skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> one explanation: the policy exists and symbolizes the ideal for a news organization that prides itself on integrity and transparency. when this journalistic ideal conflicts with the practical concern of creating a story, the organization allows for discretion and trusts the writer to make an ethical decision.

There's no indication that the cited policy allows for such discretion.

> in the scott alexander case, the article can happen with or without subject cooperation, so the writer can afford to obey the stated policy and increase "transparency" on this story.

Does that also apply to Virgil Texas of "Chapo Trap House"[1]?

It's clear that the NYT does not, in practice, have a blanket policy against pseudonyms. The writer's claims that it does are therefore at least somewhat BS. Violating the privacy of a practicing mental health professional who is obligated to hide his personal life from his patients is a pretty serious mistake. This could all be some sort of bureaucratic bungling, but as the saying goes: mistakes of this magnitude are rarely innocent.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/us/politics/bernie-sander...

EDIT: see this as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23619347

More and more evidence against such a policy, and for the theory that this is a hit piece.

EDIT2: NYT protecting a therapist's identity in 2015 https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1275436187713286144
Which are still happening. Your point would have resonance if Covid were replacing a sufficient number of those deaths. But, it's additive.
> And the hardware of the Oculus was pretty nice actually (even if many here don't seem to like it because of only 3-dof).

That's exactly why it wasn't nice. It's hard to do much more than media consumption apps or the simplest possible 'games' without movement axes.
You can bookmark open tabs to a folder.

On Firefox, Open All in Tabs
Contrary to everyone else I really like the new design.

The metadata is placed to the right as it should have always been. The languages are in the sidebar and are visible without me remembering that typescript is somewhat dark blue.

Also the new look is more modern and unlike most people here I am not afraid of change.
Agree re the rounded corners. I think they were rounded before, but only two or three pixels maybe. Now with the greater rounding (which also forced them to increase padding to accommodate the rounding), it looks kind of cartoonish, rather than crisp and polished as before.
Are you sure? The story I've always heard is that the Blue (Mac OS) vs. Pink (Taligent) team split originated in a planning meeting around 1988, and the "Blue Meanies" were core members of the Blue team.
relevant Ted talk, "don't tell people what you're doing tell them why you're doing it" - https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_insp...
Where are the back end consultants hiding?
I've been thinking of freelancing and when I look around I find plenty of consultants / freelancers, but for some reason the vast majority seem to do web development / frontend work. A few work with app development and practically none (of the ones I find) seem to do backend work.

...why?
Is there any evidence that the virus is evolving to change its deadliness?
The Antitrust Hammer
> Most places I've worked, we don't build artifacts (docker images, whatever) until there's a merge

The projects I've worked on have used a bot for merges, and that bot handles building artifacts. In some cases, there's a lighter CI for "this looks reasonable", and then the full CI (including building artifacts and running more extensive test suites on every supported platform) runs before merging.
That is a great example. The only ones I could think of were internal to my office, and didn't want to go posting about them on HN.
Overall this design change doesn't matter to me. The only thing that really stands out and that annoys the hell out of me is the circular profile images. It looks completely out of place compared to all the other elements on screen, even their generated profile images don't fit in it correctly. It seems that this decision was made not from "add value" point of view but someone just really liked Instagram or the look of some other social network and shoehorned it in there.
Watch How the Republican Party Ended Slavery
It really does depend on the hardware.

Thinkpads usually work really well out of the box (even the nipple mouse works without a hitch).

I have plenty of horror stories about other computers though. Usually involving being deep in some page tree on a company's website that they don't seem to have actually expected anyone to go to, trying to figure out which specific vendor id maps to the actual hardware I have.
From a pandemic standpoint, it seems confusing to group together all of California. The article seems to be saying most of the outbreak is in LA and Riverside counties.
> That wasn't quite what I was trying to show with the snippet - I was intimating that you can use tcc to run C directly in something like a shell script.

I know, but the first example in the link was:

$ runc 'printf("%s\n", "Hello!");'
Hello!

So I figured I'd complement your example use with one that was more analogous to that.

> I can't edit my parent comment now, but it can be improved with e.g.

