skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How fascinating, to see someone brag about being selfish.

Everyone is on a spectrum of selfishness vs. selflessness, of caring for themselves alone vs. caring only for others. Different societies have different ways of optimizing these balances.

Sometimes we "reward" selfishness: a CEO who mercilessly crushes his or her rivals makes a lot of money. A criminal kingpin can "buy" safety and protection, fame and adulation.

But humanity hasn't improved over the past ten millennia by embracing selfishness.
I especially meant the "loosely connected and trade oriented" part. Sounds a little bit like Holacracy. Not sure, thought.
You try dealing with a million responses on every campaign and let us know how it worked out
> How do you square that opinion with the observation that some of the places with the loosest gun regulations (Oregon, Idaho) also have some of the lowest homicide rates?

Eye-balling this 2015 chart, there seems like there's a pretty good correlation between per capita ownership and per capita deaths (homicide+suicide):

* https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/gun-ownership...

* https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/gun-owners-stud...

The main outliers appear to be MA and HI, the former of which has some pretty strict rules (very similar to Canada's):

* https://www.vox.com/2018/11/13/17658028/massachusetts-gun-co...

RAND did a (meta-)analysis and found that some policies are more effective than others, specifically: safe storage, waiting periods, background checks, domestic violence history restrictions:

* https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy.html

Stand-your-ground laws seem to lead to not-good things happening (nothing about castle doctrine though).

Good laws / regulations can counter high numbers though, it appears. Canada has one of the highest per capita ownership rates, and yet has quite low firearm-related death rate (lower than Finland, the Swiss, France, Austria):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
Perhaps apropos to this thread: The closest airport to Oracle’s headquarters is San Carlos, which has the airport code SQL. The airport and code were around long before the database company, however.
I have no corroboration for this, it is a personal speculation.

At Sun, Ian Murdock also started an OS project called “Indiana”. I have wondered if this was a happy coincidence that Ian was substring of Indiana. Of course, he also lived in that state.
Or Čech cohomology, usually denoted with the check "v" above characters.
There's only a few games I enjoyed for the writing. Hard Rain and LA Noire come to mind.
You should add a demo video so people know what they're getting before they sign up.
Is there a tree view component for exploring the hierarchy or is there only text-based search of the hierarchy?
I like Coursera and I'm quite experienced. Their courses don't enforce the rigor of a college course; practically anyone could pass them without reviewing the content through sheer brute force. So I feel like the certificates themselves are worthless, but the actual content is good enough to learn from if you put forth the effort.
As advice for everyone mentioning smart printers, many aren't aware that modern laser printers have their own version of applets, either with their own Java dialect, or some other form of proprietary language/native SDK.

They are proper computers, with everything that a CPU with network connection might be capable of.
Yes!

You might look at it and think "Robot dinosaurs in a post-apocalyptic world where humans hunt them with bows and arrows? Sounds like good dumb fun, even if the writing is preachy and nonsensical." Thing is, the writing isn't preachy and nonsensical. It's unexpectedly excellent. They did something unusual:

1. hired a good writer
2. early in development
3. listened to him

and the results are phenomenal. No caveats necessary -- the story has none of the Mass Effect "strong limbs, weak backbone" issues.

Also, while HZD used to be a PS exclusive it will be on steam in a few weeks.
You are right. Upon, rereading - yes, this is hyperbole. I didn't intend that.

My point should have been that he can remember plays when triggered just like a high level chess player can remember positions when triggered. The expert's memory is way better than what ordinary people remember in almost any domain that requires human expertise and judgement.
in germany the employer overhead per employee is almost 100%
And if you want to use it with Cognito (to get user auth for Kibana), you NEED to have a public elasticsearch instance...
Signwall is the new paywall.
> Therefore it’s safe to say word Russian in the title means Soviet nationality, not Russian ethnicity.

That is misinterpretation and not safe anywhere outside Russia.

