skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the good jobs are all in AI safety,

Today's problems - like "AI" systems that replicate existing biases; decisions too opaque to check whether they're based on protected characteristics; and systems with higher error rates for some minority group - are about 75% politics/advocacy.

After all, no matter how good your solutions to those problems, you've got to persuade companies to adopt them voluntarily - or legislators to force them to.

Tough to find that skill set.
Any benchmarks with x86 proc? Nice to see ARM being supported more and more but what are the performance vs Intel / AMD CPUs?
the action can have a variety of impetuses, but @eaandkw literally stated they're giving up.
My understanding is that serum estrogen levels are strongly correlated to increased risk of heart disease in men.
The Senate is also broken (Wyoming with 500k == California with 39M people).
Show HN: HelpScout Beacon 2.0 Addon to Hide the Button
If a mandate can or can’t be put in place is irrelevant. Remember these are children. When I was in elementary school, it took almost two years for the teachers at my school to get one of the students to stop regularly licking their classmates. In middle school someone in my school got suspended for intentionally, and repeatedly, shitting on the bathroom floors. I’m not even going to get into the antics from high school. I attended well-funded schools with reasonable class sizes. Ask any teacher and they will tell you these kinds of things are not particularly unusual.

Younger kids are inherently messy and chaotic. Older kids live to test the limits and boundaries they are given – I would give it two weeks before the newest "game" going around somehow involves coughing into other people’s faces.

Now, take that, and add in a percentage of parents actively encouraging their kids to disobey any rules about masks or social distancing.
> Trump did not lose the popular vote.

Dear god, do facts not matter at all? He absolutely lost the popular vote. He won the election through the electoral college. It's the system we have and it's what determines the election but to say he didn't lost the popular vote is false and revisionist.
Guy built a complicated robot barber and let it cut his hair with scissors
https://outline.com/Kyqa58

EDIT: FT article may be more informative/balanced, go via a google search to avoid the paywall:

https://www.ft.com/content/2aec0597-1de3-4181-93a0-1da9483d8...
The Brief, Baffling Life of an Accidental New York Neighborhood
No, it's a matter of assessing risk. Why would you risk infecting your entire population with a novel virus that kills on the order of 1% of all infected, when you can do shutdowns and perform slow reopenings to limit spread below 5% of the population until vaccination?

We should be assuming that immunity doens't last long and basing all policies on that assumption until proven otherwise.
Intersection between cybercrime laws and data protection laws in South Africa
I'm of the same opinion. IMO this needs to be a worldwide thing. Even if the smile is fake, it's a heck of a lot better than a scowl you'd get in Moscow or St Petersburg. And generally, even with a "fake" smile people are more likely to mean well, IMO.
Do you think we should be forced to consume all content that gets shoved down our throats, never turn away or cover your ears or close your eyes? Because that's what you seem to be implying.

My eyes, my ears, my brain. I'll consume your content how I want.
Once President-Elect Biden pronounces this strategy on November 4th (with universal acclaim from the media and all corners of the ruling class), you can point to your comment from today and get some more downvotes!
Roughly one third of the CO2 you breathe wasn’t in the atmosphere before the industrial revolution. Atmospheric CO2 is absorbed into the oceans, acidifying it.

Even though you are correct that we put plants into greenhouses and it is good for them, most of the stuff we care about isn’t plants. As one example, enough CO2 will noticeably harm your intellect, and there is enough unburned carbon in the world to make us all dull-minded.

Changing the global average temperature by “1 degree” may not sound like much, but it’s enough to bleach corals and shift agriculture patterns. Even 4.5 degrees Celsius may not seem like much, but it is the difference between an ice age and a warm period, and we’re already in a warm period.

The ice age had ~200 ppm CO2, the preindustrial level was ~280, today is ~420 ppm.
I went to a high school in Cali that was converted to a charter school. As far as I could tell, the main change was that they kicked out all the kids with poor grades or other problems. That is the polar opposite of "choice", it was about increasing inequality and it was completely disgusting.
People don't appreciate how money is diverted from already underfunded public schools to charter schools.
Curious: how does Stencil compare to Lit Element?
You learn with them, basically. Or you find other people in your community that can help. I’m not sure about others but most people don’t homeschool in isolation.
the reason i pay for yt premium is because it goes to content creators and i don't have to see the ads.
You need Youtube Premium for that. I have a legacy Google Play Music subscription and sometimes I feel like my experience vastly different than people without Youtube Premium. I use Youtube enough I'm ok paying to not see ads and play videos with my phone screen off.
Google can see that I'm running an app that bypasses their ads while downloading their content, and they know my Google account.