To be honest, I liked your original example more. Using that `//` "shebang" depends on what shell it's invoked from, and it wouldn't work when calling exec from other languages. For example, with your last example using `//`:

$ python -c 'import subprocess; subprocess.run(["./hello-tcc-double-slash-shebang.c"])'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 489, in run
with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 854, in __init__
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1702, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error: './hello-tcc-double-slash-shebang.c'

while it would work with the `#!` shebang, since that's handled by the kernel.
Write to your member of parliament and explain why you think it's terrible you can't just add these sort of extra earnings to your tax assessment at the end of the year. It's certainly possible in the UK to operate in this way but also more tax efficient once you get past say £40000 to run a limited company.
I take issue with your framing of the police as criminals because it misses the point; the police are not criminals, the law and the legal establishment fully supports their actions. Those actions are institutionally racist as they are intended to be. There are no bad apples here, it's the barrel that is rotten.
Not just you. I have to use Google search at 80% magnification tops, otherwise the results don't really fit on the screen.
This is whataboutism. Just because it’s more common in one area doesn’t mean we can’t worry about this one thing.
>> Mainly that’s about being able to do things without having to explain them first

It seems as good a rational definition of faith as any.
Oh, boy... I understand their reasons, but my relatives already annoyed by me for asking them to install Riot and then RiotX on their devices. Now I'll need to explain (which will fail and I'll end up saying "trust me") why they need to switch again!
I'm still amazed those guys were able to cram the Habitat client into a Commodore 64. I can why Fujitsu didn't take the risk of trying to cram a somewhat more ambitious client into the tiny user side machines of the era. If it doesn't fit, the whole project fails. Here's a video of the gameplay, running on a Commodore 64 emulator.[1] Remember, this is 64KB (not MB, not GB) over a 300 baud connection.

The trouble with Xanadu was the business model. Everything is pay per view in Xanadu. It's all about micropayments. Really micro micropayments. Edit something by someone else, as with Wikipedia, and you get a tiny fraction of the revenue. Ted Nelson wanted to track the history of every snippet. Also, the design was all built around centralized servers. Not open at all.

[1] https://youtu.be/VmpAnhp31C0
Exposure Notification just lets you know you were exposed. No other details are revealed to anyone else, including health authorities, so it is entirely up to the judgment of the exposed if they should go for testing or to isolate. The presumption is if you feel fine you're likely to write the notification off as a false positive, or not be very proactive about seeking testing immediately (I'll go tomorrow after my important lunch meeting...I feel fine after all...)

Contact tracing, in this context, means your identity is revealed to a health authority that can require you to be tested and isolated, even if you happen to feel fine. This is an invasion of privacy but it also may be able to reduce the number or severity of super spreader incidents.
I believe this refers to work presented in
this journal article.
https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.101.0...

Abstract: Artificial neural networks are universal function approximators. They can forecast dynamics, but they may need impractically many neurons to do so, especially if the dynamics is chaotic. We use neural networks that incorporate Hamiltonian dynamics to efficiently learn phase space orbits even as nonlinear systems transition from order to chaos. We demonstrate Hamiltonian neural networks on a widely used dynamics benchmark, the Hénon-Heiles potential, and on nonperturbative dynamical billiards. We introspect to elucidate the Hamiltonian neural network forecasting.
I hope you read to the end of my post where I address that:

> So insofar as data is the root of the problem, yes. Insofar as the solution is to just use more representative data in the same systems, no. That doesn't fix things.

Ultimately Yann's proposals are still to use "better data" whereas all the ethics people are (and have been) screaming no, you can't use better data because it doesn't exist. He doesn't acknowledge that.

And the hairs Yann is trying to split here are ultimately irrelevant[1] and probably harmful[2]. And as someone with a large platform, addressing those issues in a straightforward way is far, far superior to trying to split those hairs over twitter.

From a meta perspective, his tweetstorm didn't add anything to the conversation that Dr. Gebru and her collaborators aren't already aware of. Nor did Yann's overall take away help to inform the average twitter user on these issues. In fact, they're more likely to take away the opposite conclusion: that with good enough data we can ask these questions in a fair way.

But as you rightly conclude there are flaws in any data based inquiry. Yann doesn't concede that.

[1]: https://twitter.com/isbellHFh/status/1275184863159685121

[2]: https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1275088134238162944
For easy start (human friendly) there is Regolith Linux.

https://regolith-linux.org/

Once you learn the basics you can switch fully to tmux,vim etc.etc.

The productivity boost is huge.
I always look for the light mode button in this new hipster software.

