bottles but since hand sanitizer is often stored in the same vessel we wanted to pass it along for your safety. The principle is identical and obviously an additional issue would occur if it happened in the presence of an alcohol based product."

"Keeping it in your car during hot weather, exposing it to sun, and particularly being next to open flame while smoking in vehicles or grilling while enjoying this weekend can lead to disaster."

Hardly scandalous. Editorializing misinterpreted news as fake news minimizes what was actually intended, and especially when the misinterpretation doesn't alter the message.

EDIT: Here is an article from 2 years ago about the exact same subject (minus the alcohol content): https://www.livescience.com/62899-water-bottle-fire.html
Hi Louis, I'm the lead moderator here. This is not really on topic for Hacker News. Our users are looking for intellectually interesting material that goes deeply into some topic, the more unexpected the better. It's not a site where you're going to get a favorable reaction to material that's mostly promotional. That's no doubt why users flagged your submission and downvoted your comment.
I don't know, I think p2p is more a meme. Sure, it has its use cases but for "muh decentralization of authority", I don't think the future will consist of p2p tech. Just look at BitChute and Steemit.
I think it's good enough. Sure, in this very cherry-picked example it fails. But for a lion's share of functionality it works just fine.
The NG article is pay walled.
I agree with you, ‘big data’ is silly too.
You could replace Yahoo with any other company and this would be equally true.
Right. A good test for a conversational AI is whether it could perform the Abbott & Costello “Who’s on First” sketch with you. It should make assumptions where the characters in the sketch make assumptions, and ask questions borne from confusion where the characters do.
The Pandemic and the Information Network
Sorry, I can't wade through that much bullshit. I got about halfway through a carefully-written refutation of everything you wrote, but you're not going to listen to me (since you didn't the first time either).

I know what I'm doing. I've been doing this for literally decades. Please stop assuming that people who don't agree with you are doing so from ignorance.
It looks like an ancestor of the denosaur, which seems to be a much more advanced/evolved take on the same general design.
Well the mortality difference by age is stunning:

According to CDC data, 81% of deaths from COVID-19 in the United States are people over 65 years old, most with preexisting conditions. If you add in 55-64-year-olds that number jumps to 93%.

For those below age 55, preexisting conditions play a significant role, but the death rate is currently around 0.0022%, or one death per 45,000 people in this age range.

Below 25 years old the fatality rate of COVID-19 is 0.00008%, or roughly one in 1.25 million.
Right. That's the essence of the essence of copyright law. And the (mostly unjust) claims of the collecting societies and their henchmen are enforced with the methods of protection racketing, because hardly any of the victims will ever defend themselves in court. The same game as with the patent trolls, simply less known.
Why can't it work something like this:

* As a YouTube channel owner you have the option of officially registering your channel with verified contact information.

* A video you have uploaded gets flagged by a bot.

* YouTube mutes the content and immediately texts you an alert.

* If you have opted to officially register with YouTube, you are given the ability to text back a countermand to the alert.

* If you countermand the copyright violation flag, your video is immediately unmuted, and the copyright holder receives instructions that if it still believes the content is an IP violation, commencing legal proceedings are the next option.

* If and only if the copyright holder affirms to Google that it will follow through with legal proceedings, it is given your contact information.
The trouble is where do they draw the line. Say I share a pamphlet about how Jesus reclaims humanity from the corruption of sin. If Google thinks all Christians are superstitious bumpkins, does that give them the right to remove my public share?
There's a number of reasons I think, including:
1. The fossil itself is beautiful and outstanding

2. There is less pressure to produce right now given oversupply and shipping constraints in Alberta

3.Suncor cares more about its reputation than some of the other players in the tar sands

4. The Royal Tyrell Museum is well known to most Albertans, kids go there on school trips and it would likely seem like the obvious thing to do (stop work) when presented with such a find.

5. I have no idea if there is a finders fee, but that fossil is probably more valuable than anything that loader was processing all day.

6. It's a dinosaur - most folks find them pretty cool. :)
> Look at the recent build of Super Mario 64 for the PC

That build was made with either stolen source code or code decompiled and distributed without without a license from Nintendo. It is not comparable to an intentional source code release by the owner under some copyright license.
Unless somebody took over his name he’s been at Apple for almost 25 years, and was already being interviewed as such 20 years ago (http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.16/16.06/Ju...)

