skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think everything devolves to 4chan. But if I had to choose, I suppose I’d rather have 4chan than Facebook. But I hope we never have to choose between those extremes.
> And wherever we look, infections level off before 10%-20% of the population is infected. This is somewhat mysterious.

This is not really true.

Bergamo had a 58% infection rate as of last month: https://bergamo.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/20_maggio_22/ber...

Several prisons have seen infection rates in the 70-80% range: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

The USS Theodore Roosevelt had an infection rate of 60%: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6923e4.htm?s_cid=mm...

A better explanation for the leveling off is simply that social distancing and lockdowns have reduced the spread of the virus.
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The DOJ report that was just released was the result of a year-long investigation by the anti-trust division of the DOJ. While it's release my have been accelerated by Trump's executive order, it certainly wasn't caused by Twitters recent fact checking, and it doesn't directly address some of the points in the executive order. Rather it focuses more on "big sites aren't doing enough to combat crime" than "conservative voices are being suppressed".
Are you talking about the butterfly (2016-2019) keyboards or the new magic keyboard OP (2020) was talking about?
The National Australia Bank (one of Australia’s “big 4”, and our biggest business bank), settled on Zoom for all internal video comms. It’s usability made such a material difference to daily ops that physical meetings were halved way before COVID. I believe the review of Zoom constituted a dot-point analysis of their marketing claims.
real encryption?
The lack of correctness is plastered all over this. Random pick: "Illiterate sailors on a rickety ship overthrew a thousand years of university Aristotelian scholarship in 1492."

Columbus was extremely well-read for his time. He also didn't overthrow thousand years of scholarship because pretty much anybody who cared (i.e. sailors) knew the earth was round well before Columbus. Erathosthenes computed its circumference sometime ~300BC.

A college education with a focus on humanities and how to research things might have improved the theses :)
Would highly recommend the "Advent of Computing" podcast episode on this topic: http://adventofcomputing.com/?guid=3a1d7af237bb48bb985e795c2...
That might be a bit charitable. The GWB SS fix, was basically as you mention turning SS into a mandatory 401k. Without any kind of backstop, limit on fees, etc. Which means the burden and risk were shifted entirely to the individual with a guaranteed cut for the financial services industry.

That is a terrible idea, given that the market goes up and down, and not everyone necessarily makes enough money to fully fund a 401k style retirement account. The only winners in that situation are the retirement fund managers, and people at the top of the income distribution who suddenly don't have to pay for the less fortunate.

Much the same argument can be made WRT pensions, which are guaranteed benefit systems. Its the company/govemerments responsibility to assure that the pension is funded sufficiently to grow. Market failure risks, and the like are the responsibility of the pension, which can do a better job of averaging returns over decades than the individual can. Say someone wants to retire in 2008, instead of their 401K dropping by 40% and eating heavily into their principal they are just part of a larger fund which can absorb that hit with the understanding its over funded from the previous 20 years of returns and the fact that it could be additionally funded a small amount over the next couple decades to make up for the loss if to much of the principal is reduced.

Its basically the same argument for any kind of insurance. You spread the risk over a larger pool and everyone benefits.
Try plugging it into the right side... seriously. Makes all of the difference on mine.

Also try a USB-C to display port if you can.
Except that Zoom's "end-to-end encryption" is technically not "end-to-end", as previously discussed.

So what are they actually announcing then?
They better get used to it: the current government had no problem pitching to Amazon that Canada was a cheap offshoring destination for engineers[1].

[1]https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/city-of-vancouver-criti...
It passes with enforcement among themselves
Meanwhile, if the police destroy your car, they don't even get charged. See the video of them slashing tires in Minneapolis. One law for them, another for us.

If only the FBI used the same zeal in going after the perpetrators of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wk-mRv1Nlo
This service is magic (disclosure: started by a friend) -- Focusmate [1] -- it is basically productivity as a service. The service does video co-working sessions and it honestly works like magic. Incredibly helpful for procrastination -- it just instantly gets you in the zone.

[1] https://www.focusmate.com/
Wouldn’t the lesser of two evils in that case be somewhere around San Mateo? You’re roughly equidistant, IIRC, from SV and downtown SF there, the only geographical disadvantage being that you’re effectively cut off from the East Bay. But, for some, that’s not much of a disadvantage at all.
This was my homage to Doug Engelbart from 2020...

Instead of files and mouse cursors we have a vastly different set of components that all work together, and of course they integrate with the modern features like ApplePay and QR code scanning. Oh yeah and there is videoconferencing... just like in his demo :)

https://youtu.be/FG93VxqV0EY
Message threading on social media? Twitter vs. FB
Do you think Facebooks private message threading (you generally cannot see all a users reply comments in various threads) is a contributor as to why it grew ultimately so much larger than twitter or Reddit, where generally speaking unless private you can see every reply a user commented on? Dislaimer yes, there are many other reasons but all things even, which concept of message replies is better to you any why?
America's identity politics went from inclusion to division (2018)
Average is useless here, because upload is so very restricted on some connections, but not others.