Using NewPipe is just crossing your fingers and hoping they never decide to make use of those two pieces of information.
The hospitalization numbers show the majority of them were under 1 year of age, who would not be attending school. This according to your link [2]

>> Among 95 children aged <1 year with known hospitalization status, 59 (62%) were hospitalized, including five who were admitted to an ICU. The percentage of patients hospitalized among those aged 1–17 years was lower (estimated range = 4.1%–14%)

And of course the number of children infected would be much lower than "all 74 million".
Apple is actually a perfect example. Most of their employees are directed in what they do, but they also have small groups of people who are just handed money and told to make something amazing. Usually it starts with an executive who has an idea, and is then given budget to spin up a team to execute that vision.
We're currently letting kids go through HRT - that hits on all of the same points.
A fun distributed tracing comic book
I've always been a big fan of Gary Larson's. While I didn't always "get" his humour, which was often about as warped as mine and sometimes beyond my ken, I almost always enjoyed it and never found it blatantly offensive. And NEVER, EVER did I find anything he did cross a line into poor taste bordering on obscenity.
I found the "Bears Eating Cub Scouts" cartoon violates every rule of decency I can think of. It's so out of character from anything else he's ever done (that I'm aware of, anyway) that I have to believe there must be some sort of misprint or other clerical error involved.
Please tell me that's the case, and clue me in on what I'm missing.
Bill Conkey
Durham, NC
Perhaps quotemstr should’ve written “architect” instead of “shape”. A beaver for example could never conceptualize, engineer or build the Taj Mahal—indeed any structure whatsoever other than what the beaver’s biological imperative demands of it.
Yoga Pants and Leggings
The Best Yoga Pants I have worn that show my shape and are sold at a reasonable price are the pants I have gotten from Yogazilla. I even got a matching top to go with it and it is amazing.
Nanos just merged support for Firecracker
On the other hand, leveraging the network effect to form a monopoly which compromises privacy and user security by coordinating with state aggressors around the globe...probably more unethical than controlling the software running on your own device?
I don't really need to sync anything but photos because I don't create or edit documents on my phone.

This is one of the key points. You can plug an iPhone into almost any modern PC, Apple or otherwise, and download the photos and videos. But you can't do the same for other types of data without using one or more of an Apple computer, specialist software or iCloud. The middle option, which is the only one not entirely controlled by Apple itself, has a long history of attempts that proved not to work entirely reliably or last for long. And as you say, for an iPad, where perhaps more users want to do substantial creative work, the same issues apply.

I understand that Apple's current business model is heavily tied to locking customers into its ecosystem, but that does become a significant problem for people who just want a nice phone but also respect for their privacy, and I do think Apple should be called out for this just as I think it's fair to praise them for being much better on broader privacy issues than most of their competitors.
Anti-charter sentiment is a union (teacher union) protecting itself. The left is along for the ride, because it's the same "tribe", but this is 100% driven by an organization protecting itself against competition.
In many states, almost anyone can establish a charter school and there is very little oversight. Money is diverted from already small budgets to these charter schools.

Additionally, the US system punishes underperforming schools by deallocating funds. In what world does that make sense? Any rational society would send in an educational SWAT team to lift the school up, not handicap it further.
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It really is nice when you can afford to have the latest doubling of memory, and do things you couldn't do easily before. Maybe run an entire DC on your computer. Works very well while you're on the upper end.

However, that does not address the sheer wastefulness of our technological trends to require more resources to do things slower, but displayed with smaller and more colorful pixels. Should everyone have a 64-core 512GB memory computer to view web pages, play minecraft or whatever? Will that be too small to write a text document in 20 years time? Will every person on the planet be expected to get a bigger computer because they can't run the (electron-in-ethereum-on-browser-in-container)^n pancomputer?
Reimagining LinkedIn
Krugman on Globalisation
> If you want an increase in mask supply, you have to either allow the pricing mechanism to do its job, or force people to make masks.

Those aren't the only options. Some mask manufacturers could scale up manufacturing as long as they had a medium/long term contract to make the investment worth it. The current administration keeps blaming the previous one for drawing down on the federal PPP supply without replenishing it (dubious claim), so there was exactly zero reason for this[1] to happen.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-early-d...
> Though "case law" has always been weird to me, because sometimes it just gets reviewed or overturned and now something that was taken as gospel in the judicial system can be 100% turned around, with zero new text in the law books

Case law is text in the law books. In the US, it is most of the text in the law books.
> seems like the only viable option is to force some companies to manufacture more masks

This doesn't have to be complicated: We can subsidize masks.
Same for me, I support channels with superchat. I think best compromise would be bitcoin miners. No ads and creators and developers earn their money.
You know, usually when people use "/s" to denote sarcasm I scoff. Because "who would need such obvious sarcasm denoted?

