skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad I took AP instead of IB. I go to a very difficult magnet high school. I was hovering around a low B for my entire AP Calculus BC class, but I still flew through the AP test and got a 5 (highest score). Even kids who get Cs in the class get 5s on the AP exam. I'd imagine that there's a number of similar schools with a large IB program and highly deflated grades, and I doubt that the IB algorithm takes school difficulty into account.
"""far-right"""

ie. Positions everyone supported 15-25 years ago.
Personally, I would favor "noise tax" for any noise generated, regardless of the reason. (I may be biased, I am noise-sensitive.)

In this case, it will put pressure to avoid, or reduce, noise when possible (as it directly lowers costs).
It's not only cars - all neighbors with a passion for loud music (or quarrels), repair works taking longer and louder than necessary.
I'm surprised that you didn't also observe how the need to be "right" is related to people not caring about having true beliefs. That is, the need to be (have been) "right" is a great motivation for people to cling on stubbornly to false notions.
There's a lot of unknowns in those numbers - and a 50-100x increase in a somewhat rare condition isn't particularly helpful.

We need solid number to make informed decisions about risk.

This isn't about whether to wear a mask or not (anyone with a brain wears a mask) - this is more about whether to shut down schools and the economy.

> the scientists in question are experts, I trust them

Agreed, but they still aren't giving us NUMBERS.
Surface Book 2 - the pen is comfortable to hold, it runs a full OS, and it happily runs multiple external monitors when used with the dock. I'd recommend the 3 these days since video conference software seems to eternally consume more ram.
"Proponents and builders of surveillance capitalism and associated global data gathering for corporate and state uses tend to lean 'left', as in neo liberal left."

Neoliberalism is a right wing ideology, not a left wing one.

""Neoliberalism" is contemporarily used to refer to market-oriented reform policies such as "eliminating price controls, deregulating capital markets, lowering trade
barriers" and reducing state influence in the economy, especially through privatization and austerity."[1]

This is pretty much the opposite from what those on the left aim for.

Those on the left want nationalization, not privitazation, regulation of capital markets, not deregulation, price controls, not their elimination, and more state influence in the economy, not less.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberal
One of the primary causes of housefires is leaving bathroom fans running.
It seems like the most responsible choice as a parent would be to buy fewer, more durable toys. But is that a realistic expectation?
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This is extremely vague.
I think there's value in docs from a level setting perspective...it's usually way quicker to talk someone through what's changed since the last update than from scratch.
Do you have any data on incidence rates of neurological side effects in covid compared to influenza, for example?
There is a good refactoring tool[1][2] to automate the process. It also allows scripting in Lua[3].

[1] https://github.com/immunant/c2rust/tree/master/c2rust-refact...

[2] https://c2rust.com/manual/c2rust-refactor/commands.html

[3] https://c2rust.com/manual/c2rust-refactor/doc/scripting_api....
I love Cleese but my impression is that among the left he's definitely not liked for a number of (sorta legitimate) reasons. just FYI.
Google famously passed on the guy who invented Homebrew, so at least you're in good company. As others have said, the interview process selects for (wait for it) ... people who are good at the interview process. It's kind of like the SAT and college. If you want to get in, you get good at the SAT, regardless of its relevance.

Instead, maybe seek out the companies that go bonkers for your OS project and can't wait to turn you loose inside their company. They're out there and I suspect it would be more enjoyable to work for them. Good luck and don't despair!
Malaysia's goals backfired badly on that account. Most of the manufacturing was in Penang, dubbed the Silicon Valley of the East for a while.

Some might remember most of their chips and RAM having "Made in Malaysia" on them through the 90/00's, all from one little area.

