skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously, I didn't mean addressable RGB LEDs, just regular LED (white) strips that can be cut (in the context of the grandparent's comment)
The follow up regarding lack of peer review information for the paper published by the BMJ:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/07/19/sorry-ther...
The anonymity aspect is a huge deal.
Is a web browser version of the game in your roadmap? I really wish I could get more of my friends to get together to play this game but it probably won't happen if it doesn't run in the browser :o
Netflix commits $200M budget for movie with Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans
I have pretty thoroughly searched the internet and Erlang/Elixir seems suspiciously devoid of any real downsides. I see small community, not as many tutorials, package ecosystem not as developed being mentioned a lot, which implies that if there were more Erlang programmers it would be a perfect language. The only downside that seems real is performance issues in computationally intensive use cases, and I'm not even sure what that applies to.
The profits from selling drugs in EU is more than enough for the cost of research. The US market prices are higher since the US market has higher sales costs (need to spend more ads and marketing dollars, and need to negotiate with all the insurers etc). Banning prescribed medicine ads and fixing the overly complicated healthcare system would help a lot keeping costs down and it wouldn't affect how much there is left over for research at all.

https://truecostofhealthcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/...

https://truecostofhealthcare.org/the_pharmaceutical_industry...
On the contrary, I believe most people will be better off with the Chinese healthcare system than the U.S. one, because nobody go bankrupt from going to the doctor. Office visit cost at most $20 - that's without insurance. Every thing has a fixed price, so you will never get a surprise bill afterwards. If you insist on visiting the best doctor in the field, wait time can be long; but otherwise you can walk into the hospital and be seen pretty quickly. Meanwhile, in the U.S., I have good health insurance through my employer, yet I am still terrified of going to the doctors, especially, god forbid, the ER.

As for quality of care, obviously the facilities in the U.S. are nicer - they better be, you are paying 10x - 100x for that! For the treatment, most friends of mine from China complain the doctors in the U.S. don't do anything; they just give you some advil and send you home. However, antibiotics are probably prescribed too liberally in China, and IV injections used too much.

Of course there are some drawbacks too. First, the flip side of "no surprise bill" is everything is due upfront, so it's not unheard of that critical treatment is delayed because the patient is trying to find money. Second, since healthcare is so cheap, people usually don't carry health insurance other than the government provided one, which has a maximum payout amount per year. As a result, if you get rare / serious condition you can still get ruined financially. Nowadays more and more people begin to purchase commercial health insurance - which are still an order of magnitude cheaper than the U.S. ones.
Most killing also splatters their insides, with potentially infectious germs, into your house..
How can you sit standing for 8-10 hours in a day?
Wait, no WiFi? How do I signal my coffee machine to make a cup every 2 hours of soldering? That's a fail!

/s

Seriously, I'm not for putting too much silicon into a thing that should only keep control of the tip temperature, but the price makes it very tempting, and I'd love to support Pine64 for their work on open source devices.
"... it might be hard to attract talented AI engineers to live in, say, North Korea ..."

There are other ways to bring talent into North Korea:

"... Choi was abducted and taken to North Korea by the order of Kim Jong-il. While searching for Choi after her abduction, Shin was also abducted and taken to North Korea soon after."

"... In North Korea, Choi and Shin were remarried, at Kim's recommendation.[5] Kim had them make films together ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_Eun-hee#Abduction_and_yea...
It seems you are arguing agianst a point that you are trying to make yourself.
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I would ruminate less and act more, instead of driving myself into anxiety and depression through overthinking how to 'optimize' life.

I would focus on the guitar, start the band, and give it my all, in stead of talking myself into something safe and sensible and selling the guitar.

I would stick with electrical engineering in college, instead of abandoning it halfway through because I thought I 'wasn't smart enough'.

I would stop worrying about trying to control how others see and think of me, instead of driving myself into anxiety, depression, and obesity through trying to convince others I was something I wasn't.
> Consider `mod.rs` like `__init__.py`, with the added benefit of being capable of renaming and choosing when to expose internal module components.

That's exactly what __init__.py does too, though.
Bitcoin as "long term store of value" is just a framing invented years ago to pivot BTC into a more theoretically unassailable position imo. _Because_ it failed to truly transformatively deliver on the more immediate things people hoped it would (anonymity, currency, etc)
Markdown-preview-enhances

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IEEE floats are a complete clusterfuck. Sadly too much is already invested in them and transitioning to a new and better format... I don't see it happening without an industry-wide consortium sticking with it.
Welp, guess we should just let China steam-roll what's left of Africa and dissolve the UN...