Yet, here we are...
what's maddening for me as a premium user is that i can't turn off their Movie recommendation ads
Netflix shows end up on torrent sites in short order, yet youtube-dl doesn't support netflix (contrary to what the name suggests, it supports hundreds of sites besides youtube: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html)
It's a continuum. I would just write OSS but for the need of a paycheck. I'm not fooled, I just don't care about money as much as I care about software, and so I put my time and effort into learning about how to optimize software, not money.
Isn't it the same funding per student?

The money is diverted from the public schools to the charter schools... because the student has moved from a public school to a charter school.

Or is that wrong?
Web apps were promoted because Apple didn't have App Store yet,and Jobs always make grand statements to discredit things Apple doesn't have, until the day they have them, (like mice with two buttons, or phones with working antennas)
> I can just not use iCloud

Many third party apps that have a sync feature only work with iCloud, so a lot of people are forced to use it.
Also applies to senators, and to a small extent house of representatives.
Number of series: 158990 is displayed in the web UI.

We disabled a lot of useless metrics in the node exporter. I think pulling works OK if you have a service discovery mechanism. We hook Prometheus to Consul.

We have a mix of very small VMs and very beefy bare metal.
I agree, I think there's a much smaller pushback from the more dedicated community about the method for tracking and the limits around DIY aircraft -- If it was a plug-and-play transmitter that you had to pay for and register, I think that would be fine. It could be integrated into the RC receivers on your plane, powered via 5v servo cable, or part of your transmitter. But this odd system involving a proprietary cloud and "phone-home" style telemetry doesn't sit well, especially because it's specified in a way that makes it impossible for any DIY aircraft to comply.
You could have done a much better job in your original comment saying that explicit categorization is what "we don't do here," not the changing of titles.
This is the problem with short setlling - you don't need the company to be a fraud, you need it to be publicly outed as a fraud in a timeframe you can afford. This is what distinguishes 'The Big Short' and Bill Ackman with Herbalife. The mortgage crisis had a timeline for when the collapse would happen, that was the key. With Herbalife it was down to Ackman to convince the entire market that Herbalife wasn't a real business.
Often when a country has a reputation for low rates of corruption, it is because corruption has been concentrated in fewer hands--wholesale, not retail--and the transactions are correspondingly larger.

In such places, retail-level corruption can be seen as competition with the market dominator, and crushed.

In the US, offering and accepting political bribery have both been officially decriminalized. The profit ratio of bribe to private benefit is typically well over 1000x.
I live nearby, and a black suit and a tie would look pretty out of place that far east in Lower East Side, especially now
> These are things that you learn in a first week of doing web development tutorials.

You meant CSS tutorials? Never read about "margins collapse" in web development tutorials.

Web development tutorials I read (like 10 years ago) were usually about having a web server renders some data queried from a database into some basic HTML. And adding a form to create/edit rows in the database. Then perhaps adding some basic style like colors and paddings and some jQuery to validate the form. Finally moving that page from localhost to internet.

Let's be honest, web development covers a very large area of knowledge and CSS is not the most interesting part (not saying CSS is not interesting!). I guess most people just skip the CSS documentation and learn it by inspecting other pages and copying rules, and searching "how to do X in CSS" and reading tutorials about their specific question.
Even if that is a cause, so? But the real issues revolve around a lack of oversight, small budgets, corruption, and exclusionary practices that hurt already marginalized groups.

Edit: "your mask is slipping" isn't a productive characterization. What I meant was, your statement comes off as bias - "tribes", "the left", "protecting itself against competition" all scream pro-capitalist propaganda on a topic that, frankly, should stay as far away from capitalism as possible.

That's my interpretation of your remarks and I am well aware that my own biases may distort your message.

But typically, when someone introduces "competition" to a discussion on education and laments teach unions, they have an agenda. Again, I could easily be wrong.
> you're MORE upset because of the gendering interaction, that's wrong.

I strongly disagree.

This isn’t about gender as a social construct. This is about a licensed medical professional causing significant changes to a person’s body without their consent.

Completely irrespective of how an individual perceives their own gender, that perception is a core part of who they are. So yes - I am absolutely more upset about this because of the “gendering interaction”. I would be equally upset if this person saw themselves as asexual or androgynous and was administered sex hormones without their consent.
Yes... that's why it was easy to do the tracing.

What other point do you think this makes?
"The death rate alone is ~0.8%."

It is not.

The current estimates for IFR run from ~0.2-0.7%. The current best estimate of IFR from the CDC is 0.65%, with the deaths skewed heavily to the elderly and infirm.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...
Very sound advice already posted on this thread. I've done this for the last year, so I'll reiterate some tricks that have enabled me to do so:

1. Yes, it's only the mornings that have worked. After a full days of work the mind can't quite switch context back to the side-project, so getting this done first thing in the morning is best.

