skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try spending 2+ months in an 18m² apartment alone AND under the obligation of following courses and studying for exams. Being a college student in a French elite school sucks.
If you look at the job market, all of a sudden some hiring freezes have been lifted. I noticed the job posting volume drastically increase as the markets have rallied. Some industries obviously are still bad, restaurants etc. but others are starting to reopen and rehire based on market optimism.
> There is a chat group of a few dozen authors who in subsets work on common topics and carefully ensure not to co-author any papers with each other so as to keep out of each other’s conflict lists (to the extent that even if there is collaboration they voluntarily give up authorship on one paper to prevent conflicts on many future papers). They exchange papers before submissions and then either bid or get assigned to review each other’s papers by virtue of having expertise on the topic of the papers. They give high scores to the papers. If a review raises any technical issues in PC discussions, the usual response is something to the effect that despite the issues they still remain positive; or if a review questions the novelty claims, they point to some minor detail deep in the paper and say that they find that detail to be novel even though the paper itself does not elevate that detail to claim novelty. Our process is not set up to combat such collusion.

Verbatim from the article.
We need to ban solitary confinement in prisons.
New: Private Substacks
Sooooooo many no-name brands that just buy something on Aliexpress and put their logo on it. I'm happy to wait the long shipping times just to get the unbranded version.
She found plenty to talk about without even mentioning the Lava Flow anti-pattern.

Her other essays are also insightful. The one about Steve Jobs is the best about him I have read, even considering Isaacson.
Well, considering the all-seeing Chinese government practically owns Baidu and most other Chinese brands it is not very surprising that they're able to track individual users across multiple platforms. Location data is merely one tiny point on the vast graph of data they have access to.
> The primary reason for this is because the people writing JavaScript do not know what they are doing.

Hello. I'm a JavaScript programmer who cut my teeth on Java twelve years ago, followed by C++ two years later and throughout the course of my Computer Science program, and over the years I've done personal work in half a dozen other languages including Rust, Clojure, Python, C#, etc.

Despite all of that TypeScript remains by go-to general-purpose language of choice, for any arbitrary project without particular constraints.

Take your flame-bait elsewhere, please.
I kinda get the impression this isn't a serious comment, but this is an active area of research. you're best bet might be to see if any trials are being conducted near you and try to sign up. this way you're not doing anything illegal, and they might even pay you.
Amazon's share of the US retail market is too small to call them a monopoly there, and they hold around half of online retailing, again too small to be a monopoly, since there are ample places to get goods elsewhere.

Until they're a legal monopoly in some suitable category, they are welcome to do this. One effect may drive amazon competitors to cater to all the sellers. And at any rate, to be the top spot Amazon has to be offering good enough prices to get consumer dollars.

For now it benefits the consumer, because they are getting good prices and possibly avoiding lots of junk sellers selling bad goods. Amazon brand good are trustworthy compared to a lot of sellers.
technically what we call computers are nondeterministic. it just so happens that the way we model the hardware and feed/extract data gives us predictability. There are a lot of things going on, even in silicon.

as far as biology goes, i can take any control structure you have in code and show you examples of how it’s being done. just because it’s happening at a large scale and it’s hard to predict at a micro level does not mean it’s not a computation and it does not mean it’s non-deterministiv
> it's always the same

They're usually the same. This one forgot to flame about how the JS community is supposedly constantly reinventing things real programmers discovered decades ago. I think there's still time to edit that comment into conformance with the JS-bashing standard.
Wow! That’s amazing level of improvements!

I’m glad people share their inventions online in this open way. It helps us all get better ideas. I hope you didn’t think I was saying anything negative about your new improved version! It looks fantastic.

Thanks for the details and thank you for sharing.
Scientist: "So we'll do nothing until it does?"

Policymaker: "No, but rest assured we'll blame you when it does happen"
I was very worried about Covid-19 when the initial data and charts were coming out of China and Italy. It seemed like it was going to quickly overwhelm all the hospitals in America. Since then, I've become much less scared about the impact on me personally, and more skeptical about the need for most (not all) lockdown measures. This was based on my reading of antibody prevalence data, and data on death rates separated out by age and risk factors.

At this point, I think Sweden strategy makes the most sense. It is sustainable for many months, unlike more extreme lockdowns. Additionally, I think more strict lockdowns on older population makes sense. For 90%+ of the population, I think we can lift most/all lockdown measures today.
Wow sounds like that was the tip of the iceberg. Super tragic.
Stroke order is very important in English if you will learn cursive/script (joining your letters).

The New Zealand curriculum in 2012 was[1]:

Years 1&2 Learn letter formation.
Years 3&4 Cursive writing via teaching ligatures – the joins to the letter.
Years 5&6 Learning to join letters.
Years 7&8 Joined up writing.

