skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look there are two groups in the US. A risk taking group that sees the COVID-19 death rate as acceptable and not nearly bad enough to stay locked down. They believe that the purpose of the lock down was to "flatten the curve," particularly the death rate, and not to "stop the virus."

The other group wants to "stop the virus" and does not accept the risk of death of others.

There is no bridging the gap with data, it is a value judgement. You can't argue someone out of their values.

You especially will not be able to convince the risk takers, because they are risk takers, and the mortality of this virus is so low that a huge number of people don't personally know a single person who has died from it. Perception matters a lot.

If COVID-19 had a 10% death rate, or killed children like Tuberculosis, you could more easily argue down the risk takers.

According to CDC data, 81% of deaths from COVID-19 in the United States are people over 65 years old, most with preexisting conditions. If you add in 55-64-year-olds that number jumps to 93%. For those below age 55, preexisting conditions play a significant role, but the death rate is currently around 0.0022%, or one death per 45,000 people in this age range. Below 25 years old the fatality rate of COVID-19 is 0.00008%, or roughly one in 1.25 million.

These are odds any risk taker would take.
PO boxes cost and I still need to provide my name, SSN, email, phone etc even if I'm not ordering online.

If PO boxes were free, it'd solve one part of which I take issue with, but it costs like 4 euros per pickup. If your income is low, the 4 euros on top of the some 20 euros for banking and another 20 for a cellular plan will quickly add up.
IMHO this largely only solves problems caused by Twitter's idiosyncratic design, and does little for the deeper problems that cause debates to be toxic.

Much more interesting would be a debate format in two phases:

Phase 1: just identify what we agree and disagree about. Are there things we actually agree about but are using different words for? Are we using the same words to mean different things? Are there two competing concerns we accuse each other of denying, when we actually both agree on them and are just valuing them differently?

The goal would be to create a document that outlines things we agree on and disagree on, and identifies whether the disagreement is factual/empirical, values, or logic (hopefully there will be zero of these, but it might be possible). We should be able to fully agree on the contents of this document. If there's ever anything you simply can't believe the other side disagrees with you about, try to clarify what the deeper disagreement is.

Important rule during Phase 1: no persuading. We're not allowed say anything to try to persuade the other side, we're only allowed to ask clarifying questions about the other side's position, and clarify our own positions, because the goal is not to change anyone's mind, only to understand, identify, and document what we agree and disagree about.

Phase 2: persuade away. It should be much easier to have a civil and respectful discussion if we each understand the other's side, their values, and what empirical facts they disagree with the evidence on.

(I do really like that Debubble doesn't allow bystanders to "cheer for their side", they can only star the whole debate—I'm stealing that.)
Take your child back to first grade and systematically re-test his knowledge. Identify where he got lost, catch up, and then today's assignments will not be as difficult. The child is likely stuck on something that wasn't thoroughly understood in the past.

I did this for a child recently. He was in the special needs program. I looked at his homework and re-tested his math understanding. It turns out he had no solid understanding of place value and had difficulty with adding two digit numbers mentally. No wonder he was struggling. We fixed that by spending a week 30 minutes per day on just that concept, he caught up to the next roadblock, which was fractions, we fixed that, and so on.

That's expensive if you hire someone to do this, but enabling self-study through ability to backtrack would not require as much teaching skill and be more of a supervisory activity for parents.

There are entire books on how to interpret math word problems, which is really all about converting verbal expressions into mathematical symbols. If you haven't already, buy one or check one out at the library. I am building a parser that implements those books as if they were algorithms.

That's the approach I am working on. No NLP, no ML, nothing fancy like that. It will take a while, but I should be able to pull this off. This is a question about hard problems and I think it qualifies. ;)
For Python I'd recommend: https://github.com/worldveil/deuces
That's not a very critical look at the situation.

Australia has major advantages when it comes to natural resources and geographic proximity to Asia. There's also major structural issues with the Australian economy with significant agitation at present for major taxation and industrial relations reform.
Unless they feel like their actions are sanctioned by the police, as is probably the case here. Then they can rape without intervention.
I don't know what language you're using, but if you want help I'd be happy to do it. I just built an E-commerce site with NodeJS using Stripe as the payment processing (PayPal is next). My contact information should be on my profile.
> Picture Reddit, but with the ability to anonymously share ideas with other people in your social circles.

> something new, that lets you talk with people you actually know.

Anonymous Facebook? The problem with that is this:

> so places like Twitter end up filled with unreasonable narcissists

That's also a problem among the people you know and have added on Facebook, many of them are unreasonable narcissists and they don't mind showing that with their name and picture on the web. I feel like giving them anonymity can only make things worse. Just think of your racist uncle, your Nazi grandparent, your homophobic friend, but now you won't know which of them is posting the bullshit.

