skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of sad that we have to use AI to write nowadays - I'm wondering where this will go, especially considering the pre-written suggestions Gmail has started to offer...
Just because you can't kill every opinion you don't like and depose every president you don't like and fire every employee who doesn't share your views and close every account on every website that has any different opinion, just like you flagged me doesn't mean it's counter-factual. You liberal extremists the plague of our generation.
Hmm, that's an interesting take. I always thought it was the "I can say whatever and they'll never know it was me, mwahaha the perfect crimeeee!" or something.
> I even hate repair-videos on youtube, it's slow and lame,

Here are some TikTok tutorials on light painting [0]. I'm not saying that I like them, or that they are good, but they are incredibly pacey compared with the YouTube equivalents

[0] https://www.tiktok.com/tag/lightpainting
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I remember I gained a ton of interest in medieval Japan from Shogun Total War. No clue how historically accurate it was, but there are a lot of ‘period piece’ games that could really set the tone for a history course (Rome Total War, there’s a bunch for WW2, etc).

Very underutilized.
> But of course it doesn't matter to you because 'its pretty harmless'.

That doesn't seem like a very charitable interpretation of OP's comment.

If a very small fraction of global users may come to harm as a result of (not by) using an app, then that's pretty much the textbook definition of "pretty harmless".
Yeah, it's been a pattern on recent posts concerning China that any comment describing CCP malevolence gets instantly downvoted, and often responded to with the same extremely weak what-aboutisms and other non-arguments, accusations of Sinophobia and such. So either there's a rather unintelligent group of Hacker News users who just show up to downvote and post bad arguments on every article criticizing China and then disappear, or we're seeing some of China's finest 50 cent warriors in the comment section.
If TikTok were to be sold, the new company would still have a EULA clause stating they'll share data with partners. One partner will be ByteDance or a wholly owned subsidiary. So the same information will flow into the CCP panopticon.

The only way that wouldn't happen is if the new TikTok owner incorporated in a jurisdiction that forbid such a relationship. That seems unlikely since ByeDance could pay the spun off TikTok dump trucks full of money for the data.
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This, emphatically. All that will happen is places will explode with plague: the way to prevent that happening is to lock down completely, and the way to keep it within 'we still have sort of an economy' parameters is to cope with severe economic hits due to the change in people's behavior.

Otherwise, it's arguing with physics, which seems to be in fashion and has really predictable results with no outliers or exceptions.

We've already made sure the 'before times' economy is gone forever. We're now working out what we can have, instead. That's an interesting design challenge and we're certainly not out of ideas, but 'keep the old economy' is simply not on the table.
I’ve never seen a fully sealed LN2 tank. Granted I’ve only worked with the ones for university labs, but all of them have a pressure release valve that’s goes off periodically, with a secondary back up valve.

Is this what you consider sealed? If not, you’ll most likely be creating a bomb.

Okay I’ve read a story about a fully sealed tank: https://corante.com/how-not-to-do-it/how-not-to-do-it-liquid...
One of the main goals of the EU is to counteract the US and China. Individual member states no longer manage their own international relations when it comes to trade and try to find a common position on other issues.

The issue of a deeper integration is an old one and evolving, but the trend is more integration.

It is becoming more and more important for Europe to stand on its own two feet and be independent in all aspects.

There are benefits in having the other superpowers locked in conflict if you can stay out of it as much as possible and further your interests while they are distracted.

The UK, on the other hand, is in a very weak position. China will feel comfortable retaliating strongly, and the US will probably extract a sweet trade deal from them.
Personal care places involves the employee being in extremely close proximity to the customer for tens of minutes, which is impossible to socially distance. The risk of transfer is going to be much higher than places like gyms and restaurants, where you can separate patrons, and employees are in close proximity only for very brief amounts of time.

It is still (so far as I'm aware) unknown just how effective the masks are versus social distancing, so the comparative risk of a maskless-but-distanced restaurant environment versus a masked-but-not-distanced barber shop is unknown to me. Were we more focused on actually dealing with coronavirus, we'd be aggressively testing and tracing these places to find out the answers, but the US seems to have generally forgotten that testing and tracing matters.
Ugly, poor, and disabled people are absolutely capable of producing interesting content.
I specifically didn't want to post my similar suspicions regarding blood clots and covid so that I didn't have to defend myself from the "everything I didn't think of is fearmongering" people.

yes, the normal distribution of people dying every year will still happen, but now that there is a blood clot causing virus out there, its also worth considering any time someone dies from a blood clot. not a huge stretch. I would actually wonder if they explicitly ruled that out, I don't trust that medical professionals have this in the modus operandi yet, and especially in the distributed US healthcare system.
It's also multiple frame buffers. The nerves before the brain already do some interpretation, and the brain an optimized version.

