skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> until there's a vaccine

Why do people think we're getting some magic vaccine? Gavi/Gates have pushed this "18 months" bullshit, where they're developing some magical vaccine for a family of viruses that's never had a vaccine before, and every previous attempt has been met with either bad immunopathic responses or immune enhancement syndrome[0].

Vaccines takes decades to develop safely, and the techniques being proposed now have never led to a vaccine that made it through clinical trials before.

There is no vaccine coming in any reasonable amount of time. The 100+ companies are take a lot of WHO/government money, and who knows if they'll actually produce anything.

Safe vaccines for new families of viruses take a decade. There is still no vaccine for retroviruses (herpes, HIV, etc.) It's straight up Gates pipe dream to think a safe vaccine for this can be made in a year.

[0]: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/this-is-not-a-time-of-hon...
FailMore in another thread:

> Taaalk (https://taaalk.co/) is less focused around debate, and more around exploring topics:

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23742773). From the site:

> The home of public conversations

> What's this Taaalk website about?

> It's a place where people have conversations

> And other people get to read them
What rules? They’re telling you time travel is possible and happens. That’ll be news for me.
One thing that really helped me was when i started using ruby on rails. This framework introduced me to the idea of scaffolding. The basic idea is to just generate large sections of a web application. So you can generate a database table called fish, and rails will generate a delete, Post New etc to change these items using html or in a API.

So I would advice to just start making a API with a tool you are familiar with or learn a new one if you have enough time and just start experimenting.
Ask HN: Open-Source Alternatives to Getstream.io
I am looking for an easy solution that I can modify myself and use for a social forum site. Bonus points if I am able hook up a classifier for filtering and recommendation.
“Killing” was a poorly chosen term. I think cancel culture is very dangerous in the way that it discourages reasonable discussion by picking on people whose opinions are deemed to be out of line and punishing them with mob justice. Maybe this interaction illustrated my point though. If I was talking to you in a pub and you said the same thing I’d respond in the same way. But if I’d posted about my great idea on twitter and you responded like this I can picture my ego urging me to say something more defensive and inflammatory.

I don’t mean perspectives I disagree with are narcissistic, I was honestly making an observation based on my limited understand of psychology. Some personality types like to hear themselves talk more than others, and I honk it’s clear that they are more attracted to Twitter.
What a stupid title.

When State screwed the customers and removed the choice to buy Coke, they bought other stuff. Some investigative journalism!

What does that tell me about whether customers were better off? Nothing. Maybe they had to pay more for the same or the same price for inferior substitutes.
Rollback is not a replacement for delay-based, but an enhancement to delay. Slippi, for example, still delays the inputs by 2 frames to minimize the inconsistencies that appear. This can (in theory, not sure if it’s implemented in slippi) be increased to any number of frames to reap the benefits that delay based netcode has. Only using delay is objectively inferior because any flaw that rollback has is also shared by delay. You are welcome to try out the old Melee netplay and compare it to the new Slippi to experience this for yourself.

The reason rollback is rarely implemented is because it is hard to motivate a company to do it when the benefits are so intangible. “Better netcode” doesn’t really sell games, flashy graphics does. And since most of the FGC has existed offline, online is just an afterthought.

This video explains fairly well: https://youtu.be/1JHetORRpfQ
This happened recently to someone who had the misfortune of riding the wrong bike trail: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52978880

He had posted a Strava ride of the trail on the 28th, 29th, and 1st. The incident happened on the 30th. To internet detectives, this clearly meant he committed the crime on the 30th, and then deleted that ride from Strava.

It's scary to see how the mob was able to take exonerating evidence (him not riding on the 30th) and spin it to be a smoking gun: An innocent man would not have hidden the ride in question. Nobody even considered the possibility that he wasn't on the trail that day.
A better link that explains what this actually is: https://taaalk.co/t/what-i-m-building-at-taaalk-monologue
That’s relatively straight forward by calculating the entire game tree for pretty much any street after the flop (52-7)*(52-8) combos.

The flop requires slightly more power to execute, but many tools do this in a small amount of time so I guess it’s feasible.
For a relatively old car you can always buy a Bluetooth FM transmitter (connect your phone to the device, device then transmits on a certain frequency)
The original post, which is what we are discussing, did not do any “analyzing [of] various social dynamics”. On the contrary, it pointed the finger squarely at one external factor – the behavior of victims of police – and left it at that. If that’s not victim-blaming, I don’t know what is.

