skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My mind goes back to Sweden really. It was a sort of (unintended) natural experiment which seems to have gone wrong.
In hindsight, the devil (of herd immunity) in details is really an eye-opener for many public health officials I guess.
AFAIK, there is still no confirmed research on :

* What percentage of people are supposed to develop antibodies to be classified as immune? Per the article, this can widely vary

* Even if someone develops antibodies, how long it will last

Without these two data points, Sweden's decisions really seem disastrous but hopefully some good comes out of this :(
Super comment. I always use the example of masons whenever people complain that computer programming is hard work. Laying bricks is hard work, and not all that easy either. If you have basic bricklaying skills then you will be able to appreciate much better the kind of work and craftsmanship that goes into what may look like an average building.

Be careful with your back!

As for your comment on the economics: the main reason that old buildings looked so ornate and beautiful to our present day eyes is that at the time the labor costs and costs of materials were a small fraction of what they are today, and cost overruns were very common. On a relative scale the cost of building has gone up substantially which leads to every building being put up with the least amount of labor and the cheapest materials that can be found. If brick is used at all (instead of the ugly stone strips, which is a material which I think ought to be prohibited) it is in a decorative rather than a structural manner, the building itself will be made out of concrete.

The only place where you'll find some room to really use your skills is in restoration work as well as the houses for the rich. Almost everything else, including commercial buildings is done to a very tight budget.
I get the same feeling from that photograph. Amazing how something simple as a smile brings a picture so much closer to us. It feels much more human, I suppose, than the stiff emotionless photos that were common at the time.
Ask HN: I suspect two friends for “stealing” my idea. How should I aproach them?
Some while ago I had an idea about a website that I wanted to build. I've asked my friend, Bob, some opinions about it. Now I find from another friend of mine, Jack, Bob's best friend, that he was approached by an investor to build the exact same thing, one month after I've talked to Bob.
Although it might be the case, since I've got the idea from another country and wanted to do the same in my own country, so that investor could've done the same, the timing and the people involved makes me be believe that my friends actually took this idea to the investor, especially that the investor is not involved in any IT businesses.
I don't have any evidence about it, and of course I have no hope to gain anything from it (I even told them more details that might help), I have this itching feeling of being played. I just don't know how to handle it. Should I just forget about it, leaving them in a cloud of suspicion, and be more careful next time to whom I talk to? Should I confront them without any hard evidence? Or maybe I should try to find the truth in other ways? One (probably stupid) thing that I immediately did, without much thinking, was to tell them some other ideas that I had, just to see if other investors suddenly get these ideas as well..

As for working on the idea itself, I've just started development on my own, with the hope to attract some funds later for sales and marketing. They got a massive investment for building a team for full time development and sales, so there's no way I can compete with that.
Content editors should not be able to add arbitrary code to a bank's website unless it undergoes review from someone who understands web security. If there is some kind of content editing tool, it should only allow content (not arbitrary scripts) to be edited.
Economic Reasoning
Stand…on the freeway? Or on the other side of the walls?
A similar vein of thought but much much broader. It Allows for the collection of content data by local law enforcement as opposed to the NSL "By law, NSLs can request only non-content information, for example, transactional records and phone numbers dialed, but never the content of telephone calls or e-mails."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter
In these periods, our evidence will always be patchy, and given error margins even "contemporary evidence" aren't necessarily contemporary. Ultimately, we need to find the most plausible accounts.

So what's your suggested alternative account? How does one get all those references in a way anywhere as likely as the original theory? We have zero cases of "House of David" referring to anything else, and "House of" was a typical geopolitical term. We do have direct evidence the Kings summations have basis in fact for later periods, but for earlier period the author isn't really redacting the royal annals despite him saying he did?

Minimalism presented itself as based on the science, but it can't coast anymore on absence of evidence. To be credible it ultimately needs to explain what we have without taking leaps of logic equaling those of the literalists, or it would appear to be a political movement rather than a scientific one.
For the Firefox graph, none of them are below 35%, only three are below 40%. The average is well above 60%.

That said, there's a lot going on there. Javascript can not use SIMD or multiple threads. Some tests are heavier on C#, which is converted to C++ in the Javascript version and thus becomes "faster than native C#".

The point is not give an exact number on how fast Javascript is compared to any other language, there's wide variance across usage and implementations. The point is to show that Javascript to rival C# performance is feasible.
If this SABRE hybrid rocket engine thing takes off (pun intended), then maybe we could have some kind of "semi-ballistic" long range flights?
> However, if the Confederates has succeeded, there’s a good chance they would have ended slavery

[citation needed] do you have some sort of source to back this claim up?

