skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, surprisingly good. Assuming I have no job, stuck alone in an asocial country, miss my home, and had a much worse mental state before entering pandemics.

TL;DR: stoicism rocks. the best thing I've adopted ever.

Secret? First of all, stoicism. When COVID started, I got into and quickly merged into my philosophy. I still have a lot to learn, read and internalize (finish the big 3 stoics, yudkovsky, taleb, kahneman), but even now it works pretty well. It successfully moves away from the orthodox version, so I'd recommend you to meditate a lot about the statements it gives instead of just accepting them. For example, I think I started to understand how all this "you can shape reality with your mind" stuff works. Nothing magical, just a proper mindset which is surprisingly similar to the stoic one.

Second - of course, I have savings. I anticipated a crisis long before so I started to stash money. In the best case, I have a couple of years of runaway (and even more if I return home).

Third - I have some ideas to build. So I plan to enrich my github / cv and in the meantime apply to interesting jobs (yes, I'm still picky). I planned to build the stuff anyway, so why not do it in a comfortable manner (and not tired after day job in the evenings). Plus, I can rehearse the proper escape to full-time tinkering which I hope the future will allow me to do.

Fourth - the upside of being a small asocial country is that it has already removed the quarantine. So I've already started going to coworking and got an awesome boost to productivity.
The Museum of UX&UI Design
What a long way we came as designers. A perfect trip down the nostalgia lane.
You can turn off secure boot.
Astronomy: Betelgeuse has dimmed 60% ahead of potentially imminent supernova
Hi,
I've just launched the beta version of PokerHelper.app - its a deep-learning backed poker assistant for Texas holdem that provides recommendations for the best possible next move, given your current cards and hand situation.

Unlike other poker assistant apps that use maths to calculate hand strength, Poker Helper's use of deep learning is capable of bluffing, and is aware that other AIs may also bluff, too.

Poker Helper is currently completely free while in Beta, as the AI is not yet 100% production ready. It is currently capable of beating average human players and many other AIs, and I've managed to make some money playing poker online with this app already, but it will be refined further before the paid version is launched.

Thanks for looking, Chris
Ask HN: The Value of the Software in an Acquisition
I'm currently trying to estimate the value of software in case of an acquisition of a SaaS company from a technical angle (People, Process, Technology). So far, I could attend several due diligences. As it seems, it's all about MAU, MRR and Conversion Rate and so forth. The technical value of the development team (e.g. seniority), their processes (e.g. automated deployments) and the software (e.g. cloud-native architecture) built so far seemed not to play a big role in determining the value of the SaaS business.

So, what's your take on this matter? In the eyes of an M&A consultant, is software just a tool you can easily rebuild and replace and all that counts is the current business stats that it enables? Or is there anything I can do as a founder to raise the valuation of my business by polishing people, process and technology in the R&D team?
I find your worry interesting and mildly humorous. You seem to be worried about hurting the feelings of chinese people for personal western moral reasons, but seem fine with insulting the PRC.

Personally, given that the Chinese will likely dominate the world over the course of the next century, I'd be less worried about insults for ethical/antiracism reasons (they're going to be the ascendant ethnicity and culture soon, don't worry- they'll be fine!) and more worried about insulting them or the PRC for reasons of self-preservation.
It's closed source. [Trac](https://trac.edgewall.org/) is better.
This would be solved if they just ported over the revokable permissions that LineageOS implements. You get real security and the app is none the wiser.
The FF console seizes up far less than the Chrome one in my experience. The only thing that is keeping Brave installed is the video playback seems slow/choppy as hell on MacOS.

Edit: Just tried a 60FP4k video on youtube and it was smooth as butter so that's interesting.
It appears so. I found it in their careers section https://linear.app/readme, under Tech.
The 6th time it happens to them, as long as self hosting is easier
I would love to see some more rich voting options than just up and down.

Allowing users to vote using tags like "Great Summary", "I agree", "I disagree but strong argument", "Sources check out", etc could really help users filter. People often upvote/downvote based on agreement rather than the quality of the content.
alt_f4 is a troll. I don't think they understand what we're arguing about lol
I've had people send me $ to the wrong account, and it gets rejected by the receiving bank, I believe because the name / information doesn't match what's listed on the receiving bank.
Can Archaeology Dogs Smell Ancient Time?
Can someone TLDR and tell me what the best router is for $75-$150?
Following the money: China Inc’s growing stake in India-China relations
> This case hinges on the exact wording of the law that authorizes the National Emergency Library. IIRC, it basically gives copyright impunity during a declared national emergency.

