skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't they just get an indefinite loan from the federal government, since the numbers are made up and don't matter anyway?
No, we have to reopen so people can have jobs and feed their children and pay their housing bills.
It also devours resources compared to the old version
(As a person who just looked away from a nearly full-screened 4k iTerm2 running the metal renderer, thank you for your efforts)
Higher blood pressure is linked to increased mortality. It's not like they are blocking the drug for fun.
A Uncomfortable Conversation with a Black Engineer
NLNet, the source of funding, is a truly superb institution that should be better known in the US.
Many words are like this. Music albums haven’t been actual albums for decades. Now we barely remember how a collection of songs was distributed as multiple shellac 78 RPM records stored in an album.
> potential increased risk of self-contamination due to the manipulation of a face mask and subsequently touching eyes with contaminated hands

This one seems very real to me. I've always been a bit of a germophobe, so I'm careful not to touch my face after shaking hands or using a greasy door knob etc... Now that masks are required in my area (questionably enforced, but an actual mandate from the mayor), if I'm in the grocery store and my mask slips a little, I have to touch the mask to adjust/fix it. Of course my hands have been on the shopping cart and such.

When my gym opens up, they're going to require masks too. I'm not sure how that's going to work when doing cardio. Am I going to be huffing out my sweat through the fabric on my face?
8088 is simply a 8-bit version of the 8086, thus the "8" in 8088. It was developed because the 16-bit 8086 was somewhat ahead of its time - back then, everything in existence - PCBs, interface and driver chips, backplanes, connectors, etc - was still centered around the 8-bit data bus and it was impractical to redesign them. Until they start becoming obsolete, allowing 16-bit successors to take over gradually.
Ask HN: How to build a live support chat app using socket.io?
Hi. I need to build a live chat support app so that all visitors on the webpage can chat with me (support staff) but the visitors can not see each other, each other's messages or message each other. Could you link some tutorials please? All the tutorials I could find were excellent but allowed communication amongst all the users. However, I need to build one in which they can all only message me and can’t read each others messages or message each other, and I can reply to each message individually. Thanks
> With the Spanish flu a century ago, people adapted their individual behavior, but social life proceeded more or less as before. “Public places of amusement” were shuttered, but work and business were little affected overall.

This is a pretty telling difference with how we perceive the world today. During the last decades most people living in the "first world" (however you define it today) lost ability to rationally think about small additional chances of dying. Even though the usual set of killers, from old age to cancer to traffic, are still around us and take a lot of lives every year (I believe CDC estimates 650000 US deaths from heart disease per year), they do not prevent us from living and enjoying our lives; we seem to mentally zero those deaths out. But a very small unusual danger can cause widespread panic.

As a non-coronavirus example, in 2002 a "DC sniper" killed 10 people in 3 weeks. When I was going to DC during that time for business folks from Chicago were calling me crazy, even though Chicago has way more people fatally shot during average 3 weeks. All my attempts to argue that additional risk is minuscule got nowhere.

We need to re-learn to make rational decisions about risks. Otherwise we will be constantly hiding under the table for any loud noise and destroy our economy, fun of life and long-term life satisfaction. My 2c.
Hm no; monetary inflation is reducing the value of each dollar so disproportionately affects those with more dollars, making it progressive.
command / ctrl + scroll-wheel?
I think you're misreading the comment - the person you're responding to is claiming that the engineering of the economy started way more than a couple of months ago.
Google is, in fact, breaking such functions, which is a pain for those of us who users do have a legitimate use for it: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...
Block generously and ruthlessly is advice I follow.

It has made reading Facebook tolerable.
Having been using FF since it went out, I have recently - maybe starting in 2018- been finding some broken sites here and there, mostly new flashy sites, but I found some government, university related manually developed sites with issues in FF.

I've reported a few, and yes, they tell me, the devs do not test their code for Firefox and yes, since then I started to ask about the devs testing here and there, and more and more dev teams are not testing code for FF compatibility.

I know you can not take my word for this, please consider it an opinion, I think FF has started to be phased out in web development, and its compatibility relays mainly now in highly used - fully compatible with FF - frameworks like Wordpress and similar.
Cracking the code review (Part 2): Make them seem small
> I do wear a mask when I go to the grocery store - I'm not an idiot

I'm very skeptical that my wearing a common mask protects me from anyone else. I do suspect that it reduces the possibility of me infecting someone else (hypothetically, assuming I'm asymptomatic).
"Noob gains" just means that new quantitative measurements can take place over a short period.

