skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a common idea - in a way it is as a shorcut to piling dirt on top of a structure that you make. Critics often bring up that exerting a huge force on the inside of lava tunnels might destabilize them in bad ways, and that sealing rough surfaces might be harder than just building a pressure vessel of your own.
The social incentives involved aren't constrained by the good intentions of this article's author or anyone else.

There are some places where renaming master/slave would, if anything, be a syntactic enhancement.

But the incentive at work is for corporate and professional virtue-signaling / clout-chasing, hence GitHub's decision to rename default branch from "master" to "main", which just muddles its purpose.
As far as I can tell it is extremely common to give steroids (and dexamethasone is among the default choices) in those cases already. I can't quite tell but it doesn't sounds like it was compared to other steroids so I would hold judgement before we hear more.

At any rate, hype over initial briefly reported findings is rarely useful.

Edit: I was checking how common was it to give corticosteroids before the trial (pretty common as I suspected) but it's almost amusing that the WHO was recommending not to use it[0]. I wonder if this will be yet another miss for them.

0. https://www.contagionlive.com/news/is-there-any-reason-to-us...
Rightfully or not, I think this is the version of record at this point, given that it's sitting at the top of HN right now. They will probably get merged later.
"These oil barons"? Dubai is not oil rich. That is why it has built its economy on trade. I could understand people misunderstanding this in the early millennium when Dubai was just starting to rise to its global importance, and they had only Arabian-peninsula stereotypes to go by. But it baffles me how people don't know this by now. They most might have learned it, for example, from the fallout of the 2008 crisis which hit Dubai's trade and real estate-based economy and forced it to turn to other parts of the UAE which do have oil.
The Horrible Fate of John Casor, the First Black Man to Be Declared Slave in US
This happens in many corporations as well. It's fun and exciting to be on the red-team (doing the penetration testing, writing exploits, etc) but the blue team (infrastructure teams and developer teams hardening things) is not only boring to most, but it's also the team that gets the most grief from developers for inducing friction. If your company has a red team, ask how big the blue team is and if they have the same freedom to develop and implement mitigating controls as the red team has to exploit things.

Hacker competitions mirror this. Red teams are allowed to bring in any exploits and do just about anything (as criminals would be expected to do) and the blue team are stifled by bureaucracy and not allowed to bring in anything.
https://youtu.be/-DiBc1vkTig exact story covered by the onion
I despise this behaviour because it has hindered my work so many times. No, just no.
The closest I had seen was the OSU PDK (https://vlsiarch.ecen.okstate.edu/flow/), but it certainly wasn't Apache Licensed as this is. The license is interesting because there had been some debate as to whether ASL is appropriate for hardware -- see some discussions at FOSDEM from 2019 for example, if my memory serves me right. Seeing that this is being published by Google would (generally) imply that internal legal did their homework and came down with the assessment that: yes indeed ASL is appropriate for hardware. Intriguing.
Study: Head Is Older Than Your Feet (2010)
The reason - Safari can delegate to linked in code that is allowed to take advantage of powersaving hooks in the OS, whereas, Chrome does the following:
1. Contact Google
2. Start to load page
3. Contact Google
4. Continue load page
5. Send more stuff to the big G
6. Maybe finish loading page
7. Why not send more stuff to Google
I recently discovered that DDG does clickjacking too, albeit in a different way. My blog post:
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/duckduckgo.html
I wonder what 13% of people are dying from with COVID if it isn’t SARS...
National Debt Growing at Roughly $1T a Month
On a related note, TSMC is based in Taiwan. Ben Thompson (who wrote this article) chose to live there. It's cheap/friendly/modern/safe/connected to all asia/awesome healthcare system/amazing food/surrounded by nature.

