skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the problem... There's a pandemic, so people in areas that are more affected shouldn't be traveling as much. The US has been heavily affected, therefore Americans shouldn't be traveling internationally without a really good reason. Americans are not experiencing what Sri Lankans experience, because Americans can't go anywhere, and mostly shouldn't be going anywhere; Sri Lankans (under normal circumstances) experience real pain because of visa issues.

The article doesn't bother to interview any Americans that these travel restrictions have caused actual problems for. That would have been more helpful than interviewing a European academic. An anecdote (or some actual data) would helpful describe the real problem instead of just saying, "Take that, America!"
> "presenteeism" in the US that starts in highschool (where being physically present is much more important than being attentive in any form).

This is an important point, and kinda scary; because I'm now actively aware of it and how I haven't viewed it this way before.
> Gun companies on average don't go bankrupt

Maybe I'm biased because everything I know about guns comes from Forgotten Weapons [1], but my impression is the opposite: Very few guns are ever a commercial success, and absolutely loads of gun makers go out of business.

[1] https://www.forgottenweapons.com/
Indeed! Though even in non-rural environments their response times are too low to generally be of assistance in life-threatening violent altercations; and that response time is typically lower in predominantly african american neighbourhoods.

It's kind of a mark of white privilege to believe that the police will arrive in time to protect you, and that when they arrive they won't harm you.

Even for de-escalating domestic disputes and dealing with petty vandalism and neighbourly feuds they are likely a worse tool than social workers and such.
Yeah, "Rank Group" #7 but actual position 17, so not even in the top ten. I'd say "one of the most prized" should at least be in the top ten, if not in the top three, to actually be "most prized".

But since we don't agree on that, I guess agree to disagree.
Here’s a Casio F91W being used to create an improvised time bomb.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Al_Qaida_watch_tim...

As others have said, it’s cheap ($11), easy to mod, that’s why it’s such a great tool for making a time bomb.
Medicinal Cannabis Kills Cancer Cells
Loyalty rather.
You don't know much about firearms based on your response. An AR-15 is a high-powered rifle that has a lot of stopping power even at long range and is very accurate - that's why my buddy had one. It also doesn't have the spread of a shotgun, which is important if you need to shoot a coyote that's too close to your chickens -- you don't want to fire a round of buckshot and take out a bunch of your chickens in the process. The AR is not materially different from other semi-automatic hunting rifles you can buy.

The AR has become a political symbol because it happened to be used in mass shootings, but there's nothing about it that makes it unique in terms of it's ability to do harm. Even if you live in a state that's banned the AR-15, you can get a gun that's virtually identical that's not an AR. This speaks to the fact that Democrats talking about guns are like Republicans talking about tech. They're trying to control an industry and have made zero effort to understand anything about it.
> 32 bit iOS devices are ancient by now

The last iPhone with a 32-bit processor appears to be the iPhone 5c, last produced in 2015. As I type this on a laptop from 2015, I have to question your definition of "ancient".
Yup - then the whole world won't be able to automatically know you. It seems like a decent trade-off. We've already been using that model for many, many years.
The universe functions because all the rules are in place. But predicting the outcome of those rules without actually "replaying" them may be impossible.

Example 1: Conway's game of life.
Example 2: Collate conjecture.

If the number is even, divide it by two.
If the number is odd, triple it and add one.

The rules are deterministic. But you can't do any predictions other than running the simulation.
The following time series databases are popular right now:

* ClickHouse (this is a general-purpose OLAP database, but it is easy to adapt it to time series workloads)

* InfluxDB

* TimescaleDB

* M3DB

* Cortex

* VictoriaMetrics

The last three of these TSDBs support PromQL query language - the most practical query language for typical time series queries [1]. So I'd recommend starting from learning PromQL and then evaluating time series databases from the list above.

[1] https://medium.com/@valyala/promql-tutorial-for-beginners-9a...
The vast majority of the spam content is injected into these newsgroups via Google Groups itself, and is not even seen on other NNTP servers.

Blocking posting access to these newsgroups from GG is generally a good thing for those newsgroups.

Not being able to search the archive is the unfortunate collateral damage though. Google is not obliged to provide a Usenet archive, I suppose.

Formerly obtained deep links to the content also do not work!

