skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever dreamed to have an abstraction that magically delivers every change made to you server-side data to every client that displays it? Or a caching API that automatically evicts a cached entry right at the moment it becomes inconsistent with the ground truth?

Stl.Fusion solves both these problems — moreover, it does this almost transparently for you, so most of your code won’t even change. Works on .NET and Blazor.
Agreed - this article would have been a lot better if the author defined what they meant by "EA movement".

It broke my reading flow to have to go and look the term up.

Effective altruism. I had no idea that was a thing.

Also, I don't see what's particularly altruistic about working at Deep Mind or OpenAI - they pay pretty well from what I know.

There probably is a genuine shortage of programmers willing to work full time at a socially or environmentally oriented non-profit in the Bay Area.
Levandowski files suit against Uber [pdf]
I'm sorry I will stop
Adding an Australian perspective here. Our politicians did not share the same approach as New Zealand (which started with a level 4 lockdown and stayed there for 6-8 weeks).
The approach here has certainly been more unified than the US, but states are encouraged to pursue their own approaches, with some states (WA, SA, Queensland) having much more success than others (NSW, Victoria). The plan here was never to pursue eradication, but to flatten the curve and keep infection rates manageable.
I wish we'd considered eradication more seriously. As a country we have the resources to support the country through that 6 week period, and the national government would have done a decent enough job in ensuring the population had sufficient support through that period.
The Volt owners I have talked to all loved their car. I think Chevy has messed this up by not marketing the car.
My CRM was nonfunctional. That’s some critical infrastructure for me. And then I’m wondering, is it me or is it my CRM. Turns out it’s door #3 - cloudflare
Do we actually know this virus evolved in bats? To my knowledge, bats are simply a carrier, and the viruses they carry don't necessarily evolve in bats themselves (this should be checked). It seems possible the virus came from somewhere else. Bats are definitely not the only carrier of viruses, so it's dangerous to think they're the only animals to worry about. There are millions of viruses out there carried by all sorts of animals.

http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-p...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01096-z
You have valid points, but I’d argue that Python looked like that for much of its life. It didn’t really start to see widespread adoption until Django hit the scene - from memory, 2012-2014 was when it started to go from “esoteric scripting language” to “alternative to Ruby” and finally “default for new web backends”.

I’m very interested in Nim and try to keep up with news, but I just don’t have time for yet another language and community. That’s unfortunate because I see a lot of promise in it, and I think it would be a joy to work with every day.

I’m just quietly waiting, hoping for Nim’s Django.
The Hypnotherapy is interesting. But the Wikipedia page [1] says "there was insufficient evidence to support its efficacy."

And in the research paper, there are also statements like "the current evidence is limited" [2], "it is unlikely hypnosis will be helpful to all clients" [3] or "the number of patients enrolled in the studies has tended to be low and lacking long-term follow-up" [4].

So, I think for some people Hypnotherapy may work. But it may be risky to pay a lot of money upfront for the therapy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnotherapy
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5786848/
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK66430/
[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2752362/
Thanks for the suggestion, didn't know about think weeks. Love the idea, and reading is the thing that I miss most - used to read a LOT before moving to the Bay Area. These days, not so much.

At the very least, a think weekend. :)
There's a lot of research that you can get away with on smaller hardware. Much of my own I can do with a single 2080Ti. BUT at times it is extremely frustrating and I don't have the memory to tackle some problems with just that hardware.

If you want to see major improvements in the academic and home side of AI then NVIDIA and AMD need to bring more memory to consumer hardware. But there isn't much incentive because gamers don't need nearly the memory that researchers do.
I would go a step further: The odds of any claim being wrong are overwhelming, regardless of whether it is endorsed by the consensus or not, whether it is ordinary or extraordinary. Brains are not truth-making machines.

Anyhow, I'm not sure what is extraordinary about biowarfare labs making biowarfare agents. It's actually quite ordinary.
>The less JavaScript (especially third-party) you have on your landing pages, the better. It’s a better customer experience, and it improves your page’s conversion and quality score.

Really wish I read this more. And not just for the landing page.
So what would evidence, rather than speculation, look like in this case? A SARS-CoV 2 genome sequence dated before December 2019? Somehow identifying patient zero and corresponding records of their exposure at the lab? I’m skeptical that any hard evidence will be found. It seems to me the origin is likely to remain speculative indefinitely.
Based on the 2008 bailout, it wasn't the banks who suffered the lion's share of the consequences. Maybe the difference isn't so great as we perceive
I stopped reading through A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computing to check this book out. Honestly 20 pages into it seems like I need to go back and finish the first book before I have any hope of understanding the one you suggested.

