skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So let's expand on that a bit then.

Cancer is a rather big problem. It taxes society quite a bit, costs a lot of money and in general inconveniences quite a lot of people that need to support or help cancer patients.

Would you agree then that perhaps it's a better idea to let cancer patients die rather than try and find cures or reduce the chances of dying? Why or why not? If you had cancer but of the curable kind, would you accept the state killing you because it inconveniences others?
As a math professor, I'm amazed that our students learn to answer exam questions about damped, driven systems without internalizing anything about the idea. Now, our pandemic is a damped, driven system and no one gets it.

I love multiple choice. I aced Regents exams in high school by borrowing old study guides to memorize the missing half of the corpus. I recently had a great time taking the Triplebyte quiz inebriated. So I was gearing up to trying to keep up with this guy.

Question 1, bam! B. Needs infinite memory, regularity is a finiteness condition. I read it first because it was shortest, didn't even look at the other choices. Show me question 2! What? He's still talking?

I understand the pumping lemma, but here it's a technical way to solve the problem under general anesthesia. I guess math isn't alone at failing to teach what things really mean.

I never got to question 2, I got bored.
In 2002, I was an undergraduate in mathematics at UCSD. I had taken Fan Chung's graph theory class and was captivated. I asked her if I could help with any projects, said I knew perl and python. She handed me off to a graduate student who ask me to build a web crawler. They wanted to analyze the www graph. I was introduced to Ron in the hallway by Fan. I knew of him - he was one of the most famous professors in the department. I was honored to shake his hand. I never made much progress on the www crawler. I regretted my laziness later in my subpar grad school.

That's all. Just a small memory from a random person.
Is there actually a nail salon that took 5-10MM with only 14 employees? The guidance, at least initially, was to apply for 2 months of gross income and see what you get. You also had to supply supporting documentation.

I'd be shocked if someone somehow got something that egregious through.
Do you honestly believe the difference between South Korea and the US’ outcomes is those few days? The difference in response on any dimension between the two countries, from their testing to contract tracing to on-demand hospital expansions is so staggering as to make this claim absurd.

I’m not sure what you’re talking about with airports. South Korea has had less incoming travel restrictions than the US.
There is a visual indicator Firefox provides an Android notification that appears when the camera and/or the mic is in use.
"Transition accomplished"

I miss the days when Apple's taglines were always witty (they're still sometimes witty, but not consistently so.)
The true cost of “free” YouTube (2019)
This is a lot of work for a lot of practically meaningless results. These are only examples: The urls and social links in the descriptions. The "the" in the titles. The other findings offer very little insight. Be popular, post videos.
> There is no belief system or set of values for him to be a hypocrite about.

He has been consistently antagonistic toward non-white poor people, even when it made him less powerful or less popular (right now, for example, and also when he kept insulting Puerto Rico).
No, it needed network and storage first, losing billions for years in order to supply the creators with a service. The non-trivial factors could be trivialized by better community moderation features and niche networks.
>Do we have evidence though, still? Remember, this is a hoax, Right?

Trump did not call COVID19 a hoax. He called what Democrats said about his administration's response to the pandemic a "hoax", akin to the "impeachment hoax" (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/29/joe-biden-trum...).
Those are good arguments. I'm very curious what the data will show over the next couple years. However, I'm concerned that data for incidence and mortality will be too incomparable to draw reliable conclusions.
To be clear a scientific evaluation of specific claims would lead one to reject a broad array of claims as either provably false or unfalsifiable and thus worthless.

I would suggest that every mainstream religion is so full of holes after you reject such claims as to have little remaining value. I have not personally evaluated thousands of individual belief systems due to lack of time and energy but evaluated enough to have developed the theory that there aren't any good ones among the philosophies that would self describe as religions and especially those that make supernatural claims.
Read this a while ago, quite an enjoyable read. Recommended.
I suggest you won't learn those things in college. You RTFM and get some experience on real life design projects.

Now, if you are in CMOS process design or responsible for the CAD software itself and its design rules, it helps (a lot!) to be a physicist. For that you need the MS and PhD training.
On Clojars persistent XSS and external resources
So, what if a business was successful, not impacted by covid, and wasn’t planning to lay off any employees anyway? Say, technology consulting company with 100 employees. Took out a PPP “loan”, which will be promptly forgiven since they keep the staff, who gets to keep the money? Something tells me 100% goes to business owner and 0% to employees.

I think there are quite a few companies like this. Hence “money goes to those who least need it”.
I don't think there is. It's just… dumb and amusing. Not all artists' work bear close examination for hidden meaning.
What excellent news!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5KNtC60lOg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8jXSXs-tv0
Absolutely. At the bottom, it's all analog!
I'm curious what we'll see years down the line.

