skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I actually have no idea how large the differences in the distance from the core to the water surface is in different parts of the world

Taking the core to be a point, the distance to the sea's surface would depend on factors such as

* The earth’s variation from a pure sphere (6,378.137 km (3,963.191 mi) at the Equator and 6,356.752 km (3,949.903 mi) at the poles) [0, 1]

* The local depth of the sea (up to 10,984 metres for the Mariana Trench [2])

* Tidal effects [3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheroid

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_the_Earth

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide
Radius of 6 km is comparable to the size of Halley's comet :-)
You can disable that with local admin.

The domain admin could too, but they're mostly just there to get their paycheck, not to improve your experience so they won't bother.
If media coverage is diverted from the real issue, then why are Fortune 500's publicly posting statements and making donations? Just about everyone consumes social media these days; it would be hard to ignore the grievances of peaceful protestors unless you watched exclusively cable news.
I am teaching all 12 of my kids to code. Two already have successful sass products and one built a cryptocurrency exchange. Coding is where the big money is. Elon musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates. If anything, coding is a great launchpad onto another adventure as in the life of Musk. Keep your head up, heart open, and code on! The metaverse is opening soon ;)
Why was Solitaire bundled even with the NT (i.e. enterprise/business) versions of Windows? No one ever questioned that, but everybody takes issue with Candy Crush? Weird...
Zinc deficiency also results in loss of smell. I heard the theory that your immune system consumes your Zinc reserves to fight the Virus.
Some small questions:
1. Those pads for your wrists / hands: did you always use them or explicitly for stand/walk usage? If yes: What are those and would you recommend them?
2. What is the sound/volume of your threadmill?
3. I live in Europe and the threadmill you have is mighty expensive. Would you recommend it and what is the advantage over a cheaper alternative (like the xiamoi walkingpad)?
"It's OK for police to murder unarmed civilians and the President to publicly support that" isn't a "diverse political opinion." It's a huge step on the road to tyrannical fascist dictatorship, and a massive violation of basic human rights.
I’m trying to get as many people out to see Florida one last time before it’s underwater.
> There are no more middle managers at toaster and television distributors in the developed world

This is a joke right?

There is absolutely a place for publishers, which is why they still exist fifteen years after anti-copyright campaigners said they'd be done in five.

If authors decide not to go to publishers and publish directly you'll have a point. Broadly, they don't.
> it seems pretty safe to say that a 100% accurate tally of the votes in Florida would have given the state to Gore

This is not supported by any of the sources in the wikipedia page. There don't seem to be any sources saying how the sample was collected from each or which counties. ...you are right it does not say "select".

But regardless, a margin of ~100 votes on a sample of 175K votes is not a margin with which you can make the statement "it seems pretty safe to say that a 100% accurate tally of the votes in Florida would have given the state to Gore" ...that's ludicrous.
Implementing a compiler for some language at some point in your life is a great project. It will really teach you a lot of deep down information on what's going on under the hood.

I took a compilers course in grad school and it was a lot of fun. Especially the sort of frankenstein moment when you got it working and it actually did something, and its output would itself run.

(Another fun thing is to design an instruction set and implement a simulator and asm for it. I have a lot of fond memories).
Pulitzer winner: These “are the good times – compared to what's coming next”
Researchers Incorporate Computer Vision, Uncertainty into AI for Prosthetics
( 2000$ for those of us that are confused by decimals as positional separators!)

That's for the runtime? There's a confusing distinction between runtime and 3D Studio so I'm still none the wiser.

But to be honest the whole product description confuses me. I'm probably not the target market although it's hard to tell.
nicely reasoned perspective.

language is important, we must take care of our words, certainly, but they can fail us too.

if there is 1 looter and 99 peaceful protestors, is it a peaceful protest or a riot?

no doubt this is delicate so it scares me when I hear that "if you're not vocalizing your support you're taking the side of the oppressor."

so this warfare is not just happening on the streets, it's polarizing everyone's ideologies to irreconcilable levels.

I really don't like any of this.
Excellent point - I've actually read [1] but not [2]. It's worth noting that neither of them suffers from the same negative weights problem that I am seeing, which is probably due to the fact that 1) an explicit bound between 0 and 1 is imposed on the weights 2) (to a much lesser extent) the analysis is conducted conditional on a specific realized path as of Wednesday.
Duh. That's the carrot to keep them in line. If they were paid closer to what devs outside SV were paid they might decide it's worth it to speak up.
Indie.vc vs. Traditional VC: Interactive Calculator
Sure.

Setting your kitchen on fire warms your house, for a bit.

