skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What risk, exactly? The risk of going outside, going on holiday, spending time with other people?

If the risk is the same or lower than flu, which these studies say it is, then we should act as we do in flu years, which is every year, i.e. we shouldn't be changing anything.

you're pushing politically-filtered numbers with copious hand waving

No, I'm providing hard data in the face of people who have been misled into thinking the virus is more dangerous than it really is. That isn't "copious hand waving". Perhaps though, you wish it was? The virus became long ago a deeply ideological matter for the left, some of whom seem to almost hope it's very deadly. But my points here aren't ideological, they're factual.

Most developed countries have gotten this under control. The US has chosen not to.

I'm not American but this strange "we Americans uniquely suck" narrative just seems silly.

In the past few days the UK decided everyone returning from Spain must go into 14 day quarantine where they aren't allowed out of their house for any reason, not even to buy food, and this must be done even if they are healthy. It was done without any warning and there will be no wage compensation for those who can't work because they're quarantined. Then almost immediately after they decided that actually 14 days wasn't necessary after all (science!!), and dropped it to "only" 10 days.

The justification for this was a supposed "surge" in Spanish cases. Absolute numbers are of course still tiny, but a quick check of the data shows that the surge started at exactly the same time that test volumes started ramping up, and the proportion of tests coming back positive has hardly changed.

There are similar stories of self-inflicted wounds from nearly every country except, it seems, Sweden and bizarrely, Belarus.

And that was my original point. COVID-19 is an entirely artificial disaster, made by the absurd and illogical reactions of people. It's not a natural biological disaster. The bad effects are all coming from the decisions people are making.
From rocks to icebergs, the natural world tends to break into cubes
The original PNAS publication can be found at [0]. I copy here (most of) the abstract, I think it's very nicely written:

"Plato envisioned Earth’s building blocks as cubes, a shape rarely found in nature. The solar system is littered, however, with distorted polyhedra—shards of rock and ice produced by ubiquitous fragmentation. We apply the theory of convex mosaics to show that the average geometry of natural two-dimensional (2D) fragments, from mud cracks to Earth’s tectonic plates, has two attractors: “Platonic” quadrangles and “Voronoi” hexagons. In three dimensions (3D), the Platonic attractor is dominant: Remarkably, the average shape of natural rock fragments is cuboid. When viewed through the lens of convex mosaics, natural fragments are indeed geometric shadows of Plato’s forms. Simulations show that generic binary breakup drives all mosaics toward the Platonic attractor, explaining the ubiquity of cuboid averages."

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/07/16/2001037117
You're over-reacting. Neither the benefits nor the harm is fast enough so that you don't have time to adjust. If you continue doing something despite it causing active harm, that's just on you (as in generally).
And zen3 is planned for release later this year...
I Got Teed Off and Went on a Long Rant About This Opinion Piece on the App Store
The failure to a "repaired PCB" stands out just scrap the damaged one would make more sense.
Why?
There's a lot of synchronising apps saving your bookmarks already - this wagon has passed...
what an amazing brand Kodak is /was. Worldwide and a few decades back, their name was everywhere.

I posted this to also show that USA is finally waking up and doing essential meds in house. Can't ask China to ship penicillin if we're at war with them.
Aw yeah! I used to use this site all the time, I had quite a lot of bookmarks in here. I think I have an export floating around somewhere but it will be great to see the site up again.

I always found the folksonomy model for aggregating and finding content very interesting, unfortunately it seems to have fallen out of fashion as sites like del.icio.us disappeared.
Intel has about 10x the revenue and 10x the employees of AMD. AMD is doing well lately, but if times get tough Intel can survive for a very long time just on inertia, just like IBM and HP are surviving. AMD probably can't.

Intel also has plenty of time to get their mojo back if they still have the drive to succeed. A lot of very smart people work there. They just need leadership that can execute. In a lot of ways Intel was a victim of its own success, having a virtual monopoly on good CPUs until Ryzen came out. Leadership got lazy. Leadership needs to fix that. It's not fair to say that the engineering culture there is dead.
Feel the same way. Other than conference talks I hardly watch technical stuff on YouTube. Or really much of anything.

Plus for the creator, making high-quality videos takes so much time. Seems like a part-time endeavor and given the niche it's hard to expect something big from making these videos. Text you can write a lot of without devoting your life to it.
English sucks, the phonic rules are all over the place but; Is women the only word you do pronounce according to those rules, would you understand me if I said "women"? A key concept is having a reading buddy that can listen to you and try to understand.

