skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social scientists are hateful hateful people. They say they are like physicists but they are more similar to prosecutors.

"Everything you say can and will be used against you"

All they study is ways you are bad, and all they research is ways to keep you down.

If anyone reaches the wrong conclusion "maybe they are innocent.." Then it only takes two seconds, then they are fired.

Privacy from social scientists is one of the most important forms of privacy.
The weird thing is that I remember the Indy being perceptually very slow at the time compared to Windows or Solaris.

I just started using Linux part time on the desktop, and it’s significantly more responsive than MacOS, to the point that I prefer using it, even though the Linux UI otherwise stinks in a lot of ways.
the good news is that is a worst case scenario and pretty rare
Hey, I just want to jump in here as a counterexample to your argument -- I came into Gemini from "beyond the community." I was a standard web user; I found out about gemini from another discussion on HN or Masto or somewhere and jumped in, and now I absolutely love the community I joined.

So it's absolutely become adopted beyond its beginning community.
I only mentioned it because you said that the consistent brutal selection process is a feature.

> As far as I see, all energy spent railing against the reservation system is better spent improving yourself.

You have approximately 60% seats reserved, the remaining 40% seats are left for everyone else to compete on equal grounds.
> Would the salt be abrasive & damage the panels/coating decreasing efficiency?

I imagine some glass coating should be cheap enough and efficient solution to implement.

> The nearest seawater source appears to be the Arabian Sea, ~800 KM straightline.

Sure, such plant has to be constructed near seawater source.
R:0 is an average, not a promise. It's that simple. Some people will infect 50 people at a wedding. Some people will spend a couple of weeks in bed having the time of their lives. Some people will just stop breathing. R is based on a populace, not a person.
That's a good point. But, for this case I don't think they are going to get sherlocked any time soon. Shopify probably has much more important missing core features to add.
> COVID can easily overwhelm the hospital system all by itself.

1. Is there anything a hospital can actually do to save someone with a serious case of covid-19? As far as I know, ventilators are ineffective (and may even make things worse?). If 100 people with serious covid-19 are taking up ICU beds, how many will live due to direct hospital intervention? If it's a very low %, it seems like a no-brainer to turn away covid-19 cases in favor or other, more treatable diseases. Otherwise it's like letting people with prion disease use up all the ICU beds despite their condition being pretty much untreatable.

2. Anti-covid measures can do the inverse. Remember back in March/April/May when all the hospitals in the USA were empty due to SIP? Most hospitals ended up dismantling their temporary covid-19 field hospitals due to lack of use.
That's what CTRL does:

Given a URL (or other prompt), generate some language.

From [1]:

> With CTRL, we can test which domain best explains a sequence. Note that this procedure is sensitive to subtle nuances in the query prompt. In the example below, "Global warming is a lie" differs from "Global warming is a lie." The latter is a simple declarative sentence as opposed to an open start to a sentence which may continue. Source attribution cannot be considered a measure of veracity, but only a measure of how much each domain token explains a given sequence.

Query Prompt Attributed Sources
Global warming is a lie. r/unpopularopinion, r/conspiracy, r/science
Global warming is a lie r/eli5, r/science, r/unpopularopinion
Global warming is a real phenomenon r/eli5, r/science, r/changemyview
Global warming is a real phenomenon. OpenWebText, r/changemyview, r/science

https://blog.einstein.ai/introducing-a-conditional-transform...
Yes, this has been going on for years in the IP-address third world, i.e. everywhere but the US.

Now can we finally have IPv6 please, now that even americans begin to hate the blighty NAT? ;)
There's a lot that would need to be solved for in the "Culture of Use" section, but true props to the author for thinking outside the box of normalcy.