This was part of Soviet propaganda to denationalize citizens in Soviet Union republics by claiming them all "Russian" or "soviet people".

Actual Russian Federation politics use same but instead of claiming "Russian", Russian propaganda nowadays use term "Russian-speaking" citizens around the world as part of Russian Federation population.
I've written a bit about combining a todo list with notetaking in a single text file:

https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/

Last time I posted it on Hacker News, quite a few people told me they adopted this workflow.
Things I Wish I Could Tell Myself 20 Years Ago
This is actually a rather interesting question because of second- and third-order effects.

Most people will tell you that a Coursera certificate is useless for getting a job, yet the folks at interviewing.io found it was very strongly correlated with interview performance [1]:

"For people who attended top schools, completing Udacity or Coursera courses didn’t appear to matter. However, for people who did not, the effect was huge, so huge, in fact, that it dominated the board. Moreover, interviewees who attended top schools performed significantly worse than interviewees who had not attended top schools but HAD taken a Udacity or Coursera course"

Why are recruiters ignoring such a strong signal?

My guess is that most people recognize how easy it is to cheat a Coursera course, so it is generally not considered valuable by recruiters. Therefore most job-seekers do not place any value on a certificate, so they will not be bothered to try to cheat to get one. So the only people remaining who complete the course are those that are doing it because they enjoy the subject matter, which is clearly associated with passing the interview. There is therefore a perverse feedback loop where any recognition of the high value of the course leads to cheating which causes it to become worthless (this reminds me a little of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle).

[1] http://blog.interviewing.io/lessons-from-3000-technical-inte...
Take a new site for example

Its just text and pictures on a web page. The new york times re-invented a database out of kafka to power theirs (mind bogglingly stupid)

The Guardian re-wrote their CMS at least 4 times, at a cost of well over 50 million, if not more. Thats before they got to re-doing the layout.

The FT spent 6(!) years rebuilding their entire stack, (150 tech staff for 6 years. a good percentage contractors. > £70million)

All of it is just fucking text on a fucking web page. All that effort to add fancy gizmos for hosting, optimising for framework x, which has a half life of 6 months, adding animation to drop downs. Just a spectacular waste. They are still re-platforming every 9 months, each of the 5 major teams.

All of that money could have been put into content, advertising for customers, collaborations & events.

Most news sites can get away with a static, highly cached system (I mean look at the Daily mail, the page is slow, static and looks like shit, yet its the biggest new paper site online)

So form a business perceptive, its spaffing money up the wall for no real gain.
Yea, this will apply to DO the same as AWS. It is a bit scary all those attacks, especially when not a sysadmin. After the hack I became more careful and now consider e.g. running a VPS where the provider handles more of these tasks for me.
I know people love games, but a lot of the suggestions have writing on par with if not worse than Mass Effect.

Give Disco Elysium a go. The writing's good, but how it uses Gameplay to explore that writing is what makes it great. Similar Amnesic setup to Planescape with interesting dialogue mechanics.
It's a bit wild, seeing this. I was doing it with C in the mid-1990s. In fact, I designed an entire SDK around it, that is still used, to this day.

I called it my "faux object" pattern, and I used a lot of function pointers and property pointers (like the OP mentioned). That allowed a "poor man's polymorphism." I may have actually published it as a pattern, but I'm not sure anyone ever read it.

The reason that I did it, was that C++ was still clambering out of the bassinet, back then, and we needed a cross-platform way to translate stuff that required an object model, across an opaque binary interface. We used C to transfer the state and data, and built object frameworks on either side of the coupling, with C++ or Object Pascal.

On the Mac platform, we also used Pascal types, which ensured a predictable stack frame.

It was pretty klunky, but it worked.
FDA Approves Pooled Covid-19 testing
And so is GPT-3.
Named by Eric Meyer, one of the inventors of CSS. His blog posts on Rebecca are heartbreaking:
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/personal/rebecca...
They also have agency patches on — there's a lot of misinformation being spread about them being unidentified.
Speaking of relevant metrics, comparing total deaths (lagging indicator) between NY and FL is pretty misleading, considering that NY has been on the down slope for several weeks, and FL is still climbing.