But the country squandered the opportunity due to racial divides and the federal government's dislike of the Chinese-Malay majority on the island, a place that very much resembled Singapore's demographics and ironically tried to secede at the same time but was shot down due to the Malaysian government considering it vitally important unlike Singapore (who then went from the one of the poorest countries on Earth to the richest despite absolutely no natural resources), the years after weren't much better, they never really ever wanted it to succeed too much and consistently denied appropriate amounts of federal funding despite the population levels.

It's one of the few states in the country where a leader who isn't ethnic-Malay is legally allowed to get the job. Many don't like this situation as Malay supremacy is written into the constitution and is still deeply engrained into the national psyche. An Indian or Chinese leader makes many uncomfortable.

Fast forward a few decades and there's still a reasonable contingent of manufacturing around but advanced fabs have long left, somewhat surprisingly to more expensive shores like Taiwan, SK and China, nowadays some silicon is made elsewhere and shipped into Malaysia for assembly despite the vast amount of infrastructure, foreign skillsets and supply chains built up over 30 years. At one point long ago one third of all of the exports out of the country was cpus. Quite impressive for a SE Asian country with a large amount of natural resources.

Sandisk and some other storage manufacturers are still around but there's the feeling the island never got to see it's full potential and was never capitalized on.

The government tried to replicate this recently in a more "Malay friendly" province 20km outside of KL renamed as Cyberjaya (literally cybersuccess). It's widely mocked as a failure across the political spectrum to this day, it only ended up housing some DC's utilizing cheap coal fired power in a tropical climate and some international call centers despite huge amounts of government subsidies trying to lure in innovation.
Not much benefit from any kind of engine and noise when people walk or cycle with earphones. That is very usual view for me nowadays. Worse if they also stare at they phones too - blind and deaf at will.
Basically most web apps. They are a clunky, laggy imitation of native apps. For a couple of historical reasons we are all using them, but still there is an enormous abyss between web apps and real native apps.
Show HN: AppElixir
AppElixir is a simple app builder which helps you create an online database without writing any code.

With the help of a friendly user interface, create your own custom web app to keep track of your data.
TikTok Seemingly Impervious to Bad Press as US Considers Ban
Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber, and others as well. They all need to be broken up and have restrictions imposed on them.

Apple is the only company I can see that won't be hit.
Zim Wiki[1] is amazing as a personal self-hosted wiki. Loads of good official plugins and unofficial. Everything stored as text and organised in folders I think similar to MoinMoin. Supports code highlighting, pasting images, tasks, journal, links (internal and external), back links, version control, etc. Just an all round brilliant piece of software.

1: https://zim-wiki.org/
Changing the title makes it sound as if 2000-year old human remains are somehow rare in the British Isles. I don't think even obviously murdered ones are that exceptional.
I feel that they are underplaying just how big a deal this would be in hearing aids. It’s not just a case of “slightly better noice filtering” for some it is the difference between being able to go to social events or not. For a large group of people using hearing aids the cocktail party effect means they can’t hear anything at all in social settings, so they avoid them completely because of the negative effects that come from everyone assuming your able to follow group conversations when your in fact sitting in your own little bubble only able to pick up what’s going on when someone semi-yells directly at you.

In any case the box you’d be selling them this product in wouldn’t say “better sound” it would say: “Get back your ability to attend and enjoy parties, enjoy group conversations and socialize unencumbered”. That’s a huge quality of life improvement.

You still have the issue of how to figure out which voices to boost and which to reduce, but I’d expect that to be simpler issue of using multiple receivers and directional detection.
Is this really true (I just watched the video, so still learning these concepts, so please be kind)?

The linked video makes a clear distinction that OT and CRDT are different, as OT has the idea of a centralised coordinator to ensure consistency by mutating the proposed, conflicting operations whereas CRDT uses commutativity to attempt
to make conflicting operations an inaccessible state
>Checked the internal jobs board; no relevant term is listed among titles

Engineer in test. QA engineering lead. (https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/?q=QA) You must have leet scuba skills with searching skills like that.

AR/VR, Oculus, portal and workplace all have dedicated QA engineering teams. I'm sure there are more.

