skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this world, if you have money you have access. If a cartel wanted access to compute they can just pay for it. If they want experts, trust me they can pay for it.
Although this comment is voted into oblivion, and I know the tone wasn't great, the poster is actually making an interesting point in one sense - the fact that technology often comes back around another time in a new form.

For example, along the lines of IBMs IMS, I also recall the MUMPS system and language [1] and I'd be interested to know if the inventors of TileDB were familiar with the history of sparse array interfaces to databases or not, if it influenced their design in any way or it was rediscovered.

Regarding MUMPS: "The MUMPS language provides a hierarchical database made up of persistent sparse arrays, which is implicitly "opened" for every MUMPS application. All variable names prefixed with the caret character ("^") use permanent (instead of RAM) storage, will maintain their values after the application exits, and will be visible to (and modifiable by) other running applications. Variables using this shared and permanent storage are called Globals in MUMPS, because the scoping of these variables is "globally available" to all jobs on the system. The more recent and more common use of the name "global variables" in other languages is a more limited scoping of names, coming from the fact that unscoped variables are "globally" available to any programs running in the same process, but not shared among multiple processes. The MUMPS Storage mode (i.e. Globals stored as persistent sparse arrays), gives the MUMPS database the characteristics of a document-oriented database."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
Cool, I would definitely join if it wasn't US only :(

Even though I'm 'high risk' I'm not that worried about the virus myself, and I feel some higher risk than normal actions are necessary to protect people and to go back to our normal world ASAP.

Also, I assume it's good to have some not perfectly healthy individuals in the mix as they would probably be more likely to experience side-effects.

It does say they will expand their reach beyond the US though so that might be good news.
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That seems the right approach. Why would you want anything ZFS-specific -- other than events not being documented, which presumably means you dig them out of ZED?
C No Evil (2011)
Did you ever make it available as a library?
If I'm not mistaken, 8Chan also hosted a lot of illegal content in addition to that "legal speech".
Machine Learning Helps Robot Swarms Coordinate
Using drones to reduce disease-spreading mosquito populations
Researchers 3D print a working heart pump with real human cells
This video presents devices in a controversial subject area, that of "Free Energy" or "alleged Free Energy" as the case may be.

Disclaimer: I'm not saying that any of these devices work, and I'm not saying that any of these devices do not work...

That's the fun part of all of this, YOU the individual get to look at this video, and decide for yourself! <g>

This video is submitted for entertainment purposes only!

Nothing is, nor should be implied by any of this content! <g>
I can‘t reply to marvion below so I put it here: The total initial cost is 20 million. As I said SAP gets half. These „operation“ costs by Telekom do not actually include any operations. The actual operation (including the hotlines) is estimated at 2-3 millions per month. But it actually depends, it‘s not a flat fee.
FB execs quietly remove fact check from a piece of climate change denial
How do I publish a website on one of these?
It's a bit of a sad story, but maybe you'll like this read about one of the guys who laid the foundation for their tech and his sad decline: https://www.wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline...

I really liked the stories of his skill when he was in his prime. Very inspiring.
The title is such because it was taken from Roger Mcnamee's tweet linking the link contained in the title; not due to my editorializing
On a somewhat related note, here's an enjoyable read about how citations in scholarly papers can sometimes mask shoddy thinking and spread "Academic urban legends":

> Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these rumors appear so frequently, and in such complex, colorful, and entertaining ways that we can think of them as academic urban legends. The explanation for this phenomenon is usually that authors have lazily, sloppily, or fraudulently employed sources, and peer reviewers and editors have not discovered these weaknesses in the manuscripts during evaluation. To illustrate this phenomenon, I draw upon a remarkable case in which a decimal point error appears to have misled millions into believing that spinach is a good nutritional source of iron. Through this example, I demonstrate how an academic urban legend can be conceived and born, and can continue to grow and reproduce within academia and beyond.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127145356...
Here's how these work:

1) Take a fluid, color it mostly white(ish).

2) Suspend a bunch of tiny black "balls" inside this fluid. The balls need to
be charged so they can be attracted to an electric field.

3) Squish this fluid between some glass.

4) Put a grid of electrodes on the back that you can address.

5) Now, using some clever AC patterns, you can address any "pixel" on your grid, and apply a charge there, that will attract or repel the little balls.

6) When you attract the balls, that spot turns black, because you just see the balls above the fluid.

7) When you repel the balls, that spot turns "white" because you just see the fluid, not the balls.

The trick is that moving the balls back and forth (6/7) is a physical process, and requires time. They _have_ to move a physical distance, and if that fluid lets them move too easily then they won't keep their color. The balls will move and they'll just drift back to some middle ground.

Also, if you're not careful with your approach, you can mess with the charge of the balls, and they'll no longer respond to the field the way you want. This is burn-in. (And it's why displays do full-black-to-full-white refreshes from time to time)

So until we can figure out how to move those balls faster in the fluid, we really aren't going to dramatically improve refresh rates with this technology.