Taiwan now puts effort trying to attract new talents. The "gold card visa"[1] is quite easy to get, just earn more than usd5.5k/month at your last/current job, or work in a "trendy" field (AI/big data/energy/biotech...) and you get an "open visa" for 3 years without restrictions for ~300USD. If you're looking for change, I highly recommend her Taiwan! Happy to reply to any questions

[1] https://taiwangoldcard.com
> The argument is that lack of privilege causes poor SAT scores which is preventing certain minorities from realizing their potential, and that this justifies selectively lowering the bar and allocating additional resources.

The UC system also removed SAT recently arguing it discriminates.

I haven't seen clear evidence though that the SAT discriminates more against poorer students than any other admissions factor. In fact given that richer kids go to elite colleges at higher rates than middle income, conditioned on same test score, I'm inclined to think it's being underweighted.
> Merit is not a perfectly objective concept

Perhaps, but sure as hell is better than race to qualify a candidate.
>It's funny to call it naive approach when it works perfectly well in many European countries.

That's mostly because our universities are publicly funded and require no or extremely low tuition, meaning the only money young adults need for academic education is for their living costs (rent, food, internet, beer). This lowers the barrier of entry - and it also gives those students a chance to try who are not sure they can pull through because they do not need to be afraid of losing years of their lives AND have a six figures debt mountain.

> And in addition it creates animosity because of favouritism

Scholarships to cover living costs are quite common here (Germany) for gifted students and they don't cause much animosity, although there has been a growing debate over racial and financial inequality (i.e. that most people applying and getting them don't really need them due to their family's background).

> If there is any discrimination in primary/secondary education, it should be fixed instead of trying to engineer society by introducing "good" racism (which actually hurts Asian minorities).

As said below, discrimination exists in the university system as well. As for affirmative action hurting other minorities... the system can and should be tuned there.
Elixir vs. Erlang 2020
Most of those who go for vocational training don't have a "high-school degree" in the sense of 12 or more years of schooling. They may leave one of several types of secondary school with a degree after 10 years or even less. I believe the American term for someone like that is "high-school dropout". So a better analogy might be "The majority of German high-school dropouts spend 2-3 years as small-salary interns before they can get a real job."

Surely manual workers in the US are already learning to do their jobs somehow. What makes you think the German system would be an improvement?
The curation and walled garden rules can work and have a lot of upsides for a lot of users. The problem is the inconsistent application of those rules that ultimately hurt independent and small time developers. A lot of whom are making the most interesting software for the platform rather than churning out a client to support some existing service.
Creating Pixel Art with Commodore 64 Limitations
Seems HN brought shadertoy to life big time. Really hard to connect to the site :)
SAT scores are also pretty useless, when Harvard has enough applications with perfect scores to fill their class multiple times.
Ask HN: Is there an equivalent of no-code for chemistry or biology?
No-code is a way for non programmers to create apps.

Is there something analogous that will give me a head start in chemistry or biology?
Boston Dynamics Official Store
The competitive admissions high school I went to (which has an SAT average similar to Ivy League universities) has a completely race/SES-blind admissions system and is now 70% Asian.
> it is estimated that if you add up the energy in star, including the matter it's composed of, and deduct the negative energy of it's gravitational field they cancel out

No, this is not true. If it were, the star's mass would be zero.

What "gravitational potential energy is negative" means is that the mass of the star is less than the sum of the mass of all of its constituents. Or, to put it another way, if we make a star out of a highly diffuse cloud of atoms as you describe, the process will have to release energy (by emitting radiation into space that escapes the star system). But the energy left over is far from zero: the mass of the star is energy.

> It seems likely that the net energy of the universe may well be very close to zero.

This is a speculative hypothesis that is not the same as the usual concept of "gravitational potential energy" being negative. The fact that it is often framed in similar terminology is misleading.
> The iOS and App Store ecosystem work extremely well for me...

If Apple were forced to allow NFC access, third party stores and real side-loading, then nothing would change for you. You could continue to use their app store [0] and their payment app just like you are doing now.

Choice isn't bad for anyone.