I'll give it another try afterwards though.
> Are you going to stick around and try to dig out the company without a retention bonus?

No. You have a couple of times framed opposition to executive bonuses in these situations as "simple" and "emotional", while expressing an appreciation for "creative destruction". So, if an executive would rather leave than turn a company around while tightening their own belt -- especially given that some of these executives can be assumed to be at least partly responsible for the company's plight anyway -- then why not encourage them to leave, and open the door for a more creative, new executive?

Imagine if, instead of paying extortionate sums of cash to retain the architects of their destruction, large companies created an entirely new market for c-levels that wanted to specialize in turnarounds.
> Luckily, this was the NYTimes, which is based in the US, and considered one of the most prestigious news outlets in the world

You mean the one that gets CIA's permission before publishing articles that mentions it?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/corres...
I meant context-based as in based on where the ad is displayed, not based on the user. Maybe "content-based" is a better term.
Ideas 0002 – Blog writing as a service for startups
Can someone do a comparison to Vanced? Been using vanced for a long time, what's here that's worth switching.
They mention multiple architectures, including down to a 10 core, 128GB ram, and 1080Ti setup. Next setup is improved CPU, double ram, and a 2080Ti. Third setup is 4 2080Tis. See table A.1
This article misses a big part of the Unix philosophy. Modularity and extensibility are just as important as do only one thing and do it well. Unix works because a lot of small programs can be chained (piped) together to interoperate. Apps often don't do this very well or at all.
It's very nice optimization and systems engineering work which shows what a computer can do if you use it properly.

One correction: it's not Doom, but ViZDoom, a simplified version designed for DRL.
Thanks to Amazon and Apple CPUs are Sexy again.
> but Europe is almost doing miraculously well if you compare to the USA.

This is totally at odds with the data. The UK, France, Spain, and Italy, among others, have higher deaths per capita than the US.
We don't do much nationally in the US to help our public schools. They vary widely in terms of having resources available to do things like deep clean the classrooms every day, provide PPE for teachers, etc. And there is zero federal support for providing a testing program of the sort you mention for teachers.
Ross Ulbricht, Bureau of Prisons number 18870-111, also thought Tor and a VPN would protect him from the US government.
I’m sorry, but of all the things I’ve read on HN regarding this pandemic, your lack of empathy truly stands out. Of the “millions other people” you mentioned, there are two types: those who feel a sense of duty to bear their share of burden to stop this virus from taking (complete strangers’) lives, and those who reject that notion, eagerly treating those lives, and the lives of people who would grieve their losses, as statistics to be put on scale with profit and growth for a quick decision. I’m not saying that people in the latter invented that scale; that scale is indeed a fact of life. But when I think of my own experience of loss, I cannot imagine that those who tout the balance of this scale as the sole reason for policy decisions understand the weight of a lost life.
Which economic resources? I always thought research settlements are a money sink. Or are you speaking of the little bit of tourism?
> Most opiate users for pain release could swap.

I'm sorry but I have to call you out on this. It's complete BS - we simply don't have anything that's remotely comparable to opiates for pain relief.

That being said I'll second that the opiate epidemic in the US is largely the fault of prohibition. Illegality feeds all sorts of negative cycles that wouldn't otherwise exist.
> Copper probably was indeed the better solution, consicdering that survived the decades, where fiber from that time has already become useless long ago.

Politics aside, isn't that the problem? Copper survived so it didn't need to be replaced. Fiber would have been replaced with newer one because otherwise it would not work at all. People put up with slow Internet, but they wouldn't have put up with no Internet.
It's not clear what the impact of the lockdowns are. You say that they've saved thousands, but in a lot of places we are back to where we were before the lockdown. Or even doing worse. I suspect that the lockdowns delayed deaths, but in most places will not have substantially reduced them.

The plan for the next stage is all of the public health measures that other countries have used to contain it. Masks, hygiene, social distancing, contact tracing, etc.

At this point we know how to stop it. Compliance is not there and every day that passes it goes down.
It's a feature that requires baking the hashes of the resource into the HTML. This JSDN talks about optimizing the resource separately for different browsers (e.g. adding polyfills where necessary), which means it doesn't just serve up a single resource. Subresource integrity support would require the ability to ask the JSDN for the hashes of all possible representations of the file, as well as the assurance that these hashes won't change (e.g. the polyfill won't get updated to a new version).
What is a Fantasy Console?
"They used to use Cloudflare but stopped."