> anti-scientific ideologue, or just an idiot

Since you have now proceeded to name-calling, I think I will refrain from engaging further.
Julia packages are github repos, where all we get are the traffic stats for the last 2 weeks for clones. It doesn't even provide the number of downloads of released software (the tarballs), or even basic stats that you could get from webserver access logs.
why does a mob that tries to defame nazis, do nazi style tactics?!
Is there such a thing as raping the right woman?
I don't know how you square discounting aerosol transmission with super spreading events where one person infects dozens of people in less than an hour.

Sounds like cover your ass nitpicking to me.
The evolving legal status of Hong Kong is extremely relevant to tech, especially hardware tech.
It’s the opposite of justice.
I doubt it’s supposed to, it’s to calculate who wins when writing your own poker implementation. I am not the author, but calculating the winner is non trivial.
Is there a Clojure datalog to SQL compiler out there?
Why can’t Twitter and Facebook auto moderate the most basic harassment comments? They have defined terms of service but rely on user reports where the damage is already done. Why am I even able to make such comments? Maybe it is a hard problem but even at a basic level there should be no reason certain phrases are even possible to post.
Total bullshit. The hoodie went out with the tonsure in the middle ages. How about rope belts, are they making a comeback too?

Ok. I'll concede the hoodie has some utility for beach culture but in the office? C'mon.
It means we find consonance pleasurable and see a distinct "signal" in it. At least, that's the information-theoretical way of looking at it.

When dealing with cosmology one often seeks to make a big deal out of a simple concept like a duality, a cycle, or a ratio. These are concepts recurring through the world, and looking for them in more places sometimes reveals knowledge.
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There are a lot of downsides if asymptomatic spread isn't really true (the WHO said it wasn't and then walked it back .. reading a lot of the studies, I think there is a lot of evidence to suggest there is little to no asymptomatic spread; and the push to say otherwise is very political).

Masks are very bad psychologically. They cause judgement and distrust, plus they're a pretty useless placebo effect. This virus is clearly no where near as dangerous as original made out to be, and I the normalization of the mask directly lead to an increase of violence during the recent riots all around the nation. They have the potential to lead people to take more risks and do things they wouldn't normally do[0].

It's absurd to think masks don't have any downsides. They certainly do.

[0]: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/43402/
You're conflating "intellectuals" with "academic professors". Communism has been quite popular with college-bound academics for a long time, especially in professors in non-STEM fields, and especially in professors teaching undergrads. But the popularity wanes as people move away from college campuses and into other sectors.

In any other instance, if you described a certain adult as a person who, as they got older, continually hung out with 18-21 year olds, that fact would lend less credence to their viewpoints, not more.
Unfortunately it does not. The definition of “biometric identifiers” is pretty narrow: finger print, iris scans, facial geometry, and voice recognition. IIRC genetic information is specifically excluded from the definition as are a host of medical-related types of data (x-rays, for example).
> Voting rights are absolute. If Alice has lost her ability to vote, it doesn't help her to learn that lots of people who look like her or live near her have turned out this year.

But it does provide evidence that there couldn't have been very many Alices.

> If we even believe this "minorities vote more" proposition for which you've provided no evidence.

The black voter turnout line is right next to the white voter turnout line and significantly above the other two:

http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics

And even that's underselling it because the black population is younger and, as you can see from the other graph on that page, younger populations vote less, so black voters are actually over-represented for their age groups.

> It is a fact (click through the links provided above) that lots of voters have been kicked off the rolls in minority-majority communities.

And so that's a problem. But the problem is election officials taking eligible voters off the rolls, not the request to remove ineligible voters.

> We lead busy lives

You don't do it personally, the Democratic party apparatus should do it.

> Since a universal concern for vote fraud would also include a concern for vote fraud in one's own community, which concern you admit you don't have, your goal is thus not to curb fraud but rather to suppress votes in communities other than your own.

You're missing the third option, which is that Republicans are concerned about actual voter fraud against Republicans. If a Democrat is registered in two districts because they moved and are still registered where they used to live, and then votes in both, Republicans have a legitimate interest in preventing that.

It's also voter fraud if a Republican does the same thing, but then it's the Democrats with a legitimate interest in preventing it. Which is why we have an adversarial court system. The interested parties each pursue their interests and that makes it harder for either of them to commit voter fraud.

Also notice how you wouldn't even expect to be able to detect this if nobody is ever reviewing the voter rolls. Bob votes twice because he's registered in two places and neither place sees it as an anomaly because he's a registered voter there.
For sure, if you can control both ends, use something more efficient. But, at least in my cases, I am consuming data from others.
Well, the point still applies. The small integer ratios of harmony apply even to the rhythms of gamelan. And, of course, octaves are more-or-less universal across cultures.
Thanks. Thinking about that problem too, and trying to find a way to give people both. “The personal is political” and one hypothesis is that at least a starting point for content you’d find more interesting is content that people you know find more interesting.
I’m rooting for you. Here’s a thought about a possible trade off between radicalization and engagement. When social media platforms optimize for growth, it makes sense for them to make it as easy as possible for users to share/retweet. It lowers “amplification friction” and allows messages to go viral. The most successful platforms have very low amplification friction, which suggests that low friction is an important ingredient.