There is no such law. What on earth are you talking about?
Just Democracy in action here. This is what the people voted for. Unless you believe that the government's power should be limited in some way.
Spending a large amount at once can also be fragile. They say many families don't have a few thousand set aside for emergencies. If you have a few thousand and spend it on a dining room all at once, you won't be able to handle an emergency even if your income would have easily handled the monthly payments.

Obviously, it's preferred to have both the thousands saved as well as the thousands needed to buy a new car or furniture, but one might not be able to delay forever.
For me this is the crux of the issue with The Platforms giving rise to "fake news".

We as a society have decided that rampant mis-information and propaganda is only worth solving if we can automate it. If we actually have to pay real people real money to fix it on an ongoing basis, that's just too expensive.

Sure there are problems having Humans doing this work too, but they are still way ahead of AI in this problem space.

How long do we wait for automated solutions while these problems impose real costs to society?
Yes, we're a small team and as we're building Linear for both the web and desktop, it was the obvious choice at least at this stage. It's essentially the same app and experience on both but desktop provides better notifications and faster "in and out" of the app experience - it's important for us that Linear is there when you need it and doesn't get on the way.
I love this point coming up. I am not excluding other entities of this behavior. I am nervously saying 'great another person is doing it fml' #Idiocracymovie
I'm sure the government considers the years long ongoing battle between Apple and the FBI over device encryption to be "very compliant".
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2. Basically it has six parameters because the wave function changes based on the first three parameters (n,l,m) and can then be solved w.r.t. x, y, and z, though it'll be easier to do in spherical coordinates.

3. This hydrogen atom has a nucleus and one electron. Think of n as the energy level of that electron - electrons have discrete energy levels, so as n increases the electron occupies the next discrete energy available to it.

l is another quantized value which corresponds to what we call the orbital angular momentum of the electron, which partially determines the shape of the orbital. This is a big part of the visualization you see - as you change the value of l, we see different shapes, and if you increase the number of particles in the visualization, you get changes in those shapes. These different shells have names - s, p, d, etc - that correspond to the integer value of l - 0, 1, 2, etc.

Importantly, what's being graphed in the visualization is a solution to the specified wave function. It's a 3D probability map, effectively. Where there is a higher chance of the electron being located, the particles are more concentrated, whereas lower chance regions have lower populations of particles.

m is called the magnetic quantum number and can have integer values from -l to +l, and further specifies the particular state of the electron in its "shell" - s, p, d, etc again. If the wave function has n=2 and l=2, then it's in the d shell, and can have values of m from -2 to +2. The actual value of m determines the final "shape" of the orbital, again depicted as a probability map - every dot you see plotted can be a location of the electron, so plotting a lot of them based on the probability distribution gives you a visualization of the regions available to that electron.

So the menu entries are just values of n,l,m that aren't separated by commas.

I hope that clarifies some things!
It's a controversial opinion I've not heard anyone else express, but IMO variable-width vector instructions are the wrong approach, since they're optimizing for the easy cases and solving problems that don't matter much, like instruction counts.

Although x86's SIMD extensions have a bunch of crippling issues, fixed-width instructions are fundamentally more general because they work both for vectorizable length-N loops, and for the many, many cases where you have a fixed units of work that you can perform in parallel. If you design your architecture to depend on loops to extract full performance, you cut yourself off from many productive uses of vector instructions outside of loops, and make it more difficult to juggle cases where you have more than one loop dimension.

Upgrading to new architectures with longer supported vector lengths is best left to recompilation and variable-width vector libraries.
I think the biggest complaint with Pocket is Mozilla's broken promise to open-source it. After that, we will all be able to check for ourselves whether Pocket is spyware. I look forward to that day, may it come soon.
I wasn't clear - sorry. It obviously can't be seen, and I (just about) get it's a probability cloud. My question is, is the underlying probability cloud real, in the sense that we can think of it existing and in it's actual peculiar shape, so if we could probe it we would indeed find something shaped like that, or is it just an abstraction/model 'that just works'?

It's not even an easy question to ask, come to think of it.
Show HN: Domscript – A lightning fast DOM query and manipulation lib
The fact that these glasses are clearly opaque remind me of Marty's reaction when he sees Doc's brown futuristic glasses in "Back to the Future". It does look a bit silly, but at the same time it looks useful, and not heavy and encumbering like most VR headsets.
Might find an answer in:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17126670

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15467819

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15264053

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15178535

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14629414
Updated the FAQs. Thanks for pointing this out
Love this tool too, thanks for linking it in
Because Trac is open source, or because Trac is easier/nicer to use?
It’s fine if an app has a valid use case to access clipboard. I have found it really convenient myself. I think the crux of the issue is that the apps should be forced to get permission from the user first, on a per-app basis.
You are making several false comparisons. Home ownership rate is not the same as housing costs. A lack of transit options is not the same thing as the length of commute. In both these cases they are likely barely correlated.
Also why would you assume that other countries don't also have an unequally distributed patterns between their major metropolitan and more rural/suburban areas? You compare statistics of your county with entire other countries as if it provides some kind of useful data point.
Difficult to find such data, but population explosion surely helped scale up the absolute numbers.