They are still using Cloudflare. Unlike CF, M5 does not require SNI.

curl --resolve news.ycombinator.com:443:104.20.43.44 https://news.ycombinator.com
But now? Publishers, even independent self publishers, have overwhelmingly never left PDF as output of choice, as it is superior in terms of typography, consistency and layout. Take any (non-Print Replica; i.e., reflowable) Kindle book that has just a few logical symbols, and you’ll see they soon become sufficiently ugly to be distracting, and in some cases just unclear due to poor typography. I celebrate projects such as MathJax, but what is sad is that 30 years on MathJax should be necessary at all, and here the typography is better but still doesn’t feel completely natural as in PDF documents.

And from a practical, layman’s standpoint, now that we’re all becoming “mobile first”, while it’s natural to complain when a web link points to a PDF file, the resulting app makes the experience more immersive and self-contained, enabling any average user to save that document. Just saving an HTML document with all its linked material using your phone requieres a l337 browser, Evernote, Notion, or wget from a terminal emulator with the right flags... undoubtedly it’s a chore. I agree this is all sad, but by now I don’t see this changing anytime soon.
WebTorrent Desktop 0.23
Seriously china’s obsession with Taiwan is absurd, they’re a separate country, get the fuck over it.
I use Vanced and if I recall correctly, NewPipe doesn't port your YouTube playlists over. I save music to playlists so not having that feature would've been a huge pain.
I don't disagree but as this article shows you can probably find a few smoking guns if you look hard enough. However this would be evidence to support a theory that on the face of it doesn't seem to be give that good an explanation. Certainly not as good as the natural outbreak of a coronavirus pandemic, which was considered likely enough to fund the lab involved with the supposed creation of the virus. Asking for more smoking guns is not really all that helpful, in my opinion, when the theory itself is still rather shaky.

I guess this still boils down to 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence', but interpreted differently from the way the comment I replied to was using it (which implied that it meant you'd need more proof if you went against the current consensus).
That's true, and most cloud solutions also do the same thing as Apple and retain the keys necessary to regain access to the account.
Stomping the virus down to a manageable level so it doesn't overwhelm hospitals was the main goal of "Flatten the curve". We actually succeeded in quite a few hot spots to do this - NYC being the biggest example. Covid still exists there and people are still dying but it's not out of control. If you stay on top of it, it doesn't just grow again.

I'm not sure why you say there was no benefit to locking down. It clearly did wonders for NYC. It's likely that thousands of people were saved by this action.
I'm not sure if that's better. You're just introducing more complexity in to your network..

If you don't have the budget for a nat/load balancer or want to just keep it simple, a simple iptables rule would do! Then test with nmap regularly to see if it's correct.
To quote the Vanced website: "Please don't ask for a video download feature"

Also, Vanced doesn't run on my FireHD tablet.
As a recent and somewhat topical example of this, there is an article circling around the internet right now that cites about a dozen studies proving that "masks don't work". If you actually read through the quoted studies you quickly realize that they don't actually support the author's conclusion at all.

But that didn't stop the author from taking a bunch of out of context quotes to make an argument that sounded vaguely scientific - scientific enough for people with a particular agenda to parade it around as if the science was on their side.

I started writing a rebuttal to this article, but as I was carefully reading through the details of the nth study to see if it actually matched what the author claimed, I realized I was just massively wasting my own time. The people spreading the article around don't actually care, they never read those studies and they never will. They just wanted something scientific-looking to cite that backs up their pre-existing opinions.
Exactly. The ota was not yet updated to support android 10 last time I checked and paths have changed.
> master/slave

That is what it _was_ called, it doesn’t have to be going forward.
I'm not so sure about booting into custom init in <= 1sec since nobody really looked into optimizing the boot process that much yet, but Arch in 5 secs should be easily achievable since booting Jumpdrive on Librem 5 with regular u-boot takes about 5-6 seconds already with no effort put into booting speed whatsoever. Just getting rid of initrd would already shave quite a lot of time.

Librem 5 has a slightly faster CPU, more than twice as fast RAM and pretty much the same eMMC speed as the PinePhone. Boot times should generally be similar, with Librem 5 slightly winning, and that matches my observations so far with similar distros running on both devices.

No videos yet though, I may record some in the future :)
> What I'm saying is that if Sec. Clinton were in office the red states would be doing exactly what they're doing now. It wouldn't have made a lick of difference.