I would say that the more frequent the word the more likely it is that the pronounciation is a tad different from spelling.
I agree but considering the minimum wage is 0 I don't understand how you came up with the 2x-3x number.
Sorry aware of what? Isn't it how new material gets to people?
If you don't have skills to aquire new words, you may get thru elementary but have a very hard time in hs and uni.
I would never apply for a job that made me do a homework assignment. This is a huge red flag that this employer doesn't value your life outside of work at all.
I actually think it's kind of a step back. In former times only rich people could afford to do anything with the arts, this is the first step that only rich people's kids can study the arts.

I don't personally get why anyone would ever do that, I always hated anything with art and music in school, but I don't want to stop them going for it. They need to live with the fact anyway that they might get a lower-paying job in the end and work in a field that's not related to their degree. But it's their choice.
Agree.

Of course Disney aims to maximize their value of the IP, also via methods that most don't feel are honest and net good for society.

But that's where law makers should be expected to hold back and take the opinions and interests of others into account too.
the bookmark space for me is still broken, I think delicious were close to fixing this in there early days pre yahoo.

I cant wait to see all my bookmarks from 2000's probably just gifs but memories.

good luck Maciej Ceglowski
Ask HN: Is above 1000 a month too expensive?
Software license. Unlimited seats. Per Site. I don't know anything about how to price, just considering what's the value of this. This will price out smaller buyers, but will it be too expensive for larger business consumers?

I haven't worked out the marketing yet but the product is at https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserGap

I guess I'm wondering how this compares to other relatively expensive business software license purchases, and what people's gut reaction is, to what I think is a very expensive price. A quick summary is it's a browser you can embed in your web app, one use case is to unify user flows across disparate applications.
The algorithm, which works quite close to the way you described, is called "beam search": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_search
I am pretty sure that this project is not prioritized in any way. It's a research project with funding from all over the world. It should be compared to the CERN project where scientists from all over the world try to understand science behind it better. One could argue that CERN is a waist of money since there are other fields of study in physics which seem to have more potential. We should be happy that states from all over the world are willing to pay for a research project, which does not have a direct "value" for the next couple decades. There will never be a private investor for this scope of project since there is no monetizable value behind it yet and maybe in the next 50 years.
I Automated Sharing My Blogposts Across the Web
Did anyone tried to develop a scammer time wasting service with GPT-3, something like https://spa.mnesty.com/ ?

Ideally it should also support hangouts because the romance scammers that spam me almost every day with a new address always ask to move to an hangout conversation in their initial message.
>You're imagining a society that has overcome the default state and maintains their progress. They haven't changed the default.

They have changed the default from the perspective of an individual in that society, or if the society is large enough to encompass the majority of people, they have changed the default even more. The default state in the abstract sense is not only poverty, but the struggle against a state of non-privation through human labour.

>Unless you distribute everything perfectly equal, you'll always have one half that makes less than the median.

Nobody is denying this fact, and no serious philosopher (with the exception of Barbon in the 18th century) contends that "distributing everything perfectly equal" is possible or even desirable.

What is "poverty is the default" supposed to be telling us? What is its rhetorical function?
Maciej is the owner of Pinboard.
How do the Chinese deal with this?

Presumably they’ve had this problem for a while.
I like the lack of webcam in my G14 - I see it as a safety feature. Also having a separate device for that, I can do upgrades.

What I don't like though is the lack of PageUp, PageDown, Insert, Home and End keys - this took some time getting used to.

Still, performance and battery life more than make up for all that. And the screen is also decent.
Yeah I have not really gone down into the C/C++ that level and I haven't touched the Microsoft side eg. .NET

Closest thing for "native" is using the wrappers for JS which for my needs works. I did have to force myself to figure out how to get a basic Android widget (Java) to work that was tough.
Is there some easy to use software to use your phone as a webcam for your laptop (android -> linux/windows/mac) ? And do you use a stand for the smartphone for that?

Otherwise you need to connect to each conference with multiple devices, choose which microphone to use, share a presentation on one device, but the camera on the phone, ... . Doable, but annoying.
Norway, too.

Only ever encountered WB questions at one place, and it was a FAANG-type American company with a satellite office here.

Everyone else were just normal interviews, with mostly behavioral questions, and some softball technical questions.
There was a good, widely quoted paper that i read back in my uni days that analyzed crime rates all over uk in context of surveillance.

It heavily depends on the location type - parking lots were way way safer with CCTV presence, but there was no effect in public pedestrian spaces.
Maciej Ceglowski owns Pinboard. Perhaps, opening it up again will make using Pinboard more attractive. He could use it as a form of upselling
Why is this posted now? Macej bought Delicious a few years ago.
For future reference, this is what the page says as of this HN post: http://web.archive.org/web/20200729083406/http://del.icio.us...

> July 15, 2020

> Hi, my name is Maciej Ceglowski, the latest (and hopefully last) owner of del.icio.us.