Nevertheless, a lower rate of slavery per capita should still not suffice as a satisfactory excuse for us to ignore the uncomfortable present realities of the tens of millions of people currently living as slaves.
You can get an idea of how popular different processors are in the server space by looking at the AWS EC2 spot market. Top end Xeon server processors (C5 and Z1d) typically have much lower spot discounts than AMD EPYC based processors (r5ad), although ARM c6g instances have been pushed up in price significantly over the last few months, perhaps as people switch over to them for the per-computational-unit cost savings.

Of course, this is all a factor of Amazon's supply of instances and their chosen on-demand pricing level, but the trends are certainly interesting, and show steady demand for fast Xeon's and increasing demand for ARM's. I have run some compute heavy workloads on the best AMD's I could find on AWS and the speed difference per core for my particular workload was nearly 50%, which got worse as it scaled up to bigger instances because my workload uses a lot of L3 cache. I hear about EPYC's with 256MB of L3 cache but I can't seem to find those on AWS -- only ones with 8MB of cache.
Because the demand for dollars is 7 billion people + entities vs demand for say Chinese yuan is 1.4 billion people + chinese entities only.

Basic supply and demand. If demand for US dollar reduces (say all Asian countries band together like EU to form a megacurrency), they will stop keeping too many dollars in reserve and demand will drop, thus currency value will drop and the US will drop in GDP rankings.
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This dumbing down and locking down on phones and computers, is really worring me. I'm a power user which have been using computers as a tool which I have been in control of (more or less), but now things are really turning. Todays phones are in control of us as we lose more or more power of them. Living in Sweden, I am almost forced to use proprietary phones and software, just to live here. Any idea for what a free software enthusiast should do now that things I've loved to use are slowly being taken away from me, and being replaced by these devices contolled by these monopolies and governments?
Not really but it's just Lektor and Netlify, hosted on Gitlab. I also have Gitlab CI deploying the site on Neocities (https://neo.stavros.io/) as a backup/just to see if I could.
If my phone has to be a walled garden, Apple's seems more enticing to me for the moment. I would want to give it a try at least. I might very well regret it and switch back to an Android phone which won't get updates after two years.

I also have to say that to me, even if apps that require SafetyNet don't work anymore after unlocking, it certainly doesn't make the phone certainly useless. But I don't want to live with the inconvenience of not being able to use some random apps.
Obviously it isn't a hellscape. That was a term meant to evoke the negative consequences of suburban sprawl. There are plenty of positive things about it for people that live there.
Has any work been done to map out where the money lobbying for prohibition is coming from? Private prisons? Pharmaceuticals?
Even if that was the case, China/Russia having a bunch of vulnerable computers being used as proxy botnets would still be alarming.
It's stated in the article that the cost of the content has gone up. The fees that Google has to pay the networks.
> Not acquihire. Employees are not moving to alphabet.

Do you have inside information? The announcement implies acquihire. You don't explicitly say where people will be working for you if they're not going to be working for you.

> They'll join the Google team based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada—North’s hometown and an area with impressive tech talent. We're excited to welcome our new colleagues, and committed to the growing global tech community of Kitchener-Waterloo.
This happens all the time in journalism. An accused person's criminal history, or a politician's previous bankruptcies, etc.
Neither the AIO nor the large tower (air) cooler are going to fly in a sever rack.
Why not just have granular “clipboard” permission that could be granted or denied per-app?

Personally, I like the ease-of-use I get out of google maps grabbing addresses from my clipboard. Not everyone would like it though, and that is ok. They could decline the permission request.

But I don’t want other random apps being able to grab that info without permission.
Founder here. Here to answer any questions you might have.

We built Linear as we’re frustrated the practices and the available tools when it came to managing software projects.

On the product, we especially tackled the performance problem. Everything is synced to the client and we sync just delta packages between the cloud and client as changes happen. This way all actions a happen instantly and navigating around the app is really fast. And the app works offline too.

We also streamlined the UI and UX, overall we are rethinking what comes after agile for software development. I think many teams looking for something simple to run their teams.

