skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cancer patients don't want chemo, but it's better than dying, some might say.

What good is chemo if your patients refuse it?

> Reddit: Limit subreddits to 500 participants at most. Eliminate the number next to upvotes.

This doesn't stop people from posting disturbing content, and it destroys reddit's entire model. This solution doesn't work.

> Verify accounts.

In what way? Do you want to abolish anonymity? Because I can tell you right now that most of us aren't interested in such a solution.

> Limit posting.

In what way? Throttling posting speed? Sure if you just lessen the amount of content overall there will also be less disturbing content... but there's still disturbing content that needs to be moderated.

> This is not any feature inherent to the Web, it's a function of sites that purposefully link together and allow people to rapidly post information.

The default state of the internet is publicly viewable information. Thus it's an inherent feature that you can access almost anything out there.

> Pre-social media

As far as I'm aware, there was no such time. There have almost always been bulletin boards, forums, chat rooms, image/file sharing sites, and other forms of social media.

> there will be less content to moderate

Dividing up the content doesn't reduce the amount of it that needs to be moderated any more than cutting a cake reduces the amount of cake.

> Elimination of advertisers and the implementation of cost (as a form of friction), I think, would also go a long way. Cost per post would be ideal.

This just shuts people out according to income bracket. It reduces the total population, but I doubt it helps reduce the fraction of that population that are interested in posting and sharing disturbing content. It's just throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Nvidia reportedly interested in acquiring ARM
Google is fucked. GPT-3 understands queries on a whole other level. GPT-3 brings books, links, articles to life as a conversation.
This is why I want a genetic sequencing lab that will sequence your genome, send it to you encrypted by your own public key and once you confirm receipt and verify it is valid, DELETE IT COMPLETELY. Along with the record you were their customer after the 6 months or whatever required for waiting out chargebacks.

Then you can analyze your DNA with a desktop app that doesn't send out any data.

The deleting part is hard to find.
Yep! ComboBox is also in progress/close. ;) https://github.com/adobe/react-spectrum/pull/421
Is there a keyboard based on sound signatures?
The keyboard in touch devices encroaches visual space. Nowadays, on iPad Pro I use the floating keyboard and swipe gestures.

I wish there is a shorthand style sound signatures as keys, swiped and connected to build words. And a layout that optimizes the most common words and sentences, computed using machine learning. The shorthand techniques also have logograms to make transcription easier.

The word thought is 7 letters, but can be represented by three sounds "th"-"o"-"t". Probably "th" and "t" have to be kept together for a better mental model. And it would be a simple swipe gesture, instead of the complex one based on actual spelling and QWERTY keyboard layout.

Do you know any such keyboard exists?
Sarcasm would be nice, but I don't think that's possible.

One thing I'd like to see is the 'pillar' of the text highlighted. People often write a paragraph, page, or chapter around one proposition or argument. Whatever search engines do, it's working, but it's not used here.

Kindle does it well by informing you of commonly highlighted text.
When is typical Hackernews commenter GPT-3 response bot coming out?
Nothing, when done right. But not when "prep and cook" means minimal prep and using twice as many dishes/utensils as were really necessary, while "clean" means putting away ingredients/appliances and bringing food to the table and dealing with leftovers as well as actually cleaning. If we're talking about total time, we also have to consider who buys the groceries, who sharpens the knives, and a bunch of other things.

The point is that "it only takes ten minutes" is inaccurate in the sense that it doesn't properly represent the labor that's replaced by choosing take-out instead. It's something usually said by people who are already enjoying the privilege of having someone else do most of the work.
“I want to install Discord, but without FFMPEG” is not grounds for a complaint.

I don't like Microsoft's software, nor do I use it, but if this is illegal and the Apple App Store isn't, the EC is none but a lawfare weapon for many-billionaire companies.
This is my beef with laptops. I bought a huge laptop just so I could have a numberpad.