Next thing I know, books will printed white-on-black.
The point I was trying to make is that cosmetic filtering slows down the browser, period. AdGuard is not more efficient at applying CSS rules than uBlock.
> I don't understand why people are complaining like it's an absolute disaster

what website did you think you were on?
Theranos is an example from the recent past
I think the strategy seems reasonable. It seems much easier for toolkits and application developers to feel like supporting gestures is worthwhile if they know that the large fraction of their users using X will get this feature. I think otherwise it can be easy to only want to implement things for the intersection of X and wayland.
NSO Group is owned by Novalpina Capital, a British company.
ARMv8.1 adds a bunch of improved atomic instructions that basically implement the same functionality as x86.
Because x86 has atomic read-modify-write instructions by default; You need emulate those too.

The ARMv8.1 extensions look like they have been explicitly designed to allow emulation of x86.

The implication is that implementations of ARMv8.1 can (and perhaps should) implement cache/coherency subsystems with high preformance atomic operations.

And I'm willing to bet Apple has made sure their implementation is good at atomics.
I think the goal a couple/few months ago was #2, but in the meantime we've learned that there might be some bad long-term consequences to contracting the disease that weren't previously known, like possible permanent respiratory damage.

Without that, then we shouldn't be too worried about getting the disease as long as we keep transmission rates low enough so hospitals don't get overwhelmed. But if some people end up with long-term respiratory issues after contracting the disease, now there's a reason to keep people from getting it, period, regardless of hospital capacity.

But it would be nice to hear these goals actually articulated by public health officials. I'm not sure if my above paragraph is actually what any public health officials are thinking or are worried about (I'm just guessing), but it would be nice to know, because I agree with you that there seems to be a lack of "goal clarity" at this point.
Yes, this is why I said "basically". The fact that GPT-2 tokens are not necessarily prefix-free can be a problem for arithmetic coding, but I've found that "greedy" parsing almost never fails in practice.

So yes, there are ways to work around this but it seems like the simplest explanation for why unusual words break the encoder.
Ask HN: How can I report a violation to YC's code of ethics?
Staying vague since my last comment was flagged for some reason(?).

What's the right channel to report a violation to YC's code of ethics?

Thanks for the help!
I never thought trendy modern GUI design would get so bad that looking at screenshots of programs running on Windows 98 would feel instantly and overwhelmingly relaxing, like settling into a warm bath, as if parts of my brain being taxed for no reason could finally just chill. Yet, here we are.
Exploration of Generative Art
I have both the Quest and Rift S (previously a Rift and DK2, along with regular usage of the Vive). I would say just get the Quest.

For PC-backed graphics and exclusives, you can use Virtual Desktop with the sideloaded unlock to do wireless streaming or use Link for a hardwired experience.

The Rift has better quality screens and optics, but the Quest has a higher FoV and I find that ultimately wins out for overall experience.

The hand tracking stuff is very cool, extremely well done, and a bunch of stuff is coming down the pipe for it right now. It's supposed to come to the Rift too, but for now Quest has the advantage there.

I will probably end up selling my Rift at some point. I got the value of playing Alyx at full quality, but don't consider the minor IQ loss with streaming to the Quest to be that much of a blocker. I can do everything with the Quest, so it's the system for me.
> I don't want to schedule laundry and grocery shopping for the exact same day and time every week. Nor do I want it sitting in my to-do list forever.

I use TickTick and use their 'Habits' feature for this.
The 12” powermac g4 was 4.6 lb.

Yes, modern Apple laptops gave up the “brick battery that slips out with a latch.” But in place of that we have Terraced internal batteries that can fill any volume
Consider the following:

http://google.com

https://google.com

Both wind up eventually to the same place, but the first redirects to the second.

That can be a link, it can be an old bookmark, etc.

Worse if it was a targeted ad, the https:// link could be just a redirect back to an http:// link, something the browser probably has no trouble doing.
Technically speaking Bootcamp was only developed to support Windows. Apple has no motivation to support any OS.
Show HN: Go Memory Allocators
The direct link mention is encouraging, I hope they do something interesting with the opportunity
That's because humans act on a country-scale. We need planetary scale to act reasonably on matters like that. Until then it's always cheaper to exploit poor countries rather than building proper waste recycling. And for some strange reason world government is not happening.
I would assume renaming the app will be transparent to the user that already has it install. Is that not the case?
>The article seems to be saying most of the outbreak is in LA and Riverside counties.