Why would a region willingly give up it’s main source of economic power a la slaves? The south was notorious for avoiding investment into public infrastructure like roads, rail, foundries, etc. Why would they enter into a civil war over slavery if they were “about to give it up” anyways? This take flies counter to everything I’ve read about the confederate south
A quick guide to Apple app clips, a new feature for iOS 14
This is from the 12th century:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Overzich...
I just did some interviewing with them. I declined after a couple meetings (it goes recruiter, 1 "smoke test" phone screen, day long screening, then pms). Remember what you read about the Michael Spindler & Gil Amelio days of fragmentation, funnels, reorgs, canned projects, the head not knowing what the hands are doing ... I know apple is sitting on a lot of cash but everything felt like IBM's PS/2 days. I don't know how you appraise the value of your time, but the more I learned, the lower I placed Apple. Once you get an equivalent to the "gang of 9" working around them I believe they're fucked. YMMV, I went in with high hopes and yeah, eventually realized what I saw was the reality.

Their consumer marketing is still slick but once you pull back the cover it's a mess. Look at how they still haven't corrected their post.
Not impossible, but very unlikely within the realms of the existing financial systems. You can't control billionaires using the very systems that made them billionaires.
This is a blog post summarizing another blog post [1] about a page [2] from Google Arts and Culture with the images itself. If possible, it would probably be better to update the URL to one of the other pages, as this one does not add much additional information.

1: http://www.openculture.com/2020/06/an-immaculate-copy-of-leo...

2: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/explore-the-last-sup...
I don't know what it's like in Pakistan, but I was watching something recently where a westerner took a driving test in India, and literally all he had to do was reverse about 5 metres. All this on camera, and the driving tester didn't bat an eyelid, like this was totally OK.

Having travelled a fair bit in India, I've seen accidents happen in front of me, I've seen the aftermath of many more, and I've seen ienumerable near misses - after seeing the driving test, it explained a lot!
And now we are in territory of bizarre wargame scenario.

If the army of the past came to present they are dead in the water. All you need is to know where their leader is and assassinate them, sniper rifle, explosives thrown from helicopter etc. You don't need military equipment, as the past people have no experience and knowledge of mode technology.

Other way around - modern army in the past - is a bit too complex (too many variables/scenarios) to write in a comment. That is territory of a podcast episode or two :)
Well, it's a tradeoff.

If you make one really long flight, you need more fuel - and then you need more fuel to carry that fuel (though less).
Basically you need an exponential amount of fuel for more range, not linear. (It works just the same as the rocket equation, though less drastic.)

But landing and takeoff take kind of a fixed amount of fuel.

So, for short trips, the fixed amount is more - so better to fly directly.

But for really long trips, you're on the right side, the steep end of the exponential curve. Adding more range there takes a lot more fuel. So then it's smarter to put less fuel at start and make a refueling stop instead.
> He may be right, but that's not an evidence. And we are talking about a company acting like a con man since ages.

I don't have any reason to not believe their explanation. And I don't think my clipboard is useful to them for anything else. Many other apps are doing it as well and a few of them gave the same explanation.

But, that doesn't mean that copying clipboard is a good idea. I don't like any app to copy my clipboard. I also don't like it that apps/companies don't respect any boundaries unless it's forced/blocked by the OS. They just try too hard to reach where they don't need to reach.

If there wasn't enough restriction from the OS, surely someone has already came up with a "creative" idea to detect spammers using front camera or reading device storage and a lot of apps were using it. I don't like it that companies aren't sensitive about user rights and what users feel about what they are doing.
Wow! The level of detail is so amazing. I have seen photos of the painting online and in books, but had never noticed the halos around each of the disciples except for Judas.
Bias is just a scalar term that is added. You can learn it via backpropagation like all the other weights.
Any idea why the A380 is so fuel inefficient? It's a relatively recent design with modern engines etc., no?

(I've flown once on an A350. Very nice plane)
You can follow whatever terms you desire for your application as long as you fulfill the requirements of the licenses of all modules that you use. In case of MIT, it is attribution; in case of LGPL3, you need to make the source of the LGPL3 module available and you need to make it possible for the user to swap the compiled module you ship for their own version of that module.
How we beat existing network effects and got 900 customers from day one
Court Rules Facebook Widgets Can Be Considered Wiretaps
New wannabe collaborators maybe. But does the project want to attract only young people who don't care about corporate control creep over free software? Or does it want to attract all able young people including those who understand the benefits of the email based collaboration, which is being the only convenient, decentralized, non-corporate-controlled and the most equitable way for strangers to communicate over the Internet?
Thanks! Just out of curiosity, do the gulf carriers keep PIA in high regard and have a friendly relationship or they are continuously trying to bring it down?