> I'm just not interested in change here.

You didn't say why or what change specifically would have a negative effect on your usage.

[0] I prefer to use "app store" and not "App Store" since it's a generic term.
Microsoft would probably make them available if this were to happen, since they'd have to do work to get Windows running on the A-series chips anyway. If Apple wants it (and is willing to help, because some way of breaking their secure boot will be needed), it's beneficial for Microsoft. They get to sell more licenses, and corporate environments that buy Apple hardware to run Windows on (which is apparently not uncommon, according to r/sysadmin) will keep doing it.
Cars and phones play very different roles in our lives. Phones have become the way we access the internet and the internet is increasingly at the center of everything so the considerations for regulation are different.
It also gets progressively worse, adult AD(spectrum) can be life ruining. I wish it was more recognized and I wish it was easier to get medication/treatment. The side effects are nothing compared to half a life wasted.
That's the average, which tells us nothing about the distribution. If you're looking at the top n% of scores, the distribution is important.

Furthermore, those studies weren't looking at kids who were prepping for 2 hours a day like many kids with perfect and near perfect scores are doing.

Also here's a study from 2017 that shows an average gain of 115 points with only 20 hours of practice (plus 16,000 students who gained more than 200 points).

https://www.collegeboard.org/releases/2017/average-score-gai...

Another issue is that scores have gone up dramatically over the last 20 years, so given that and the fact that Asian American kids are so overwhelmingly dominant, I think preparation being a major factor is the most likely explanation.
Ritalin suppresses some of those deeper emotions. It also gives you additional rewarding feelings for completing tasks here and now. Unless you have ADHD due to genetic factors then imo it's just a mask over the real emotional issue. A very effective and useful one but still a temporary measure.
I am a former App-dev. I hope Apple burn in hell for that 30% scam. Daylight robbery, should be ordered to pay back atleast 5 years back.
I was referring to the Lancet study that was based on suspicious data.
Obviously, it's not fine for Klathmon, who minds the 30 minute charging stops. A much faster charging time could help independently of the range.

Of course infrastructure outside metropolitan limits is important, since without that you're screwed and can't be even be having a discussion about annoying half hour stops in interstate driving.
Yes. Isnt it also said, that Mensa members (IQ needs to be 130+, if I remember correctly) do not correlate with success in life. It seems that probably conscientinousness is orthogonal to IQ and more important.
Windows on Arm might not be able to make use of all the secret sauce and custom silicon these chips are bound to have. Who's going to put in that work?
The unseating of x86 as the de facto standard for laptops, workstations, and servers would be a net benefit for both performance and security. Unfortunately, though Apple will likely find very great success with their ARM Macs, it does not necessarily follow that the architecture will gain significant ground outside the Apple-sphere. I would love for my next laptop to be ARM-based, but I can't see Apple happily flogging chips to Dell or Lenovo, and I'm not sure if anyone else's ARM processors are up to the necessary standard.
>> > The problem is that Apple has moved to a home-grown stack for it graphics and deprecated OpenGL and moved wholly to Metal. [...] There is no way Apple would create a Windows driver for that custom silicon—it has always relied on AMD or Nvidia for those drivers in the past, it has no in house code base or expertise to write the requisite code in Windows and none of the silicon has been optimized for it.

That's assuming there will only be ARM-based macs that use Apple GPU's, which doesn't make sense. For iMac/Mac Pro/Macbook Pro I fully expect those would still be equipped with AMD GPU's. Good as the Apple GPU's are for mobile hardware, they are nowhere near the performance and feature set of desktop-class hardware. This would also free up a lot of silicon on the CPU die to allow for higher core counts, bigger caches etc. I think ~50% of the A13 SoC die is just for graphics...