If there are excess deaths now and this disease disproportionately impacts the elderly, the assumption likely is that it's mostly picking people off early and that 1+ years from now we should observe a deaths deficit relative to the baseline years of 2018-2019. From there we should be able to start calculating the cumulative years of life lost.
Mozilla suspends Firefox Send service while it addresses malware abuse
Ever had pneumonia? Same deal.

I had Covid, felt sluggish for a few months after all symptoms went away. Just yesterday did a 25km hike, felt great. It's shitty and a tad worse than the flu, but I have no doubt that 99% will eventually be 100% better.
Lots and lots of storage.
It would be nice to get all of the HDL used by the HPSDR project fabbed this way.
Bears eat cubs (their cubs). So "bears eating cub scouts" is just a pun.
What I said is compatible with what you say.
Would work on a vaccine really slow down? There are many thousands of patients and how many does a vaccine study require in practice?
You do agree that a temporary emergency measure that is expected to take between a few weeks and a couple of months doesn't come close to compare with all the driving regulation, don't you agree?

I mean, Spain had to endure a couple of months of isolation and we don't see Spaniards complaining that it's the end of the world.
The broadening circle of people willing to exercise their free speech to condemn Pinker's recurrent and insidious appeals to race-informed genetic determinism is a bright spot, as are the numerous people dunking on Pinker for cosigning an open letter that decries "ostracism and public shaming" as injuries to our culture of free expression, rather than expressions of that culture.

Ken White had some smart things to say about this today, with respect to "the problem of the preferred first speaker". Worth tracking down.

That's not to say there aren't dark spots; David Shor's firing certainly appears to be one of them. But I don't think any of those dark spots put Pinker, the T-1000 version of Charles Murray, above criticism. Which is, of course, what an open letter against "public shaming" purports to do.
Leaders and policy planks matter. Leaders guide thought and policy. Support for a movement empowers that movement’s leaders. In this case, it is empowering people who say things like “capitalism is essentially racist.” https://www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist. The vast majority of protestors may not agree, but it’s the leaders that are giving speeches and writing the books that are included in reading lists and school curriculums.

These people make concrete conjectures, such as "the capital gains tax preference" (which is nearly universal in the developed world and widely supported by economists) "is racist." And they make concrete policy proposals, such as the following (remember the author has previously defined the capital gains preference to be racist):

> [The anti-racist amendment] would establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-racism (DOA) comprised of formally trained experts on racism and no political appointees. The DOA would be responsible for preclearing all local, state and federal public policies to ensure they won’t yield racial inequity, monitor those policies, investigate private racist policies when racial inequity surfaces, and monitor public officials for expressions of racist ideas. The DOA would be empowered with disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas.
Sorry :(

Maybe she carries that susceptibility sequence from Neanderthals. It'd also be good to focus on isolating people with that and other relevant genetic markers.
I actually ended up spending some time thinking about Turing machines when trying to solve a LeetCode problem.

I like to have a handful of problems that (1) have known solutions, (2) that I should be able to figure out in a reasonable time, (3) and that I should be able to make significant progress on entirely in my head. I then work on these when lying in bed trying to fall asleep, or when exercising, and similar times, and LeetCode is a good source for such problems.

The problem was given an array of integers find the smallest positive integer that is not in the array, and do it in O(N) time and O(1) space.

The O(1) space part was killing me. I just could not do it in less than O(N).

I decided to spend a while trying to prove that it could not be done in O(1) space. Presumably that would fail, but maybe if I could figure out why it failed that would also suggest how to do it in O(1) space. And thus I ended up thinking about Turing machines and other models of computation.

Except my attempts to prove it cannot be done on O(1) space seemed to succeed, so I was stumped. I spent a couple months on this stupid problem, before finally giving in and peeking at a solution.

It turns out that on LeetCode you can modify input arrays. I'm not a barbarian so I had assumed that inputs were supposed to be immutable.
> nobody agrees on who actually represents god

That's only true if “nobody” can reach up to approximately 1 billion people.

“Not everybody” ≠ “nobody”.
Can you articulate what the specific benefits would be if the person providing obscure free tools via esoteric channels suddenly conformed to the behavioral norms your wishing for?
Apple's immersive VR experience for passengers
A centre-right candidate doesn't become "left" just because there's a far-right candidate.