The whole "we have grounded people with fake license" sounds like someone knew about it previously, and they are conspiring against PIA. I don't think PIA would be aware of fake licenses and keep them as well? or it took them just a few weeks to find out people with fake licenses?
Yeah, it's like The Boy that Cried Wolf - sure, people shouldn't jump to conclusions, but if we're shown something enough times it's easy to become conditioned to a particular expectation.
It's really annoying how people like him blow these things out of proportion to shame and extort companies.. Seems like he didn't even make a serious attempt to message them.
Oh that sounds perfect! I love your idea! I think the President would also find it very agreeable to his only known ideology!
Not sure about mesopotamia but there's evidence of indoor plumbing for sewage distribution in Knossos (Minoan civilisation - 3000 BC to 1100 BC).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_civilization#Plumbing

There's also plenty of examples of different kind of early toilets/sewage systems from 3000 BC in different cultures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_water_supply_and_sa...

I think you're conflating an image of victorian england with a world that existed 4000 years before.

Edit: as says the wikipedia article:

The Mesopotamians introduced the world to clay sewer pipes around 4000 BCE, with the earliest examples found in the Temple of Bel at Nippur and at Eshnunna,[13] utilised to remove wastewater from sites, and capture rainwater, in wells. The city or Uruk also demonstrate the first examples of brick constructed Latrines, from 3200 BCE.[14][15] Clay pipes were later used in the Hittite city of Hattusa.[16] They had easily detachable and replaceable segments, and allowed for cleaning.
This is one of the clearest explanations I've read on the difference between traditional Statistics and Machine Learning.
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Excellent! The code looks clean too.

I'm looking for a tool to export Spotify playlists to text/csv and can only find weird commercial solutions; maybe the way to go is to use `spotify-web-api-js` and build it on the client side.
I'd seen this once before and then forgotten about it. Thanks for mentioning it here again!

Are you aware of any kind of backlash, where non-parties to a letter exchange harshly criticize one or both participants, or your platform, for engaging in the exchange at all?

One thing that I notice in your platform somehow is a sort of I-Thou dynamic (maybe just because people are addressing each other cordially, or even affectionately, in the second person?) and not an I-It ("look at that losery loser over there with the super-dumb beliefs!"). Surely that militates against tribalism -- and surely some people are mad that some of the conversations are happening at all? ("Why is this person/platform legitimizing this terrible person by having this letter exchange?" or something.)

Are you afraid that you'll be tempted to refuse certain letter exchanges because their topics are too intense or too taboo somehow, or because you're not sure the participants are interacting in good faith? Are you sort of at peace with the prospect of having to make that judgment?

How are people finding the platform and finding each other? Are you reaching out to them based on their prior reputations? Is someone suggesting your site to pairs of people who've been in social media fights, or seemed to be on the verge of them? Are people finding it themselves by word of mouth?

How many of the participants do you think have some kind of celebrity or substantial following outside of your site? Do you think that makes things better or worse in some way?

How do these exchanges compare to, say, a podcast video interview? (I did an SSC adversarial collaboration last year and my collaborator, and now friend, later interviewed me for his podcast, which felt like a pretty nice format too.)
This is so timely! I am teaching CS to some high-schoolers and they just got introduced to Python, I want to hook them by getting them to make something that they can play around with. Could use this there :D

Somehow, it feels like, CS education is getting both easier as new low friction tools are being made available each day and getting harder because the sheer complexity and number of things to know to really understand anything at all the levels of abstractions is getting more complicated.
My browser plugins avoided all that crap for me, but I was still frustrated by the tiny map images. The high resolution maps are beautiful: https://booth.lse.ac.uk/learn-more/download-maps and there's an interactive version that overlays Google Maps so you can see what happened to those "Vicious, semi-criminal" areas: https://booth.lse.ac.uk/map/14/-0.0736/51.5023/100/0
> That one plays off key

Out of tune. The key is determined by the speed of the vehicle and reasonable variance wouldn't affect the perceived quality of the music.
This example is quite child like.

It's what bright children in the 70's learning about computers thought.

50 years later they haven't solved it because it doesn't work that way.

Is there a real example not using proper nouns?

A city changes, a population changes depending on the country and language and time. Town X having a population Y might be considered a Village X and Population Z, because in some countries population includes the rural parts, the population of San Francisco might be different in another country.

The rabbit hole goes on forever, and more importantly it's been tried constantly for over 50 years.