As far as I can see, the only way we can get these types of things implemented is to have a company that cares to design and spend time with them in the first place. Does anyone know/have thoughts on/have any ideas on how to make things like this a reality?
https://glenda.0x46.net/
Website resembling the Plan 9's rio desktop environment.
Yep, this is so true. And 99% of the online "advice" comes from and it is directed to people on level 0.
I’d support Canada’s point-based system. But really, we just need to something. Right now, we don’t have any system for skilled immigration.
I hate to say it, but that's even more useless than a vanilla IRIX installation. By far.

One big problem with running a 3rd party OS on these old machines (specifically SGI, Sun doesn't have this issue) is that they tend to not really support any of the hardware that actually makes these machines interesting.
But WSL also supports lots of other useful things!
Amazon sellers use a lot of automated bots which automatically adjust their prices in apparent competition with each other [1]. You can find used copies of rare books that are priced at thousands of dollars. In this particular case, you're looking at a Chinese edition, which is presumably out of print.

On Food and Cooking is a fantastic book, by the way. A real classic that every food enthusiast should have on their shelf. I recommend the hardcover version.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/technology/amazon-used-pa...
If a highly polarized comment such is this is willing to group everybody involved in protests into the 'left', then perhaps accept my anecdotal story. I have a few close friends in the 'boogaloo' movement and I honestly believe they might be one energy drink away from killing someone. They don't really have their own ideology, but are driven by highly polarizing comments they read online.
There's actually already portal.mozz.us as well as proxy.vulpes.one, both of which are Gemini "portals" ala gopher.floodgap.com. I actually began to try and write an addon to open gemini:// links in Firefox based on Overbite, but I couldn't figure it out (and I'd have to change the gemini protocol to something like gemini+web, due to Firefox limitations).

Just because you can do that, does not make it part of the Web -- it's still a different space. Those portals are basically web-based clients to the protocol, which means they're still bound by the rules of the protocol -- they're not going to have JS in them, for example.
I think AppleCare+ is one of the rare insurances that can sometimes be a good value, but after looking over the numbers for phones I scratch my head.

Looking at a broken screen:
$80 upfront and $30 per incident -> $110 [1]
$129 out of warranty [2]

Out of warranty battery replacement is $49. In warranty is $0 (but in this scenario you paid $80 upfront) and depending on your use-case it may not qualify.

It also sucks to tie yourself to Apple for repairs. For me they've required a scheduled, in person appointment before accepting a repair. Both parts and appointments have often been pushed out weeks. Since iPhones are so common, almost any mall has a spot that will repair screens/batteries on the spot within a few hours. I wouldn't recommend it to the average person, but iFixit has walked me through doing many by myself.

The math does change if you get multiple broken screens, but they cap incidents at 2.

[1] https://www.apple.com/support/products/iphone/
[2] https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/screen-repla...
No, I looked closer. It’s the author posting his own content.
Depending on how severe the mistake is, part of apologizing may be removing onesself from places of power where they made the error. For example, a hiring manager who is found to discriminate against gay people should no longer get to hire anyone and may no longer get to manage people for a period of time. The internet has a relatively short memory, so I expect once an apology and suitable make-up-fors have been doled out the amount of anger is much less.
Slightly off-topic (talking about the psychology and not this UX), but I also feel like people are yelling "You f*ing idiot(s)!" online to feel better about themselves, e.g. if someone wrote "How can you not see [insert politician's name here] is saving the world, you idiot!", they'd feel a bit better about themselves for getting it and being smarter than the person behind the wall of text they just read.

We need to take care of the loneliness epidemic as well, and this addiction to the Ersatz-Socialising which is just staring at screens and thinking you have a social life...
Quantum computers aren't doing anything that you couldn't do with a Turing machine. You can get a perfectly nice emulator that will run all Quantum computer algorithms on your Turing machine today. They'll just be annoyingly slow.

There are some machines that don't exist which are categorically more capable than a Turing machine, such as Clock Doubling Machines, (which get to do an infinite amount of Turing computation in finite time) but those don't exist at all so while philosophers can insist upon debating them it won't do you any practical good.
I wonder how hard it would be to load up these virtual tables (written in Go) against a Python sqlite3 connection.