It was nice "discoursing" with you :)
I'm a big fan of jrnl
Single plain text file with simple CLI
Well you are making it seem like how well remote work depends on the type of work, which while must be true to an extant, is besides the point the parent was trying to make: that it depends more on the type of person. I agree with the parent, as I have seen some of my colleagues flourish, and others flounder in the current environment. We all have similar tasks, the difference is the individual.
The marketing pivoted to "long term value" and all the BTC-hypers started acting like it was a huge success thanks to moving the goalposts.
To vacuum, vacuuming, vacuumed
> I am too small of an expert to provide a statically representative numbers. Medicine is my hobby, not a trade by day.

In other words, you are not an expert. Be honest with yourself and stop giving people unsolicited medical advice. Please.

Experts don't just do their own studies. They also read studies performed by others, which they base their recommendations on, and have on hand to support their advice.
Your side hustle should be leetcode because you are severely underpaid for NYC.
One of the many mistaken arguments of the fossil fuels forever crowd is that if there is anything wrong today with ff replacements, we can be absolutely certain technology will never in the future correct it.
I've heard that some banks will no longer take large amounts of change from people. I'm not sure if they got rid of the change counting machines, or just don't want to deal with it. This could have some effect on the amount of change in circulation. People then have jars/ashtrays/drawers of change that they can't easily put back into supply.
I suspect that somebody else in their position could but not the Saudis. They have failed to diversify from on previous efforts due to baggage and cultural issues. Going adjunct tourist economy could be workable but not while remaining religious fundamentalists.
Err it’s easy to tell a Han from Uyghur, Chinese Kazakhs and many others closer to Russian and Middle-East origins.
>>Next, they installed a camera in a machine at the main Xerox office in Webster. "When we developed the pictures, we found recipes and copies of music and cartoons and jokes and all kinds of things," Zoppoth says.

So ... the illegally spied on US citizens in order to test their spycraft. Translate this into today's tech. It would be like a CIA spook installing some code on a US website as a trial run before installing it on FSB.com. Did they have a camera in the photocopier during the office Christmas party? This is why any government actor in position to spy on anyone needs regulation and oversight.

>> Judging by the number of parts ordered from Xerox, Zoppoth believes that spy cameras may have been installed in photocopiers all over the world, to keep an eye on U.S. allies as well as enemies.

And today we know how that goes.
What do you honestly think happens to these labourers, children and adults, and their communities if cobalt mining is stopped where they live because of lack of demand?

Can you articulate how their lives get better?
It wasn't obviously a name to me. Next you'll say Nike is a name!
Your comment is very odd to me, it sounds like Rust is a version of C++ and you dislike them changing the tooling. Where did that assumption come from?

I come from Python, and it would be ridiculous if I said "well we already have Poetry so why doesn't Rust just use that". I don't think saying the same thing about the C++ tooling is different.
Personally I find conventional notebooks and pens work best for me. I tried note-taking apps from time to time, never sticks for more than 10 minutes and never understood why.
Strict_strtol – A Stricter Version of Strtol()
Note that rust-analyzer could choose to load un-`mod`-ed files with no change to the language.

At a minimum, this could be an off-by-default configuration. Ideally, it would suppress errors caused by these extra files, and downgrade errors caused by missing `mod` declarations to warnings, with a quick-fix to add the declaration.

> They can just stash the file as well.

This is an option, but it's not clear-cut whether it's a better one. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23890842

> This strikes me as making the whole system harder for new people to understand just to smooth over edge cases for power users that definitely have the ability to come up with workarounds.

This certainly was not the goal. The goal of the 2018 module system changes in general was to make the module system easier to learn than it was before; this aspect was simply retained as-is because we couldn't figure out how to make it better without making existing aspects worse.
Fuchsia is named after Leonhart Fuchs, which makes it much easier to spell once you know.

Tarmac is an abbreviation of tarmacadam, which is named for John Loudon McAdam. It’s also where the verb “macadamisation” comes from, which is a great word.
For my own investments, capital gains taxes certainly cause me to trade less, because each trade is a taxable event. Trading less means I stay invested much longer in less productive investments.

In the tax regime before Reagan, tax rates were so high that people found it worthwhile to invest instead into poorly performing tax shelters. Reagan's deal was to trade lowering marginal rates for eliminating the shelters. It was a good deal, as shown by increased GDP growth rate.

Tax policy is why employers offer health insurance.

Tax policy is why we have estate planners, trusts, etc.

Tax policy is why we have 401ks.

So yeah, I do have an idea how tax laws influence how markets work.
One of the "Requests for Startups" items for YC is for Brick & Mortar 2.0 [1]. I'm curious to see if retail stores being used as fulfillment centers is a more longterm trend after the virus has been tamed. Where would a startup best fit if this does become a trend.