Standard printed alphabets in New Zealand classrooms had small arrows and numbers to show stroke order, although maybe it isn’t taught any more?

In the article they show how to draw a capital O, and option 1 is definitely correct (from top, counterclockwise), and the Japanese version (option 2) is simply wrong. Without the groundwork of drawing the letter strokes in the correct order, you cannot learn cursive easily (or it will just look wrong).

An example is a lower case x, where it was taught as: top left semicircle to bottom left then top right semicircle to bottom right (with the two half circles touching in the middle). If the little x is taught to be formed this way, then one can easily learn to write the script x correctly and legibly.

Edit: I painted a wall in my home with blackboard paint so friends can draw on it, and yesterday I was writing notes on it, and I immediately dropped into using cursive (even though I only occasionally write by hand now). I admit it wasn’t that readable (only just by me!) Disclaimer: I am middle aged and I went to a more conservative school - I have no idea of how many NZers can write cursive although most people older than me certainly do in my experience.

[1] http://teachingnz.com/2017/07/22/should-schools-still-teach-...
The Disappeared: China's global kidnapping ring (2018)
A single experience with psychedelics ruined my friend's life. Caused permanent psychosis, he's either dead, homeless, or in jail now, I wish I knew.
Ask HN: Has anyone experience of EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System)?
The EOS "framework" [https://www.eosworldwide.com/eos-model] has been recommended recently to my co-founder by a friend. The friend liked it so much, they are starting up a consultancy around it, and ,I suspect, in my organisation are looking for their first client.

So I thought I'd come on HN and look for other references to it, and was unable to find any, which is a little concerning. (Not helped by Blockchain framework with same name.)

Some of the tools seem useful, and while I'm convinced of the need for something different to the status quo in our organisation, EOS seems rather heavy on buzz words and invented terminology, which is arousing the cynic within me.

So, any good experiences? Or similar, but different, recommendations?
"Tribalism" didn't come for pandemic science. Tribalists did.

Every individual has the power to behave forthrightly, with epistemic hygiene. You can't shove the responsibility to do that onto a nebulous interstitial emergent effect.
What does a local variable mean in the context of Forth? Data guaranteed to be in registers, like the in-CPU stack of 8008?
The career damage from forced unemployment lasts longer than an unemployment check.
Sekerchat Mobil Chat Genel Ve Yetişkin Sohbet Odalarında Sizleri Neler Bekliyor?
VimTrick: Displaying Color Codes
This is awesome work! Kudos to the folks making this happen.

But at the same time, so sad the open source community have to spend their efforts on this while vendors could have made this happen at beginning. (I know there could be commercial/business/IP reasons, that's exactly why feel sad, feel like it is not a problem that can be eventually solved at all).
But this isn't PRC but Harvard.
> Does that really add value?

The value add is that you can have decent confidence the product isn't so crappy that the brand is unwilling to put their name on it. Presumably Walmart, Harbor Freight, Amazon, whoever at least got a test batch of the product and made sure it actually worked before ordering millions of them. The consumer can just buy the widget at a slight markup for $1.99 and know it will work instead of going on Ebay or Alibaba and buying direct from exporters and wondering whether they should get varieties A, B or C for $1.59, $1.69 or $1.79.
So an interesting question is whether or not Amazon will allow independent resellers to list Amazon branded products with commingled inventory or if the Amazon brands can only be sold by Amazon.
I've always found it a funny thing that for me, the thing that got me really interested in Chinese history where I never had interest before was playing the Dynasty Warriors series. I ended up buying the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and a book on Chinese history as a result. It opened my mind to a whole new part of the world. Also Bioware's Jade Empire deserves a mention. It'd be a shame to imagine people shying away from making art that draws from other cultures.
I built the renderer and thus page turner mechanism for Wrap [1], which kind of reminded me of this. It was interesting to build it and I learned a lot about performance optimizing CSS. Apologies if it sucks now as I haven't been involved on the project in many years.

[1] https://www.wrap.co/
If there any fans of black garlic on HN, the Maillard reaction is responsible for turning the sugars in garlic into that wonderful substance.
I think this summarizes why single payer health insurance makes so much sense. The insurance companies are taking about 20% of health care dollars and provide no value.

If you assume it costs the health care providers the same amount to file a claim as it takes to process it, then the total overhead of having the insurance industry jumps up to > 30%.

I’ve heard the US numbers are comparable to that, but it is nice to be able to derive it from first principles.

Interestingly, this analysis suggests that the cost of filing a claim should be paid by insurance, not the customer.

Currently the cost is an externality for the insurance company, so they can waste time with nonsensical revisions and rejections before finally paying out.

If the insurance company had to pay for the paperwork on both sides of the process, they’d have a strong incentive to streamline claims.
Covid-19: 'We have to assume the virus has attenuated' – RNZ
I think I am mostly skeptical about peoples description of their own experiences and I am also concerned that we don't have a metric to measure the diminished objective evaluation of reality that I see in so many people.