> Given your characterization of MZ

if it was only zuck. Zuck has two faults: he's not able to articulate any single thought inside of 15 minutes and he consistently throws out integrity products that would have stopped bad PR.

Its not just me, you should look at the micropulse. confidence in leadership has taken a good battering recently.

The whole juneteenth buisness, we had an entire _day_ of people telling us the problem. Senior management then sat next to them and said in reverent tones: "thank you so much [[dabs a tear]] for telling us your lived experience" posts a selfie and then does fuck all else.

Or, having revved up the company to generate hundreds of ideas to tackle abuse on FB platform, do shit all with them, not even acknowledge they exist.
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Did you look at hypermerge, also in the automerge org? It is based on DAT protocol and hypercore, and the p2p version of automerge I think (just found the project).

https://github.com/automerge/hypermerge
Yeah, I'm not even worried about malware, I'm more worried about joining a call with video on by mistake using a legit program.

I mean, the thing is that I never want to use video on calls, basically. Waste of bandwidth and no worry about broadcasting the wrong thing by mistake.
The more expensive beans from Costco are great as Toddy cold brew! I don't like them as normal hot-brew...too much cigarette/burnt flavor comes through for me as you mentioned — but not in the cold brew!
What Would It Take to Reskill Entire Industries?
Your first birthday is also the day you were born, so your 21st birthday is really the day you turn 20.
Maybe in the long run we could decentralize our habitat and eliminate the lions share of the problem
Lesson of Huawei: Cyberattacks Are Constant Threat Manufacturing Firms
Facebook voice separation with an unknown number of speakers
I read the story and still cannot decide if you're for or against git, because "It's so powerful that will gladly drill a hole through your wall, and even your foot, if you don't give it its full due respect" is definitely not a characteristic I want for a system managing my source code.
> and lethality is at least 1% (higher among older people)

The first half of that claim is contradicted by most of the recent data I’ve seen, particularly among the young and otherwise reasonably healthy.
I don't know how true this is, but I once complained about how unintuitive and difficult to use workday is. I was told, as bad as it is, it's considered best in its class.

I'm not knowledgeable enough, but are there alternatives to workday and are they actually worse?
Apple hasn't been perfect with the app store. I think Microsoft ironically is best positioned for success when the government clamps down on user data abuses and big-tech antitrust.
My intuition about this is that the deflection, intensity, and directionality of the noise from motorcycles impacts street level noise more than trains in a rail corridor. I believe that is why good street planning incorporates natural features that absorb and deflect noise, like greenery on street corners, for example.
>More than 25% of New Yorkers have had COVID
This doesn't follow, though. You can test positive for SARS2 antibodies and - either through asymptomatic infection or false positive - not have had COVID-19. The UCL study focused on the disease, not the virus.

"The virus causing Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2, was not detected in the cerebrospinal brain fluid of any of the patients tested, suggesting the virus did not directly attack the brain to cause the neurological illness."
> In brief, Rust does not rely on C++-style exception handling/unwinding, it does not do memory allocations behind your back

It kind of does a little bit. Panicking is implemented via the same machinery. But of course code is not expected to panic unless things are terribly wrong (ie. kind of like the existing kernel panic thing). It also does sometimes allocate things, but it is true that Rust is a lot more explicit about this - ie. you have to call clone() or Box::new() etc.
I absolutely detest Harley's and other loud motorcycles and don't understand why there are no restrictions on vehicular noise. Why do certain individuals get to impose their absurdly loud vrooms on everyone else just because they want to? It's such a trivially stupid negative externality that has no reason to exist.
Tablets, laptops, and watches, too.
This guy says you can build high-performance acoustic panels with old towels.

https://youtu.be/pABvTWSxOes
From Scribble to Readable
Just remember that you won't change anybody's mind by alienating them.

