skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not equivalent, but there is a ratio to be argued. Being dead or being forced to do nothing for the rest of your life has little difference for most people
Ah yes, I too get my scientific news from sites called "River Cities Reader" that publicly solicit donations at the end of articles. Clearly, an institution we should trust when it comes to applying the scientific method.
Faceprocessor V2 – DNN Resources for making facial image editing easy
Bafin went further than "not paying attention/not having access" though. When Financial Times published articles last year questioning Wirecards accounts, Bafin banned shorts on Wirecard temporarily and asked prosecutors to investigate the journalists for market manipulation, in parallel to looking into Wirecard. That's a bad look when it seems they were right.
Booking concert tickets seems to be a popular one: https://github.com/thomasms/glastoselenium
>>I thought "maybe he doesn't want his real name to link to his blog if a patient googles it"--but, it already does that. In fact, it's a suggested search in google!

>That's not true. I just searched his real name and I get results about him but none of them are SSC-related at least on the first pages. Maybe your customized results lead to that or maybe you are including Scott Alexander or SSC in the search - either way most patients googling him wouldn't see SSC at all.

I get slatestarcodex as the fourth google autocomplete suggestion when I search "Scott RealLastName" but I don't get SSC in the first page of results. And the third autocomplete suggestion is Alexander. Incognito mode of course.
"...not a need"

By what criterion do you define a need? I've suggested some in my post that could easily be deemed a necessary requirement to require JavaScript to be turn off. It depends on one's circumstances.
If I click on the first google image result from a search for his real name in an "incognito" window, I see plenty of stuff about SSC and rationalists https://i.imgur.com/0hWxzp3.png
They should just tax data / ads. FB can send one big check to government.
> The author (a tropical geologist) mixes up weather (temporary) with climate (long-term)

Right, sure, the guy with a "PhD from Duke University where I studied the geology and climate of the Amazon", understands less about climate and weather than you do.

Do you truly not understand that this is extremely basic stuff to everyone except the Climate Change "Sceptics"? They really do have this bizarre habit of quoting schoolkid level science as though it's some amazing insight they've just discovered.
Let's hope M$ will fix their OS to support ARM properly[1] soon, and that we get nice passive-cooled desktop systems.

[1] no x64 support, limited OpenGL/3D support, no Fax/Scan support... AFAIK.
My parents love durian, but even they have rules against eating it inside. So those signs aren’t related to it being “unpalatable”. It’s just that the smell is so strong that it lingers around like strong perfume. For example, I love curry but don’t cook it at home because the essential oils released makes my home smell for days.
"Not a lot is written about being a female founder and CEO"

Maybe this is just a Scandinavian perspective, but I feel like there is in fact quite a lot written about this.
Diving into the Deep Code Waters
I feel like this ship has sailed. I tried looking for "JobAdder Pricing" a few days ago, and the first 5 pages of results are literally auto-generated bullshit. Feels for the first time in a while like Google are vulnerable to someone coming along with a less shitty search engine (although DDG was no better in this instance).
Genuine question, how do you (or others) check the facts? Where do you get facts from?
Eric Weinstein has gotten this treatment for questioning mainstream narratives. He calls it the distributed idea suppression complex (DISC).
Other comments on this thread are suggesting switching the mode of payment to PayPal which let's you cancel instantly. Or credit card chargebacks if you can document that you exhausted reasonable efforts to ask NYT to cancel the subscription
> Durian does not "stink of death".

I once went to a durian place in Malaysia. As we approached (they hadn't told me where we were going, it was a surprise), my first thought from the smell was that perhaps there was an animal dead off the side of the road.

Tasty though.
I want to make a case against having a "growth mindset". And against fighting procrastination. And any other self improvement stuff.

- all these things happen at a much lower level than conscious thought. We have approaches to achieving based on genetics, early upbringing, life experiences, etc. No amount of wanting things to be different will make it so.

- there are no recipes. There is just doing stuff, some will succeed, some will fail depending on a huge number of factors. No words from anybody will help in your particular situation for general questions like "how do I get better".

- not wanting to do something (regardless of the perceived value of that something) is not always bad. Resources like time and energy are finite. Failure is costly and things like accelerated aging and burnout are real.

- why would you necessarily do what somebody else says you should? Who benefits? For an HN related thing in particular: who benefits from everybody getting into programming and working after work to learn one more tech tool?

- "self improvement" in general seems to me to be pushed by life coaches and the like with zero evidence that it actually does anything. I perceive it as a snake oil product.

The topic is huge and any attempt to summarize it like this is bound to fail. These are just a couple of thoughts.

Also, maybe the best condensation is Allan Watts "The reason why you want to be better is the reason why you aren't."