And the brain can rewrite the history it saved if it finds logical errors that came up because of it filling in gaps wrong.

Brains are awesome and scary.
School starting is going to be such an unmitigated disaster. With the utterly inept handling of this pandemic (not just Trump, but our entire rotting neoliberal government) it just won't be feasible. Even if they do open, many teachers won't show up, and many parents will keep their kids home.

Talk of social distancing in schools is just ludicrous. It makes one wonder whether these officials have ever stepped foot inside of a school. Resources would be far better spent on trying to do remote learning passably well. For example, making sure that all schoolchildren have access to fast and reliable internet on a real computer, etc.
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Every thing you listed that requires a human also results in them making less money.

It's no coincidence that these systems make getting to those points harder and harder.
I've always associated even small boats with great expense. Does living in them reduce the cost since you're not just storing it somewhere, paying for it to float empty in a harbor?
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Apple has (or will be) submitting ARM patches for the Go project.

https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1275177255681982464?lan...
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> If you self host your repository, your hosting provider can pull the plug and you essentially end up in square one.

Yeah, but it's much, much, much less likely than some script at GitHub getting triggered and shutting your account down. And even the cheap hosting providers do have ultra-premium-platinum-support compared to Google, GitHub, Amazon etc.
"Keep your instincts. Change your behavior." Great point. The best dev leads know what their people are dealing with but respond as a leader versus a hands-on dev.
Sometimes I read things on HN and wonder if I'm living in some alternate universe by myself. I would never in a million years, allow someone else to remote-operate a robot in my house. The idea of even allowing something above Roomba-level intelligence in my living area is a no-go.
Their goal is not to support you nor to help you solve problems. Their goal is to extract a larger share of wallet. They’re automating the parts that will not impact their ability to upsell, the rest of it will go to humans who use all sorts of psychological tricks to manipulate you into paying more.
it's podaero.com - composed of a lot of small groups. The most recent one is https://podaero.com/info/hacker-pod
Concentration camp =/= Death camp
> It should at worst scale linearly with user-count

No, front-line support staff might scale that way, but organizational costs scale superlinearly with the size of the bottom of the pyramid, so even if it did, total cost would be super linear with userbase.
I could see regulations go the other way: tech companies will be forced to hire quotas of customer service reps to offset the jobs they keep trying to displace. More specifically, above certain thresholds of revenue and customers for a digital service, you need X number of customer service employees.

This would be a great benefit to most since it creates jobs and gives us real humans to speak with. Of course, it would increase prices of things, but depending by how much (I'm sure there's a sweet spot), it may be worth it for the better customer service.
Exactly!

I try to work my minimum 40 hours. After doing more for years and not getting rewarded/promoted, I don't see a point of doing more. Everybody else works more than me, so I'll never be promoted again but at least I won't be wasting my life. It is very stressful though.
A similar library from another asset manager - https://github.com/man-group/mdf. Although MDF seemed to work at the level of timeseries instead of scalar values.
How did you find a temporary job in another sector in another country?
Woah, this is pretty high profile. Github has been having lots of issues recently. Honestly guys, this started happening ever since they did those new UI changes.
DX is one of the few games I've played through more than once. DX is a lot longer, and is fundamentally a FPS. It's a work of art of gaming, and were this a school on game design, I would absolutely agree with you.

TWOM is a work of literary art. If you haven't played it, do so, but be warned: it hits hard, emotionally.
That reminds me of the time my colleague came to work with a nice shiny new Apple laptop (it was a Titanium PowerBook, long time ago), and said "12,000 bucks". We couldn't believe it, until he added "well, I had to buy my wife a new kitchen to get permission to buy it..."
Neat! One obvious question: Is this intended to integrate with Rails?
No worries. I saw some people doing that and putting email walls to get it. I think this is much better. Just click, download it, and get a sense of it before making a purchase decision.
Mortality is just the tip of the iceberg. A lot more people get hospitalized. Some end up with permanent cognitive disorders. Long term lung and/ or heart damage is also common.

> The UK National Health Service assumes that of Covid-19 patients who have required hospitalization, 45 percent will need ongoing medical care, 4 percent will require inpatient rehabilitation, and 1 percent will permanently require acute care. Other preliminary evidence, as well as historical research on other coronaviruses like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), suggests that for some people, a full recovery might still be years off. For others, there may be no returning to normal.