On top of that, instead of bootcamp Apple could still support virtualisation to be able to run Windows ARM on Apple ARM hardware and write a paravirtualized GPU driver that just translates guest DirectX/OpenGL/Vulkan to host Metal, similar to what pretty all other hypervisors are doing already.
Tell them ML is so smart it's almost as smart as a C_O.

So if they can solve the problem the ML probably can too ...
Spot Robot (Boston Dynamics) Shop Opening Commercial
Building Momentum to Win the Hybrid Cloud Platform War
Isn't this more analogous to the GNU toolchain being made available? Maybe then RISC V is the "UNIX standard" of which a "Linux" silicon equivalent will yet come to be? ... maybe PULP or otherwise ...?
What platform do you work on now?
> A spaceship leaving Earth would make Earth's well a bit smaller.

While this is technically true, the effect is much too small to measure, and is not what is responsible for the usual phenomena we associate with gravitational potential energy.
Dexamethasone is a serious drug and corticosteroid [1]. It was prescribed for a friend after eye-surgery and having skin / eye inflammation problems, I used it (with no doctors advice) recklessly albeit with very small quantities.

The drug was hyper-effective. An unbelievably tiny quantity can remove any inflammation (eye, skin, hair skin rash, etc...). But the fall out and side-effects are no joke even for seemingly super minuscule doses. It was a horror story for me with horrible eye inflammation, small inflammations in different parts of the body and a skin rash I still struggle with until today. Mind you I took small localized doses and not an injection. I wasn't aware that it can travel through your skin, get into your blood and make a mess.

I think the research will need to specify potential side-effects and their probabilities. It's trade-off at the end of the day.

PS: Do not ever think of trying it without medical advice and doctor supervision.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexamethasone#Adverse_effects
There's quite a spectrum between "HCQ is dangerous and ineffective for Covid-19" and "drink fish tank cleaner".
> I don’t think it’s anti-competitive that Mazda doesn’t allow me to choose the navigation software in my car’s HUD.

I'm going to side with Richard Stallman on this one: I own the car - it's my property - why can't I install my own firmware onto the stock Qualcomm ARM computer powering the the car's infotainment system?

My dad's books on car maintenance from the1960s-1970s have guides on installing your own tachometer as cars back then were often sold without them - why should I be forbidden from installing a custom widget to an LCD dashboard today?
Yeah, When I reached "my code's not good enough", I started to come up with some actionable steps to take to resolve that.
Highly recommend the synology line of routers. I've deployed a few of them for neighbors and have gotten exactly 0 calls. They mesh over wired or wireless, and for all of their faults Synology does a pretty good job of releasing software updates for their products for WAY longer than any other vendor I've worked with.

Just make sure you use the 2600AC as the primary router, the 2200s can technically function in that role but are pretty under-powered.
"Dartmouth relaxed the rule barring women from its computer center..."

Just wow.
Did you install XP first or Linux?

The prescribed order was to install XP and then Linux on a different device/partition. Linux would install Grub or LILO in MBR with dual boot options.

Hence, the easy way to clean up Grub or LILO was to boot into DOS from a CD or floppy and run ‘fdisk /mbr’
>What does this have to do with Dexamethasone?

- Shared personnel are hot on the heels of a deeply dubious result and attempted damage control that has involved an outlandish claim of misrepresentation in an interview.

- This has all the right smells so far to expect further questionable research practices.

- A press release was prioritized over a preprint, even though the authors absolutely know that readily-available drugs will be taken up as primary treatment methods as soon as this news meme spreads. They have given the research community zero time to double-check.

- Wildly sensationalist claims made to the press.

>They might have made that mistake.

This wasn't a simple mistake. Look at ice9's exploration on twitter (see [2]). The whole thing's quite damning.
75k for spot seems like a pretty reasonable price. It would make it cost effective to replace a lot of existing human roles like last mile home delivery.
Making a lifetime vow does not mean you turn your brain off. The Belgian priest, Georges Lemaître, first proposed the theory that is now known as the Big Bang and made other discoveries in astronomy and physics, and still served as a priest as well.
I'm on the fence regarding if they should win or lose this, but I'm glad the probe is happening.
to be fair, affiliate codes don't spike the CPU
I typically run a number of extensions:

duckduckgo privacy essentials, ublock origin, privacy badger, and whatever built-in firefox has.