It seems pretty clear that psychedelics can allow reforming certain thought patterns outside what would be possible otherwise. I just hope not all of the people running the experiments are participating in the experiment as well.
It continually blows my mind how Americans think that referencing “Fall” means something. Southern Hemisphere human chiming in.
We flattened the curve for a little while. It's about to get unflattened.
GBD, baby. Golden, brown, and delicious.
>Hardly anyone takes the time to understand anything anymore, thoroughly, and detail it for others. It feels like all surface-level stuff.

It's a pity that this point will be lost to downvotes.

There is a common problem when the work of people that put the time in to really understand, test, improve and document the things we rely upon is undervalued and when that which is rewarded is superficial understanding and gluing together things that barely work is prioritized.

Yes, iterating quickly is important. Yes, it's also important not to waste time making something more robust than it needs to be. I'm not disputing that, what I AM saying is that as things scale up and hundreds of users turn into hundreds of millions of users, it's extremely important to have a culture of rewarding the people that take the time to make these systems robust and continue to ensure they perform well.

As a small anecdote, this was really driven home by a one-on-one meeting I had with an old manager: I'd started working at a small startup which almost completely lacked any kind of documentation and almost everything needed to be figured out by trial and error or (equally common) by pestering the couple of people who had things like passwords and keys and admin access to do things necessary to let a new developer begin development work.

Realizing this was going to be a giant pain in the ass as we scaled, I took the time to write a ton of documentation, checklists, scripts and onboarding docs so that new developers could get up to speed quickly. I then trained the new devs as they came onboard to ensure they got up and running as fast as possible.

Back to the one-on-one: I ended up getting told that my performance was a concern because, unlike myself, the new developers had managed to get up to speed and become productive very quickly and it reflected poorly on me that I had taken so long.

Since then, I've taken a lot more care to assess the culture of a company before doing what I consider to be "the right thing" and do deeper-level work.
The omelette does float on the pan. I see this happen every time I make the recipe.

My guess about why this happens is that, given that the omelette is a significantly large fluid droplet, the pan doesn’t actually have to be above the Leidenfrost point for the entire cooking process because it takes time for the residual steam to flow out from underneath the droplet.
Sweden regrets their choices https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
Just bought a carbon steel frying pan (remarkably inexpensive too) and curiously have the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect happen when dropping some water to see if it was hot enough. Had no idea what that effect was until I read this thread! Weird how that happens sometimes
When I was looking into this months ago I had the same concern. I've read about how common lisp packages tend to become "finished" and not updated after a while, but that doesn't intuitively make sense to me for a package like this that has an external moving target.

How much has JavaScript changed since the last update of ParenScript? How many new language features, that might add real benefit, are not accounted for?

Maybe the answer is that the new features are unnecessary to parenscript, I genuinely don't know, but it would be nice to at least see discussion/acknowledgment of this featured somewhere prominently.
A lot of the cursive forms are pretty similar to dragging the pen while writing in block letters, with exagerated loops and a slant. F's are weird though.
I'm of the honest opinion that no game ever made truly lives up to the potential of the MMORPG. Of a virtual, persistent, shared world. It's quite sad. UO and Star Wars Galaxies probably came the closest.
"Received: 22 March 2020" - direct from the study cover page at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2404-8_reference....

States imposed lockdowns between March 21 and early April. Someone want to explain to me how a study submitted before the lockdowns were issued (nevermind had time to actually have an impact) "found" those results?
Coronavirus hospitalization rates down in Georgia, Florida back early reopening
There are different categories for speedruns within a game. The most popular is for completion, then for 100% completion. Sometimes other restrictions too. Like Super Mario Brothers has ones for winning with and without warp pipes.

The fastest Super Mario Brothers speedrun is under 5 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gum4GI2Jr0s
My opinion of its severity has dropped and continues to drop quite significantly. I bought a lot of supplies in late January because I saw videos coming out of China of people dropping in the streets and them welding entire buildings shut with people in them, stuff I'd never seen before.

I still don't fully know how to reconcile that with what happened. That is, more than just saying "oh, those videos were fake"... well, why? Who made them? Why were they made? I dunno. Even ignoring those it still looks an awful lot like China covered an awful lot of stuff up.

Regardless, whatever made it overseas didn't seem to do that. Evidence at this point seems to suggest a lot more people got it than we realized, without them even realizing it [1]. Any number of possible reasons. Unfortunately, between the tribalism, the outright coverups by the Chinese, and the "errors" if you are generous and "lies" if you are not in our own media, I don't expect to ever have a good grasp of what actually happened.

(Even so, purchasing supplies was the right move. Our local stores never really quite "ran out" of stuff for extended periods of time, but I was reasonably well prepared for what was certainly some supply chain disruption, and had a good practice run for some other real disaster in the future. Got a better idea of how to stock the food up in more effective ratios now.)