Edit: google the Allan Watts quote, it's a few minutes speech - you can listen or find it transcribed. Worth listening for another perspective on getting better.
yep, Pluots (and Atemoyas) are serious candidates
> But it's going to be some complex function.

Or you can pick a number from Wikipedia [0]. Somewhere between $50 thousand and $10 million.

I agree with what I suspect is your central point; which is when it comes to COVID-19 there are other more important uncertainties than the value cost of a life. But it is useful for an order-of-magnitude check to see if the response is overblown.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life#Estimates_of_the...
I've never written a driver myself, because all my hardware is supported. But I've certainly added new PCI IDs to existing drivers, and done that kind of low-level learning.

I expect if I found a random piece of hardware that was close to an existing one that adding the driver, or updating things so that it worked on the new hardware would be possible. It's just not a situation I've come across.

What I found useful/educational was writing a simple linux security module.

1. LSMs are essentially isolated.
2. They don't care about hardware.
3. You can do lots of things with them. Even horrid evils things.

For example I put together the following module in which the kernel calls back to userspace every single time you execute a binary, to decide whether it should be permitted or not:

https://github.com/skx/linux-security-modules

(And yes, I appreciate that is almost exactly as horrid as it sounds! So much fun to hack around with though.)
What do people think about the article suggesting that R0 is influenced by humidity? Is it time to add giant humidifiers everywhere?
A recommendation to the Dutch "precursor" to Paradise Lost: Vondel's "Lucifer" is a tight five-act play along the same lines. It's about a century older than Paradise Lost, with a contemporary energy that's quite fun and punchy, and a quick read.

Noel Clark's translation gives it a modern air of office politics as Lucifer and Beelzebub quarrel with Gabriel on how to behave in their shared workplace.
Yea dude that's my theory that time is what keeps everything focused on one single now so that energy doesn't leak out to some other now somewhere else

There's nothing outside this one moment, ever.

It all moves together in perfect unison and that's why the speed limit is the speed of light.

Edit: for all these other histories happening outside of the now, they can't change shit about their timelines so they obviously don't have the same freedom of movement we do, do they?
Exactly, the reason for this is that it is an RTX and it has a lot of tensor cores and ray tracing cores which you won't measure by looking at the amount of FLOPS.
More precisely, CERN approves spending a few million to consider more detailed plans for a $23B, 62-mile long super-collider.
I knew a dog (German Shepard) that was scared by another dog of a different breed (flat coated retriever) when she was young. The rest of her life she was really careful around dogs of the attacker's colour, and aggressive against dogs of the breed as the "bad" dog. If a dog was both the same colour and breed you had to hold the leash tight...

I guess the dogs in Goa have similar experiences. They mostly associate tourists with giving them food and other positive experiences, but have maybe bad experiences from a few locals that have chased them away from their property etc. The individuals in the pack may not even have experienced anything bad, but have learned from the behaviour of other dogs that they should be careful
Yes. For the unaware, the original creator of Rust wanted it to basically be OCaml with better concurrency. It used to have a more ML style syntax, green threads, etc.
I also don't trust NPR. They're always begging for money.
I guess this might be a stupid question, but how does the size of the circle matter ? I mean, the particles are going in a round, wouldn't that be like infinite from the particles prespective, so is it related to the turn rate or something ?
For the Microsoft story I think we're also going to need some people actually making desktop worthy ARM chips. Qualcomm upping the power limit on their smartphone chips (as they are doing now) is not going to be enough to make Windows on ARM that attractive if you ask me.

It doesn't help that ARM themselves are not confidently offering any desktop worthy intellectual property, as the smartphone chipmakers are just using ARM's own core designs.
> It could be that security fixes will continue for longer than OS releases

There is no need for speculation here because we already know how Apple is treating Mac Pro owners. I have two of these machines (3.1), they are wonderful powerhorses with two Xeons and 64 GB of RAM, but for Apple they're not worth being supported. I need to use a popular hack in order to install a newer OS and get updates.
So like NPR?
"This paper was originally published at Rancourt's account on ResearchGate.net. As of June 5, 2020, this paper was removed from his profile by its administrators"

http://activistteacher.blogspot.com/2020/06/covid-censorship...
The GDPR is somewhat restricted for public figures as there is a "legitimate interest" in reporting about them.

As Scott did publish his own name I don't think the GDPR would be a very sharp sword in this case.
A more useful rebuttal might be to find a single counterexample to this statement:

> No RCT study with verified outcome shows a benefit for HCW or community members in households to wearing a mask or respirator. There is no such study. There are no exceptions.

EDIT: That said, there's this note at the bottom:

> This paper was originally published at Rancourt's account on ResearchGate.net. As of June 5, 2020, this paper was removed from his profile by its administrators at Researchgate.net/profile/D_Rancourt. At Rancourt's blog ActivistTeacher.blogspot.com, he recounts the notification and responses he received from ResearchGate.net and states, “This is censorship of my scientific work like I have never experienced before.”