What we are learning is that making it trivially easy to amplify anyone’s message enables cancel culture and (I believe) leads to radicalization.

If this is correct, then increasing amplification friction on your platform will lead to less radicalization, at the cost of lowering engagement. My guess is that for this to be successful requires a careful balance of where you land on the higher/lower friction spectrum. Too much friction leads to low engagement which leads to failure. Too little friction leads to uncontrolled amplification which leads to radicalization. So a balance is needed.

Either that, or a totally new idea is needed that turns existing platforms on their head.
The original comment was just the first sentence, I felt like it spoke for itself but apparently the hive was of a different opinion. I utterly hate this place it's like a stalinist gulag.
Unnamed yet and not public yet. No, it does not use skia. ECS helps because it stores data in homogenous arrays which is really good for GPUs.
This reads like one wanting to keep their accumulated social capital and continue making social capital outlays publicly, and likewise reap the dividends of their own social capital investments, as long as the winds of popular acclaim blow one’s way, while expecting to keep one’s shirt when the winds change. It seems like one not having any skin in the game, or wanting to have it both ways. Talk is cheap. Money talks, bullshit walks. Put your money where your mouth is, or you’re freeloading, lacking the courage of your convictions, or lacking the moral turpitude to proclaim your convictions publicly.
> inability for humans to properly assess risk

Would you be willing to entertain the same thought for yourself?
We prefer not to break researchers' workflow because the group next door misconfigured their server. Happens all the time. We only sinkhole IPs if the traffic is malicious or on track to exceed or budget.
CSS for Publishing
Quite nice, would be cool to be able to search. But really cool concept
looks like it hardcodes escape sequences with no regard to the current terminal.
The most interesting part for me is that the scene graph is based on X3D, a successor to VRML: https://castle-engine.io/vrml_x3d.php
An Integrated Eye and Face Model for Photorealistic Facial Animation
That's why you should never joke around "social justice warriors" - you don't want to give them any ideas.
A comment on your blog post sums up quite well my opinion of your piece-

>I cannot believe you wrote a web page that reads my mind and converts it into text! This is the most amazing technology I have ever seen. It literally scanned all my chaotic thoughts and emotions over the last couple of months and distilled them into a series of coherent, well written sentences that convey exactly what I wanted to say, but didn’t know how to say it. You are either the most amazing programmer in the world, or an excellent essayist. Either way, thank you.

I agree. Thank you for that essay, I'll be sharing it with several of my friends.
It's not using ncurses nor terminfo, but it's very misleading to point to a list of VT100 escape sequences when it most definitely is not doing things the VT100 way either.

In contrast to the monochrome VT100 this is using colour quite significantly, albeit not supporting the recent corrections of a widespread mistake; and it even seems to support the rare framed and encircled attributes of later ECMA-48. Also in contrast to the VT100 it nowhere seems to deal in double-height or double-width, nor is it using ECMA-35 character set switching.
How do you know they are not just good mind readers instead of time travelers?
What about all the "mob justice" that the internet has prevented? People have been forming ad hoc possies to dish out street justice for thousands of years. In the past, local authorities controlled all the information. Any civil or religious leader could leverage this control to whip up a local mob and do some real damage. Book burnings, witch trials, lynchings, pogroms... they all involve low-information people being enticed by a higher-information leader with a bone to pick.

Sure, some internet-based conspiracies have lead to mob violence (5G, pizzagate etc). But how many crazy theories have been put down now that we can all check basic facts on our phones? Mayan end of the word? An asteroid on its way? Satanic cults murdering children in daycares. Orson Wells would have a much more difficult time convincing people that aliens have landed now that radio isn't the only form of real time information. At lease it is now possible to fact check the radio. While conspiracies are now more national in scope and more easily witnessed thanks to the internet, the net result imho is that fewer people are coming to actual physical harm.
Ask HN: Are voice over artists still in demand?
I see that text to speech is becoming better due to deep networks. But what I’m curious about is whether actual human voice demand is still present. Do people still use voice over artists? If so, why?
Even with multi-core, a CPU today is only 6x faster than a 10-year old CPU.
While that aspect is nice, I firmly believe that basically any college class can be aced by attending lectures and more importantly, reading the book.
Hey, I also did a lot of work on dreams - I have also journaled my dreams for years and had therapy at the same time. I got super into them, read a bunch about them, even did a psychology masters to spend time researching them. I couldn't find theory that matched with my experience so I wrote this paper on them:

"A Suggestion for a New Interpretation of Dreams: Dreaming Is the Inverse of Anxious Mind-Wandering."

https://psyarxiv.com/k6trz

Also your project is awesome!
They have a time machine. How can time be of the essence?
> A prison by definition cannot be part-time

Sure it can. Check out "weekenders" and "work release" programs, for example.
Writing a winning 4K intro in Rust
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”

― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
> Moreover, according to this best practice, it's impossible to write the csv version correctly.