I imagine this would involve loading Go code as a Python module, or maybe using FFI somehow?

Would be really fun to be able to call these virtual tables from Datasette.
What Gophers mean by that is that golang nudges you to write the naive, straightforward and readable solution at first. This sidesteps premature optimization and false design choices too early on. In practice go stdlib and direct code tend to be faster than clever and more complex alternatives.
This seems like a weirdly elitist/limiting way of looking at things. If you're slightly better off today than you were yesterday, then you're advancing toward your goal. The progress compounds all the time. There is no "being stuck at level 0" unless you're making negative progress.
> 14 months ago, my co-founder Sankalp and I set out to build a business..

It sounds like you decided to build a business before coming up with an idea that could be a business.

In the end, how did you decide what to build?
It remains a valuable descriptive statistic for the population as a whole. Your own model might do all sorts of clever stuff under the hood, but its prediction will be expressible to first order in terms of R₀ and that's what people are going to be interested in.
> while even generous herd immunity estimates require 60% of the population to have developed immunity

The second half of the article purportedly being discussed claims that because of the variability of R0, the herd immunity threshold might be much lower than this. For example, "The paper’s 10 authors, who include Gomes and Langwig, estimate that the threshold for naturally acquired herd immunity to COVID-19 could be as low as 20% of the population." Are you taking this into account when you claim that a 60% threshold is "generous"?
Yes, mitigate the possibility of overwhelming the hospitals. However, there are unintended consequences to that mindset. From domestic violence to substance abuse to the economic fallout [1], these "side effects" are real. Yet somehow completely unaddressed. How do we know the cure isn't going to be worse?

[1] There's plenty of data on economy vs health from the circa 2008 economic implosion. We could start with that, but we haven't. That's risky, for some fatal.
It is also funny to look at a map of network speeds in the UK. Everywhere is slow apart from Hull (a relatively gritty fishing town in the North East). This is the only place where the local telephone company wasn't taken over by BT, and was the first city to have full fibre.

I understand that it is hard to provide fast internet to some parts of the UK...but most of England, where most people live, is fairly densely populated...this shouldn't be hard. The solution isn't for people to do this themselves, that reverses common sense (how can it be cheaper for some guy to just dig a cable themselves? it makes no sense). It is for the people who should be doing this to just do their job properly (BT have done pretty much everything to make themselves look bad, it is unreal...for some reason people still think Gavin Patterson is a legend rather than a gaffe-prone moron).
> Google Search uses its monopoly to push their own AMP cache. I can't search in Google and load the content through Bing's AMP cache.

That's nonsensical. That would reveal what the person searched for to a third party (Microsoft) even if they don't click on any results. The AMP Cache has to be controlled by the link aggregator in order to support safe prerendering, so Bing's AMP cache is used to prerender Bing results, and Google's AMP cache is used to prerender Google results. Compare to directly integrating with Google, in which case, Bing wouldn't get to take advantage of prerendering. The latter (the Apple News setup) is anti-competitive. AMP is not.
200k for 2 partners, 100k each. Tell me this magical place where I am set for life with 100k, i will fly as soon as travel is available. 100k assuming a 4% annual retirement rate, gives you 333 USD/month. Assuming a family of 2 and you need to pay rent, insurance,food,car or transportation, etc I dont see this feasible at all, at the very very least you need 5X times that.
A few years ago Ars also had a good article on Ammon, Idaho, which build an open-access municipal fibre infrastructure that ISPs offer services on:

* https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/what-...