Note: "Balls" is a simplification.
Show HN: Generate Spotify playlists using colors and emotions
German app downloads have just passed 16 million [1]. Or do you mean including those who deinstalled it because it was boring ;?

[1]: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1125951/umfra...
It’s this and the fact that few/one shot learning seems to just emerge with with models of this size
Thanks for pointing this out! I was indeed a bit iffy giving my personal data there. There's so many fake covid sites.

I'm not in the US but it says they might expand soon so I may just register anyway (I'm sure they ask where you live).
What Is GPT-3?
Basically this is why folks use org-mode, but it won't satisfy you if you're used to syncing.
Hey congrats, I work for Testim ( https://testim.io ) which I assume is somewhat competition?

Excited to see more players in this space - good luck! Most of the market is still doing manual QA and that has to change.
Commercials of the Dot Com Bubble
And that is a feature. Influencers are best in IG , FB, Twitter and HN , is where they get their public.
I believe TileDB had some customers when it was framed as the product. According to its website: "TileDB, Inc. is a data management company spun out of Intel Labs and MIT"
Trading Derivatives and the Shame-Based Fear of Being Ordinary
HLS is half of the answer, that will only work of half of all devices. You need HLS + MPEG-DASH.
How do you do a fallback from cloudflare failing when they’re your dns provider too? Any redirection around would take too long to change wouldn’t it? They’d be back up and running before it was implemented. What’s the right approach?
Do you have any stats on the Shopify App Store? e.g. revenue and users for a few successful apps?
> [...] that some people would misuse [Insert any tool here]

Following this logic, one would forbid schooling to lads based on the suspicion that they may "misuse" what they will learn to do some evil. One would use the alphabet to write threats to others. One would use a knife to stab others. So how do you police the right to access the knowledge? Should we restrict accessing knowledge to some few elites that some authority should decide who they are?

IMHO knowledge should be accessible to all. The accumulation of the humanity knowledge should not be controlled by an Orwellian entity. 
 Otherwise, let's start a movement demanding to wipe online universities courses from the Internet
You'll be shocked to hear who use the postal system and roads, then.
Makes sense. It wouldn't really be ethical to do so with an unproven vaccine (and it was proven, this trial wouldn't be necessary).

If they do the trial in large enough numbers, many participants will get exposes in their normal lives anyway. I assume they will target hotspot areas.
Their pathways for civilization (https://miro.medium.com/max/2086/1*1dhjzhchffxWXdoNZ8V_lA.jp...) reminds me of the outcomes for Sid Meirs "Beyond Earth."

In that game you have five outcomes that I paraphrase as:

- Failure: you fail the game.

- World Domination: Your sectarian group becomes dominant. This does not guarantee ultimate survival, just survival in the moment.

- Biological integration: you merge with the native flora/fauna, taking the "best" from both, gaia-ist style

- Humanist conformity: you maintain human hegemony ranging from global purity to genetic purity

- Transhumanist: you merge with technology

I don't know if there are formal philosophical terms or treatise on these topics, but the view is interesting. The only recognizably "human" after millions of years had significant eugenic or otherwise authoritarian overtones. I wonder whether our imagination simply fails us, or we are doomed to a Morlocks/Eloi transformation of the species.
Ask HN: Best Startup Books?
What are your recommended reading materials for the business side of starting and running a startup, as a technical founder?
Over here we went through this approach with cigarettes decades ago. It worked, but it took taxation in the range of multiple 100% before the effects were real. Do you think your political system can carry this?
I would 100% do this if they could guarantee I wouldn't get a placebo.
How would you guarantee the item is not a counterfeit/broken in transit/transported at the right temperatures/etc?
Nazism is pretty popular on HN, comes with the territory when most of the board's users are well off westerners. Doesn't hurt that the mods are way more concerned with anti-capitalist rhetoric. Not surprising considering who owns the site though.
looks like dark politics playing here...
As a 20 year freelancer myself, a side project is a good way to go. But if that takes off and starts requiring more structure, more resources, and eventually overtakes the day job, it essentially becomes a startup.
Safety and immunogenicity of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine against SARS-CoV-2
This is awesome, congrats guys!
But only for 8 minutes according to the voice over. Which would come down to 960MB in an ideal scenario (2 MB/s * 8 * 60s).
Japan Begins Immigration Experiment
One interesting byproduct of this is that we may end up with multiple vaccines becoming available at the same time.

I wonder will people comparison shop.
To be fair, I work for a company in this space (Testim.io) and we have had success stories with very large companies doing UI tests with the service (like Microsoft).

I think the hardest aspects of testing are fast authoring and stability (maintenance) - AI tools can help with that and learning data between test runs can create very stable tests.