I know when I'm in the market for a new electronic accessory, I'll often go to Best Buy when I just want to see and feel what I'm shopping for. If I decide in-store that I want to purchase something, I'll scan the barcode on the back and see if it's cheaper elsewhere and many times it is. Is there a want for more showrooms for certain high-priced items, even if they aren't things like mattresses and exercise equipment? Could somewhere like Best Buy exist with a much smaller showroom with a handful of TV's and most of their items in a warehouse?

1: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#brick
What would be a good benchmark? In particular, is there an accomplishment that would be: (i) impressive, and clearly a major leap beyond what we have now in a way that GPT-3 isn't, but (ii) not yet full-blown AGI?
Pithy and funny, but counterpoint: we've all surely noted businesses for which this would've been an improvement.
> it's not "modern medicine"'s role to cure our lack of will.

I don't see why not. Sure, people will make bad choices and suffer the consequences thereof. However, medicine aims to cure maladies of all sorts regardless of cause, not sit in moral judgment.
First ever, and go to Mars? Pretty ballsy.
"God of the gaps"? The original usage is in theology, but the idea is the same.
This video was a collaboration between Veritasium and Minute Physics.

They did a second one on that subject on the other channel: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hFAOXdXZ5TM
The only thing worse than being exploited by foreign capitalists, is not being exploited by foreign capitalists
Hope probe: UAE launches historic first mission to Mars
The post-mortem of this administration is going to be horrific. It may sound conspiracy-theoryish now, but if things play out how we've seen from so many other examples of bad behavior from this administration, I can't help but think we're going to end up having our most valued defense research secrets sold out to the highest bidder.

Elections have consequences, and the consequences of 2016 will be felt for a long time.
yeah you can start with reparations for centuries of stolen wealth through colonialism but thats not really a market solution so I imagine its off the table.
CSS was designed to make sense in a context that is no longer relatable, same with Git. This will never, ever happen if you'd designed your system to mimic nature (unless global warming fundamentally changes it).
It is utterly bizarre to me that a table lookup is preferable to integer subtraction. The f32 registers are already hooked up to i32 ALUs. A table lookup requires die space, while mine requires none, and the i32 subtraction is already heavily optimized.

An initial thought I had that was that their table lookup is to find a magic constant that might nudge the result of the final value in the right direction. (instead of the magic constant 0x7F000000 that my code boils down to.) But that doesn't seem to be what my Kaby Lake is doing.

This is gonna bug me all night, I know it.
The free license and the one-time purchase license do not allow for commercial use. You would need to purchase their Enterprise license to use this commercially. Is it expensive? Not really, $50 a user per year isn't necessarily expensive when considering price alone but when compared with other alternatives in the space I'd rather not deal with a yearly license. I used Obsidian Beta up until they released their licensing.
It may be a case of Google lagging behind others yeah, I’m not overly familiar with translators other than as a casual user. WeChat is very “smoothed” in that it gives you something that makes grammatical sense and sounds native, in preference to being a direct translation. Which usually works really well but occasionally gives hilarious results. It also seems to take the context of the conversation into account rather than just the message you’re translating.
BD = Business Development, aka sales

PMF = Product Market Fit

Unsure on the OR.
They could build on the Direct Express debit Mastercard system that already exists to give social security (and other federal payers) a place to direct deposit funds for people who don't have a bank account.

You'd need a way to get money on the card, but that could be ATM deposits, presumably.
Not fully developed is not the same as not developed at all. This isn't an example of a rash purchase. The kid stole the parent's password and transfered money between the accounts over a period of 15 days. That means premeditation and repeatedly doing it over 2 weeks. Its not a case of /omg these shoes are so cool im going to buy them anyways eventhough i cant afford it/. This was planned and carried out over a period of 15 days.

I understand that kids can get carried away and do stupid things sometimes. But its not like teenagers have no control over their actions. We (mostly) don't see teenagers holding up banks, going on mass murder sprees, etc.

I'm not suggesting punative punishment. I'm only suggesting that the parent take the direct consequences of the kid's actions. If your five year old breaks something in a store, nobody really thinks its the five year olds fault, but the parent still has to pay for the broken item. The teenager definitely has more culpability than the five year old of this example.
I'm sure they enter and exit the mining camps whenever they like at their own free will. Without this job opportunity, they may be more destitute than before.

I felt the same way when Epstein got arrested. What happened to those poor girls he employed on his private island?

/S
> The heating element is in the tip rather than the body of the iron.

That was an innovation compared to old pen shaped irons, but our old beloved gun shaped solder irons were much better wrt heat transfer: the heating element wan't just inside the tip, it was the tip. that's why they could deliver insanely fast heating times like two or three seconds from turned off to maximum temperature.
I still have a couple of them, and they literally spank my Weller styluses asses when soldering heavy stuff, but alas their shape and big tips aren't suitable for use on very small stuff, not to mention SMT devices.
They mention somewhere that the tests were chosen to be as similar as possible to the chosen video games actions.