But I've been amazed at how many programmers don't like to have them. Why?
they're not now. but christianity is an old religion.

after it became the official religion of Rome their aristocracy increasingly took up bishoprics, wich were much more powerful then, and acted as great lords do. paul johnson's a history of christianity is a good read if you want to know (lots and lots) more
I wouldn't count Apple out of the server business for long.

After they have a couple generations of laptop silicon under their belts, there's nothing stopping them from dogfooding a real server macOS for awhile and booting up an Apple Service Cloud.

No special insight into whether they actually will, but it's a natural play.
It sort of addresses a fundamental issue with a lot of Christian religions that teach that people who never had a chance to hear about Jesus and be baptized automatically go to hell. There's a lot I dislike about the Mormon church and its doctrine, but the Mormon conception of the afterlife is quite a bit more fair than a lot of other religions.

Note: in Mormon theology, those that die and receive their baptism by proxy still get to choose to accept or reject that baptism in the afterlife.
Specific pornographic preferences and fetishes? Nothing illegal there, no reason to hide.
A Cultural Revolution 2.0 is sweeping through Hong Kong’s offices and schools
Detecting Fake News with and Without Code
Exactly because there is always risk, when it is small - people say there is no risk.

Lots of things can happen and could have happened but never did.
No, I do not mean the quoted section. They claim to play games where there is no chance of winning, then go on to claim they eventually win them often.
An insomniac's journey to regular sleep
In tech terms? It's probably more like a bloom filter, which means eventually it can be a problem if it starts to get too many false positives.
So anyone who questions quantum computing is a hater? Your argument reminds me of one interview where Elizabeth Holmes said everyone was a hater for doubting her. John Martinis didn't silence anyone, after decades, still there's no verifiable proof of quantum computing.
I would love something like the LWN for the Scala world. That would be pretty cool. (High quality curation and journalism)

Shame we don't have Dr Dobbs anymore.
Dependency injection systems (like Dagger or Guice) are essentially programming languages that specifically model this kind of initialization-vs-runtime distinction. Dagger is actually implemented as a compiler extension.

Singletons can be declared once, and then provided to various systems that need it, with read-only access.

In fact, they're more flexible than that: one can declare multiple nested "scopes" that each have their own initialization phase. For example, a web server could have one scope for process-wide singletons, and another for request-scoped "singletons".

The only thing missing is that these DI systems are for java, which doesn't have the const-correctness you'd ideally want. I'm not aware of any equivalent (and widely-used) systems for languages like c++ or Rust.

(Yes, I can feel hundreds of HN readers rolling their eyes as they read this, given the bad rep. DI systems have, but they're widely popular among FANG companies for a reason.)
I have a reply to this that is "flagged" because I strongly doubt the russian bogeyman story offered without evidence that keeps on falling apart.

Now why would that be flagged? Must be Putin.
Not only restaurants. A lot of people reinvented self-sufficiency: from doing their own hair, nails, to planting fruits and veggies in their backyards. There are many negative effects of the pandemic, worst of all, all the suffering, but also many positive ones as well.
Gain Access
Even for end-to-end internal projects, as soon as you stop using a built-in format and need to use thirdPartyEncode and thirdPartyDecode on both ends, you might as well just choose the absolute best third party library rather than choose something that slightly enhances the built-in.
> "Magic" and "medicine" have been distinct for thousands of years in Europe.

Medicine and magic have been intertwined throughout human history, all over the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materia_medica
Or run windows on its own disk / partition.

Then create a windows VM in linux with direct disk access.
You used a fake address to send the results?
Great, but what about heat output?
Private Schools Are Adapting to Lockdown Better Than the Public School Monopoly
This is pretty interesting. I'm astonished there is no Nirvana or U2 in the canon.

I am wondering if looking at sales one year after the song came out, or radio transmission after a while, would be a stronger predictor of staying power than what peaked at a given time.
New Zealand is different because it eliminated the virus.