Strokes and permanent cognitive disorder are also common:

> Blood clots that form in or reach the brain can cause a stroke. Although strokes are more typically seen in older people, strokes are now being reported even in young Covid-19 patients. In Wuhan, China, about 5 percent of hospitalized Covid-19 patients had strokes, and a similar pattern was reported with SARS.

https://www.vox.com/2020/5/8/21251899/coronavirus-long-term-...
Yes, not all of my friends are attractive and rich.
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Youtube channel Moth Light Media did a video on the largest flying birds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bXov-Z2_9U

Fossil evidence shows records of some truly enormous flying beasts. One of the topics of the video is how their existing relatives, the condors, make use of updrafts and air currents to avoid spending the energy to flap their wings. We're all familiar with the trope of vultures circling above a dying animal, but the circling may also be riding an updraft to maintain altitude without expending additional energy.
I thought so too, but if the article is to be believed it's algorithmic / AI (with at the very least Chinese censors doing /some/ degree of curation).
Zero problems here either. I paid much less than $370 in the USA. Much better headphones than my Sony wh-1000xm3 or powerbeats.

So at least two of us.
What I do is run Gitolite in a cheap VPS and then use https://github.com/miracle2k/gitolite-simple-mirror to automatically mirror the gitolite repositories to github and gitlab.
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Sounds like you're living the dream. I want land in the country but my wife won't move.
I've had to resort to this I have 2 CentOS servers at the office. One running Gitlab CE the other running Gitlab Runner. We can't risk getting burned by Github or Gitlab if we forget to use the correct words in repos.

Switching domain registrar and re-routing DNS is a simple and cheap thing if it ever becomes necessary.
Like I said this is personal preference. I've never used it but I think it makes culture worse so I hope it goes under.

I never know what people are going to like so maybe it will become the next TikTok instead, or someone will make a new Quibi that I also won't use or understand :)
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I used to be with a Canadian MVNO who offer zero phone support agents (Public Mobile). Everything is done online.

As such, their online portal offers actions typically requiring a phone call, such as phone number porting, SIM unlocking, choosing a new number/region, and cancelling your account.

Aside: I once accidentally ported the wrong number over since autofill screwed up the input box (444 from my personal 444-4444 line and 5555 from my work line 555-5555). Within 5 minutes I my phone would ring 444-5555. I feel bad for the owner of that number, because it was assigned to me without any authentication whatsoever. Really put the 2FA attacks into perspective.
> because there is no way to predict from public data what the volume of containers loaded/discharged is at a specific terminal

It's doable for a competitor. AIS has the vessels depth. If you assume the weight of a container to be similar you can monitor the vessels depth as they discharge and then load containers. You'll have to account for bunkering, empty containers, etc. Still, it's doable.

There's also some data (not sure if public, should be easy for any shipping company) for anything going to the US. You can use that data to further improve the previous estimates. See https://www.joc.com/regulation-policy/trade-data/united-stat.... Interestingly the JOC is terrible at predicting future trends despite having one of the most detailed data on their trade.

Note: the method above will not give you exact numbers. It's not actually needed to know the exact numbers, seeing the trends and the fluctuations/changes is already quite useful.
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I transcribed the words and body language of his classic "Focusing is about saying no" talk at WWDC '97:

“Focusing is about saying no.” -Steve Jobs, WWDC ‘97

As sad as it was, Steve Jobs was right to “put a bullet in OpenDoc’s head”.

Jobs explained (and performed) his side of the story in this fascinating and classic WWDC’97 video: “Focusing is about saying no.”

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/focusing-is-about-saying-no-s...
North and South Korea. While the US has a lot of influence on South Korea, North Korea has virtually no intelligence presence due to their guarded nature. Couple this with the fact that China outed all of the US resources in Asia and you get a country that has had little in the way of internal meddling by western intelligence services. The fact remains every communist utopia turned into a dictatorship, walled off and and has an horrible human rights record. This was not due to external influences but by the very nature of what happens when you consolidate power roles into a centrally planned government. Funny enough in contrast the Soviet Union was absolutely refined compared to Pol Pot, Castro, Ho Chi Minh, et. al. Its sad that the Republic was conceived in a revolution in 509 BC and to date the only counter we have to it are the poorly conceived communism, fascism and socialism and while those tend to conflate economic models with their rule of government, due to central planning being a core tenant of each, they always lead to tyrannical rule, due to consolidation of power roles. Consolidating power in politicians never ends well.
According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ , among US closed cases, 8% of people who test positive for Covid-19 die.

(BIG CLUE: Use closed cases for estimating mortality of an illness.)
Yes,yes he should be so long has his gifts feed a starving person and save them from dying. What would you have him do? Fund a rebel movement and start a civil war to overthrow the monarch? Well CIA did plenty of that type of "philantrophy" and I think the result speaks for itself.
> Yeah, actually I wish HN would make me laugh and dance, this comment makes tiktok sound pretty good!