His site (http://www.quinn.echidna.id.au/Quinn/WWW/) supports its claim “I'm not a great believer in web” :-)
GitLab Developer Evangelist here.

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: Also yes, but with a link to the relevant epic: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/2875
Since the start of quarantine I've been live-streaming Catholic Masses where the choir and schola take pride in their ability to sing polyphony and chant which you typically never hear these days and which has always been in the public domain. However, because commercial recordings exist of these works, every single Sunday I've got to file protests against the copyright notices, pointing out that these are live, original performances of works that were in the public domain for over 200 years (over 1500 in some cases). No matter, if a recording of this music exists then CLEARLY no human could have possibly duplicated, in the year 2020, a melody and text that was already ancient a millennium ago.

I realize this is machine learning and music sampling but I'm a tad surprised that the dataset cannot include a field such as "this recording is of public domain music"... and after a YouTube channel has to keep saying "No, I'm not playing someone else's CDs, we have a choir singing these live -- can't you hear the imperfections and that the soprano missed that eighth?" I suspect that at some point the channel will be cancelled because its too much of a copyright hazard.
Because when they record a UFO, we can then analyze the footage, after which it is no longer unidentified.
Yeah I noticed that too.

Murphy's Law I suppose. The spot at which you stop testing is the spot where it will break. But do you learn not to listen to that voice in your head that is telling you this part doesn't need to be tested?
Yep, it's down. Getting HTTP 500 errors on every pageload.

https://www.githubstatus.com shows an active incident underway.
this is gitlab,
I get what you are saying about the Bible containing information that couldn't have been known at the time it was written, as a hypothetical way to prove that it was divinely inspired. I'm not convinced, but I think it's an interesting argument. Well, it's an argument, let's say that.

Do you know if there's a good source that collects all of these types of claims in one place?

Would you drop your faith if you stopped being convinced that this kind of thing was good evidence?

When I was a teenager I believed in the Bible codes [1], which is a similar idea. But I eventually had to admit that I didn't have good evidence to support that argument.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code
Much confusion here. There are three different Matrix projects related to libpurple:

https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix is a very basic proof-of-concept PRPL plugin that lets a libpurple client like Pidgin or Adium or Purism's Chatty connect to Matrix. We wrote it as a demo to inspire others hoping that someone from the Pidgin community might pick it up and polish it, but sadly there hasn't been much progress. We don't have bandwidth to finish it off ourselves.

Then there was matrix-appservice-purple (https://github.com/matrix-org/node-purple/tree/f5ad4ef798904...), which was a proof of concept bridge using node-purple which let Matrix connect to anything that libpurple can speak. We used it to demo bridging from Matrix into Skype via the skypeweb PRPL - but it was a very fragile quick hack demo.

Then this was replaced by Bifrost, a proper production-grade bridge engine: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-bifrost. It supports different plugins for the bridging, one of which is libpurple via node-purple (although most people use it as an XMPP bridge, via the xmpp.js plugin). This lets you connect from Matrix into any protocol supported by libpurple - effectively an equivalent of Bitlbee, but for Matrix rather than IRC.
It's also has a huge benefit for towing or wrenching over steel cable - there's virtually no recoil if it breaks.

Steel cable will slice people in half and send wrenches through car windows and to stab the driver when it breaks.
The reason is very simple: developers don't want to develop anymore, they just want to offload real programming to third party libraries, where what used to take 100 lines of code to accomplish will take 10K or more (because, obviously, the library will do the most general version of what it wants to do). All this is considered "good development practices", which means that programs will inflate to take whatever memory is available and run slower for as long as we continue to use the same practices.
> often any slight change causes the entire stack to fall apart

Arguably this is one reason why containers are popular in the first place. Devs don't want to spend time dealing with dirty environments.
> Wordpress is bloated. It won’t even run on a basic free DigitalOcean instance.