By April the infection had been isolated and through May they basically ensured the few people who had it were kept away from everybody else long enough to recover, by June they were finished and getting back to normal. Every new reported infection in New Zealand for the last 70+ days is a person in quarantine or "managed isolation" because they arrived from somewhere it's endemic. Will it leak eventually? Probably, and they're ready for that. [Edited to remove claim that New Zealand is unique when several other countries also eliminated this virus as pointed out by another poster]

They hoped Australia could do the same, and then they'd open the border to Australia, but Australia botched it and now has a high rate of new infections.
I didn’t realize nvidia had that much cash to play with.

The only reason I can think of for Apple not to scoop them is to avoid attracting antitrust enforcement.
BTW you may have noticed that the paper multiplication method we all learned in third grade is digit-by-digit convolution, which is an O[n^2] operation. But what does convolution in the time domain become when we switch to the frequency domain? It becomes digit-by-digit multiplication, which is O[n]. So now you see why the FFT is essential here. The extra factors of logn and log(logn) are about taking the FFT itself in both the forward and reverse directions.

So fast multiplication is about looking at numbers as signals and doing signal processing on them.
(Disclaimer: CEO & founder of Tenzir)

We at Tenzir are developing VAST for this purpose: https://github.com/tenzir/vast. It's still very early stage, but if you're up for trying something new, a lean and modern C++ architecture, BSD-license open-source style, you may want to give it a spin. The docs are over at https://docs.tenzir.com/vast.

It supports full PCAP, NetFlow, and logs from major security tools. There is CLI and Python bindings. The Apache Arrow bridge offer a high-bandwidth output path into other downstream analytics tools.
I agree that it makes a strange sort of sense. A slower particle within the barrier would maybe need to get out of the forbidden region more quickly.

The strangest part to me was that it spends time in the barrier at all, and is effected by it's time there. I somehow thought that in quantum tunneling the barrier was bypassed entirely, but this kind of proves that it wasn't bypassed and was actually traversed when it shouldn't have been.

I am also not a quantum physicist.
Giving away my kindle eBook, a YA SciFi novel about AI – Blue Screen
Seems unlikely to be a sustainable business.

For GEDMatch, Ancestry.com, 23andMe, etc, most of the value comes from being able to aggregate many people's data. If they had to delete it after collecting, they'd have to charge a lot more, and there's just no market for that.

Perhaps they could anonymize the data (at least, purge foreign key references to account/billing info) after 6 months, but not delete it.
Hard to overestimate the value of a high quality, viral blog post for SEO and business development. A lot of engineers don’t understand how important these are.
I don't reside in the EU, but I'm a EU citizen. I've quoted GDPR in those emails, but they don't seem to care. My best guess is that they don't even check the email accounts.
I don't feel a need for one, I type code all day, not lots of numbers. I want my hands centered on the device, not offset to the left.
I'm assuming that you meant to link a MinION (as it's the only device I know of at that price point). They would be fit for human DNA, though a single flow cell (consumable part that will degrade after X amount of DNA read) might not be quite enough to read a whole human genome with the desired accuracy.

So if you purchase all the consumables (flow cells + chemicals) in low quantities, a single human genome will probably run you around $2000 in materials. With the bulk orders from their website you could get it down to half of that (so probably even more if you were doing really big bulk orders).
How do you try to make a 90s music canon without grunge/alternative? There are a plethora of other genres that developed or emerged into relative popularity in the 90s that were hugely influential on music going forward.

Taking the most popular songs at the time is not a recipe for finding the best songs/songs that will be remembered in the future. A good percentage of the songs listed were crap then and not worth remembering now.
Plato counterposed reason to emotion. I think he said, emotions corrupt reason. That's why he wanted to send poets to exile. He opposed bards who used to tell stories by going from place to another. Ancient Skeptics (both Pyrrhonian and Academic) and Ancient Cynics supported bards; btw, these Skeptics were not like modern (epistemic) skeptics. Epistemic skepticism is all about infinite regress, whereas Ancient skeptics were saying something different: practices don't need foundation in reason.
No, it’s not particularly difficult, it’s just they they didn’t have a reason to do it earlier so they just didn’t support it.
Controlled cold fusion would be even more neater as it enables you to synthesise arbitrary molecules out of just hydrogens.
I thought the JD rankings are known to be fraud with issues, pay to play, favoritism (especially American brands) and so on.
FHD on a 13 inch or larger just doesn't cut it these days. QHD is the minimum for people whose jobs are computers, imo.
Much like you can't anonymize browsing history data, email metadata or financial transactions -- I suspect DNA information also cannot be satisfactorily anonymized.