Um, just consume the iterator immediately, then it's the same as the json one:

def load(filepath):
with open(filepath) as f:
return list(csv.reader(f))

The equivalent for the latter json example that separates the read and parse would be:

def load(filepath):
with open(filepath) as f:
contents = f.readlines()
return csv.reader(contents)
>A big difference is that the language itself doesn't allow styling (like CSS), the downside being you get less flexibility but the upside being it will render correctly on any display with any resolution.

HTML without styling will render correctly on any display with any resolution. The facts of the history of the web tell us that people want custom styling, though, and businesses want it even more, because marketing says so. Your widgets need styling for each device they're rendered on, in which case you're back to the exact original problem as HTML and CSS. All you've done is move the problem to someplace else.

Frankly, I don't see why this isn't a markdown extension, since that seems much better suited to solving your base problem and is WAY more readable than the mess you have currently (which only seems readable to someone versed in high-level programming, either functional or OO)
Doubtful. Point is they can dox the wrong person, they can dox the right person and then still assault someone else.
just fyi, something similar called the gemini project as released recently. https://gemini.circumlunar.space/, not saying either one is better or worse, but it might either be an avenue for collaboration or at the very least to get validation that your idea is one that people want!!
I built out a sequence where you take some large integer n, and a smaller positive integer x, the first number in the sequence, such that the next number in the sequence, x_1, is the remainder plus the dividend of n/x, x_2 is the remainder plus the dividend of n/x_1, and so on until you reach a cycle. The problem I'm trying to solve is given some n and some x can you give at least two solutions for x_-1 (one number previous in the sequence)?
This is not what "on it's [sic] way out" looks like:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/25/record-spikes-in-us-coronavi...
That article doesn't actually report an allegation that the incident was "unleashed by Oklahoma police officer", but this one does: https://www.news9.com/story/5efe6166c993e811aef887a0/norman-...
Aside from the other good answers, there's also a much simpler reason: lab classes. CS and math are the only STEM fields I can think of where you won't have at least a few classes with labs where access to equipment and hands-on instruction are key.
Another one for the "police out of control intimidating dissidents" file.
> At this point the BLM movement is a clear net negative for society.

This is a huge stretch. Just because a movement has been exploited by opportunists and some bad apples doesn't make it net negative. Also keep in mind that the victims of systemic racism have suffered for centuries and continue to as their complaints fall on deaf ears.
"Behind the scenes, RAPIDS is based on Apache Arrow..."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2018/11/05/nvidia-...
During lecture at least, students are always at least 6 feet away from the professor. Moving to and from classes is a different story, though.
Btw yellow people are not really yellow either. And albinism is not "pure" white either.
Thank you. I think it’s a really important problem and honestly wish it was already built so I could just use it.

The Gab problem is core. Reddit bans a bunch of assholes so they go off and find alternative platforms. Free speech is great as a principle, but in practice nobody else wants to hang out with these people.

My idea is that a new model of interaction could get around the problem. I’d want this to be a link people would feel comfortable sharing to their LinkedIn network. Using the site doesn’t mean you were banned from other platforms, just that you think this way of communication is better.
Is the site very slow for everyone? Normally it's very fast for me but suddenly it's slow.
Breaking Captcha Using Machine Learning in 0.05 Seconds
You can use Pascal Script. Quite straightforward to embed in Delphi or in freepascal. It's also a component of the Lazarus IDE toolbox.

[1] https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Pascal_Script_Examples
Well put!

It's an interesting co-evolution (or lack of) with dramatically scaled corporations, as well.

Pre-interstate, you didn't have as much consolidation of firms (e.g. local burger vs McDonald's, local inn vs Marriott). The national firms that did exist tended to be in higher-capital industries (e.g. transportation or resource extraction).

So firms grew in scale and power from the 1950s+, but government structures did not. With the end result of pitting Lilliputian local governments against nation-spanning corporations.
Sniffing out smell: how the brain organizes information about odors
I am working on my own on a system that creates long lasting human relationships. It is a solution to loneliness.

I used to run match.com's research division. I left to pursue this project.