[1]: Possibly concerning, and I hope some follow-up study is done on this. Estimates of modern spread rates of disease based on COVID-19 could end up being really wrong if we underestimate how far it spread.
Under Anti-trust law Company A and Company B can do the same exact thing, but 1 Company may violate Anti-trust laws while the other doesn't.

>You could argue that Amazon is unique in that it is large and potentially has a monopoly over eCommerce, but it is hard to say that in the end, consumers are on the loosing end.

It is not about a "monopoly", under Anti-trust you can't unfairly leverage your market position to force others out of competition. That is clearly being done, and the entire body of Anti-trust law would disagree with you and say Amazon unfairly using its market position to kill competition (even if Amazon has a lower cost) is a detriment to consumers. In the eyes of Anti-trust law unfairly forcing competitors out of the market limits consumer choice which is always a detriment to consumers.
Qwant also uses Bing as a backend, and so their results are usually very similar to DDG. Searx is metasearch so it depends a lot on the particular instance you use.

If anyone is interested in exploring alternative search indices, try Yippy, Mojeek, or private.sh (a proxy to Gigablast run by PIA). Yippy is actually pretty OK. The other two are somewhat marginal but will occasionally pop up an interesting result you'd never see on another engine.
It has to be an organization separate from any specific police agency, with prosecutors solely devoted to prosecuting police crimes, complete with their bonuses and careers linked to convictions complete with scummy plea bargaining behavior.

There also has to be new crimes of negligence for things like 'body cam turned off' or 'records suddenly missing' and so on.
>> because it just makes it easier for the sufficiently competent to distinguish themselves

Having worked in the blockchain space... I have seen seen the future and it looks nothing like you think.
When a company has too many conmen. The most rewarded skill becomes conmanship.
I'm interested in your take wrt to the dependency hell GP mentions.
A strong argument for Cargo. Most cargo manifests are some dependencies and a bit of metadata, which I think we all can agree is reasonable enough.
>" can't buy Google home products on Amazon"

Yes you can

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=google+home&rh=p_89%3AGoogle&dc&q...
From my own personal experiences, the most profound, impactful realization I had was in simply seeing my mental state change in an irregular way. It makes you suddenly aware of all the things you've taken for granted in your mental life that suddenly seem so fluid and malleable. The observation of lots of mental walls suddenly coming down and being free in your own head, that sticks with you.
Gp missed "w".
>Is Intel even offering competitive GPUs?

Not yet, but they supposedly are supposed to start soon. I'm pretty happy with that, more competition is good for everyone.
Fraud?

Are you kidding me? I have publication in MICRO with a very famous institution in US. (Top 20).

You know how my professor published his paper in MICRO? Relationship! Relationship! Relationship!

As a graduate student coming from a third world country, I totally lost my hope on the system when I saw a venue as famous as MICRO, is only based on relationship.

Don’t judge me, who can I report it? I am graduate student, means losing my supervisor means losing my visa. I am even posting this via anonymous account (thats how scared I am).
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos posts customer’s racist message
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37880810/how-come-is-thi...
"Conclusion: 99.99% of us are honest but the dishonest 0.01% can cause serious, repeated damage."

Precisely how is this ratio determined?

Given the unreproducable results and plagiarism that we've learned about in recent times I believe there is a lot more fraud than can be accounted for by "the dishonest 0.01%."
I agree the times are worrying. What's keeping me reassured is that the radical protest elements are very small with regard to our countries population's. There are far more people not expressing their opinion and it gives me hope that cool heads are silently prevailing.

Edit: typo
I have been working on something really similar. I built a flight tracker that covers private equity, hedge funds, venture capital and the Russell 3000.

My tracker also includes planes that are registered to Wells Fargo Trustee Services etc.

I was actually about to publish it.

Email me if you want to discuss this more. We could probably work together on this.
The Power of a Personal Monopoly
I'm surprised that it's not much higher. I would have expected over 90%.
I've noticed there's a huge variation in tolerance to mushrooms, even among people who share a similar tolerance to other substances. Like an order of magnitude difference.
Well ... it does mean something to most Americans given their seasonality. But point taken, it's not universal.
I don't think so. Everyone is in agreement over broad strokes of no-lockdown. Different parties just disagree on the details of how to execute that strategy. Some leftwing party: "Why did we have so many precariously employed temp-workers in retirement homes? Of course they will spread the disease the disease, and they don't care complain about health code violations". Some rightwing party: "Why was there insufficient national coordination? Of course districts can't do this on their own" Some other rightwing party "Person X handled this incompetently and should be fired".
...of 2019
Asked for a quote for my home, got an estimate that is twice more expensive than what I already have with Progressive

so much for machine learning algorithms ... :-)