"Anonymized data" is a marketing term.
In fact you are a bit wrong. Surgery and radiation are routinely considered as options for treating the same type of tumor. It is more common to do surgery in younger patients but it is incorrect to say radiation is “not recommended” in these cases. And 67 is not young.

Source: UCSF Prostate Cancer team (#4 ranked by US News & World report)
On the subject of nation-states, they want the data to help out spies
It boggles my mind that "Smells like Teen Spirit" is missing here.
Does anyone have experience with an InfluxDB-based netdata setup?

When we evaluated multiple options, we found that netdata does a lot of the heavy lifting. What are the advantages of a CollectD-based setup?
BadPower Vulnerability in Fast Chargers Might Make Phones Halt and Catch Fire
Parallels clearly has something significant under wraps: https://www.parallels.com/blogs/apple-silicon-wwdc/

My guess: Parallels on Apple Silicon will support virtualizing AArch64 VMs, and also x64 VMs through Rosetta 2. Support for AArch64 alone doesn't seem interesting enough to keep under wraps, and Apple did commit to supporting x64 JITs, so x64 VMs seems like a natural extension.
> If needed it can very easily be put into action again. Once you have established something can be done that can be done in the future. This is historic.

Shovel-ready jobs EU edition!

Sadly that is true, if they did it once they will do it again, all the way until the euro goes the way of Zim dollar.
If you think gold is expensive now wait till they do it the next time or make it a habit (Basic Income).

Needless to say this is worse than useless. Which of the "jobs saved" by Obama are still around? Zombie companies from back then are on PPP program now (and then some). The moment printing press or handouts stop, everything collapses.

In the case of this EU stimulus, it's big in terms of new debt (countries couldn't pay back public debt as it was, and now it's even more certain they can't pay it back with this amount added on top) but totally worthless in terms of its ability to impact anything.

Haven't you learned anything from previous celebrations of "breakthrough" fiscal stimulus packages?
Interesting but why not a kvm rack unit from ebay? Cheaper and easier only issue is most vendors stop supporting the switches and the software on them can be complete garbage (only works with firefox version x or IE version y).
A few days back I tried to tweet various empty characters [0], but the twitter frontend wouldn't let me.

Seems like this person found some new ones. Curious if they will ban them.

0: https://emptycharacter.com/
They’re using ARM CPUs but not arm’s CPUs ;)
I'll reply, but note that India is not like the USA:

- food-preparation locations are inspected. You either have a restaurant location with a kitchen, or you use a designated remote kitchen (for trucks) - you can't make food at home or in a truck and sell it legally

- India consumers are proud of their relentless frugality, US not so much. Americans don't bring rice in a container, or even eat rice daily, so that would be a cultural change.

- restaurant locations are typically leased at competitive (high) market rates. There's rarely cheap locations with any traffic.

- a lot of Americans live in low-density locations, like suburbs.
I believe the "if you live a good life you go to heaven" is a common tenet of many Christian denominations since the Vatican Council.

At least, I recall my religion teacher (a catholic priest, we have such a class in public schools in Italy tho they vary in content and quality) telling us that some decades ago.

You do not go to heaven if you're an atheist tho, as _denying_ there is something divine puts you in the bad list, sorry.
Flow Energy and Residual Energy
Vietnam, Thailand and Taiwan -- none of which have had local transmission in months -- would like to have a word with you.