The embedded video is a good intro on muni-fibre:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSQVvFY4lPI

Personally I think that's how all Internet connectivity should be done: the OIS Level 1/2 stuff is run either by the government, or at least a non-profit, and the IP connectivity is handle by the private sector.
Geometry and trigonometry in 10 diagrams and 100 symbols
The point of the original post is exactly what you are saying. They are only thinking about what it takes to avoid overwhelming the hospital system without thinking at all about collateral damage and other externalities. There was a recent UN study that estimates that 50 million children will go into poverty due to current measures. There is another NIH study showing several thousands non-covid deaths a day above the average, at least toward the start of the pandemic. I personally know two people that died because they didn't get the medical care they needed at the beginning of the quarantine. Suicides are up significantly. Overdoses are up almost 50%. Depression is rampant due to isolation and financial distress. Domestic violence went up drastically at the start of quarantine. Violent offenders were released from prison due to worries about covid infection due to overcrowding. It's not clear AT ALL whether we are net positive overall due to the current particular quarantine measures.

That is not to say that we shouldn't take measures. What it's saying is that the measures in place are not doing well at accounting for all impacts, which is certainly a difficult problem.
Ugh, I hate that, those people with contonuous soundtracks. They don't seem to realize it's loud, makes them speak louder still and is a huge hit to their ability to pay attention.
Please review and stick to the site guidelines when posting here (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). They explicitly ask you not to lead with things like "That's nonsense. Take a moment to breathe." The rest of your first paragraph is just fine.

Re the second paragraph: people are wrong on the internet. If you want a site that doesn't have this problem, you're going to have to look for something considerably smaller, where countering entropy is an option. I think you might be running into the notice-dislike bias, though: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Edit: I'm dismayed to see that your last 7 comments have all broken the site guidelines. Trashing this place because you don't like some of what other people post, or because you feel superior to the community, is not ok. I'm sure you wouldn't litter in a city park, so please stop doing the equivalent here.
> Everywhere throughout the system everything that could ever potentially be slow, and on a 7.16MHz 68k machine with floppies and limited RAM that was a lot of things, would be done in separate tasks so that at least the user could just get on with other things in the meantime.

BeOS also has this design. Modern programming languages and platforms do make async and event-based programming a lot more intuitive, so we might well see this paradigm make a comeback.
This is very old but feels as relevant as ever

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Simpler solution: repeal Section 230. Social media thrives on strife and harassment (or "engagement"). It is fundamentally broken.
You have 3-4 different groups talking about "what the problem is" with FB and Google. Some talk about the kind of conversations they facilitate, some talk about how they undermine traditional experts, some talk about how they take data.

And for some the answer is monk-like isolation and simplicity, some the answer is imposing state control over these entities, for some the answer is limiting data entities can keep.

The thing that's frustrating is the only effect that has legs is the worst one - states directly regulating social media and the views there-in. It's unfortunate others with other complaints attach themselves to a process heading in this direction.
> Now we assume that if we just hurry up and infect everyone we can reach herd immunity.

Well, how long will it take to reach 60% with/without heavy preventative measures? If SIP/masks/social distancing drag out the timeline so it takes 5 years to reach herd immunity... you'll have a mental health crisis of the millennium to deal with in addition to covid-19.
Cairns are pretty important for mountaineering. GPS can be spotty between large rock faces and it’s nice to see a line of them up a boulder field. Although they have to be reset every season which is annoying.
I love music, and I'm open-minded enough to listen from everything to classic rock to the sounds of water dripping.

When I am reading, any unexpected sound is disruptive and disturbing, and I'm grateful that I can largely eliminate it from my Web experience by disabling only two settings in my browser.

I think it is a bit arrogant to push different forms of content on someone who doesn't want them.
It's understandable. Bald Eagles sound genuinely hilarious for a bird that big.
Well, understand that you can still make a good life on Level 0.

You can be a Google Engineer making $200,000 USD per year. Or a doctor earning $300,000 USD per year. But after taxes, you take home a lot less.

But, this guy got to Level 1. Now, he can focus on getting to Level 2. Everyone else, is still trying to get to Level 1, if they are even trying.
1. Ventilators are likely effective:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/15/8567680...