Biden faces that. He's not a classic leftist, like Bernie Sanders, Ralph Nader, Gene McCarthy, or Hubert Humphrey, all of whom were presidential candidates. To today's GOP, Eisenhower and Reagan would be considered too far left.
I just spent three days explaining a bash script I authored to a tech lead who "doesn't know bash that well". If I had written in more help messages I probably could have preserved more of my time.
This is the behavior I expect and desire from my phone. Locking the screen should not suddenly end my video call. To end my video call, I should press the 'end call' button. I can think of scenarios where I would want my phone to record without showing any notice at all (some people have mentioned law enforcement interactions, I think this is a good example of such a situation).
That's a great clip from Wikipedia. But it doesn't answer the actual question posed. It avoids it.
If you agree, the logical takeaway from

> I history class was wasted on me in high school because I was a kid and didn't have much life experience. But years later with a better grasp on human nature I think I would have had a better grasp.

would not be

> Schools are mostly state-run daycare programs, setup so that parents can work, not a genuine implementation of skill building.

This is due to the nature of the topic, not its pedagogy.
They might to an extent, but I don't think it's required or necessary. Ads can go on any type of videos, and if Youtube had less traffic as a result of less clickbait, then presumably the costs to host it would be a lot less too.

Apart from this, keep in mind that Youtube TV likely pulls in a ton more money, and even if it didn't, Google/Alphabet has many other larger sources of revenue that could pay for Youtube too.
I’m glad he’s producing new comics. I’ll admit I prefer his pre-digital style, but I’m happy to see how his comics change without deadlines or being beholden to editors.
You reminded me of my own mom.

My mother (diagnosed schizophrenia in the '70s) tried to get to her webmail one day, but the ISP had moved the page. She got some generic 404 message like:
"We couldn't find the page you were looking for."

She immediately spazzed out asking who the "We" was and how did they know what she was looking for!??
She shutdown the computer and many years later, to this day, will not use a computer.
So yeah, some people handle disparities in user experience better than others, and mental health is a thing in the population at large.
Don't think that's relevant just slightly disturbing video of a bear eating a cub. :(
Tons of people here have backgrounds in maths, statistics and so on. There's enough data available out there that I'm sure plenty of HN commentators can make informed posts on this subject.
Let me rephrase - relevant but unnecessary.
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Platform is one major problem space.

Another is interface. There are plenty of people who would love to use Vim, but simply don't like the keybindings. Same for emacs, every window manager/desktop environment, etc.

For no reason in particular, we tend to very tightly couple functionality to interface. We could avoid an awful lot of duplicated work if we factored UI out of tooling, and made it more user-definable.
Agree with this. Apple marketing copy back in the day had a big impact on my personal writing style. It does seem like they started doing it again on some of the copy for the newest OS though.
That very first taxi joke (I won't spoil it for you) made me happy. I had to dwell on the comic, make up a small world in my mind where that situation could possibly make sense, and just generally revel in the absurdity of it. Glad he's back!
While we are talking about Slack, do people use MatterMost in their org?

The idea of self hosting Slack is appealing to me.
But I don't know how close it is to Slack.
Interested to try this! Previously I subscribed to SkedPal (https://www.skedpal.com/) for awhile but thought it was too expensive to stick with it.
Somehow this feels like the glimmer of hope I needed in these dark times.
Now this battery icon.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/23/macos-big-sur-battery-h...
Not Mozilla, but there's plenty of proof for other big tech companies, including Google.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
> We made a choice not to take it because we are booming during crisis.

What's strange about that is that there were/are so many unknowns. Sure, you could be booming, but what if the unexpected strikes and you are suddenly not booming due to yet another unforeseeable event? The worst estimates were that millions would die and we'd be heading into an era that would eclipse the great depression.

As prepped as you were, and as well as you were doing — taking every opportunity to add layers of resilience would seem like the smart thing to do, especially when you've got employees with families, customers that depend on you, etc.
So in the case where Youtube's automated filter flags an infraction, what about them just removing channels from the discovery service rather than pulling the underlying infrastructure out from under them?
Why “I don’t have time” is a lie
My next machine is going to mostly be

A) Programming my own stuff, in which case I see that as a benefit, because it forces me to write portable code.

B) Managing servers, in which case it won't matter.

I do have some experience with it on a side laptop, and I quite enjoyed it.

That being said, the warning you brought up could certainly screw up many workflows, so thank you for the heads up.
> People continued spending money

i must be misunderstanding. surely you're not claiming that ordering people to stay inside and restricting building capacities didn't severely lower business revenue, are you?

> PPP didn't fix it did it?

i dont know why you said this. the PPP almost certainly fixed the short term problems created by a national quarantine. we're not out of the woods yet, but what do you think happened to all the money? you think hundreds of thousands of small business owners simultaneously committed fraud and didnt use the PPP for payroll? the PPP gave people money for rent, how did it not?
I don’t get the wit in this one. Would you mind explaining?
This reminds me of a nice sed one-liner I recently happened to craft.