2. Take a detailed note before switching context out about what were you thinking and the next steps. Read that back to get a jump start. Repeat.

3. Sleep early. Completely ditch alcohol. Cancel Netflix etc subscriptions. Limit coffee. Sound, restful sleep in dark and quiet (earplugs if you have to) is essential for pulling 10-11 total productive hours a day.

4. Exercise. Outdoors, in fresh air. Even a bit of cycling will do. Fitness and stamina go a long way in building focus and working those extra hours. I cycle to work (well, before Covid and after) to accomplish this specifically to keep fitness levels sound.

5. Turn off distractions. Phones off/flight mode with screen facing down. Told friends and family that they shouldn't tempt or distract. Even had to let one-two friends go because I realised I was always fixing problems for them and they had come to expect them to be fixed in x hours. Email/chat apps off. Anything that can prompt a notification is off. Issues can always wait a couple of hours.

6. Solitude. Or noise cancelling headphones just turned on.
Plasmic – the visual UI builder for React
I don't think homeschooling is usually like you're describing. Most of the people I have met who were homeschooled were not social adjusted or developed and didn't seem 'normal' by most standards. Most of them had parents who were either extremely religious or some other ideological tendency (survivalist, etc).
There are lots of work happening on Ruby as well. Example [1]. It seems everyone is hiding their geeky excited inner child and having fun working on it.

I am starting to wonder if Apple timed this all along or did the two ARM announcement all within 6 months happens to be coincidence.

[1] https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17021
noob question here - i dont know what F-droid is. Is this meant to be installed from the Play Store or do i have to "jailbreak" my android?
A friend is doing something similar, except in person: a teacher from the private school his daughter attends/attended has entered into an agreement with some parents. His daughter will go to school with a few classmates and her teacher, doing the curriculum she was supposed to be doing, just offsite.

Everyone involved has to be COVID-19 tested and they are taking as many sensible precautions as they can. I realize this isn't an option for many, but if you can get on board with a good teacher it's win-win. Note that my friend is very vigilant about not spreading the bug — he's not an antimask type at all. It seems like a great option if it's possible.
It's not just those in power. Too few people in the populace learned that they really needed to follow heath guidelines like this was serious. Without that, the people in power can't do too much.

And why do many people not take the guidelines seriously? Partly it's because of the fumbling and incompetent response to Covid, but it's not just that. Government/political leadership has been setting their credibility on fire for a decade or several. (To be clear: It's not just this president, it's not just this administration, and it's not just one party.) They've been too busy trying to win at political trench warfare to actually govern, and the people have noticed. Too often, neither reason nor competence have been on display. So when it actually matters, nobody is willing to listen to the politically-driven clown show, because it's probably just more of the same. (And, to some degree, it was.)

So "moving forward" will require rebuilding trust in government. People need to trust that policy will be competent and (at least in something like this) not set by politics. That's going to take a decade or several to rebuild.
Ask HN: Why is developing a vaccine for the covid19 so hard?
To the best of my knowledge, vaccines are made out of 'dead' viruses to 'train' the body's immune system to fight the real deal when the time comes.

If so, why is coming up with a vaccine for the covid19 is hard? I read that this is due to the lack of understanding of the virus, but would it matter if all we have to do is to make a soup out its dead corpse?
Unicode for Mayan Hieroglyphs
I wonder if there's anything neat that could be done in the Smalltalk VM that could take advantage of the BCM SOC's VPU etc. hardware ... hmm...
This probably works fine for a simple leaf component like this, but this won’t compose well either, right? If every render completely overrides innerHTML then won’t all DOM state of child components get wiped? My understand is that this is a primary reason for e.g. React’s virtual DOM.
The thing is, once data is in iCloud, there are other ways you can retrieve it and back it up yourself as long as you do have working authentication, and I can see no good argument for not offering E2E encryption across the board that is tied to such identification.

Worst case, you generate a suitably robust key that is used for authentication and encryption, and you provide a means to export it and back it up however you want without sending it to any third party. You can still use all the snazzy secure enclaves and facial recognition and so on to protect a copy of that key that is held on each of your personal devices to enable easy but reasonably secure access, but the underlying technology is tried and tested, it does not have the lock-in problem, and it does not require data in iCloud to be accessible to anyone but the keyholder.

Also note that this needn't necessarily be mandatory. If users are OK with trusting Apple, they could still use the current approach. But if you're going to claim to be a strong supporter of privacy and security, you should really have at least the option for proper encryption of everything for those people and businesses that want it.
> Also applies to senators

There is no Electoral College for senators; they are elected by direct popular vote.

> and to a small extent house of representatives

Same comment.
Wait what, how does YouTube just serve its video streams to any client?