LA and Riverside Counties are about 1/3 of California by population, so while it is somewhat disproportional for most of (whatever) to be there, it's not anywhere close to what it might seem when you name 2 out of 58 counties.
I don't think I've seen anyone right-of-center have anything really bad to say about Scott. I doubt any of those outlets (Breitbart, etc.) would want to do that to him.

This may itself be reason for some people to distrust Scott, except that he's probably done more to bring people to a moderate or left-of-center position on some topics than all the people shouting "racist!" combined.
Well.. it looks like .com domains : all 4-letters taken ;)
That seems like a tradeoff between people discovering a project and people developing that project. People initially discovering a project usually want the README; people developing a project may potentially want either.
These numbers need decompression computational complexity for completeness. I am not better off if I save 1ms downloading, but it takes 5-10 more ms decoding. Bandwidths in the 100s Mbps are common now..
Tim Cook says new Intel Macs are coming out this year. If you can convince your company to buy you one, you should be good until 2030.

Not being able to do your job would be enough for even my craptastic company to buy me a new machine.
Examples of mathematical discoveries which were kept as a secret
Wolfram.org Is Not Wolfram.com
You could try the contact form on YCombinator's web site:

https://www.ycombinator.com/contact

There's also an email address on their "legal" page:

https://www.ycombinator.com/legal
But it seems like a decline in deaths marks the end of a "wave", which is a good thing.

We could face another wave, which of course would be bad. Lockdown fatigue and protests could easily bring it back. But if we've brought one wave under control, at least we know what it takes to do it and we can try to react a little faster for the next one.
> it sounds like they've increased the accuracy of a neural network model of a system, notably for edge cases, by training it on complete a complete model of said system.

Not quite. It's really just that they require the dynamics to be Hamiltonian, which would be highly atypical of the kind of dynamics an otherwise unconstrained neural network would learn. This is reflected in their loss function, the first of which learn an arbitrary second order differential equation, the second of which enforces Hamiltonian dynamics.

I don't understand how this was considered novel enough to warrant at PRE paper.

Here is a link to the paper:

https://journals.aps.org/pre/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevE.101.062207
Sure I completely agree but these streaming personas are a business to some people and you might wake up one morning to the Facebook ban-hammer. Repeating the mistakes od depending on 3rd party services for a business model.
Imagine the furore if someone manages to make this genome into a living creature... Will they get a passport? Will they get the vote? Will any children be allowed to be called humans?
I love the style of this and tried something similar before changing direction with Table of Sending.

After lots of testing, I settled on 2.5D tiles for the DMs who wanted to sketch their maps 15 minutes before playtime:

- https://tableofsending.com/

The shadowcasting fog-of-war has also been awesome since the map is semantically understandable:

- https://twitter.com/HunterLoftis/status/1269396682233581568
I've been watching the number of deaths (although it's a morbid way of looking at it), too. If the number of cases goes up but after a suitable lag time and the number of deaths doesn't, then we are likely just uncovering more people who had it through more thorough testing. If the number of deaths rises, then it's not just that we're testing more - it's spreading more.

The logic behind this is that people are going to the hospital whether or not they have been tested, they are not going to stay away because they haven't been. I don't have easy access to numbers of hospitalized patients, so I watch the number of deaths. Right now they have been flattening out or decreasing, as you pointed out. When that changes I'll get worried more. In either case, I am playing it safe by social distancing and wearing my mask and reducing the amount of time I'm in the office.
WebM (despite being closely related to WebP) can be 5-10x more efficient than WebP.

That's because WebP focused so strongly on being a GIF equivalent that it also dropped all things that made WebM efficient and instead adopted GIF's awfully inefficient architecture (just dumb frames overlaid on top of each other, without motion vectors or predicted frames).

Safari shows how it can be done: it supports silent MP4/H.264 straight in <img>. You get all the ease of use GIF, order of magnitude smaller file, and hardware acceleration.

It's unintuitive, but well-compressed videos are cheaper to decode than dumb "animation" formats, because file size differences are so massive that it's cheaper to decompress a small amount of complex data than to chew through vast amounts of poorly compressed data.
There's a contact link in the footer for the forum and a https://www.ycombinator.com/contact/ for the main website.
Indeed, it is built in Pharo. However, the UI is designed as a language made of visual and interactive operators that can be programmed and combined in many ways live.

This enables a new kind of programming we call moldable development through which we construct tools for each individual development problem.

In any case, I'd be very happy to support you in playing with GT. Please ping us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/feenkcom) or via email.