It's not a great long-term plan, though.
Yes. Aka, one of effectively three leading-edge fabs: TSMC / Samsung / Intel.
>Only delusional, heavily-biased people / social justice warriors

This is deeply hypocritical name-calling, and undermines your writing by implying that you, yourself, might be heavily biased.
So does that mean that the rising sea levels predicted as a consequence of global warming were wrong?
How to Pick Your Tech Stack
The number of people in the study is too small to really make much in the way of definitive conclusions. But it is certainly enough that a larger study should occur.

In the meantime, since vitamins are cheap and not dangerous at these doses, it seems a reasonable measure to go ahead and take them. They might help, there's weak evidence to suggest that they might, and they shouldn't hurt. However, it's important not to overdose. I know that at least vitamin D is dangerous if overdosed. Most people as they get older are low in vitamin D anyway.

In my mind this is something like masks were months ago. Maybe they help, maybe they don't, but the risk of wearing a mask or taking vitamins is pretty negligible, and there are common-sense reasons to believe they might be helpful. Until better experimental results are available, you should use common sense approaches to reduce your risks. They might not work, but the harm of doing them is negligible.
Was this known early on about COVID?

Early on in the lockdown I noticed that these vitamins were among the kind of weird items completely cleared out of stores.

People were very selective... initially all FHD laptops and Chromebooks were gone, along with power strips, ibuprofen, hair clippers, etc.
> You can be the beneficiary of a system and still understand that there are specific positive externalities of that system's partial failure. For example, a corrupt politician can understand why an anti-bribery campaign is beneficial for his country.

True, but presumably these software engineers that I was talking about think about the ability to do their work as something worthy and morally good, not simply as a benefit that they get from a corrupt system. On the other hand, corrupt politicians don't think of bribes as something desirable to have in a system: they either cynically exploit their position for strictly personal gain or think of themselves as victims of the system who are forced to take bribes.

> I think it's fair to say that destruction of private property turns the situation into an economic problem, which in turn is a political pressure point. Rich people have more influence over police departments and attorneys general than do poor people. But for such pressure to do any useful work, the message must be, "give us justice and the looting will end."

This can be a valid strategy. I am reminded of someone who successfully executed this strategy: ANC and Nelson Mandela. But they were very clear in their demands and always stressed that they were reluctantly engaging in violence only because they had exhausted all peaceful methods. In contrast it seems that many who support recent riots are not very interested in actual solutions to the problem and only want to stick it to the Man in some way.
Thanks for the support! I am in EDT (GMT-4).
Same for me. Usually just because of the ubiquity of gcc and its ilk.
It's ideally to help start-ups struggling with user acquisition during this pandemic, with location analytics. Location analytics is the key here, especially for start-ups running this pandemic such as in the logistics, last-mile delivery, mobility sector. I hope that clears the air for you!
I'm wondering is there a Live Tile use-case that improving developer productivity?

I usually Win+Q or pin to taskbar to run program, almost never look at the default Live Tile.

PowerShell's syntax make me mad too, some Office 365 enterprise management tools is only available in Windows PowerShell only (You cannot run it in PowerShell of MacOS or Linux), so wired.

I was considering moving back to Windows since the new MBP lineup is so disappointing, but no TimeMachine, too many useless feature (Live Tile and so on) made me stick on MacOS.
It's not just the direction of the stack: in theory, there are two possible kinds of downwards-growing stacks, a 'full' SP points to the last used entry, whereas an 'empty' SP points to the next free entry. It all depends upon how you 'push' something on to the stack: do you decrease the SP before or after writing the data?

ARM let you choose either approach (making four different stack configurations in total!) - this flexibility is because ARM didn't have any specialised 'push' or 'pop' operations, you read/write to the stack using the normal load/store ops, which have a variety of addressing modes.
The tradeoffs between traditional and leaderless movements are a lot like the tradeoffs between centralised and decentralised systems in tech to be honest.

On the one hand, the latter avoid the weaknesses of the former, in that they can neither easily be 'taken over' by outside forces nor provide a single point of weakness for their enemies to target.

And that's useful for both software and protest movements, since it leave a single target for the opposition to go after, whether that's through legal threats, harassment, arrest or assault/murder.

At the same time, it also makes the system prone to abuse by bad actors, since there's no one able to either get rid of them or distance the group from them in general.

Hence the extremists taking over political movements and protests, and the trolls/extremists/criminals becoming an increasingly prominent part of any decentralised community or social network setup online.

This in turn leaves both open to attack from their opponents and the media, who can point at the worst elements and say "See? These people are all evil/sociopathic/crazy/whatever' based on it.

It's like to some degree, avoiding bad actors and running a robust and uncensorable system are fundamentally incompatible with one another, in the same way as usability and security are.
There is a divide: Some people love debuggers, some people think placing print statements is the best way to debug code. You are reading an article from the second camp.