For instance, my velocity is much faster on the downhill part of the ski trip when compared to the lift ride up the mountain.
The Nature of Work After the Covid Crisis: Too Few Low-Wage Jobs [pdf]
Thanks for posting this! Been playing around with org-mode and org-roam but setup is definitely more challenging and it does feel like a bit of platform lock-in since the only useful org editor is emacs.
Another endorsement for paperlike. The latest version is even better. And it’s much smoother and you don’t lose as much sharpness of the screen
Talking about production costs of drugs, as an input to price, is as relevant as discussing download cost as input to software prices (or any digital media prices).
Parrondo's Paradox
Nah, chess ability is more about playing lots of chess when you're young, and being trained effectively at it at a critical age.

If you start playing chess too late in your life, it doesn't matter what innate talents you have, you're never going to be very good.
How do you suggest “fix”ing modules? What’s broken about them?
Read a couple of blog posts on text generation with RNNs and came away with the impression that this is a glorified Markov chain text generator. Not sure why people seem to be expecting AGI to arise from this.
C++ Explicit Constructor
thanks I look forward to reading it.

Jacques Ellul's 1979 "The Betrayal of the West" [0][1] was way ahead of it's time. You might find it useful during your research.

[0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/004057367903600...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-West-Continuum-book/dp/08164...
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If baffles me why people go to so much trouble to build things and then don't bother to provide even a single screenshot of what they have built.
Chess was my FIRST introduction to "money hustle" via tournaments, playing pick-up park games, against my dad, etc.

Owning the results and preparing for the next game taught me a life outlook: Win or lose, there's always a new game waiting if you still want to play.
Thanks so much for your work. I play with my wife and friends across the world at least 2-3 times a week. We’ve been relying on your work for years now. Big love <3
True but imho its somewhat of a fan-out or at the very least knock-on effect. The explosion in devops complexity is a necessary byproduct of the explosion of projects that adopt new languages, runtimes, datastores, etc. No one ever fully deletes and retires the old system, so the overall environmental complexity grows exponentially. The tools it takes to solve those exponentially larger problems (k8s) look ridiculous when you consider them in the context of "a rails app with some node stuff". But they make perfect sense when you say "every quarter or two, for a decade, a dev team has adopted a new component or two into the stack. less than three of which have ever been deleted."
I would agree that self-censorship is one of the most insidious effects of surveillance if that's what you mean :)
Anybody have a recommendation for courses geared toward absolute beginners? Maybe one that would be a good segue to this course?
There's a logo, a title, a 16 word tagline and a button to a (equally sparse) Google form.

What is this?
HN should know better than to accept this headline. Software and data has markup of 10000x unit cost.

How much did it cost to create? How many vials will be consumed?
How much did others spend on failed drug development?
I see two issues being conflated here. The first issue is the outrageous prices for generic drugs. The second issue is the true cost of research.

Drug prices have been rising out of control even for generic drugs (think epipens). It seems that competition is not driving down prices of generics. Perhaps it is time for government to break up "big parhma". Perhaps the FDA sets quality requirements so high that competitors cannot meet it, allowing that single manufacture to control prices.

The other issue is the true cost of research. The production cost is a fraction of the true cost. Research is expensive. There would be no Remdesivir if we only paid production costs. As a biomedical researcher, I am always on the fence about jumping jobs for something that will pay better. Many investors and techies vastly underestimate the cost of scientific research BY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE.
Any startups that are protecting people from being murdered? What type of device would be able to sound an alarm and save his life?
> Q: How many eyes does the sun have?

> A: The sun has one eye.