Telling your climate change denying uncle he's an idiot won't change his mind, but it will ruin thanksgiving. That's why it's important to consider if your emotions are leading you to do something counterproductive.
>From the article:

Why is Reuters interviewing a neuroscientist from Western University in Canada about a study done at University College London? It's telling that the part you picked out comes from someone completely unrelated to the research.
Links? I see numbers like 4% on average globally, but those are likely skewed high due to tests being administered mostly to the symptomatic. I estimated 1% for that reason. I also ignored potential non-lethal but bad complications.
I can't think where that's been R'd from. If anyone cared, 500000 years or so seems quite old.
I recently shared a thread [1] on Twitter with CRDT resources I found useful if you’re interested in that kind of thing.

[1] https://twitter.com/ollermi/status/1279067350269124609?s=21
> also lists if they've committed fraud on that account before
I third this
Just press Esc to stop loading the webpage before the wall shows up. Needs practice to time it correctly, but it works well. Other option is to just disable JS.
Sales pitch for the products from NS1.
Jira and Graylog compete for the top spot in the list of software with search functionality I’m too dumb to use properly.
I'm always dumbfounded when I see that noise emissions are still not taken seriously and not enforced.

I live near a freeway and the cars don't bother me that much (I'm far away that they sound like white noise). But the motorbikes, however, are the works.

Some of them don't make that much noise, but the outliers make you go crazy. It's a shame really
It's something of a lottery which submissions of a story get traction off /newest. For that reason, HN allows reposts if a story hasn't had significant attention yet. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

(By the way, On HN the convention is to link to previous submissions only if there are interesting comments there. That's probably why your comment here got downvoted.)
I miss ICQ.
I don't know what you expect. This disease is about 8 months old and everyone is still learning a lot. First of all, you're being kind of demanding. Why don't you collect the numbers? The authors, in many cases, are busy on the side treating waves of critically ill covid-19 patients.

Also, this is from the journal "Brain". It's not in a epidemiology journal. They are just neurologists describing a possible tie between a new virus and a constellation of neurological symptoms. https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/doi/10.1093/brain/awa...

They call for further study in their abstract. This is a new discovery and you want population statistics? They want population statistics, too. The NUMBERS don't exist yet, because they published this on THURSDAY.
The same can be said of most non-scientific articles, blog posts, and many other texts that are nonetheless valuable.

Even for scientific papers, this is not a sufficient reason for dismissal. Here is Einstein's original paper on Special Relativity:

http://myweb.rz.uni-augsburg.de/~eckern/adp/history/einstein...

And the initial papers on General Relativity:

http://myweb.rz.uni-augsburg.de/~eckern/adp/history/einstein...

http://myweb.rz.uni-augsburg.de/~eckern/adp/history/einstein...

Number of references in these papers: 0.
really cool project. nice high-level overview of all the components. However, I still don't understand the impact measurement -- how do you measure the impact of this against the baseline? I didn't get that part in the effectiveness section. Maybe I'm too newb -- but you could A/B test this, right? 50% of PRs are subjected to automated tooling, 50% manual and compare compute cost and failures b/w the two?
Hmm. Does anyone know of a transcript? I can’t watch right now, only read.

I wonder if there’s some free YouTube transcription service... even just showing the captions would work.

Oh, hm. It’s not on YouTube anyway.
I think people get frustrated since even if you actually get through to someone and understand their perspective, it doesn't guarantee that person will be open to learning and abandoning their previously held beliefs.

It's difficult to accept that some individuals will never be open to a change of mind, or maybe that the patience required is too much.
That takes effort, which is its own cost.

I -could- go back and forth 30 times and end up with a satisfaction-maximizing plate.

But I'm not gonna do that. I'm going to stack some lettuce because I know it's a good base for whatever I get next (though cheap for the restaurant). I'm going to pick a quantity that leaves room for unexpected yummies ahead out of sight, but also is sufficient that if I find few things I like ahead I'll still be happy with my salad.