Log files have the benefit of being able to adjust the signal-to-noise afterwards, I guess that is why it is highlighted.
I bought a top spec Air just after it came out a few months back to replace my 2013 Air that I loved but was finally dying (seven years with the same computer!). I kind of love it, but it's not the same as my love for the 2013 one. I have 16gb of RAM and an I7 and I have to deal with the fan every time I'm on a video call, never mind using a "powerful" app. It's incredibly frustrating, because some of those apps didn't start on the fan on the 2013 one.
Don't spend a bunch on a new gaming rig and claim it's for CS; you probably don't need more than a $100 dollar laptop for most CS classes.

Basically, be smart with your $.
If you're deficient in something, your body probably up-regulates absorption.

You can get higher quality vitamins with forms that are more easily absorbed, for example chelated magnesium instead of magnesium oxide.

That said, I thought the evidence actually pointed to higher all cause mortality in people who take vitamins.
It is ready for public use yet - I wish they had put that information sooner in the article.

That said, looks cool and it is written in Haskell and React: https://github.com/penrose/penrose
China's Largest Base Has Replicas Of Taiwan Presidential Building, Eiffel Tower
I've tried it, and watched many a colleague "struggle" with it. "First class" is definitely an over-statement from my perspective, even if it might be great compared to what you'd get with plain-text editors. It's type-hinting half the time behaves oddly even with type-hinting present.

But it is getting better, that's for sure. Looking forward to see upcoming iterations.
Social media companies have put themselves there, by becoming de facto "public squares" for general communication, while still being de jure private companies with a civic responsibility to the truth and to human rights.
I spent several minutes trying to understand those paragraphs, finding them incomprehensible. I figured maybe I was just too tired, but seeing your similar reaction makes me feel vindicated!

jcelerier, can you explain it?
This is true, but irrelevant.
Surely Vitamin D is fat soluble?
An ICU is more expensive than expensive piss

But sure, you could be extra sure that your Vit-D/Zinc/Mg (and other vitamins) levels are low by going to the doctor now, doing an exam and waiting for the results to come back.

Or you could go through your diet and estimate your nutritional intake and see if anything is missing (a lot of apps do that calculation)
Or that the most northerly French-speaking town in the world is Dunkirk in France and not somewhere in Quebec.
I've been seeing some odd down vote choices too. Maybe there's just a lot of tension in the air for people these days?
But Nadella's a great CEO compared to his predecessors. D:

But, yeah, that + stuff like your OS restarting behind your back whenever you lock your screen and walk away keeps me on Linux despite the very tantalizing promises of WSL2.
The end result is that he died, but it isn't clear if they all knew the man was being killed. It could very well be plain stupidity that they all thought "as long as he is speaking, he must be able to breathe".
No, it isn't. Once the police seize a large enough network of phones, all those id's are trivially correlated, even if they are ostensibly decentralized. If the capability exists to contact trace for epidemic tracking purposes, the capacity for abuse by law enforcement for mixing with bad actors whose id's are also known through device seizure also exists.
Github pages is pretty much free. You can buy a domain name for ~$10 a year
> It didn’t do anything meaningful

How do you know? Do you have an alternate timeline of history to compare it to?
This is a great video, and worth watching in its entity at least once.
I lost half of my tongue senses on a wisdom tooth extraction, it came back slowly during 3 month (its almost 100% back now) but it was terrifying the first week, I just kept thinking If I could live with that, a feeling of depression hit hard
Your source?

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/conspirators-cou...
> if you try to write C on the assumption that it will be compiled in a reasonable way based on your knowledge of how the plaform works, then modern compilers will punish you for your presumption.

Which is really a bug that everyone has decided to look the other way around because it wins compiler benchmarks despite coming against what C originally was meant for.

Specifically (from the C89 rationale[0], that i'm certain most people who think those benchmarks are good haven't read):

> C code can be non-portable. Although it strove to give programmers the opportunity to write truly portable programs, the Committee did not want to force programmers into writing portably, to preclude the use of C as a ``high-level assembler'': the ability to write machine-specific code is one of the strengths of C. It is this principle which largely motivates drawing the distinction between strictly conforming program and conforming program (§1.7).

Also in the same rationale it mentions how "the spirit of C" is to do operations in the way the machine would do it instead of forcing some abstract rule - yet that exactly is what happens later when everyone goes all language lawyer about C's abstract machine and how you should not rely on what you think the target machine would do.

[0] http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/rat/a.html#1-1
Telemedicine’s Future Post Covid-19: 8 Healthcare CTOs Weigh In
>> Can you elaborate? All four of the police officers were immediately fired. The primary officer that was kneeling on him was charged with murder and manslaughter and will go to prison. Likely charges will be brought on the other three.