Athletics is incredibly quantitative- even for the most advanced and experienced athletes.
HN Poll: How strongly do you feel about having an email-free signup experience?
HN,

On a scale of 1 to 10,where 1 would be you completely hate the proposal and 10 is you absolutley like it, what do you think of this signup experience for your favorite services:

- Email is required at the registration page, but the user can uncheck a checkbox to waive the requirement.

- In order for a user to waive this requirement, a second factor of authentication (one time codes or a FIDO device) must be enabled.

- Account recovery, including for the second factor of authentication must be done using accoint recovery codes supplied to a user during registration. The user is advised to write down and/or store the codes in a secure location.

- At anytime, the user can provide an email address and optionally turn off two facor authentication.

Why?

- Email is not a good way to avoid spam bots (not in 2020 where it's cheap to rent captcha bypassing bot farms).

- If a user's email is compromised, all accounts that depend on email account recovery can also be compromised. Transfering risk this way in 2020 is bad engineering.

- Anonymous email services exist but they all eventually get banned by services, many of them also require phone or email addresses to use them and the ones that don't require credir card payment (not exactly anonymous)

- Services should respect the wishes of their users.

- I have tried every single free email provider while using a VPN. All of them required me to give up my phone number (now I have to get a burner phone!)

- Most people who dislike having to give up their email adresses don't know how to jump through all these hoops like a criminal just to use a service.

- For the service, there are people like myself that were stopped from signing up for a lot of services simply due to a phone or email requirement. This makes no sense given how email does not help much by itself with preventing fraud and it actually reduces account security!

How do you feel about this?
One court considering in person testimony to be more desirable is not in any way equivalent to a decision that doing otherwise is a violation of anyone's rights. You haven't proven that a right exists, nor does the article defend that claim. You've proven that it's an administrative matter that different jurisdictions handle differently depending on circumstances, but still perfectly legal.

Certainly you haven't proven your original assertion that wearing a mask according to COVID-19 guidelines is a violation of Americans' Sixth Amendment rights (the "right to face their accuser") because that argument depends on a blatant misinterpretation of what the wording of that Amendment means.
Most wealth is tied up in assets that are shielded from inflation.
> the compiler will inline it if the function is only used once.

There may be other criteria, eg is the function likely to be called.
The main economic function of employees of agencies in DC is the transfer of risk away from the DC housing market, onto the American people. The career employees of the military, as a particularly extreme example, exist to transfer risk away from the DC housing market as far away as possible, which ultimately ends with special forces personnel deployed to hostile territory.

Similarly, the main economic function of employees of big tech companies is transferring risk away from the West Coast housing markets, onto their users.

In my experience, the only way to handle the government side of this is to "not waste the crisis" and execute under conditions where they will see stopping you as more risky than not stopping you.

The only way I know of to manage large corporations is to get the government to create incentives that make it riskier for them to transfer risk onto their customers. That's what financial penalities and anti-trust law are for. The trick is you have to go back to the point about the government: you have to make action less risky for the government actors than non-action.
Careful with this reasoning!

I have this anecdote of a industrial sorting/production machine that worked for literally a year until someone opened the door on a windy day and everything went flying thanks to the AI.
I bought one from eBay for about $100 to try it as a minimalist phone. The camera is bad. The battery life is abysmal. It is super duper slow but still gets too hot to hold. It doesn't fit in any phone caddies like for driving. In life mode, it keeps turning off bluetooth when I pause the audio on a podcast or audiobook, which is really bad when you are driving and want to focus on the directions for a second: now suddenly you lost your audio entertainment (and possibly your turn by turn directions being read loud enough for you to hear) until you can safely fiddle with the phone.

Overall, it was a pretty bad experience. I lost it in my car (probably under a seat) and did not feel compelled to search for it.

Maybe it was worth the $100 to break the habit of reaching for my phone all the time.
I think I see legitimacy as being inextricably tied to the monopoly on violence. That is to say, the monopoly on violence is not only sufficient for legitimacy, it is necessary.
I'm not sure what you're saying. The 8086 was introduced in 1978, while the 8088 was introduced in 1979. The 8088 is essentially the same as the 8086, except the external bus is 8 bits instead of 16 bits, which reduced system costs. The original IBM PC selected the 8088, not the 8086.

The Intel chip numbers are all over the place. For instance, the 8048 series had parts ranging from the 8020 to the 8749; the "7" indicated EPROM.
Unorthodox desalination method could transform global water management
When faced with tragedy some people need to know "who was guilty", so this leads to lots of lawsuits like this.