I don't even manage to maximize the outcome at buffets that I've been at before with mostly static contents.
Ryver, an unheard of, abominable clone of Slack.
The Caltrain (and other trains but Caltrain is more frequent) going by San Mateo is brutal. Their horn is almost constantly on due to the many ground level intersections and they are ear drum busting loud (by regulation no less).
Man, use ad blockers!
work with great people
People are rational a lot less frequently than we like to think. Having a large amount of money on the line is an especially effective way to be tempted to avoid it and, as you mentioned, there are political considerations – he mostly donates to Republicans (presumably with business goals in mind), he has contracts which Trump appointees oversee, and nobody wants to risk being part of the next presidential tantrum. All of that makes it so easy to say “maybe the contrarians are right…” – and working conditions in the Tesla plant suggest that he wasn’t overly concerned with health even beforehand.
"Author says that he is humble but he is not humble enough"

I have been thinking about this part while writing it :)

It actually did not feel comfortable to write this much about myself. Thought it was important though to put the article into perspective.

I normally would not even apply for big company roles, because most of the time you get stuck in roles where it is close to impossible to make an impact.

Agree on the Zen part.
"Do I want to be right, or do I want to have a relationship?"
A low tech alternative mentioned in the paper is the Plenum Window. Imagine sliding glass shower doors, but with a bigger gap between panes for airflow. It also claims 10dB reduction, and doesn’t need a computer :)

Also from the paper: typical noise cancellation systems create local dead zones of radius ~1/10th the wavelength of blocked sound. E.g., you can block a 1KHz wave within 3.4cm of an error correcting microphone. Good enough for noise canceling headphones but not a whole room.

This work builds on an earlier finding that you can treat the window itself as a point source. Noise cancellation at its source is much more effective, so this way they’re able to create a dead zone the size of your apartment.
I don't think the OP is saying we should walk around without a mask.

They're just saying:

- Normally, one in 5.5 million UK residents tests positive for ADEM each year

- Since COVID-19, those odds are looking more like one in 1.4 million
I used to use purple.com to test my internet connection, since it wasn't cached by the browser back then. The site itself is from 1994. It was sold to a mattress company in 2017(?).

first snapshot, 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19981212032124/http://www.purple...

later snapshot, 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20160605121833/http://www.purple...

faq & details of advertising: https://web.archive.org/web/20170608195418/http://www.purple...

And before the sale of purple.com, this was the advertising policy: https://web.archive.org/web/20170702020833/http://www.purple...
Oh and I should have said why they shouldn’t bother attempting to migrate somewhere “cheaper” (whether GCP, Hetzner, or whatever else): it doesn’t sound like they have time. I read the call for help as: we need something we can do in the next week or two to keep us in business. Any “move the infrastructure” plan will take too long and you should still do the “choose the right GPU / CPU, optimize your precision” change no matter what.
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I'm not sure it is worthy of the rewrite requirement, however. It doesn't seem to offer any functionality that is actually useful, save giving some people jobs pushing boxes around.
It's worrying: The high incidence of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, particularly with haemorrhagic change, is striking.
it works fine in edge firefox and chrome. safari is terrible.
TIL, but in my defense, an abbreviation of a transliteration, which has come to mean something slightly different should probably be considered a new word and not be transliterated back into its etymological ancestor.
Drag your home folder to the finder sidebar.
Greetings HN!

I run a problem validation platform where recently a user posted 'Remind me to take break when working from home'.

That problem resonated with me and I think it would with many of you as it's common for us to get hooked up with tasks, forget to take breaks and then end up with burnouts.

The main need gap with current productivity timers are that they have to be started manually each time, which interrupts our focus at best and we forget to start the timer at worst.

So, I attempted to solve that with a butt triggered pomodoro timer which can be started without any user action and delivers all the goodness of a pomodoro timer.

How do you solve this problem for yourself?