How is it sustainable that nationwide protests need to happen before an officer is charged for murder? Does that not seem like a broken system?
The authors address the issue of small sample size in the Discusson section:

"This study was conducted under difficult dynamic circumstances and is thus limited by the small sample size, and the lack of systematic biologic measures to support its findings. It is however a proof-of-principle effort with very promising results. Our findings would need to be further validated in a well-designed randomized study."
I agree, you don’t need a supplement. I get regular checkups. I’ve never had a deficiency in any vitamin except D.
Show HN: I made an embeddable user feedback tool – free for open source
Hi HN,

After I finished my thesis on feedback management for SaaS at the end of last year, I thought it was time to do something hands-on that topic. Since I like the idea of such feedback tools, that lets you collaborate with users to find solutions together - instead of having a separated feedback from each user - this became my starting point. I also like the approach of the chat widgets as they make it easy for users to get in touch with the people behind the app. So I tried to combine these two approaches with sleekplan.com.

Here are some of the main features:

* Collect & discuss feedback with an embedded widget

* Calculate an impact score for feedback items based on
different factors (such as weight, users satisfaction, user engagement),

* Categories for different types of feedback (Feature requests, missing integrations, bugs)

* Custom statuses

* Roadmap

* Changelog

* Notify „followers“ that are watching specific feedback items on status updates

* Keep discussions simple (jump straight into discussions via email)

I initially focused on developing the tool itself. The next step is an integration to sync Github issues.

I'm sure there's plenty of room for improvement, so what do you think about it? I would really appreciate your feedback, don’t be nice, say anything that sucks. As Bill Gates says: „We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve“.
The numbers I cited from the CDC for Covid are symptomatic fatality rates. You can work out an asymptomatic rate by using their estimated percentage of asymptomatic infections, if you like.

> Where are you getting the numbers for flu? As far as I'm aware the best guess for flu IFR is 0.04% compared to COVID-19s 0.4% IFR

Any number of different sources; 0.1% is the generally accepted estimate of overall IFR for influenza in an average year, based on statistical extrapolation from seroprevalence surveys. Here’s an article that tries to be as fatalistic as possible, which still cites an overall IFR for flu of 0.1%:

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-covid-19-isnt-the...

If you absolutely do not want to rely on CDC numbers, here’s a literature review on the subject which puts the symptomatic IFR at 0.1%, at the extreme high end. Most estimates of symptomatic IFR, according to the review, are between 5-50 / 100k:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3809029/#!po=0....

There’s clearly a large variance in estimates for the flu at all levels, but no reasonable way to claim a 10x difference in severity for Covid without cherry-picking the worst estimates for it, and the best estimates for influenza.
And, I suppose, the centripetal force caused by the rotation. But maybe that is the whole reason for earth being a spheroid?

And correct me if I'm wrong, but the local depth of the sea should not matter, as water would fill the depth before the levels stabilized. But perhaps the local volume of the water affects the size of the effects of tidal forces and local land mass.
I'm a Developer. I will teach my kids to code, not just the syntax of a specific language. There's a big difference. "To code" is language agnostic. That's were the important things like logical thinking and problem solving skills are.
2020 Police Brutality – Rapidly growing subreddit doubled in day to 25k members
> I thought the evidence actually pointed to higher all cause mortality in people who take vitamins.

Citation absolutely needed

The caveat is excessive consumption of Vitamin A (and maybe others), in some specific circumstances. Keyword: excessive
If you're sick of watching video, and prefer actual text, there's an open-access PDF available at
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1998119
Wikis get you most of the way there, but they're missing tagging, which is the differentiating feature of Zettelkasten, it seems to me.

Tags provide a semi-structured index into unstructured data, making searching and sorting much easier.

Maybe a extension for GH wikis would work.
This is a Good Thing. Remember the Boston bomber?

I don't have a solution, but making all police communications public in real-time only puts innocent people at risk.
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I've always thought Duane is overcomplicating his "How could this hurt?" example: you don't need confused and misremembering witnesses. You only need another serious crime to have happened in the Outer Banks.

Now you've admitted to have been there. You did not have to admit that. Shut up.

Also, how did Mr Duane learn to speak that fast? Many siblings? Time-boxed lectures at his university? Enthusiasm for the subject?
The one linked in the article? https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/11/e1500679
Principal negative as I can imagine it is the constitution of the regolith. I remember reading that one of the concerns about the original lunar programs was how soft and deep the regolith might be at the landing site - if it's loose and silty and 6' deep, then that's going to get tricky.

Sure, we have much better radar and composition maps of the lunar surface these days, but it strikes me that it's still not as 100% as landing on a barge's [presumably] metal surface or concrete and Cape Canaveral.
Ask HN: Is Apple Pay ride transit data anonymised?
What would happen if you made two futures markets, one resistant to manipulation on the short side and the other resistant to manipulation on the long side, through whatever mechanism makes that possible? Would that mean you could detect the presence of manipulation on one side or the other if the prices diverged (though you wouldn't necessarily know which side the manipulation was on).