New treatments are being developed every day, so those numbers may get better.

2. IMO, dismantling the field hospitals was a terrible idea. They built them early, locked down, then saw the decline and people started thinking we were going to eradicate it like in New Zealand. It was never going to happen.
Please be aware that the parent is Brian Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVidia, who overviews the development of DLSS among many other things.

If he says that the GP is inaccurate, trust him.

Hi, Brian!
A friend of mine spent a week in jail because her friend posted a picture of her holding hands with her girlfriend. She had gone home to Saudi Arabia to visit a dying grandparent, and ended up saying goodbye to her whole family because it's too unsafe to return.
Huh, I didn't know that.

Although I would argue that S3 is the core product
Youtube is great for music but I wouldn't call it a social network.
I use openssh from powershell. You can install it as a package or feature I believe.
Usually I don't actually see this, but I do seem to see a pile of "You shouldn't have apologized! They'll make you apologize for everything else once they know you're weak!" comments (which certainly don't help anything).
No, 'international' does not mean 'French'. Yes, the French came up with it but since it now has international adoption it is the international standard with the United States as one of the last hold-outs. That's what you get when you have a country run by lawyers with very limited input from science.
The thing is, you will always have tearing if you disable vsync (and compositing) for the sake of low latency. But tearing is only really perceivable when watching full-screen videos and animations, which is quite a different use case from general computer use.
I have no idea. The "glitch" I meant is the Lorentz coordinates transform.
Think Vitamin D deficiency is not common in Africa? Think again
I'm pretty sure I saw a metric somewhere that only something like 23% of the population ever caught the 1918 flu.
> Valid: from 2020-06-24T16:53:03 to 2020-06-24T16:03:03

Almost! I think you meant:

Valid: from 2020-06-24T16:53:03 to 2020-06-24T17:03:03
A friend of mine did something similar a few years ago: https://github.com/filhodanuvem/gitql
Within the EU France is quite nationalist compared to others, and yet, I fail to imagine someone there producing something like this. I'm a bit allergic to flag waving.
There are many different types of caves, and some can be relative safe with multiple exists and a lot of space to move in.

That said, proper training and equipment can not eliminate a lot of the risk involved. Equipment can always fail, people can get stuck, and the environment is often such that a single minor wrong movement will causes clear water to become instantly zero visibility. Diving in old mines has also risk of collapse and unless you are diving rebreather you are also introducing new air into the environment.

Exploring a new unexplored mine like the one in the article is risky even for the most trained and well equipped divers.
How you get multiple TLS certificate chains from a server certificate
> "I don't feel guilty for my success but I won't be satisfied until I see a Black trans person given the social license to do what I've done"

"I can't enjoy eating until there are no hungry children in Africa". Good intentions, not a healthy way to live in my opinion.
I've always had a policy of promptly admitting when I'm wrong.

It worked great, when I worked at a Japanese company. The Japanese respected it.

The Americans, on the other hand, looked at it as a sign of weakness, and tended to "go for the jugular" (Carpe Jugulum).

I think that explains why so many folks "double down," when asked to correct statements.

Also, lawyers.

A standard piece of advice at American accident scenes, is "NEVER say "I'm sorry!""
A major accessibility problem with this: the list uses <div>s with click handlers, rather than links. This makes it not respond properly to clicks with modifiers (e.g. Ctrl+click), not have the right context menu options, not show the href in the status bar, and be completely unusable to users of tools like screen readers or those that would navigate by keyboard.

Never ever do this. If it opens a new page, it’s a link. <div> with a click handler is the wrong thing >99.99% of the time: it should be a link or a button.
See also: Fossil, a version control system backed by a SQLite database. The author (of Fossil and SQLite) points out that a real database gives you more flexible efficient queries for your data. In git in comparison, it is for example much easier to find the parents of a commit than its children.