Woah, does it use an obscene amount of RAM or what? It's been a while since I used it. (Also, I think you meant the cheapest Droplet using the free $100 credit? I don't think there is a free tier. Would be nice tho :)
If people feel that they are being constantly watched then it also provides them an incentive to hire coworkers who will make them look good by comparison.
Probably none. They will sue saying you left to avoid taxes. The California courts will agree with the State. Now you get to pay taxes in both localities.
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe it's the performer.
It seems the new Dell XPS finally have a touchpad which is close to the ones on the MacBooks. The touchpad and display are the two things which hold me back from switching away from Apple.
Only if your goal is to have enough capacity to store a full year's worth of energy at once. Otherwise you'd saturate the market far sooner than that.
I wonder if it actually points at Mecca…
Thank you so much for sharing this! I used Panorama so intensively and thought it was one of Fx's killer features. I'd given up hoping there would be a suitable replacement - until now.
48 hours after _diagnosis_ is pretty damned late. To rephrase that, it's "Two days after diagnosis"!

I'd expect the lungs to be fully invaded and serious damage done by the virus by that time. This is not an early, or even seriously prompt, treatment. Certainly if the patients were in a hospital setting this would be unacceptably slow treatment.

This appears to be yet another of several "studies" where HCQ was given late to patients that were already near death. Of course it had little effect.

The recommendation was always HCQ + AZITHROMYCIN + ZINC SULFATE given EARLY. Few, if any, studies have followed that recommendation.
oh this is actually really good and it's just a $10 mirror! you can see the people you're presenting to, and while they can't see your face, they can see what you're writing. what a neat idea
It is unrealistic to expect that everyone could have a private office with leather chair and fish tank behind it, however it would be great if people could have smaller spaces,lets say 2-4 people per room ,which would have a door and etc. Open plan office,the way it is now, it's just a one level up from a hen battery.
> That is not true for academic papers in computer science and particularly in machine learning were contributions are expected to have some sort of practical application that is at least possible to foresee.

This is 100% not true for computer science and I don't know why you think it's true. There's are entire branches of computer science (e.g. complexity theory) that are highly theoretical and are certainly not geared towards immediate practical application.

Even in more applied branches of computer science like ML there are many papers that are geared more towards the fundamental research side of things.

> saying that it aims to "learn a simulator [for robotic agents] by simply watching an agent interact with an environment".

Saying that a paper could lead to a useful application down the line is not the same that saying that the paper is intended to describe the schematics for a specific useful application.
I always liked Buckminster Fuller's idea of superconducting cables distributing electricity around the world.

waves hands distribution is a different problem. Someone else will solve that.

I've seen more expensive plans started with bigger holes ;)
NO. PostgreSQL is recommended but it depends on your usecase.
The answer is simple. I give you a clue : why can't we see any god, angel , seraphim or elohim with all our surveillances devices ? And where are chimeras from popular beliefs, as ghosts ?
UFO, like religion in another era/place, is a fun fantasy, sometime emerging spontaneously in people brain, sometime used as a a political instrument by states and/or influential leader. So, the best device for seeing UFO is not a surveillance device, but human ignorance and stupidity.
> Any money going into insurance as profit is a loss to the payer - insurance doesn't _provide_ value. If the gov't is the one "doing the insurance" as you say, then any profit from that operation will count as a lowered cost of providing medical treatment.

The other users have already mentioned that insurance profit margins, on average, are about 5%. But you should also know that a lot of insurance carriers in the US are non-profit — including Blue Cross Blue Shield and Kaiser Permanente.

> The price sensitivity is at the wrong end - it should be at the medical provider end, not at the insurance end. Why do you think the cost for treatment is low when you're covered under medicare (for low income people)? It's because medicare is such a large buyer that hospitals are able to sell their services at that low a price.

That's true, in theory, but in practice Medicare fee schedules aren't that much better than private insurers.
Additionally, providers themselves are starting to charge out-of-network rates that are LOWER than Medicare fee schedules. For example, Wal-Mart has launched healthcare in Georgia, charging $25 for a cleaning[1], which is significantly lower than the amount for a cleaning (procedure code D1110) set by Medicare/Medicaid. You can look it up yourself by visiting the FAIR Health code lookup tool (https://www.fairhealthconsumer.org/dental/results), and setting the ZIP code to that of Carlton, GA (location of the Wal-Mart clinic), 30627. The average allowed amount is $64.