Our announcement post: https://medium.com/linear-app/practices-for-building-linear-...
Just because someone was elected to a position doesn't mean they should be indismissable for misconduct, in general being able to elect judges is good and democratic it's just that the system has adapted to compensate for that.
I didn't see where the banks are at fault in the above article. It appeared that the woman received a fraudulent email on where to wire the money. This fraudulent email did not come from the banks. So, how could they be liable if she provided them bad information? GIGO. I'm not saying banks care, just this article doesn't highlight that very well.
Telegram is way way more than that. Banned YouTubers can easily host their videos there for millions to stream. And according to telegrams ToS they won't ban unless you "call for violence".
So weird how the government routinely grants immunity to themselves, especially the judicial branch. I don't know when the judiciary decide it was the final say in all matters on earth, but fundamentally that is broken.
> subject to the absolute control of a foreign government

National Security letters mean that for 95.75% of the world's population, what you just said applies to the USA.
You might be sort of right but the statement is illformed.

Happiness is a subjective experience and some people here are aligned with one portion of values and another portion are aligned with other values. If it matters or exposes more mentality.. my views / what you are opposed to - - to me are classic, pure american (US) capitalism values.. when we behave not just to the letter of the law but within the intent of the law and with respect to the culture, and with a sense of responsibility and accountability. A refined yet aggressive and successful business class does exist and is not scummy. I don't need documents I'm a part of a 4th generation US manufacturing family.

Sadly our republican class values are currently high-jacked or i would point you to that 'label'
And then, what kind of important benefit does it bring us that the USD or any other currency can't give us?
Training data pays attention to really weird things.

Someone was telling me of ML cancer detection that was unexpectedly training on the ruler found in most images of cancer.

I can see models based on an image sensor could inadvertently optimize for sensor size or geometry.
Ask HN: Does anyone actually make any returns from AngelList?
For years now I’ve been investing in AngelList funds and companies. Dozens and dozens. 2 have exited measly returns. A few failed. Nothing else to show for it. The average investor seems to be throwing their money into the AngelList black hole of no return.

So I’m curious to know if anyone actually has made any returns from AL or is it just smoke and mirrors on paper?
No, it isn't. By saying the EFF is on the wrong side of the law you are implying that they are acting badly, this is simply not the case and needs correcting.

There is a reason why falsley accusing someone of a crime is libel in and of itself and is actionable under the law regardless of damages, I don't think this quite reaches that standard, but it is damn close.
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HN is social media?
Generally, people in tech companies aren't working from offices at the moment, so benefits have taken on a whole different meaning in the time of the virus.
Ask HN: Small Desktop Recommendations?
Hi. I'm looking for recommendations for a small desktop.

I'm normally a Mac guy, but I need a system to develop relatively simple desktop applications in .NET using MS Visual Studio. It seems I'll get the most for my money if I buy a small desktop and access it across my network using Remote Desktop from my MacBook.

Obviously, I'd like to get as much CPU, RAM, and SSD as possible. I'd also like it to be quiet (i.e., no fan?) and be available immediately (i.e., 2 day shipping).

I'm a n00b when it comes to using Visual Studio, so I'm wondering: Are there any flaws in my thinking, AND do you have any recommendations for a small Win 10 Pro desktop under $1K?
Worth noting is that the Boy Scout organization itself declared bankruptcy as a result of ongoing scandals and lawsuits.
Yes, it supports multiple monitors. I think the audience is juniors developers who want to know other developers how they spend their day.
Why did you use a burner account in the first place? DHH's reaction is not the best, you're not exactly helping clear things up here.
I have an invite to this finally but haven’t been able to delve into it much. Will do so this week.
I don't think people literally voted for the judge to lock up a single mother of 3 girls for 500 days because of unpaid traffic tickets.

They voted for a judge because they thought he would be "tough on crime", or some other slogan. I am really speculating here. The reason though is a lack of information on the voters part. I am not sure how we solve that problem though.

Judges like this should be put disbarred so that they cant practice law or serve time themselves.
> You should if there's no additional cost for doing so, because that's a free loan.

Any time you take out a loan, you are making a promise your future self must deliver on. The implicit assumption when you base your decision solely on interest rates is that your future self will always be capable of fulfilling that promise.

> The same quantity of money a few months down the road will be worth a little less than it is today,

If you are talking about furniture here, we're talking about saving a few pennies, maybe a couple bucks at most. Also, often places where you can get "zero percent interest", there are string attached. The perfect example is when you get a smartphone from your carrier and they don't charge you interest. You save a couple bucks over the length of the contract, but now you can't change carriers or upgrade your phone for the life of the deal.

TANSTAFL... or free interest either.
To be completely honest, I would settle for an early monochrome version - I'm sure people can still make some great games/features like this. I think the form factor (and hopefully price) really is so much more important at this point.
"If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories, and crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh, well, there it is. ...Life finds a way." - Jurassic Park