You have chosen a very difficult problem to solve, I can only tell you why I think your current idea won't work and wish you luck.
Not true. I barely notice any difference between my Orange Pi 3 (4x Cortex-A53 @ 1.8GHz) and my Ivy Bridge workstation, when browsing the web, and things like that.

I don't run a heavy weight desktop though.

The only noticeable thing is some increased latency (mainly due to storage speed limited to 20MiB/s read speeds), but animations and scrolling and basic stuff like that are pretty much smooth. I could easily run the system from USB attached SSD (which can achieve 15-20x the speeds of the SD card), and that would massively improve app startup speeds too.

Also video playback sucks, but that's mainly due to software support, not a hardware issue. It's a chip meant for TV boxes after all.

I wouldn't use it to compile programs, but office work? I can imagine that easily.
Competition helps me, so when I wanted to lose some weight I challenged a friend of mine to a battle who could lose the most % after 3 months. When I wanted to learn OpenGL and c++ I challenged an other friend to who could make the best portfolio project using those tools before a specific moment. Somehow no matter if the other person quits after 2 seconds or battles to the end I can keep my motivation for 2 or 3 months straight with this trick. Finding someone that thinks the same way is only the hard part.
TIL about /sudo:: I will look at it further.

For the other it's usually something like

/usr/x/y/z/a/b/c/config.ini

Yeah, I want to type that path into Emacs when I can

vi config.ini

or

sudo vi config.ini

and be done in seconds.
> building a connection between machines (macOS, Linux and Windows) requires a miracle if you don't like to share everything with cloud providers.

Technically bittorrent + any file encryption format works fine, although it's not something a nontechnical user would ever figure out without either step-by-step instructions or said miracle.
Interesting step from Mozilla about Web APIs, following Webkit
As far as I can tell, FB group view, what you see when go "to" the group page, shows posts in the order of who last commented on the post. It's a much more reliable view than the feed, which indeed can show posts from anywhere in any order.

I think you're right that Facebook sometimes does just fail to show some comments at some points. The thing here is that any world wide distributed system on the scale of Facebook will sometimes do that. I don't believe there's any algorithmic manipulative intention involved here. (as opposed to the feed, which indeed is something like Facebook's spin on things).

And with Facebook's feed, even. Yes, it's filter of your friends' comments and links and a filter with a spin on it. But what is the contents of the average minor metropolitan newspaper? 90% of it is a filter of the wire service feed with a particular spin to it.
Are we talking about that kind of general function labelling abstraction?

I was under the impression this was about generalizing the abstraction to something reusable.

I.e. calculate_vat will always be used by the same thing and there will only ever be one of them.

The generalization would be:

interface SalesTaxCalculator {
func calculate_sales_tax
}

This kind of abstraction is more uncommon.

What im guessing the article is struggling with is that making abstractions like salestax calculation os usually kind of useless, there is only 1-3 types of sales tax calculation and its best defined inline next to the proce calculation or put in a function like calculate_vat.

A lot of developers use abstractions to remove code duplication.

Its more fun using this kind of code than code where devs dont try to remove duplicstion but i just wish instead of seeing duplication as evil, they instead saw it a sign that their design is wrong.

If youre seeing duplication, there is an abstraction there, whether it is worth it to implement is usually more to do with if its just hiding code duplication or if it is creating a new concept that hides implementation details.
My idea would have to be implemented on a national level. I take issue with the socio-economic injustities in the current identity and personal management solutions as they're not technically accessible nor free while still being simply a must have in order to do anything in Finland.
>But how many crazy theories have been put down now that we can all check basic facts on our phones?

Probably close to none.

>Mayan end of the word?

Plenty of people believed in that. Hell, one of the conspiracy theories around the Mandela Effect is that 2012 happened and everyone got pushed into the current universe when it did. Oh yeah, and the Mandela Effect itself. The only reason that blew up is because of an internet meme, and the internet's ability to create reality bubbles around people is the only reason it's as big as it is. The internet is the reason millions of people literally believe their false memories are the result of interdimensional leakage.

>An asteroid on its way?

We never even notice those until it's too late, so the ones we know about get reported on in the news, but speaking of that, plenty of people still think Oumuamua was a spaceship.

>Orsen 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.

Far, far more people believe aliens have landed, now, than did in Wells' time. They believe reptoids wearing human skinsuits control the world. They believe the universe is a computer simulation and that most of the people around them are NPCs. They believe grey fetus-monsters suck people up into spaceships with orange beams and mess with their genitals. They believe the world is flat and all of the airlines secretly know about it, and they project holograms outside of the windows to fool passengers. They believe we never went to the moon, because obviously we'd hit the crystal spheres if we tried. They believe COVID-19 is a globalist population-control experiment, and that Madonna spilled the beans on the plan last year in Illuminati code.