Unlike Machine translation which is amazing compared to 50 years ago, and getting better, and you could see how you could integrate it better with Wikipedia (It's already used) yet it's tossed out in the white paper for no real good reason I can see. There's also lots of stuff like Duolingo style methods that you could look at.
Well my iPhone 6 lightning port is till working fine. That is closing to 6 years now. So I think Lightning Port is doing pretty well so far.
> perfect their anti-piracy systems

and yet it's trivial today to obtain any media you want to watch for free. popcorn time comes to mind, but there's countless others.

Fighting piracy is like trying to fight the tide.
Sphere Eversion
The "who is hiring" threads have had a slight decline but it doesn't seem much.

https://imgur.com/a/omLukeG
I'm not sure these questions can be answered philosophically. After thousands of years, philosophy can't even agree on the the morality of things that already do exist.

Science fiction and moral philosophy depict "model organisms" as physical replicas of organic ones for a reason. Our moral ponderings are driven by moral feelings, and they need to trigger feelings for the reasoning to be interesting. The neocortex court only debates when limbic prosecutors press charges.

Ultimately, the task here is software that answer questions, not software that is a mouse. If software those two converge, we have a moral dilemma. Seems unlikely though.
I actually find it refreshingly anti-commercial that Bandcamp has a fairly basic app and a low key approach to curation. I think having a very basic player in the app fits well with a kind of anti-DRM "it's your's now, we don't care what you do with it/BYO[everything else]" mentality.

Focusing on an app often seems to lead to a slippery slope of metric driven development, feature creep, engagement analytics, notifications, etc. First it's personal playlists, then it's publishing playlists, then it's liking other people's playlists, then it's artist endorsed playlists, then it's sharing playlists to other social media platforms, then it's being notified that a playlist you like has been updated, etc. etc.

(My one gripe with the app is the slightly childish decision to hide the download links for music you already own.)
"No comments. "

The usual situation when lacking arguments.
Perhaps, you should look up the word 'ethnic' in the dictionary.

"The only TV station in Crimea in Tatar language was closed after occupation.(And he knew about it when he wrote about language)"

As a matter of fact, I didn't. Thanks.
The BBC article cites the political reasons though, not ethnic.
If you live in a very aggressive and malevolent environment that constantly wants to break you and use you for its own needs it's important to follow these rules:

1. Don't forget to love. There is always something to love. This is the most important thing. Enemies will try to make you hate (no matter what).

2. Be happy. It may sound as a trivial advice, but to be actually happy it's very helpful to consciously set your inner state as "happy". Despite all negative aspects of the situation you are in.

3. Be grateful. This is also helps a lot. There is always something more to lose. Be grateful for what you have now.

4. Dream! Dreams are the force that move us in our life. And the movement is necessary.

5. Live! Another trivial advice. But you can easily stuck under the burden without noticing it.

6. Try to fly over the problems, don't let them control your mind and thoughts. Think of them as walls (well, sometimes you have to break through).

7. Try to use long-term planning. Uncertainty is not a good thing for happiness.

8. Don't get sucked and destroyed by the temporary situation. There is always sunrise after darkness. Remember it.
Love bandcamp.

Being able to buy the whole catalogue from an artist with one click is great. Maybe patreon style subscription for artists you like could also be interesting - reliable subscription revenue would make a world of difference to many artists.

And please add playlists!
The OS really shouldn't grant apps access to the clipboard until release by the user in my opinion.
Could law enforcement require access to play and appstores? Has this happened?

Law enforcement could replace an app, with their own, even for one specific user, if they have access to the system, granted by Google or Apple. I presume the signing can can be compromised, this way, but am unfamiliar to know this for sure.
You can define EIGEN_USE_BLAS and then Eigen will delegate matrix operations to BLAS routines (such as gemm) instead of its own engine [0]. Then, you could link your program to a BLAS implementation written in Fortran.

However, when I last researched this for my previous work, OpenBLAS was the fastest open source implementation and is written in a mix of C and assembly, not Fortran. The repository contains quite a lot of Fortran, but it is mostly for the LAPACK implementation, which is not part of BLAS.

In our testing we got a nice speedup of our signal processing pipeline when enabling EIGEN_USE_BLAS, but this was on ARM64, so your experience may differ.

[0] https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/TopicUsingBlasLapack.html
The problems with exclusivity are clear, but we also must realize that lots of things were produced simply because you can just get everything. Netflix shows have been great sometimes, and they wouldn't have a happened otherwise.

I not sure if there is a 'fix' for this other then reducing copy right.