You're missing the point of the research paper. From the beginning, they supported the common demands theory being discussed. They were trying to determine what aspect of a game led to the transfer of the skills to the common demand task, and found that demanding games that required you to use that skill the most led to the best transfer of those skills to the common task.

Meanwhile, the article is using the common demands theory to support their claim,

>The fact that skills learned by training do not transfer across different domains seems to be a universal in human cognition. In other words, you get better, at best, at what you train in – which may just sound just like good old fashioned common sense.

Improving your ability to attend to multiple items may have some benefit outside of video games, but it's not going to help your grades much. You'd be far better off spending that time studying.

edit sorry, I did not notice that was a different study. My broad point doesn't change though, using StarCraft to train your multitasking is just going to benefit your multitasking.
Hello :)

You are also 100% right that I could have been more positive and constructive. I did intend to be lighthearted rather than mean, but tone is difficult in plaintext.

I see a lot of these types of comments on hn/reddit/twitter/etc, and (painting with a broad brush) the authors are typically pointing out trivial or spurious concerns, and phrasing it to cast doubt on the entire analysis. Often, the authors are asking about something that's easily searchable (here, cmd-F for "sex" will show a subsection of the methods dedicated to sex-specific effects), or naively ignoring the existing practices of the field.

There are no bad questions, but there are certainly bad attitudes. I'll be the first to admit the flaws in academia, including that many papers are imperfect and many are bad, but I think the dismissive comments from authors who haven't engaged with the material are just as much a disserve to the conversation around any study.

Of course, that may be another issue with tone in plaintext :)
GPT-3 is at the very least an indication of future AI advancement. Sure maybe this particular version is still early to be widley incorporated in business or used globally. It's definitely a step in the right direction. I'd personally love the opportunity to test it personally to really get the whole experience.
> feed their people or prevent war-lords from exploiting their own people for slave labor.

Uh, what warlords? The huge majority of cobalt goes to china and the slightly smaller majority is directly influenced or controlled by china. This has nothing to do with the DRC, it's because of foreign interference.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2013/06/chinese-minin...

Not to mention that one of the first effects of the liberalization required by the IMF and UN was to cause the state to sell off all its mining equipment and effectively destroy all local non-artisanal mining.

> from the proceeds of their rare-earths

Yeah can you give me any answers to any of these questions:

1. Which rare earth is in batteries?

2. Which rare earth is mined in Congo?

3. Is cobalt a rare earth element?

> oust violent barbaric war-lords?

Maybe update your priors to more recent than a decade ago
That is a brilliant paper, I expected it to be centralised around logical fallacies (which is how I view arguments/debates) but it goes into so much more detail around the nature of online debate.

It's interesting to dive into the factors that influence online debates; reputation, trolling, anonymity, echo-chambers, the hive mind, language barriers, commercial interests.... There's so much more to an online discussion than just the argument presented...
It could be useful to locate people trapped under rubble after an earthquake.
What serverless computing enthusiasts like about serverless, and how they use it
the internet has quite the sense of irony :)

also, author of dendron here. if you run into any issues or questions, feel free to message me directly at kevin@thence.io or leave an issue on the github: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron
Just tbc, when they say monitor climate change, they mean seasonality right?
I want to add:

I think a median American attitude is that nobody else should pressure you to have more or fewer children than you want to; if your religion encourages you to have children, other people are also largely supposed to respect that, and in modern times, if you just don't want children, other people are also largely supposed to respect that. (In blue tribe environments having many children is suspicious and in red tribe environments having no children is suspicious, but in both cases people are increasingly effective at pushing back socially against other people's scrutiny about this, and even at pushing back against their own families' judgments or preferences.) (These considerations don't necessarily apply the same way outside of opposite-sex monogamous married couples.)

I don't think these norms are common in the same way in China or in Chinese cultures elsewhere. In particular, I think even if Chinese people don't all think their parents, or governments, should get to decide how many children they have, it doesn't seem like many will reach U.S. levels of offense that prospective childbearing couples' parents, or governments, have an expressed preference and actively try to influence this.
After a few tries I won Level 4. :)

Perhaps the spikes in the top should be moved to the left, because I if I reach the yellow bumper, I start to bounce and after a few bounces I think I go through the ceiling a little and my head hit the spike in the top level.

(It's probably a problem with the discretization of the movement. It is difficult to solve, and it is probably not classified as a bug. Anyway, moving the spike may solve the problem.)

Now I'm literally struck in level 7 https://imgur.com/a/JSQ4XZg