Perhaps this is overkill but they all cover slightly different things.
Poki is also doing something similar together with Nitrome. They use technology from the guys of Away (the ones that initially brought 3D to flash). The product is called AwayFL.

https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/73491/interview-poki-p...
I tried to ditch as much context switching from my workstation as possible, it has helped in those low-hanging fruit distractions like switching windows and finding yourself on reddit/HN. To the point where I have done my best to eliminate the mouse, because it would often trigger habits that caused me to context switch.

"Alt-tab" was a trigger to forget what I was doing, even if I was alt-tabbing to something I needed. I would alt-tab, instantly forget what I wanted to do, then start something else. Any window switch would trigger procrastination habits too.

So now my code, terminal, file manager, database etc are all in one tool in front of me all the time, and if I am at my workstation, that is what I'm doing. Most of the time.
We Aren’t Using UV to Disinfect Everything–Yet
Oh, quit trying to whitewash the issue. :P
We've been dosing people with hydroxychloroquine for malaria for years so it would be very surprising if it suddenly turned dangerous. It's pretty clear at this point from a number of randomized trials that giving it to people who have developed Covid-19 isn't particularly useful. It's still possible that it might be useful prophylacticly, there's been some promising non-RCT studies coming out of India and at least one RCT underway, but I'm not sure I'd bet on it.

EDIT: And to be clear the Indian studies suggested you wanted to be taking it for weeks before first exposure to SARS-2.
The best explanation I have ever heard for procrastination is this - it allows you to maintain an illusion that "you could do it, if you just tried." You do no work, you don't risk your self image.

When you try in earnest, you spend a lot of effort, all for the potential reward of "All your effort isn't good enough, you are a proven failure."

I am not saying that this doesn't conflict with "It is the mean in the arena...who dared greatly...", but it makes perfect sense to me.
The idea that regulations and laws may need to change is separate entirely from whether the App Store is considered anti-competitive under current legislation.

Though I guess in the EU this amounts to “basically anything the court wants”. Much as I don't feel much for these companies, I also feel like these suits are often just shakedowns.
When Rich New Yorkers Fled, These Workers Kept the City Running
Interesting.

I ran every kind of virus test I could find about a month ago since I was getting weird display/jank issues. Couldn't find anything, and in the end I tracked the issues down to a windows display scaling error.

Any idea how I would go about testing for a botnet?
Sure but Android phones are just as good and do everything iPhones do and more.

Anyone who thinks an open store is important can simply buy an android phone.
I think you understood the logic perfectly well, holistic admissions are more deliberate and less prone to those pesky objective outside factors.
The way we manage engineers makes conditions like PTSD and depression far worse than they need to be. In general in the US we have a pretty ruthless system for managing workers in general. Now with this pause it could be the time to rethink how we manage projects and employees and rethink our assumptions about "getting shit done."
I'd imagine the risk is pretty great, for the same reason I wouldn't paste a password here that I use. Sure, you may not know who I am, but if you were the site itself you get a ton of information on me.. which is more than I'd like you to know if you _also_ know one of my passwords.

I agree, the risk is minimal. Nevertheless.. security, heh.
If you have need for Tails and you continue to use old versions of it out of laziness, then you really are just begging to be pwned. We're not talking about consumer-grade Ubuntu here.
Or they didn't want to end up producing code with noticeable fluctuations in efficiency, as it is described later in the article: sometimes, having consistent (read predictable) computation times is better.
Check out this:
https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/73491/interview-poki-p...

Running AS3 games:
https://poki.com.br/g/bad-ice-cream

https://poki.com/en/g/dino-run