So as someone in this space - it's a very exciting space and I am very optimistic for this startup (Reflect)
Want to Slow Down Time? Use a Slow Clock
We might be talking about different things, but many vaccines are potentially useful post-infection particularly for slower diseases, as it doesn't necessarily help the actual infection, but can help prevent it from spreading to new cells.

It's highly dependent on the disease, how it spreads, etc. But it is a thing.
Obviously it's not connected by cable, but you certainly get the equivalent to cable errors, and I've been plagued by them on certain systems. It's revealing when you have a lot of systems with monitoring of ECC errors. I wouldn't like to say whether multiple DIMMs are necessarily more reliable even than rotating disks.
If the citation contains data then using a citation is not an appeal to authority.
I can't find it but the appropriate XKCD has a character make an outrageous claim and then tells the skeptic to check Wikipedia... in five minutes.
A lot of developers love to “build over buy”, but I think HubSpot would be a great solution to this use case. All of the features you want are available under the free tier
I got a cheap manual burr grinder (JavaPresse) to replace my cheap blade grinder, and it has made an enormous difference in the quality of my daily coffee. Granted, I use a French press, so grind size matters more than with drip. But it was a simple change that improved my daily enjoyment.
Appearances vs. Experiences: What Makes Us Happy
Ah, no, last numbers I saw were about 12m and it seemed to have slowed down a bit. That's good news!
My guess is that this is being worked on. See here: https://www.coronawarn.app/en/faq/#international
Just as a recommendation, if you're on iOS, also use the whitepoint reduction feature in the accessibility settings. That reduces the brightness of the device further, even if you are already on the lowest brightness setting.

Also, depending on the person, it heavily depends on what you are reading. With Twitter you are jumping from topic to topic. That's something completely different than reading a book.
The best homegrown platform I have seen so far is https://media.ccc.de/ , where the video and audio files from Chaos Computer Club events are stored. I don't know how willing they are to share the code though.
They seem to have assumed it was taking the SSE2 path, but never checked that, just replacing the function at a higher level for the final fix.

I’m guessing that the 3dnow! path was still being chosen based on a check like processor brand == AMD and processor generation >= x, assuming that 3dnow! would never be removed. This is something that has already been discovered being done in other games.
As an Academic I find the whole discussion and usual Wikipedia style request for sources doubtful and sometimes even comical. Of course I understand that it's often a good thing to provide a source for a claim in online discussions, but it's neither always necessary nor is there always a burden of proof on the person who makes a claim. Especially online people often confuse arguments with explicative discourse, I certainly have made that mistake in the past. If somebody explains something to you, better listen. You should be skeptical of any claims, whether they are in books, newspapers, or online forums. It's not as if peer review or printing books somehow eradicates errors. I've seen logic books full of mistakes and sloppy reasoning.

The most important thing for anyone is to keep a mindset that is aiming towards truth. If someone doesn't have that mindset, no amount of discussion will be fruitful. It will just go round and round in circles and get lost in an orgy of bogus sources. I could virtually prove anything to someone who believes anything that has been written, by selectively looking for the fitting sources.

The lesson I've learned from Usenet: Don't argue with people online, but allow them to teach you.
Considering High Output Management literally advertises Management By Objectives, I'm confused how that is a citation for your point about KPIs vs OKRs, they should not look that different.

If you're doing OKRs without some type of indicator, kpi or otherwise, I don't see how you're achieving key results.
So let's imagine Facebook/Twitter/etc was based on open protocols like SMTP...

* You'd have the same spam and abuse problem that email has.

* You'd have zero control over the information you post to it, just like email. There would be absolutely no way of stopping or even slowing down the Cambridge Analyticas of the world.

"Ownership of your own social graph" is complete and utter nonsense. As soon as you share data with other people through open protocols, they own it. Just like email.

Even email is tending towards centralization, with a few big players that can manage the spam and abuse and still get their messages delivered.
When something is quoted like that it usually means it's a reference to something, not a literal statement. In this case I'm guessing it's a play on "Nothing ever happens on Mars" by the Spinal Tap guy.
This looks great. When sublime first came out it was by far the best option available. I think for huge files and raw performance (besides vim) it’s still the best option. But for almost all tasks I have these days I used VSCode. It’s hard to beat.
> And giving it more compute power it still keeps improving so far.

And giving it more data, it still keeps improving. The extra compute is necessary to compress and train the model.

At the end of the day, we've proven if you have more human knowledge in your lookup table, you can generate more things convincingly. Search engines have been doing something similar for a long time, except instead of generating things, they find them. Search engines also have the advantage that a lot of their knowledge does actually have real semantic models, which seems more intelligent to me.
If you drop the 3 vacations abroad and the 'new' appellation to the car, then 1/2 of the people in the US can reasonably aspire to the rest of that with hard work and self discipline.
Well, I usually block it anyway, because it is not only a single point of failure, but also a single point of concentration of data, that can be used to track, spy on and profile users. As such, I do not blindly trust Cloudflare. I remain sceptical, no matter how positive their public image is. Especially I would not set my DNS to cloudflare.
> Would like to see a discussion about whether it is a false dichotomy.