Do you ever collect families of functions in your shell scripts under different sections? Here's a nice way of printing out all the functions under a given section:

funs(){ sed -n '/^## /h;x;/'"$1"'/{x;s/^\(\w\+\)().*/\1/p;x};x' "$0";}

Where "sections" are delimited by comments of the form "## Section Name" at the beginning of a line. A particularly nice use case is when you write scripts that expect "subcommand" arguments, like

$ foo.sh bar baz

and wish to keep track of the available subcommands in the help documentation. Simply collect all your subcommands under the heading "## Subcommands" and stick a funs call in your documentation:

usage=$(cat <<USAGE
Usage: foo <subcommand>
Subcommands: $(funs Subcommands)
USAGE
)

The sed one-liner above uses the oft-ignored "hold space" which lets you store data that persists between lines. Here's the same sed but expanded with comments:

funs(){ sed -n '/^## /h # Store header line in hold space
x # Swap out current line with header in hold space.
/'"$1"'/{ # Run block if last encountered header matches $1
x # Return to processing current line (instead of header)
s/^\(\w\+\)().*/\1/p # Print function names
x # Whether or not this block runs, we want to return to
# processing the current line. If the block does not
# run, then the hold space contains our current line
# with the active line being our header. So we must
} # return to that state as whell when the block is run.
x # Restore current line from hold space' "$0"
}
New Zealand is a special case where it may be feasible to isolate yourself from the rest of the world and reach zero cases. With that said, it remains to be seen that it is possible to maintain zero community spread over the long term, and whether the economic impact of isolating yourself from the rest of the world is worth it.
Ha, this is cute :) Looks like the Rosetta link still works too: https://www.apple.com/sg/rosetta/. Never really got to try it much, as I didn't really use Macs back then, although I'm curious if anyone from that time knows what the "oah" name stood for.
Is this support Linux?
Now if Bill Watterson comes out of retirement and starts drawing Calvin and Hobbes again that’d make everyday just a little bit better.

A fan made Hobbes and Bacon https://imgur.com/gallery/tUzAL usually fan art never measures up to the original but this is that exception to the rule. It choked me up a bit to see Hobbes play with Bacon - Calvin’s little daughter.
Asking the Wrong Questions Can Screw Your Startup Over
Correction to my comment above: The loan rate in the South is significantly higher than the percentage of small business jobs saved, not lower.
Why do we pay taxes then if the government can just borrow that money?
Python is an uninspired language with one serious design flaw (significant whitespace) that gained a lot of initial momentum because it was better than Perl. Since then it's accumulated new features in a random thrift store sort of process that has resulted in a fairly complex language.

In my opinion this whole generation of slow, dynamic, single threaded languages like Python, Ruby, and PHP only became popular because they were easy to implement and more productive for simple things than the statically typed alternatives of their day. Language design has come a long way since then and we can now do much better.
> Python is still a pleasant language to start new projects in.

I'm going to have to disagree with this, Python's packaging and project management is always a pain, and trying to get teammates setup previously with virtual-env/pipenv has always been rockier and slower (performance wise) than it ought to be. Julia has a much, much saner start, as does Rust.
You cannot know that until after the pandemic is over.

The Swedes are betting that nobody in the world will be spared from COVID and therefore the delta in deaths is temporary. They are front-loading it while attempting to keep the economic impacts as low as possible. They anticipate the rest of the world will be contending with shutdowns, re-openings, shutdowns, re-openings, and when all is said and done, the death rate per capita will be the same the world over.

So far, they the Swedes have bet one way, much of the rest of the world has bet the other way. Time will tell, but it is much too soon to make that judgment today.
I assume it was targeted at the G. Bush "Mission Accomplished" banner regarding winning in Iraq ... in 2003.
From Zero to Game in Rust
Psychology researchers don't have any major disagreement about the relationship between race and IQ. It's well established that blacks have lower IQ than whites. Where they're still in disagreement is what causes it and the definition of "race".

It's amazing to see so many seemingly intelligent people being such avid science deniers. Just because you've demonized the people who believe something different from you doesn't mean they're wrong.
Holy cow, that icon is fugly...
Pun on “mission accomplished”
I was practicing understatement. I think my general level of ignorance of the cultural revolution is pretty average (I'm going to read some books on it) and I didn't think of it being defined by "mass murder", but rather the things you list and italicize. Even if you had disagreed, I was characterizing popular mostly ignorant opinion based on my own, not the true nature of the period.

The public humiliation sessions are what I think most people that didn't study it think of, combined with the violence. They're what I vaguely think of; they're what you mention, and I'm confident they're what most people think of. The concept of such sessions is something that found its way into Western fiction (e.g. 80s SF) clearly inspired by the historical period. I don't recall a specific example, but this is something I always assumed was part of popular culture at some level.

While we're on that topic (popular impressions of Chinese history), a lot of people died during the "Great Leap Forward" too, but again, I don't think the average uninformed opinion of what defines it is "mass murder". When I think of that, I think of peasants trying to make steel and other social disruption.