The first google result for median says it was 60/5 two and a half years ago. If you can sustain 90% saturation that's 164 days. Over half a year at 80%.
Please explain how a white woman torching a police cruiser advances _any_ goals other than increasing the dramatically underrepresented white female prison population. Please also mention which other types of crime you consider conducive to rectifying the situation in any meaningful way.
Lithium is absurdly abundant. It can be recycled. Lithium concentrations in electrolytes are constantly being lowered. Finally it is possible to manufacture batteries without cobalt. Cobalt is a bigger problem than lithium because most production facilities extract cobalt as a byproduct of other mining activities. Dedicated cobalt mines are possible but it would result in higher costs.
Color CRTs do have something akin to a native resolution too, defined by the phosphor arrangement, so they do "scale" things. It just happens that the scaling is naturally blurry and artifacts aren't noticeable.
8K TVs are coming!!! I've been an enthusiastic user of 4K TVs as monitors for 40" TVs. They're only $200-$250 for a decent one! So much real estate.

4k at 40" is basically what the DPI of a 30" 2560x1600 was.

But a 80" monitor for 8k is ridiculous. So with 8K we can finally just pick the real estate you want and the DPI will be great.

It amuses me that the press always say "what will you watch on 8K!" ... this is just like 4K. The "content" on 4K isn't broadcast, streaming, or disc based. It's all generated content by game consoles and computer applications, and upscaling.
Most locks have master keys and most find their way into the hands of sufficiently motivated criminals, right? Is there any lock you could put on your firearm case for which there wouldn't be authorised people who had the master key to it?
China claims quantum supremacy with satellite test
Agree about resolution.

I was an early adopter. Didn’t happen voluntarily though, my client wanted me to develop embedded Linux software that drives a 4K HDMI output, so I was kinda forced to upgrade. Never looked back. When that monitor broke just after it’s 3 years warranty expired, I’ve bought very similar one with the same specs from another brand, 27” 4k IPS.

However, I think 120Hz is overkill for programmers. The price/performance proportion is not great either, my current BenQ PD2700U is offered for just over $500 in the US, while the monitors recommended by OP are above 2 grands.
Building a CLI app with the Device Code grant and Golang
It's the difference between premeditated and an act of passion. There are tons of people who aren't fighters that leave the house, get drunk then try to start a fight in the street.
Herd mentality is a thing though and I would not be surprised if a judge took that into account when sentencing.
In the article it says that it only lasted 3 days.
Whenever code is on screen I pause and google it if it’s recognisably not total gibberish - have done for years, it’s always fascinating when it’s plausible and funny when it is not.

My most recent one was Netflix’s Close, though that one was gibberish, it was just a html form with nonsensical attributes in that case.

Found it, http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Stargate-Code-of-the-Replica...
Considering how many techies put up with 2-3 hours of commuting per day, just to live in SF, I don’t think many will be leaving.
> No, they are not. Bootstrap is too opinionated here by not supporting nested menus

Agree 10x
To expand on your explanation -- not only did kneeling not work, it was roundly mocked and derided by even progressives.

It turns out, Americans pay attention when you start smashing property and taking flatscreen TVs.
Linux gaming is BETTER than windows?
Yes, would love a 'pull' based system. You can usually tell just from the subject/preview whether you actually need an email.
Also this Washington choir where over 80% of the attendants were infected

https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-superspreader-singing.h...

This article is just wishful thinking.
I miss the 3D look and feel from 2.x
Under that interpretation, companies will certainly want to keep a public moderation log for court documentation then.

Being transparent as possible will be best for the user and the courts to determine whether or not there is selective bias in moderation.
This is why black bloc: it's a tactic, not a group. Mass anonymity, reduce individual identifying marks.
Looks like Notability - https://github.com/AwsGeek/visualnotes
There are at least three readings of hoorayimhelping's post:

1. This person is not a criminal in some particular all-encompassing sense of the word. I.e., some people commit one-off crimes of passion while others make a lifestyle/career out of crime. Presuming that the latter are stupid because the former are stupid is dangerous because organized criminals have learned good internet op-sec. That's interesting.

2. Thinking of people who commit crimes as "criminals" and making blanket assumptions about the criminal element is a mistake. That might be a well-trodden critique, but it's interesting enough that there have been some (quite influential) books written around the topic. This seems like the more likely intent. Thinking about how the social phenomena induced by the internet and social media interact with those 20th century ideas about identity and subjectivity might result in an interesting conversation. E.g., suppose torching a cop car was an act of passion and this person's name is now forever associated with a crime of passion. That seems... new and different... relative to 30 years ago. Back then, you could just move somewhere new where no one knew your past; as long as you didn't become a criminal in that new place, you could basically start over. What might be the societal implications of continuing to assign "criminal" as a dominant identity in the age of an internet that never forgets?