Lack of education led to the trespassing of property, zero knowledge of radiation to believing it was supernatural, the justice system preventing the cleanup, etc. Means there is no single point of guilt and its hard for people to grasp this.
I keep track of most of those stories. Can you explain the career consequences to Stallman losing is position at the FSF? We're talking real consequences here, not losing out on your figurehead status. (note also that I'm not even going to approach the question of whether or not his actions deserved his removal, but clearly the opinion of many people is that they did).
From what I can see in the article, its source is explained:

“Pc waves are classified into 5 types depending on their period. The 10-minute wave on June 23rd falls into category Pc5. Slow Pc5 waves have been linked to a loss of particles from the van Allen radiation belts. Energetic electrons surf these waves down into Earth’s atmosphere, where they dissipate harmlessly.”
dyld would check the modification time and inode and avoid using the shared cache version if there’s a mismatch. (So I gleaned from the documentation of the DYLD_SHARED_CACHE_DONT_VALIDATE environment variable, which tells it not to do that.)
Hey, pretty much got over dealing with this on-off for 2.5 years due to a combination of depression, stress and a herniated disk in my neck. For the physical side, you gotta see a PT - the neck especially could take a while to see progress. Even simple PT exercises initially aggravated the issue, go real slow and at your own pace. It's taken me 3 months of consistent PT to sleep pain-free. For the mental side, I recommend a therapist and mindfulness/meditation.

Learning to sleep on my back was really important too - I used to roll over onto my stomach a bunch - get a sleep study done if you can
How to Add Maps in React Native Using React-Native-Maps
Sadly, any interest I had in the topic has been overwhelmed by distaste for them letting me get halfway through the article before throwing up a paywall.

If you want to charge for content, that's fine, but this kind of bait-and-switch is just rude.
Tldr is appreciated thanks
It's the perfect ugly design to communicate a pretentious and empty vision.
Ok, I've not lived in Ireland for 15 years but I find it hard to believe that it has a 'right' that falls into the same definition as that of the US. You can't say that being anti-abortion means you're right-wing and therefore must also hate black people. It is actually possible for people to have a foot in either camp, to varying degrees, on multiple issues.
Botox has some wacky non-cosmetic applications. I've got a friends whose migraines are entirely suppressed by regular Botox injections.
It’s just standard “both sides” crap
I thought you meant similar to hosting a forum or Lemmy like site.

With Mastadon if say I'm on another instance and the host of that instance blocks yours (because they don't agree with your politics or whatever) then won't I be unable to see your feed? I'd have to setup my own Mastadon instance to get around this? What if I'm not technically inclined enough to do this? Then I'm subject to the whims of the moderators of the instance.

What if I live in China and they block access to the biggest instances so I'm cut off from all the big communities and can't participate?

What if an instance of Mastadon crashes and the admins can't be bothered restoring it. As a user on that instance haven't you lost everything?

These are the problems decentralized networks are solving, being subject to the whims of other people.
Very minor. Aside from loss of smell for a month my wife and I had no significant symptoms. I felt pretty exhausted but those weeks in NYC were so crazy that it’s hard to say what was Covid and what was ambient stress. My kids had positive antibody tests but never had symptoms. We were very fortunate.
I want a new phone with a slide out keyboard that doesn't cost $600, has a good camera and a large battery.
That’s a reflection of poor execution on the part of the federal government though isn’t it? States and local governments will suffer the consequences for what the federal government did not adequately address.
I think simply having a Reddit clone run by a non profit (or owned by the members themselves) would go a long way in promoting freedom and fixing the issues.

I guess use a people solution instead of a technical one.
There's a simple hack for non-FAANG job coderpad interviews.

Just do several interviews in a row to learn what the common questions are. Then memorize those 3 or 4 solutions.

There's been a move this year to fully using the 1 hour coderpad period with a large problem, so you really need to go in with a prepared solution. (Thanks a lot, a(7) interviewers.)

As one of my friends said, "Interviews are a lottery." So do your best, then move on to the next one (see above.) Don't take it personally, just keep improving.

Also, if an interviewer says, "it doesn't matter if it runs or not" or "syntax doesn't matter", assume they're lying and fix it. (Again, thanks a lot, a(7) interviewers.)
I see this sentiment often, and I'm curious of there's a source for this.

Either a mask filters effectively, or it doesn't[1]. Intuitively I don't understand why a mask would only filter air in one direction.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=.%2C+ACS+Nano+10.1021%2...
This framework is based on a game loop that runs an update on each frame which is more intended for real-time controls. I think a turn-based game like battleship is a different paradigm.
Twitter recently deleted 170k bot accounts that pushed a Chinese controlled narrative related to covid. It's not hard to imagine that other actors are doing the same on reddit in order to stir shit up, and that impressionable real users are falling for it.
I agree with the premise, but printing currency in the midst of a large economic crisis to keep consumers afloat is not guaranteed to result in inflation though, is it?
I think Lemmy needs to address this before it will get any wide acceptance: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/816
Folks like Stephen Pinker (Enlightenment Now), Matt Ridley (The Rational Optimist), and Max Roser (Our World in Data) have done a compelling job of presenting data that shows poverty has decreased substantially in recent generations.
Awesome example! Thank you
The article really does glamorize the pre-industrial past. Since the author doesn't use facts to back up the claim that industrialization has made people's lives worse, how about looking at caloric intake over the past 800 years:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-per-capita-supply-o...
This just happened to me with the top headline being: Birthdates of US servicemen drafted into the Vietnam War as a result of birthdate lotteries held in 1969, 1970 and 1971