> The site will be back online soon. If you had data stored on del.icio.us after 2010, you'll be able to export it here.

> [...]

> You can reach me at maciej@ceglowski.com

I also hope the site will be back online.
Thanks for posting this.

Your friendly email inspector who needs to explain this x times a day.
AI based “gender verification” startup demonstrates AI bias again
Although the article is quite old (1999, one year before Douglas Adams died) I still find it refreshingly up-to-date.

In fact I found a paragraph that was true then and I believe is even more true now:

<< Because the Internet is so new we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the web. Imagine trying to apply any of those criticisms to what you hear on the telephone. Of course you can't "trust" what people tell you on the web anymore than you can "trust" what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. [...] >>

And, two others that I personally resonate with:

<< Another problem with the net is that it's still "technology", and "technology", as the computer scientist Bran Ferren memorably defined it, is "stuff that doesn't work yet." We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. >> [As a personal note, I think our current internet is still "technology" by this definition...]

<< 3) anything that gets invented after you're thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it's been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really. >>

I'm glad I've stumbled over Douglas Adams site... I just hope it won't "bit-rot" like many other old sites... (Granted it can still be accessed through the Internet Archive.)
Yeah I was definitely fortunate to have a friend/ability to buy time to learn by becoming "homeless"/living on a couch and as mentioned no kids.
Isn't this a repost ? I remember reading similar article last year
Looks like he'll be putting it back up relatively soon according to what he posted there
You can't cover it if someone is demanding you make it available in order to be provisioned with some essential service. And of course you can zap an RFID chip too.

The specific tech here isn't what people are worried about.

to be identified, no implants are required, just your face

Not if everyone is wearing a mask ;) But more seriously, the sort of people who worry about this also worry about widespread facial recognition too, so I'm not sure what kind of point this is meant to be.

Phones are indeed tracking nightmares but they can also be switched off or left at home without any social expectation you have one with you. A qr code embedded in your skin, that's there specifically for the purposes of allowing governments to rapidly exclude parts of the population from vital services if they don't get injected with something, has very different connotations.

At any rate I don't really want to debate the merits or demerits of quantum dots. Like I said, it might be cool, I didn't see any mention of what the dot would actually contain in the papers. But you don't have to be some kind of wild-eyed lunatic to think that maybe building this kind of infrastructure will have bad side effects. Remember that by now a lot of people don't trust public health officials at all. They've been both misleading and misled very routinely throughout COVID. Their judgement is highly suspect. They're incredibly prone to panic, bad use of data and over-confidence in the opinions of academics and scientists. Now they may soon want to mandate injections of vaccines, which do unfortunately have a long track record of safety issues regardless of what the anti-anti-vaxxers may claim. Look up Pandemrix for an example. Allowing public health to efficiently enforce their questionable judgement calls isn't obviously a win.
Not only that, before ITER we used to work on JET in 1991, which is in kind of a twin relationship with ITER. Abandoning ship now for a technology that isn't even proven to be viable in large scales would be insanity.
How relevant would be del.icio.us these days?

(edit: typo)
For me it was the communal curation effect.

Find someone else with an obscure site or tag and check what else they have saved. It was a deep, deep rabbit hole.
No disagreement with most of your arguments. Just for the record, I did not wonder why people resist, I offered an explanation.
You could try Dekko. They have DekkoLYNX, which is a secure (e2ee) video conference and DekkoVault, which allows secure file sharing, email, chat, and document sign offs. DekkoVault allows you to share sensitive information only with people, who would see it. Have a look at https://www.dekkosecure.com/videoconferencing and https://www.dekkosecure.com/dekkovault
Poverty is not a natural state.

It's artificially created and violently enforced through property law.
For example look at Plots 11.12 to 11.15 here[0], which show an inverse correlation between growth and inequality and a direct correlation between tax rates and inequality.

There are some pretty simple arguments that would justify this: one individual with 20 times the average income is going to spend less than 20 individuals with the average income.

Note that I'm not arguing for some Soviet-level of extreme equality, I'm just saying that the US in the 60s or Sweden from WW2 onward are much healthier economies than Europe during the Belle Epoque or the US nowadays.

[0] http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2019GraphiquesTableau...
As a french, i can say that by using many of these words you would sound silly.
But on the long run, it is clear that through regular changes to languages, people speak differently and actually believe to "think" differently.

More and more I see people writing emails with the Anglo-saxon cultural codes (ie. putting 3 lines of chit-chat at the beginning that no one cares about / saying "i am happy to ..." / etc).