3. hoorayimhelping believes that there is no law in the US which prohibits the torching of cop cars.

The first two are charitable interpretations that might result in curiosity-driven conversation (in which you may or may not want to participate). The third.... isn't so charitable and is unlikely to go anywhere.
Oh hell I personally know people who openly and in in-person conversations support torching police cars.
Same, my hematocrit gets high during seasonal allergies. Donating blood clears this up.
I've been thinking about this and the problem I keep circling around is that basically everyone I know says the exact same thing (waiting for a housing market drop so they can buy in). That implies that the latent demand in the market is huge and any price drops will immediately be gobbled up by an army of millennials who've been waiting for their chance. The question to me is if there are more homes existing owners can't afford anymore or more buyers with enough money to pick them up when they drop a few percent.
I agree. Albany, El Cerrito, select parts of Richmond, and most of Berkeley are fabulous. I looked at an apartment recently with my gf in Berkeley that would have cut my commute in half. We didn’t take it because it was too small for us and our pets, but, damn, did we try to talk ourselves into it for a bit.
88. If the signaling value of a college degree is its most valuable part, then we are creating a society that values the appearance of success more than actual success.

Someone might be a bit confused about where the causality arrow is pointing.
study shows that people, who donate a lot of blood, suffer no serious ill effects and may even live longer than less frequent donors.

https://sciencenordic.com/body-death-denmark/frequent-blood-...
Think that's pretty much why people are torching cop cars. You'd have to get up pretty early to prove that person is a danger to society, but now their whole life is fucked which doesn't help anyone. We could however use a few hours a week to pickup park trash to better society and the lesson would probably be learned.
I'm looking for a new apartment right now. It's not a big deal at all. The only difference is that I tour the apartments without the office staff.
The Mumbai video has a map
I still don't trust them with anything.
T cell responses are interesting. Infectolab (https://www.infectolab-americas.com/) and its originator Armin (Germany) are using T cell responses for tick borne diseases like: Borellia (Lyme), Bartonella and Babesia because antibody testing is difficult for these (broken via CDC specs as most labs won't test key proteins 31, 34 and never indicate which antibodies are present). Bartonella is very hard to test for with antibody and PCR. It really depends on lab specialty. The sars-cov-2 antibody tests are unpredictable in quality, so nearly useless (my dr is 0-50 via Quest and many people had + PCR).

In short, our immune context (genetic phenotype) is unique! We need a lot more data from everyone to start making accurate correlations. We do not measure T-cells, cytokines, mast cells, b-cells, HLA (partly how we potentially make antibodies) at any meaningful level to provide much confidence. Many natural/industrial substances suppress our T-cell responses and generally innate immune system (metals, mold toxins, etc), so we also need to start accounting for those.

It's a long road we have in front of us. Hopefully the medical system supports patient data ownership and research to improve on our obvious ignorance.
I know Arcosanti (visited in 2013), and have studied a bit about its history.

Unfortunately the project has been essentially a failure. It was supposed to become self-sustaining and reach 5,000 people, instead at its peak it reached less than 100. Great idea though.
A good time to live on the ocean? 'Seasteaders' double down during pandemic
>chance of being caught.

huh, because you almost never see the cops caught committing crimes with their own dash cams. Seems to always be off when they commit a crime in front of their car.
LMAO saw that too an got my daily does of conspiracy theories.
I think if and when the time comes for civil unrest, if LEO continues to go Hong Kong in America, targets for destruction should be the tools of the enemy, not local business.
People are conflating the two types of correction:

1) Adding a missing feature, which is a form of technical correction.

2) Fixing the corporate culture and their attitude to their customers. This is a form of non-technical correction.

Zoom has done a half-arsed job of (1), and one could legitimately argue that it's too little, too late. But the real issue is that nothing indicates that (2) has improved in any way. Fundamentally, the Zoom corporate default is "lie to the customers and when caught, double-down".

They're taking a page from Trump's book. I'm sure you don't need me to explain why that particular management style is unpopular here.