LOL. I find HN highly entertaining. Well...not to the point of breaking into a dance...but entertaining. Quite often I just jump straight to the comments.
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This is awesome, great add for those CICD/DevOps professionals out there :)
Sorry, didn't mean to put words in your mouth.
Jeez as a Chinese person who lives in USA I find this comment very condescending and offensive.

> But China, while increasingly mature economically, has not developed proper civil society, human rights, freedom of expression, democracy, and so on.

I don’t want to get into a whataboutism debate about all the human rights violations the USA has engaged in (yes Trump but Obama as well and W before him and etc). But really I’ll just focus on “proper civil society”. Jfc is the sinophobia getting overt around here.

Even if I take the good faith argument that “it’s commentary about CCP not Chinese people” as I often hear after racist remarks, I’ll just point out I’ve been hearing comments like this all my life in all sorts condescending ways. Most of the time in bad faith. So I don’t give a shit about how you “intend” it to be.
Sure, people who downvote you are unintelligent or paid shills. You cant even imagine that you might be wrong, or people have different opinions?
I was blocked from my bank account for a week, with my outgoing rent stuck in it.

Support (chat only) was mostly unavailable and would disappear before answering, or ask me for things at times I was asleep and be gone when I woke, or send me around in circles.

After some research I picked up that their Facebook team was much better than customer services. So I DM'd someone in the bank's Facebook team, and my account was unblocked within 20 minutes.
> I prefer to create a new category.

What else would you put in this category?
Laziness is the father of efficiency.
>Are you not also absorbed by your phone in other ways?

Honestly, no, and I feel very disconnected from modern culture as a result. I use my phone like a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy: to have access to everything we know as humans at my fingertips, in my pockets, at all times.

Otherwise, I don't use it. That said, I have nothing against people using their phone for enjoyment, and there's nothing wrong with people smiling, laughing, and dancing. It's just not easy to relate to the obsession with applications like Instagram, Vine, TikTok, and so on.
>I remember my local high school's motto when I was growing up was something like, "we're not here to teach, we're here to create good, informed consumers".

I don't get it, was this the actual real motto, or something people said tongue in cheek?
If your assertion were true I wouldn't have needed to block long time friends who continually post opinions such as yours.
I'm puzzled by your citation of Vietnam given that after the war America enacted a trade embargo for ~20 years and tried to hamstring their economy through agencies like the IMF. Outside of maybe Cuba you couldn't have chosen a better example to prove GP's point.

Vietnam's reforms are to create the materialist basis for Communism. They're pretty up front about this, how there's no "one size fits all" socialism, etc.
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I've seen similar stuff happening when trying to block spammers. I worked for a major publishing company and we had an issue with the comments, too many spammers. After a review it has easy to see that 90% of the ip address came from India, blocking India was an easy fix although it is unfair for good citizens.

Google your office IP address, maybe it got listed on some spam forum and GitHub and others used it.

Given you have sponsors, this is a pretty big mistake on their behalf.
Probably just a mistake, hope they restore your account.
If we take the long-term historic perspective, society has been mostly de-schooled throughout history. Going to school was a privilege for the children of the haves; the have-nots didn't go to school, and that was one factor which kept them that way, generation over generation.

Deschooling will never happen across all social strata; the privileged will keep sending kids to school no matter what.

Only a complete idiot would fall for this hippie bullshit and not send his kids to school.

The anti-intellectual movements in America in the 1960's likely did in fact contribute to a kind of deschooling of the lower classes, resulting in ever larger economic inequalities fifty years later.
They better get one. As they just made their tax issues even bigger.
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> hunter's stray bullets often severed the cables

Wait, what? If stray bullets are randomly severing cables - and doing so "often" - they should often be randomly hitting other things, in a frequency corresponding to the size and distribution of the thing(s) being hit.

Pardonnez moi for not reading the article. Je ne parle pas Francaise. But this doesn't seem like it could possibly be the reason for why this method is no longer used on new deployments.
> Our attention of an object (such as another human) oscillates from eye to eye.

I thought I understood this at first but with a bit more thought I realised I didn't. You can change the angle between your eyes' directions (i.e. you can cross your eyes rather than them always being totally parallel), so when you focus on single object they are both directly pointing at it simultaneously. Even if your attention is oscillating between them, there's no reason why this would be observable to an outside observer (or camera).

Is it possible you're thinking of looking at someone else's eyes? In that case there are really two objects to look at - the other person's two eyes - so your attention does indeed oscilate in a visible way. But it's not which of your eyes (that you're looking out of) that's varying - it's which of their eyes (that you're looking toward) that's varying.
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