What if GPT-3 knows more than we do?
Fair enough, but this applies to essentially any service that you can access on the web (you can use Notes on iCloud.com)
Yes but that elk was racist. All elk are bastards.
Coronavirus superspreaders: Spreading the virus with much greater efficiency
> The Twitter account for the US Army e-sports team links to a sparsely populated page with register to win! at the top, no details on what one could even win, and a sign-up form that, according to a tiny disclosure at the bottom of the page, welcomes an eventual harangue by an Army recruiter. It allows people as young as 12 to submit the form, but adds a notice on the post-submission page that recruiters are not permitted to contact a child under the age of 16.

Wow, baiting 13 year olds into signing up for the military via a fake contest is something straight out of Starship Troopers
Games aren't novels, if that is what you want. It's interactive storytelling. The interaction of story, gameplay, world building, relationships, choices, and immersion. Each individual element might not be extremely satisfying in isolation. But when combined into a cohesive experience it's something unique altogether. Mass Effect is likely revered because of how well it does that. Not because it is a good novel.
Mariabidet is a good one. This will stick in my head forever! Especially when flushing :)
Plain and simple page that shows just today's date and day-of-week.

I could not find one that was as plain as this; others have ads, weather, other links and whatnot.

I use it as the first tab in my morning-chores group of tabs. This way it is the first tab I see in the morning.
Seconded :-) I have been hosting a forum for a small group of friends since 2004 with them, and more recently (on the same VPS) a tumblelog [0]. Would certainly recommend them.

[0] https://plurrrr.com/
I’ve been using PlayOnMac with particular version of Wine and DirectX support for WA 3.7. Haven’t tested with 3.8 yet, but soon will!
There is nothing here. Just a form to collect e-mail addresses and the promise to 'be in touch shortly!'
I have not ever been working in a company, which would reward innovation meaningful way. Why I would give any ideas free for anyone?

If I have a good idea, I will benefit for it or nobody.
Retro-Nostalgia, Civilizational Origins, & Weaponization
Looks really similar to https://github.com/foambubble/foam
"Killing Fields" are extremely unfortunately named after a guy named Killing, who lived and died decades before the genocide in Cambodia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_vector_field
what about playing go?
Quick rant triggered by this... We have our

- Cloud document systems (Google docs, Dropbox paper, Notion)....

- Project management systems (Trello, Asana, Monday)

- Todo/task/notes management (Keep, Todoist, Evernote)

- Customer Ticketing systems (Zendesk, helpscout, freshdesk)

- Bug/issue tracking systems (Pivotal, Jira, Github)

- Crms (Salesforce, Hubspot, Streak)

- And then theres even specialized customer facing and internal facing KnowledgeBase products (getguru, readme.io..)

Can you see the insanity? So many apps that are just different ways of abstracting and sorting knowledge, relationships, time and next steps.

A lot of progress has been made in enabling developers to integrate customer (event) data accross apps over the past 5 years (segment, mparticle with their data layers). But what about a standard data layer for the folder / project/tickets / tasks / notes hierarchies that exists in all these apps. So our information and knowledge isnt so siloed?
Black market rate of Remdesivir in India is $2000 USD.
Haven't used paperlike, but I use a much cheaper matte protector from TechArmor for drawing / taking notes on my iPad Pro and it's great. Would definitely recommend getting something like it. Bare screen's always felt too 'slippery' for me.
i liked apple notes on my ipad pro until i got bit badly by the upgrade to ios 13, where all the previous pencil drawings were flattened, and features like zoom and ruler (constant-interval across zoom levels) were removed.

i used notes for personal design drawings/sketches, and it was great for that purpose until the upgrade.
Immutable variables are too weird for me.
..remind me how this is good for the UK?...
That’s what GANs do.
Concepts is great! It's the best cross between note-taking and drafting, with all sorts of interesting rulers and sketching guides. You can even export as DXF to laser cut vector graphics straight from a sketch or drawing.
The "resistance" LARPers are gradually memeing death squads into existence.