Finally, the US government has historically been pretty bad at setting prices, as a monopsony buyer. The US military spends more per capita on the military largely because it pays more per-soldier, per-fighter jet, etc than any other nation on the planet. You would think that, as the sole buyer of US defense sector fighter jets, it could negotiate better rates. The F-35 is expected to cost $1.5 trillion (!!) over its lifetime, and the US enjoys monopoly/legislative powers over that cost.

Another example: NASA's planned SLS moon mission is a bit of a disaster — way over budget and way behind schedule. Because the boosters aren't reusable, each launch is expected to cost $1B (with a B) dollars — EACH launch! Meanwhile SpaceX's target cost-per-launch is $50M.

So while you're right that, in theory, a monopsony can extract the lowest possible price, there's absolutely no guarantee of this, indeed American empirical evidence has at times proven otherwise.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-25/walmart-t...
I don't buy that NAT is a huge roadblock. A VPS is $5/mo, or dynamic DNS plus port forwarding is free. Either way, an ISP can apply the same reasoning and cut off access. Centralization due to using DNS (or raw IPs) for naming is the problem. Censorship resistance comes from there being a swarm that as a whole cannot be taken down, while members come and go. This requires a decentralized namespace for referencing content.
> What's going wrong with the system of perfect competition with insurance companies?

The biggest problem is the regulatory incentives for employer-provided insurance. This creates indirection (a corporation is choosing the insurance plan rather than the patient) and whatever is spent is tax exempt, which creates the incentive for employers to provide the most expensive low-deductible plans that are also the least efficient and involve the insurance bureaucracy in the smallest dollar value medical procedures.
Not exactly the same situation, but still a phone number messup.
A pretty large local online retailer managed to put my familiy's phone number on their payment due on their payment missed notice. Apprently they also messed their system up and send these notices to people who paid their stuff in time, so they were rightfully confused.
For about three weeks we got a few hundred calls by confused and/or angry customers. Needless to say, I had quite a few interesting "conversations".
This is a really good explanation, thank you.
Or with more snark, responded with, "I don't know. Look outside".

One of my meteorologist friends always answers "What's the weather?" with, "The state of the atmosphere."
DISA?

I don’t know why grand op is downvoted. DoD requirements literally require a timeout setting for screensavers to begin locking. This has caught systems which have a race condition where you can move your mouse quickly and gain desktop access before it locks.

The long term effects come from the required changes to the development security model to remain productive and profitable (took MSFT a few OOB hotfixes and service packs to fix that example above, look when gnome kde xscreensaver etc introduced that feature etc)
And that’s in peacetime. Imagine how effective a censorship machine it will become during a larger emergency (a bigger/more dangerous pandemic, or war, or other national security event) when the host (Google in this case) is not given the legal option to allow appeals/reversals.

Sure, you can sue. Maybe even get your account back, months later... if you survive the emergency without communications of any kind.

Censorship-possible communications systems are an existential threat to a free society even if they are not used to censor 99.99% of the time. The fact that they can be wielded arbitrarily against people, outside of the law, or only with slow and expensive recourse (that fail deadly in the interim) should never be forgotten, especially during the times that they aren’t and everything seems fine and normal.

Do not use censorship/surveillance platforms, even if you are not being censored.
Yes, I'm realizing there are four distinct mental processes to writing:

1. Planning
2. Production
3. Editing
4. Revision

Each one engages your brain in a different way. You can collapse them, but you get degraded performance when you do.
Siri SUCKS!!!
Watch a repl.it boot. It is the new joy, for children, to see an entire machine appear before their eyes and be able to instantly code away on it.
related to your related tangent: my great grandfather was obsessed with something called the "Buteyko method" for breathing. He was able to control and basically heal his asthma with it. My grandma (his daughter) now does it for herself and seemingly has great results for mental/physical health. I used to do it as a child but I fell off of it and now I've been thinking of going back as a meditative method.
Gnome Foundation settles lawsuit with patent troll
How do companies know you actually live in SF?

It seems like there is a real opportunity for near-remote - ala Fort Bragg, Santa Cruz, Sierras without this penalty.
> Debian is not just as quick (significantly slower and higher resource usage)

In which respects? Are you talking about apt vs pacman or something? Default DEs?
Natali(n)e Portman: The chart that wasn’t
There are so many drugs which inhibit virus replication in the lab but do nothing in a real body, unfortunately.