Another topic on HN that showed up today was "any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious," which I would broaden to, as the kids say: "bring receipts." If you're going to implicitly (or explicitly) claim that the harms of a lockdown in response to a pandemic are greater than the harms caused by the pandemic itself, you should at least put a little effort into explaining why, and include at least some links to studies or informed discussion that support your claim. Just backing it up with "the truth of my claim should be clearly obvious to even the most casual of observers" is rarely good enough.

I don't think anyone has seriously claimed you can mitigate the virus's spread without slowing the economy, or that slowing the economy doesn't come with associated harms. The question was and remains what the balance is. Is there any evidence to back up the claim in the thread above that "the death toll from COVID lockdown is so much higher?" Higher than what? The projected death toll from no lockdown at all? When someone makes a claim about the economic damage from the lockdown, are they taking into account studies that try to project the economic damage that no lockdown would have caused?
I believe it's worth watching 4k even on a 1k monitor, because due to chroma sub-sampling there is actually information visible even at the lower resolution.
Don't use them for DNS, just point 60 second TTL A records at them.
Dasung has been selling a 13-inch-ish for a while: https://www.amazon.com/Dasung-Paperlike-Front-Light-Touch-Mo...

But that's still within the "arguably a tablet screen" size range.
> Zfs is the best file system.

Of course it isn't. There can't be a single best filesystem. For the use case of zfs, yes it is the best filesystem.
Curative Wants to Take Covid Testing to Mobile Vans and Vending Machines
I recomment considering learning between test runs and I encourage you to train a relatively simple model for selection on top of http-archive and tagged data.

"off the shelf" machine learning makes it pretty easy to create very robust selectors. I gave a talk about it in GDG Israel and was supposed to speak about it in HalfStack that got delayed cancelled because of COVID19 - but the principle is pretty simple.

It's amazing how much RoI you can get from relatively simple models of reinforcement learning. Here are some ideas: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OViIwDJJw1kjVJH5Z2N5...

Good luck :]
In the same way that OSX was immune for viruses from decades.
I believe the academy is the longest lasting institution, founded by Plato in 387 BC.
its on Github: https://github.com/voc/voctoweb
I work in fluid dynamics.

Page numbers for an article are standard. Page numbers for a specific piece of information are not. E.g., it's common for someone to write [1] but not [1, p. 528].

In fact, I recently had a typesetter seem confused about my use of the latter style, thinking that the pages referred to the article I wrote rather than the cited article.
In thermodynamic terms, an air conditioner is a heat pump hooked up the other way, though in practical terms I realize a heat pump is a device that is used for heating.

While not as mathematically elegant a comparison, you could certainly run the numbers for gas or any other heating method and find a similar cost comparision. They key point is that a computer heats the way a space heater heats, and heating your home with space heaters is expensive even in spite of the 100% efficiency at turning electricity into heat.
Well, if you're an evolutionary extremist, it actually becomes tautological. Imagine half of mankind flies off to colonize space and the two halves of mankind never inter-breed ever again (the prototypical example of a future with no "reverse IA point"). Well, the evolutionary extremist would say that under those circumstances, inevitably the two branches would evolve separately, so that eventually, they would no longer be the same species. So at most one of them would be "human", and so the split would not prevent a "reverse IA point" like it initially seems (because of the word "human" in the definition of the IA point).

This is formalized in the internodal species concept of Willi Hennig. According to Hennig's species notion, speciation occurs exactly when a permanent split occurs. If you could somehow contrive that mankind split in half, whether by space colonization, a gigantic wall along the equator, or by some segregationist law (but good luck enforcing that law in perpetuity!), then it would no longer be "mankind" at all, but two new species.
Tesla share rally propels some early fan investors to riches
That was another case of information being conveyed that the speakers knew to be untrue, and there was immediate skepticism that the speakers were lying.
Who do you use for DNS then that you do trust?
Provided by the government.
No, that is not the definition of a monopoly.

A monopoly is a entity that holds exclusivity to a good or a service.
Thanks, and congratulations: this project looks amazing
I mean, as they say, it can be managed with paracetamol (acetaminophen; extremely cheap, and safe when used as directed). If the only side effect is a treatable fever for a few days, then that doesn't seem like a real problem.

Obviously, the concern would be that these might not be the _only_ side effects, and this is why vaccines are subject to extensive testing. But if this is all that emerges, that's really good news.

This sort of thing is a common side effect of the seasonal flu vaccine, too.
Raspberry Pi keeps Alexa and other voice assistants from snooping on you