I had to read it like a first grader and think about it to understand that it was just a label for a chart and NOT a headline of an action.
Shootings in Chicago are not randomly spread across the population though. Most is gang violence and is relatively easy to avoid. The DC shooter was different because it was arbitrary across the population. It was no longer about “avoiding the bad neighborhoods” or “not crossing a drug dealer”.

Covid is a little similar in that it’s a new class of risk (different group dying than do from heart disease and all of the other known risks). It also doesn’t help that people on the Internet are calling others murders for being a potential transmission vector.
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Show HN: chown-chmod-me – two commands to make your files private
https://github.com/sixarm/chown-chmod-me

Security is hard. During a recent volunteer event we found some people had files with incorrect user/group ownership and incorrect public permissions.

This script wraps two commands that help:

chown -R "$(id -un):$(id -gn)" "$@"
chmod -R go= "$@"
No. The total amount is cubic over time, but the growth is the derivative of this, hence, quadratic.

But this is irrelevant. The point is, resources are polynomial at best. They can never keep up with exponential growth in the long run, barring new physics.
From the slides,

>5 turning points of SoftBank

>1981 Big bet after one month of business foundation

>1983 Fight against illness

>1994 IPO, ventured into US

>2001 Start broadband business

>2006 Acquired Vodafone KK

Lol, what about the one-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity in Alibaba, which they took probably by chance, and pretty much MADE the modern SoftBank.
Yes that’s what I mean by safety net
Before callously assuming the victims will die regardless of the virus, consider that many more may have permanent lung damage for life.
> Extending the first three studies to non-students, we found that residents of mountainous U.S. states were more introverted than residents of flat states (Study 4).

> The terrain did not make people more introverted, but introverts were happier in the secluded area than in the flat/open area, which is consistent with the person–environment fit hypothesis.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00926...
It’s weird how there are so many publications, programs, think tanks, etc devoted to pushing the idea that neo-liberalism is “progress”. And whenever you trace the funding upstream you inevitably find a billionaire with an agenda.
How hard is it to empirically detect cache size at startup and tune the algorithms based on that?

I guess you'd miss out on inlining / constant folding opportunities. If you didn't have a JIT.
> In the same way your stance on climate change is a scientific position regardless if your stance is correct or not.

Can you please just give the definition of "scientific position" that you are using?

Do you mean an assertion regarding reality? Because I think everyone agrees on the reality. The question of what the words "sex" and "gender" constitute is not a question of reality: it is a question of social and legal constructs.

> It's still an evil to unjustly attack someone even if to different degrees.

Yep.
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Those types of people exist in all countries. Yet the FDA is uniquely American.

A different agency working under different incentives could produce much different, and hopefully better outcomes.
Well, yeah. But GP was talking about full vs. empty theaters, and so was I. You’re reiterating my point.
Most introverts prefer mountains, but not all.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00926...
There is an important distinction to be made between 'should' and 'must'. A lot of laws are written around what people should do, then have unintended consequences because laws aren't advisory, they are requirements.

So in this case; I totally agree on what should happen. Everyone should be wearing a mask until there isn't a risk of hospitals being overrun. But it is extremely reasonable to push back when something transitions from "should do" to "must do". Particularly when the decision is precisely that the government is telling people how to dress.

And your analogy isn't a particularly good one, because the risks there are all substantially higher than the risks surrounding COVID-19.
The DC shootings were mostly random; are most Chicago shootings random? If not then I don't think it is a fair comparison.

I'm not arguing for or against your reasoning, but I know I would be more worried about infrequent random shootings than I would be about frequent targeted shootings, mostly because I believe I'm no one's target.
It's not a core foundation of our entire civilization, it's a quote by Benjamin Franklin and the actual context in which it was said doesn't even support your argument[0]. I guarantee that if a plague were spreading through early America (in an alternate universe where they knew what epidemiology was, obviously) Ben Franklin wouldn't be on the side of people protesting quarantines and masks.

[0]https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/14/how-the-world-butchered-be...
The filter is part of the photographic plate, and the plate is developed directly into a positive. So there's no alignment issue.