Sure it would. Heck if a Republican that wasn't Trump was in office now, there wouldn't have been the White House bully pulpit being used against basic safety measures and White House emergency powers abused to block states from getting PPE and other emergency supplies. We'd probably have a state aid bill, too, though probably a less generous one than a Democratic Administration and Senate would have been on board for, but probably more than nothing. Which make it financially more viable to do lockdowns (states often can't, Constitutionally, borrow for no capital expenses, and procedurally have a difficult process to approve new debt and have a high cost of borrowing, the Feds have none of those problems). Leadership matters and there's a reason Trump's numbers are falling even among Republicans.
You should check out vue. You don't need npm. Just one js file. There are many css fw that integrate with it as well as ui component libraries. The learning curve is small, almost non-existent if you've done anything with angular. React and its ecosystem would be the other option. I would skip angular.
244. Mr. Levandowski therefore seeks a declaration that Uber has no right to rescind the Indemnification Agreement without also rescinding the Otto transaction and returning all consideration received from that deal.
245. In addition, Mr. Levandowski seeks damages, including any consequential damages, arising out of Uber’s rescission of the Otto transaction.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned airvpn yet. They're run by hacktivists and they're great. Mullvad is the other one with a good reputation, but everyone's mentioned that already.
Wow, BGP brings down globally-used DNS. It’s like a perfect lesson in weak points of the modern web’s accidental design.
Yeah that could be it. I use the gamepad or sometimes an air mouse. Both work fine. My only gripe is Nvidia doesn't let you put side loaded apps on the homescreen.
Since you are both positioning this for true beginners AND surfacing YouTube videos which offer varying degrees of teaching skill, level of spirituality, focus on anatomy, etc. I recommend adding a prominent disclaimer about variability of classes, encouraging shopping around. I'd hate for people to try a class that wasn't a fit, and judge the whole practice of yoga. I think a great onboarding would suggest 3 very different classes.
Granted you don’t go into much detail, what I can gather you’re describing sounds incredibly unusually by vast amounts of people.

Shipping web pages as rendered jpeg images is a terrible idea for many many reasons.
I guess I could see that- this context is about the cartels interacting with maintenance men and soliciting protection payments, not law enforcement thinking maintenance men are doing shady things.
Where do you live downtown?

I witnessed rioters shooting mortars at PPB on the 4th of July. PPB sent teargas and flash bangs back at them. SW Broadway and Main looked like a war zone. They’ve been lighting fires around 3rd for weeks. The park around the justice center looks like a set from Escape From New York.

The Feds showing up didn’t start this. This nonsense has been going on in spurts since 2016.
I believe this is "bbut what if baad people cite my article?" defense for what is essentially a form of authoritarian groupthink.
The phrase is "presumed innocent until proven guilty." Whoever committed the crime was guilty from that moment.
“In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic book that would detail the murky history of the C.I.A., from the end of the second world war, to the present day. Covering such things as the heroin smuggling during the Vietnam war, the cocaine smuggling during the war in Central America, the Kennedy assasination and other highlights.

What I learned during the frankly horrifying research that I had to slog through in order to accomplish this, was that yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists, and ham fisted clowns. If you are on a list targeted by the C.I.A., you really have nothing to worry about. If however you have a name similar to someone on a list targeted by the C.I.A., then you are dead.

The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening.

Nobody is in control.

The world is rudderless...”

-- Alan Moore
Older populations?
Interestingly, the often repeated "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" comment is also a relative likelihood argument "like those supporting intelligent design". I'm pretty sure the proportion of people making such arguments who grasp both ergodicity and measure theory is small, since experts on those subjects are typically much more cautious about wielding such brushes. See: I just made a relative likelihood argument. May I have a Dunning-Krugerrand?
Nope. Unions formed to protect employees from the abuses of management. The last 30-40 years of continuously reduced union power has resulted directly in reduced worker protections, employer liability, and a more or less complete freeze on compensation.

Police unions are very very different from any other union - to the extent that the most common interaction between the police unions and other unions is when police come in as violent strike breakers.
Yeah. Your final point could be true if both interventions fully resolved the issue, or at least as much as could be done. If not, it’s puzzling the combo didn’t lead to more improvement.

But certainly I don’t see it as a cause to exclude low fodmap people from trying the app.
>Two breathing holes in the mask use small N95 filters that can be popped in and thrown out after each use.

Still an N95. N95 melt-blown fiber remains the critical, scarce material.
If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread, as in this case.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
What comes after Zoom fatigue
No. Not even marijuana is legal in Sweden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Sweden

"The drug policy of Sweden is based on zero tolerance focusing on prevention, treatment, and control, aiming to reduce both the supply of and demand for illegal drugs."
Right, but the dude who runs a bodega selling loosies in NYC doesn’t have enough power to meaningfully challenge the state.
The H1N1 flu spread during the first world war that humanity has ever had. It came in waves and each wave was evolved. Talk about extremely unique circumstances to brew the perfect storm.

When COVID-19 spread, there was literally nothing different occuring at the time that could have provoked any evolutionary changes in any virus to be more evolved in infecting humans outside of normal human density levels.

Flu viruses have been evolving in humans for millenia. This has not.