For a recent example, see how PostgreSQL fixed a technical issue discovered by Jepsen. They were advertising on their website that they had a certain technical guarantee related to serializability of transactions. Turns out there was an error -- an honest mistake. They immediately corrected the issue. People trusted them more because of this management attitude. [1]

Now compare with nearly the exact same technical issue with MongoDB discovered by Jepsen. Mongo's website repeatedly lied about their data integrity features, even referencing the Jepsen test as proof! Tests they failed! It's like the snake oil salesman saying "scientifically tested" as if it's a good thing that every scientific test proved that it's just oil and does nothing. Mongo was rightly derided and mocked.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23499667

> Personally, this kind of thing actually gives me _more_ confidence in Postgres rather than less. The core team's responsiveness to this bug report was incredibly impressive.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23285768

> In the circles I run in, MongoDB is regarded as a joke and the company behind it as basically duplicitous.
(Now sounds to me as if you're yourself generalizing about others based on their skin color and grouping them all together)
There's a Spanish pharma company (Grifols) that has been experimenting for years with plasma replacement to slow down or stop Alzheimer's disease progression. The first results of the therapy called AMBAR (Alzheimer's disease Management by Albumin Replacement) seem to be a slow down of the progression of the disease by 71% in moderate cases:

"The CDR-Sb scale – which assesses memory, orientation, judgment, community affairs, home and hobbies, and personal care – showed a 71% reduction in clinical decline with respect to placebo in patients treated as a whole and in all three clinical trial treatment arms analyzed separately."

https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=251270

Which is interesting because it seems they might have stumbled on a side effect of something bigger... And it could be possible to check the participants to the trial for other effects as well.
> Canadian PoS terminals often support US debit cards.

Unless something changed in the past few years, this is not the case. US debit cards are accepted through Visa or Mastercard's payment network which doesn't require a PIN (this is what it means when you process as credit in the US). Those transactions do not use the debit payment network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlink_(interbank_network).

EDIT: I will add that while POS systems don't have a way to do this up there, ATM's with their notoriously high fees do support cash access through a US debit card.
We could still be programming at 640x480 like we did back in the early 90s. Thankfully, technology marched on and we went to 1024x768 and then even better resolutions. One would think that technology would march forward until we had ink on paper-resolution displays, because why not? But of course, we could still make do with 640x480 like we did way back when.

The bigger issue is that, like we've been doing for the last 40 years, a cutting edge 2X display should eventually become the new 1X display, while the former 1X's become obsolete. This makes building software a bit easier, even with resolution independence, it is difficult supporting more than 2 generations of display technologies (e.g. right now we have 100 PPI, 150 PPI, 220 PPI, even 300+ PPI at the bleeding edge).
New features for better sleep, personal safety for Pixel
Wireplace: In-browser 3D voice chat in a customizable virtual space
I do think there's a "CrossFit" mentality among the typer-coders who swear by mechanicals and end up with wrist braces - a kind of "more is more" approach that drives them to write lots of code, put in lots of hours, memorize innumerable details, and min-max their output in Taylorist fashion. It's optimizing for reps, versus mobility, stability, flexibility.

I have let my WPM drop a fair bit over time. I'm still relatively young yet, but I see no reason to go fast when I realize that most of the typing amounts to disposable bullshit. It's better to spend time thinking and developing thought patterns, and then just type a little bit to jog your mind and clarify. I allow myself to write some cheap code, but the point of that is to sketch, and the sketch should be light and quick, for the same reason that artists will say to favor long, confident strokes instead of chicken-scratch markings.
After seeing and trying dlang syntax for generics I was hugely disappointed that rust chose angle brackets.
Samsung launches cloud chip design platform
Imperial College report showing mobility trends explain over 80% of observed variations in transmission:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/m...
Supply & demand actually works, even for real estate.
Translation: Bored of 4chan and gab? Come join our network of nazis, racists, and vaccine deniers!
And that's the way they're shown in K&R2
Mathiness has been a problem for a long time, I first became aware of it in the 1980’s. There’s little grounding of it, and not enough rigor in connecting it to events and states of the world to be able to compare economic models.

Since the behavior of humans is difficult to model and not “rational” in many cases, there are additional challenges to doing much useful in the way of economic modelling. Behavioral economics in the small may have some predictive power, but good luck forecasting fashion trends.

Plus, and maybe this is a flame inducer, there is a huge overlap with politics.
So what is the proposed alternative? It's fine to complain about a system, but it's not helpful unless you have a workable alternative instead.
If you have showdead on you can still read the flagged comments, without even needing to click through like a Twitter content warning. I'm sure mods can permanently delete stuff where absolutely necessary, but generally seem to leave it even when it's obvious spam or highly offensive. I guess the big difference between this and social platforms is that nobody comes to HN to show off their edgy credentials to their adoring fan base or organize harassment campaigns via the platform.
“Pandemic boost” reverses decline of Second Life MAU
That's awesome.

What sorts of techniques did you try? Sort of a gradual letting them soothe themselves for longer and longer periods of time?
Rents, and house prices, are going up where I live, reportedly as a result of all of the people leaving California cities and moving here instead.
SF lost 25% of its population (800k to 600k) between 1950 and 1980.

Cities were not very desirable back then.