It's certainly possible this was just plain censorship, but I'm more inclined to believe that there was something actually wrong with it.
stingy, mean, xenophobic, etc. a few decades ago

The USA naturalizes about a million new citizens a year. How many does your country?
Thanks for taking a look and for the extensive feedback. I really appreciate it.

you're right from your point of view. I also think this project is probably too custom to get extensive interest. although you never know. some really cool projects did start out as custum hacks someone made. JS, redis, Dropbox and Perl (I think). not that I'm comparing it to those in terms of impact. and I certainly don't want the lonely and underpaid burden of being a popular project's open source maintainer.

anyway, for me some reasons that contributed to my choice to make it by hand almost totally from the ground up were:

- learning experience. I just kind of wanted to learn about databases since they're so widely used. good to build one to do that
- desire to simplify. those apps are everywhere and there's a lot of complexity and opinion that goes around that so I wanted to see if I could have my stab at simplifying for myself the conceptual model. I figured that would make it easier for me to use and build those kind of apps in future
- desire to use tools that fit me. I really find myself more productive if I can use tools that are well suited to how I think and work. so often I like to build my own tools. and having whole stack like that give me a sense of satisfaction that I've touched all parts of the project in a sort of craftsmanship manner.
- ownership for quality. doing it that way meant I could create everything to my own standard and specification and not have to rely on other people for quality. if something went wrong then I knew that it was my responsibility and I could fix.

I'm quite scared to look foolish by sharing the following and that's sometimes I wondered when doing this that maybe would have been easier just to use someone else's database or someone else's templated feature equivalent app. and I was really about to kind of give up on this whole project when something's not working, I almost chucked it all the way but that sort of "last straw bug" never happened and I just pushed through.

I suppose what I hope to achieve by releasing it publicly and posting it here is mainly just to mark the moment for myself that I have achieved this and that it's in a state where I feel okay I can stop an intense period of work on it. because i could achieve most of what I originally set out to do.

and I'm somewhat aware that there's not that many examples of templates like this, common as these apps are, and if somebody wants to inspect the code at least it can sortof maybe give them a starting point to understand how one person anyway thinks about solving these problems.

I'm not even saying that that can be helpful for other people very much but it can probably help some people some of the time.
Agreed, I think people get too caught off on deontology when assigning monetary value to life.

It's just a common unit, if you can save one life by investing 20$ more in healthcare, then losing one life to make 20$ is rationally neutral (considering the lives are equal based on some metric, e.g. expected years left to live).
An image of EY is hardly something that will alert your average patient. They'll just think it's an irrelevant result like a bunch of the other stuff that shows up. I do admit, if you are already familiar with the rationalist community, you will figure it out based on that. Anyway, that takes more leaps than the top result being an article from the NYT about SSC.

On 'All' I at least get 0 rationalist results or autocompletes with his name. I do get them if I google Scott Alexander <LastName> but he doesn't feature Alexander in the professional results and I doubt patients know that's his middle name.
It's probably not universal for all people but I can tell you what changed things for me: what I'd call a "critical mass of unfortunate events". At one point in my life(early 20's) I ended up alone, far from my parents, lost my closest friend, the economic crisis was at it's peak, close relatives stabbed me in the back multiple times and overall I was left to deal with life on my own.

So in that aspect - it was necessity over anything else. I guess it pushed me into a slightly stoicistic way of thinking about life in general. Two books (which contradict each other a lot) helped me to tweak my thinking by finding a path somewhere between them: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche. I find myself re-reading them once a year as a matter of fact. Finding the sweet spot between them is what made me go forward - on one hand don't stress too much about the outcome and simply try to do the best to your abilities and on the other look for the collective gains from every idea/aim(product). With the appropriate amount of dedication, it's worked for me even with the largest challenges(of which I've had a lot in recent years as well). Not as I would have hoped but better than the alternatives.
How to prevent medical records from being hacked
A campaign rally is not the same thing as a grassroots political protest by far. It's an organised event that an organiser explicitly invites people to, which primarily serves party politics rather than any particular political issue.
This was Google Wave. A bit ahead of it's time.
https://archive.vn/bSXq7
> The mods are too happy to delete posts

While that does happen, my problem is more often that mods of smaller subreddits are inactive or unwilling to moderate them so they end up being filled with low effort memes instead of actually interesting content.
The Low-Latency Rematch: Performance of modern Java on data-heavy workloads
> Similar effect when reading the news on a topic that one is an expert in - they usually get it incredibly wrong.

This is the argument behind the Gell-Mann amnesia effect:

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
Programming from the Humanities
I'm finishing an Oxbridge doctorate in the humanities, just in time for the entire academic job market to disappear. Meanwhile, I've written a novel which is about to be published with a fairly substantial advance into a post-COVID environment where books aren't really selling.