And politicians are also gradually speaking more and more like CEOs of US companies. They use more and more terms like "resilience", "governance" (copy-pasted from english and with no actual meaning in French) which don't mean anything to most French. They start to have "managers", not "chefs", etc.... they "recommand", they no longer order.
This is standard for CPU manufacturers. I haven't had a clue what the hell has been going on since they killed off the Pentium 3.
Good luck moving into your neighbors' cave in the stone age, or picking the apples from the tree they consider their own.

You don't think that today's poor are better off than stone age humans?
Why would you penalize an employee for getting help on a problem? Stack overflow away. Troubleshooting is an essential skill.
Anecdotally I can second you here.

Back in 2012 I lost 12 kg in about 3 months by counting calories to get to my ideal weight, it was pretty hard as I was still eating breakfast + lunch + dinner and trying to squeeze my calories around the day.

Fast-forward some years, 2015-16 I wanted to drop 5 kg during winter but wasn't very keen on counting calories again, I started skipping breakfast and having late lunch, unaware of intermittent fasting schemes, restricting myself to eat between 3pm-9pm made it much, much easier to control my hunger pangs. After a week or two I didn't wake up hungry anymore, at all, the hunger feeling was much easier to control and forget about.

To this day I don't really feel very hungry during a day, at least not in the way I would feel before where I needed to eat, would get quite irritable and so on. I've forgotten to eat proper meals during days I've been active just because the hunger doesn't really bother me, it's a pretty good feeling to be honest.
What do you mean by that? Prevention, detection or prosecution? Genuinely interested. For certain crimes (I'm thinking of the Salisbury poisonings for example) CCTV seems, on the face of things, pretty central to finding out what actually happend.
Interesting to compare Q2 2020 results between Intel & AMD:

Intel
Revenue: 19.7B, Net Income: 5.1B, Market Cap: 209.42B, P/E: 9.06

AMD
Revenue: 1.93B, Net Income: 157M, Market Cap: 79.2B, P/E: 133.82

But by the sentiment of all media reports INTC is in sharp decline & AMD is killing it, yet even in their most recent results Intel revenue/earnings still dwarfs AMD's.
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Agreed, the Opteron completely destroys the Pentium 4, there's no coming back from that!
What’s the best case scenario for them though? The mobile market is already permanently blown for them. Best case AMD chips are heavily defective next gen and Intel price/performance blows AMD out of the water with 7nm...which AMD has now already shipped.

My pet theory is that the Trump funds to keep American microchip manufacturing afloat has made a Intel complacent. Maybe they’re just dunces though.
Wow, it used to be one of my daily sites to visit. I also created a web called populicio.us with data from del.icio.us.
Exactly, my conclusion would be that totally unfettered capitalism tends to collapse either because of catastrophic economic crises, or war or revolution. As such even capitalism itself doesn't benefit from the extreme exploitation of the weak.
I mean any anarchist that means it in the leftist sense will always fall into the same trap: that they're attempting to describe a system with very specific social and economic outcomes, while either failing to describe the apparatus necessary to achieve those outcomes, or invariably describing an authoritarian state while calling it anything but.

"It's not a state. It's a collectivist system of syndicate guilds that democratically allocate..." let me go ahead and cut you off there. That's a state, and an extremely authoritarian one at that.
But then, half of the time the English words end up being used anyway, despite what the Académie Française might think.

Outside of government forms, you basically never see 'courriel,' and you hear 'PC' way more than 'ordinateur'

I do love the word 'internaut' though.
They've had some design wins. For instance, the new PolarFire SoC FPGA-plus-CPU systems from Microsemi (recently bought by Microchip) use two SiFive designs, a simple microcontroller-like core and a quad-core application processor: https://www.microsemi.com/document-portal/doc_download/12445....
The new owner is the developer of pinboard.in. The pinboard API was modeled after del.icio.us, so it might just be a data import into pinboard exercise.
Very interesting work! Great to see people are still putting effort into alternative theories of gravity.
In the minds of many people (especially British politicians!) the UK is actually "The City State of London with Four Inconvenient Countries Attached".
Oh but it totally will works. Economic incentives change decisions at the margins... sure, many won't switch from philosophy to engineering, but faced with increased costs (for example), many will.

My mom back (in the USSR, a slightly different system where the number of spots + level of desirability, rather than the cost, determined how hard it was to get a particular degree) wanted to be an archaeologist, but the competition to get into the relevant school was too high, so upon failing to get in she chose to not wait another year and have another shot, and instead became an electrical engineer (also a BS/MS position). Nothing would have prevented the Soviet planners from creating more spots to train archaeologists at the expense of electrical engineers. If the banks in the US flat out refused to provide loans for degrees in say literature, much fewer people would get these degrees.
I'd like to add one more

* and also assume that a corporation named something without figuring out what the name meant!