Also, Australia's botching is effectively contained to a single state (Victoria), which is sealed off from the rest of the country.
If every business had that kind of margin saved up, everything would cost a lot more.
I'm not convinced that "capable of reasoning, but not consistently" is a meaningful claim. The examples seem to primarily consist of people spending hours trying things, until eventually GPT-3 outputs a chunk of reasoning they could personally do in seconds. Does that mean that GPT-3 is doing the reasoning, or does it mean that GPT-3 is an English-based lookup table and they managed to find a clever sequence of search keys?

The fact that there could be reasoning going on is certainly exciting by itself. But I don't think it's fair to call it obvious without a compact specification for how to make GPT-3 perform a general class of reasoning. Less "here's a script to make it output stuff about balanced parens", more "here's a strategy to teach it most basic string manipulations".
> There is plenty of cheap labor in Latin America.

I too believe the US has to invest in and cultivate industrial relationships in Latin America. That said, it has been years since China's advantages boiled down to cost of labor.

The manufacturing advantage China developed over decades is to have highly integrated short supply pipelines for a massive category of products.

Want to make washing machines? There are entire towns dedicated to making them and they make every component for your washing machines within a one hour truck ride.

Want to make microwave ovens? Same thing. Computers? Ditto. Desks? Chairs? Shelving units? Plumbing fittings and valves? Same.

The length of a supply pipeline is a crucial cost element in any manufacturing operation. China has the most efficient, short and well integrated multidisciplinary supply chain in the world.

Let's say you want to make microwave ovens in Los Angeles. Your screws might come from New York. Wires from China. Glass from Germany. Microprocessor and other chips from Singapore, Taiwan and China. Other components from Japan. Sheet metal, cardboard and packaging materials from Mexico. Etc.

The cost of such a disjointed supply pipeline is massive when compared to what they do in China. It is far less about hourly wages these days and more so about this.

One of the reasons for which we can't make anything in the US or Europe is that we don't own the supply chain. It isn't the case that we were short in PPE, gowns, syringes and other medical supplies because Trump is an idiot (insert any politician, at any level, in the US or Europe in that statement). Not so.

The reality of what we ran into as this pandemic gained strength is that we have no supply pipeline for anything other than a very narrow set of industrial and military products. Everything else is in China. Europe has the same problem. We don't even make the cloth, the yarns, elastics, adhesives and staples you need to manufacture N95 masks. Even worse, we likely don't make any of the components you need in order to make a machine that can test N95 masks.

Those of us in manufacturing have been screaming about this for decades. This was OBVIOUS twenty years ago. It was MANAGEABLE thirty to forty years ago. It is near checkmate today.

Who's at fault? Our politicians. We (US and Europe) have been treated to decades of politicians seemingly devoid of business sense and long term visions. The Chinese, instead, saw this and decided to take a long term view (decades) towards achieving a goal. And here we are.

Go around your house and make a list of how man items you own that were made in China and how many --if you can find any-- in the US or Europe. Then understand that if something says "Made in USA" or "Made in France", it is very likely that every single internal component was made in China. So, where was it really made? Right?

This situation is far more complex than most realize. Which, in and of itself, is how we got here.
Is the core problem in the T-Cell? What if handling the problem is more focused on T-cell handling solutions?
A bit akin to the difference between an engineer amd mechanic?
I think I lived through a different 90’s than the article talks about. No nirvana, no soundgarden, no STP, no alice in chains. I did see a single Pearl Jam song listed though.
I don't really understand your point. Obviously the whole network is important. Einstein's contributions would not have been possible without the society around him to produce food and shelter, the centuries of mathematics and physics research he built upon, etc..

Nobody is claiming that these people did something completely on their own, or did not draw upon immense wealth created and produced by others. The point is that each individual person's marginal contribution to the global utility function is not equal. Einstein built upon the work of others but the edifice he created is worth more than the one I have created. He increased the social utility function more than me, so we can say that his work is more valuable than mine. This is completely orthogonal to whether or not he had help.