For many years I've been programming as a hobby, a way to think logically and clearly which isn't stuck in the ambiguities of my day jobs. But now it's starting to feel like my best chance of a career is in programming. What do people reckon is the best way to move in to this new field quickly, given that I don't have any more than a few months job experience in computing to offer and am old enough that I really don't want to do yet another degree, especially since I've been spending my free time on non-computing things, where I've succeeded but not in a way which helps me get jobs in a new field?

I'm confident that I can write decent clean code with a basic awareness of algorithms and complexity in a handful of languages, and have code to prove it if asked, but don't really know how to get to the stage where hirers might ask.
Original article and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23465660
During my academic history with GIS/remote sensing/Geospatial (and still going on), I have seen how the same tools around the various fields in got plugged to in, mostly for the data pre-processing, processing and analyst.

The sacro-saint trilogy, for me at leat, is GDAL/OGR, PROJ and GEOS. They are the building blocks behind QGIS, PostGIS and most of spatial libraries in various programming languages (Rasterio and Fiona in Python for example).

On a more GIS analyst perspective, most of it can be done with ESRI or QGIS and if you can get you hand dirty PostGIS is an amazing tool that I which I had the time to invest way more (or even Spatialite, sqlite flavour of GIS in database). I really which than Shapefiles goes away for good and be superseded by GeoPackage coupled with GeoJSON.

The web had a hard time to be a proper tool for visualisation on GIS/remote sensing due to the big size of the various files but Cloud-optimized GeoTiff and Vector Tiles are the game changers but came too late.

Commercial vendors tends to go for the cloud and platform lock down as Planet and their super-powered jupyter notebook and access to the catalog. Same for Google Eart Engine.

We see also stuff like CartoDB and the Database As A Service for geodata.

In a world when Geodata are highly available with better resolution than never, they are so big to store somewhere than it can be crazy. Working on time series at country scale (or even world scale) require now a lot of store space and calculation power for high resolution images (Even just Sentinel or Landsat at 10m and 30m resolution respectively). Small-scale is easier than ever and lower resolution can be managed on a laptop. I remember when I had to work with time series dataset of Sentinel-1 and -2 images when we were preprocessing 10-12 Tb of data with a pretty long chain of operations to do before handing it out to another team for furter data analysis. Some academic lab are storing Petabytes of remote sensing data gather during the time.

"Geospatial Industry" is way more than looking at ESRI or Google Maps/Earth. A lot of things can be and are done with various research and industry projects than require high integration with the spatial field and the temporal analysis. And the quality of what you have as tools vary highly between field, actually I am working for a PhD on a Bayesian spatio-temporal modelling with lattice data. It is the wild west and you need to cure a lot of R libraries to get what you need. I don't know how much you can do in Python because we had to avoid any MCMC method due to constraints on processing power available : low in fund and no easy access to calculator, we settled for R-INLA who is very interesting on its own.
Dude, when they come out with a 20 hour battery life laptop that does everything macOS does now - who won’t buy one?

If you’re a student/professional that uses Lightroom/Photoshop, etc there’ll be no question that you’ll get the laptop with the better battery life for the same performance.
Ridiculous. What does “not work” even mean?

If you block 90% of a surface, that area is blocked. Of course, not all of it.

I mean: photons are even smaller, and they happen to be blocked. Yes, this is not a good example but it is not totally wrong.
Wirecard: Former boss arrested over €1.9bn scandal
Possible, they've yet to drop the i-moniker of the imac after all, though resurrecting the ibook after so long and when the macbook remains "available" would be a bit odd.
Windows 7 really nailed this about 10 years ago now.

But design is all fads, so sadly it wasn’t allowed to last.
That‘s basically MS Teams.
My source:

> "No current material exists with sufficiently high tensile strength and sufficiently low density out of which we could construct the cable," he told me. "There's nothing in sight that's strong enough to do it — not even carbon nanotubes."

"The best that theorists can do right now is come up with a material that's about two-thirds the strength needed to make a practical elevator," Henson told me. "And that's a very, very short tiny tube."[0]

[0]https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-well-probably-never-build-a-spac...
Turning a particle moving at half light speed requires some pretty big magnets; the bigger the faster and tighter the turn.

The bigger turning circle lets them go faster with the same magnets.
Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams
That's over my head. Anyways, I shouldn't shoot my mouth off. Like I said, Physics is not my field :)
Very interesting, we talk of eating three thousands of fruits at year in any case. I wonder how the new hyped varieties of pawpaw would score.

I really appreciate your contribution. Thanks.
Indeed. The Guardian Trust has also ruled in editorial complaints that factual inaccuracies in the opinion section are fine, which seems to be to be incredibly irresponsible.