You think it's hard to convince people of stupid things nowadays? Calls to poison control centers spiked after the President of the United States suggested (jokingly, allegedly) that injecting disinfectants might be a cure for coronavirus. People heard that and immediately started drinking bleach.

>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.

Give it time. That guy who stormed the pizza parlor armed to free the nonexistent child sex slaves in the nonexistent basement comes to mind. True, no one came to physical harm in that case, but that was only by luck. Reddit and /pol/ are inspiring mass shooters. COVID denialists are threatening people in the streets at gunpoint. If anything, conspiracy-inspired violence seems on a slow upward curve.
First of all, Newsbusters is crap.

Secondly, that story does not say what you say it does. What Reddit is doing is actually warning people that they are interacting with the site in the manner of coordinated bots. Certainly you aren't suggesting they should just banhammer at first blush, isn't a warning a nicety?

Whether or not these are botnet operators complaining that the site has developed defenses against them is a questoin for the reader, but the fact remains that something gets posted, something gets flagged, and if that happens to be coincidentally the only (or most of) the stuff you upvote, then the defenses start falling into place to your detriment.

How would you deal with the problem as I've stated it (accounts that only upvote stuff that winds up getting removed)?
The people that come here are usually well-off middle class to wealthy elites and keep to their own groups. Based on this year alone they probably go back thinking China's model is better.
The CloudTrigger Smart Remote Control
Over the last few months I've been working on a remote control device for smart homes.

It can control other internet connected lights, plugs, thermostats, alarm, speakers, sprinklers, etc.

I was hoping to get some feedback from the community here before doing our beta launch?

You can check out the demo video here: https://www.cloudtrigger.com

Let me know if any of you would be interested in something like this. I'll be sending out some free units for people that might want to help with beta testing.

Thanks - Tony
Unfortunately they wouldn’t have access to the registry. But with enough determination, they could still brute force your password by returning repeatedly
Unfortunately, carbon taxes are very unpopular. People hate taxes and even when you tell them they get their money back they think "why not get rid of the tax then?".

Basically the problem is that taxes are deeply connected with the government budget. The idea of a tax whose only purpose is rewarding environmentally behavior is absolutely foreign to the average person.
The right elected someone who is on the extreme compared to more moderate candidates in 2016. The left nominated a moderate in 2016 and 2020. I can’t help but to conclude that the extreme right is the majority of the Republican Party.

Sanders was rejected twice.
Yeah, I feel there are a few potential PhDs in that statement. Coding the solver and the problem generator is the easy part, figuring out how to explain something and from multiple perspectives will be tough. The multiple perspectives is key. I hope I can build a community of people willing to explain and a community of moderators to vet the explanation.
Something is wrong on the internet (2017)
I nearly fell into the river at Kagura on New Year's day! It was new snow that hadn't settled yet so every step I took the snow beneath me crumbled. I was on a ledge and trying very hard to climb up, luckily a few Chinese passed by and pulled me up. Then it was a long 2 hour hike back to the lifts.
That's not attacking a crowd.

Perhaps trying to intimidate a crowd blocking the road and push his way through. After which he was shot. From the side.

I seriously can't believe someone would hint at justifying this or imply "everyone did about equally wrong".
In the same way that gangsta rap music is protected, yes.
This should not have been allowed to happen in the first place, and us arguing whether the driver was in the right is not entirely where we should be. People should have been arrested for:

1. Blocking the road.

2. Jumping infront of a moving vehicle.

3. Pushing/hitting/attacking pedestrians.

4. Damaging the vehicle.

5. Shooting / attacking the vehicle.

6. Intimidation
Yep. Don't forget about air conditioning, as well as shared facilities such as restrooms, break rooms, cafeterias, and so on.
There are many examples featuring extremists from all around the political landscape, but the one I find simultaneously the most fascinating and terrifying is the Qanon cult. Look into it a bit if you want to see just how deep the folie-a-deux social media rabbit hole goes.

Someone should do a STTNG universe spinoff on the origin of the Borg, kind of like Caprica. "We are Borg. You will be pilled. Resistance is futile. #borg #assimilate #wwg1wga" "Borg" could start off as a fringe cult that goes viral, then someone invents direct neural connections (Neuralink?) and the members of the cult become a superintelligence and take over the whole society. They are the ones who become the first real collective intelligence because they live online and already have this cult identity that submerges the individual.

Once the cult turned superintelligence takes over, it starts venturing out to "red pill" the entire universe.