It's not a second Trump administration that anyone should be worried about.
It didn't matter because in order to check someone had to call and wait an hour so no one did in mail order purchases/shopping networks because you had an address to send the police to.
I would be interested in a beginner course too.
A collection of things GPT-3 has done
I get that you both thought maybe I was soldering my own strips raw but the DIY in the title is about setting up your own strips, not just buying a bunch of LIFX or Hue strips.
> There is abundant evidence that children do not play a serious role in transmission

Seems like there's evidence to the contrary:

Older children, 10-19, spread the Coronavirus just as much as adults, large study finds.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-1315_article
Yes, but there at least is some genuine innovation going on. The backend frameworks are just churn for solving the same boring and lucrative business problems in new, fashionable ways.
There is an EdX version of it (with problem sets) : https://www.edx.org/course/fundamentals-of-statistics
Second the Witcher series. They really bring out that Eastern Bloc cynicism / black humor, it is very refreshing compared to western games.
“Is the FBI in the habit of cleaning up after multiple murders?!!”

“Of course. Why do you think it’s run by a man called Hoover?”

This was a joke in the ‘80s Clue movie; albeit probably funnier to the English writer and the English actor saying the lines, as Hoover as a generecized trademark for vacuum cleaner is more popular there.
I actually went 5V and it’s fine. I forgot to stress that in the post but I’ll update it.
Whites are way too obsessed with Weimar and the Russian Revolution / USSR (I wonder why).

The more relevant analogues are Latin American ones. We're becoming Brazil, not Nazi German or Soviet Russia.
Second that. I had the time when I was working with initrd images, so I had to use cpio a lot. I could never get used to its syntax.

And the fact that it’s manpage was missing, only saying “use info instead” did not help its usability at all.
...brexiteers please remind me how this benefits the UK ?...
So many browsers offer a blank tab with all this kind of information on it already. When you open the browser or open a new tab, you see that information anyway.
Same thing is happening to modo.
OP answered in a sibling comment, but might additionally be interesting to know why a repost like this gets upvoted: I upvoted it because I didn't know of it (this is the first time I see it) and I wasn't aware that there is that much radiation lingering from tests decades ago, which was interesting to me.
Tech’s Increasing Dependence on Foreign Students, in Six Charts
You can full-send into Notion (or any one of these systems) for a "jack of all trades, master of none." Obviously, not as good as a single-purpose system, but there really needs to be a space for unified data.
"Engineers should be on call for their own code." - Would you rather work someplace you are expected to be on call 24/7, or a company that doesn't require that?

It isn't the norm, and it isn't competitive. It's just more "always on" culture in the workplace - and that's not healthy. A company should understand workers need real breaks - and being on call is not a real break.
can confirm. media companies spent the last decade alternating between redesigns and cms migrations in a circular path that went nowhere while fb & goog ate not just their lunch but their breakfast and dinner too. the vast majority of it was driven by engineering-management-career resume-building and was actively detrimental to the editorial/content-production/journalism side of the house.
This is fascinating - on two levels. First, that maintenance needs can be predicted by engine sound. Second - more mundanely - that this can be automated (via ML, or whatever).

This is effectively a virtual hybrid of the "knowing where to make the mark" craftsman with cybernetic systems control.

This deserves much more attention than it got.
> Most law-abiding gun owners do not end up misusing them.

Most people abide by the law until they don't:

* https://twitter.com/well_regulated_

And in a lot of jurisdictions in the US all you need to get a gun in the first place is a pulse, which isn't much of a filter in determining whether a person can actually safely handle one. I'd be curious to know the survey results of owners who could recite Jeff Cooper's Four Rules:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cooper#Firearms_safety

Personally I like the little mnemonic / acronym that is taught in Canada, A.C.T.S.:

1. Assume every firearm is loaded.

2. Control the muzzle direction at all times.

3. Trigger finger off trigger and out of trigger guard.

4. See that the firearm is unloaded [and P.R.O.V.E. it is safe].

* http://www.firearmstraining.ca/actsprove.htm

* http://www.prpc.ca/safety-first/