I mean what do you think is happening in all those cells on those ships? All the anons are meme-ing each other.
That's very nice, much shorter than mine. array[[i][/i]r] had me scratching my head for a few minutes, when I realized those were stray italic tags. My only complaint is he doesn't check for the wheel, but to be fair most solutions don't seem to.
Ask HN: How do you solve your internet problems?
With the current situation, most of us WFH and encounter internet or wifi problems more often; how do you solve these problems? If you have bought a router or access point I would appreciate it if you could share the model or brand. Thanks!
Google's empire is being unbundled
I Thought I Understood What White Privilege Was
I don’t think that’s true. What US voters don’t want is the level of care you get from a doctor who takes Medicaid. A single payer system can work here but because of how bad the “poor people doctors” treat patients it’s going to require some convincing.
yep. very slow for me
> I disagree. I think there are very few actions so abhorrent that you should be fired for doing them in your personal life, and the vast majority of Twitter firings I've seen aren't over the line.

That's cool for you, but others obviously disagree with you.

> Society isn't going to work under a standard where people who do bad things can't have jobs anymore.

Or people will change their actions since they want to keep being members of society.
There was a graphical programming language for SGIs called AVS. I saw impressive scientific applications made with it: elaborate physics simulations with 3D graphics. The language and the applications seem to be completely forgotten.

This page about AVS is dated 1995 and cites a 1989 paper:

https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~matt/courses/cs563/talks/avs/avs.htm...
>>The risk is so incredibly low thought, especially since most of these students will be under 30!

Covid has the potential to cause long-lasting organ damage even in young patients.

Furthermore, hospital ICU capacities are always a concern. Once ICUs fill up, non-covid patients cannot be treated in intensive care either.
With all those words you typed you could have done a whole lot of googling to find a source befitting your standards. Reddit sends you warnings, several of them, before banning your account if you upvote things it doesn't like. I know because it happened to me.
I learned programming on the TRS80, and didn’t know about the demo scene until I was already too busy with other parts of my life; I think I first saw a demo on the Amiga.

I always feel like I missed out on something transcendental. I think I would have leaned a huge amount. Instead I had to settle with hacking NewDOS/80 binaries.

I have a huge amount of technical respect for the people who do this stuff.
“Borealis” is a name that has some pretty interesting Valve history: https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Borealis

It seems that whoever at Google codenamed this project is a fan of the company’s work. :)
What is it about .. “surfacing and rewarding quality content” (I only write like this at work?) .. that makes you excited to get out of bed in the morning and research it and post about it?

Is there some personal experience that could help us understand your interest? Have you worked as a librarian? Do you believe in blockchain as a way to overcome discrimination? Have you worked as a newspaper editor and feel that decentralized opinions are a solution to problems you encountered? If so, what were those problems, and how did they make you feel?

I can’t tell from your reply if you have any emotions on the topic, or why. You find the topic interesting because of a list of buzzwords, but your reply - while a very well-written set of words - does not contain any emotion with which others can resonate. As a result my initial takeaway is that you’re somehow shilling for coin - profiting somehow from placing this content at HN,

If you aren’t, I apologize! But this is HN, and the coin spam is real, and so if you can bring some life to why you personally are jazzed about this - not just referencing the technologies by keyword but actually explaining why they matter to you using feelings words - then that would go a long way towards establishing some authenticity here.
"Symmetric group" is already taken. Given a set S, the symmetric group G_s is the group of all permutations of S. Not to be confused with a permutation group of S, which is a group of some permutations of S.

I suppose we could rename "symmetric group" to "maximal permutation group", but stringing adjectives together is not a sustainable strategy for naming. Plus, it is not clear to me how accurate "maximal permutation group" is as a name. That is, the symmetric group S_3 is the maximal permutation group of {1,2,3}. However, it is not generally a maximal permutation group, as it is contained withing the permutation group S_4.
1. Set your intention as you are falling asleep by repeating “tonight I’m going to remember my dreams”.

2. When you wake up, don’t move! Stay in bed for 5-10 minutes and try to remember. Once you remember one thing try to ask yourself what happened before or after.

3. Dream journal.

I practiced the above back i. High school. Went from occasionally remembering a dream to remembering about 4-5 a night. Some small snippets and others longer. Was really incredible and I plan to try it again.

Dedicate 30-40 days and see what happens!
What's the difference between your approach and density-functional theory?
You don't have to protect the actual calls to violence. But if you don't protect the associated ideology, you're going to end up excluding basically all politics. I've never seen a large political movement that didn't contain a few bad actors promoting violence.
Georgia, like most states, is 2 weeks in arrears submitting mortality data to the CDC, so I wouldn't jump to any conclusions.

It's amazing to me that we're 100 days into this thing and we still don't have accurate up-to-the-day mortality data.
Simply put, earning a living. I didn't travel the conventional path of high school > university > job, and so I'm struggling to get my shit together, the concept of earning a living (outside of making minimum wage) is so foreign to me that I really don't know how I'm going to do it in a reasonable (< 5 years) amount of time.