If you formely cited a comp.lang.lisp article by giving a direct link into Google Groups, people navigating it now get a permission error.
These are truly sad things, but perhaps having a better model verification system in place would solve most of these problems?

Taking down Pornhub doesn't seem like the only solution worth considering...
Oh, that’s a good point!

However, after 17th century gun industry declined in Japan, and Japanese gun manufacturing was way behind europe in the beginning of 19th century [0].

But they really picked up the pace after that! Japanese Arisaka bolt-action rifles were the cheap-and-plentiful firearm used in many countries up to ww2. I have one Type-38 from 1905 or so and it sure is still very nice.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_of_Japan

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arisaka
Sure but not for being a tourist!

I mean we're the diseased and shameful ones here, so it's a bit different but still!
I've recently been using Julia to analyze around 180gb of CSV's and it's been really nice. The problem with Python (besides the sucky language) is that it's so slow you have to work pretty hard to make sure all your operations are calling into some C lib.

Trying to call a python function over 5m pandas rows? Forget about it, never going to happen. Anything that requires an if statement, never going to happen. Often you can express what you're trying to do in terms of vectorized numpy/pandas operations, but it takes some work.

Julia simply doesn't have this problem and it's a game changer. By and large, everything is reasonably fast and the compiler does a good job. Julia has made scientific computing so much more accessible than Python ever could. Anyone can publish a library and even if the code is rough, it'll usually be fast enough to be useful. With Python, unless you're a professional software engineer and willing to write in C, forget about sharing a new model or numerical technique with anyone else.

I think the lack of classes and strong support for function polymorphism has made Julia code pretty easy to write, easy to read, and very powerful. In Python each library is its own little world and you can't really mix and match them in a meaningful way. In Julia you can leverage multiple libraries in new and unexpected ways.

Perhaps the best part of Julia is the broadcasting operator (.) that allows any function to be easily mapped onto a collection. It's almost like using an array language like k or j! Also, macros.

And with the seamless Python interop, Julia should be your goto pick for any scientific computing project. It's even starting to replace C and Fortran, which I think is pretty exciting. The future couldn't be brighter for Julia!
Kea-typegen – autogenerate TypeScript types for Kea (React state management)
Face Masks for Covid-19 Breaking Facial Recognition Systems
Also – doesn’t the US passport mean you have to pay (or at least declare) taxes on your non-US income back to the IRS? That doesn’t seem desirable.

An EU passport would vastly outrank the US passport in terms of economic opportunity because it gives you the right to live and work anywhere in the EU without a visa or much paperwork.
Another reason to wear that damn mask!
Not if you ride the mobility scooter.
Foreigners have a lot of fear when the discussion turns to guns in America, but you have to realize that most Americans will never brandish a gun at someone nor have a gun brandished at them.

No more than a foreigner will brandish a knife at someone or have a knife brandished at them.

The media/Hollywood helps augment fears by misrepresenting the lethality of guns and also by cherry picking gun death statistics. Watch a movie and you'd think it was the easiest thing in the world to kill a dozen people with an AK-47 in seconds or take out a helicopter with a handgun. Actually go to a shooting range and you'll see what reality is like.

The chances of getting killed in a school shooting by an AR-15 for example are infintesimal compared to dying by suicide via a handgun.
Length of SSC articles... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23972789

I'm calling Poe's law, though :-)
I was taking "framework of the month" a little less literally.
Super cool idea! Especially considering investing in startups is traditionally reserved for accredited investors. Love the concept & how it opens up investing in startups to non-accredited investors like me :)
Put *.google.com in an adblocker and see how many sites break. There is no way to avoid them completely.
Is there any way to find out what the translation path is that GTranslate takes?

Background: I usually find I get better results when I translate from English to a random language X instead of from Y to X -- which is probably because it actually does Y -> English -> X. But I know more languages than Y and English, so it might be helpful to know what the "best" intermediary is, so to speak.
Yeah that's what I was thinking as well! Giving the mass public the ability to invest in early-stage starts is like opening up Pandora's Box, imo - it just feels too risky to me.
The reason Google Maps was successful in its early days wasn't because of its quality, it was because it was free.

The other options were just as good, but often you had to pay for them. With Google, you could repeatedly refine the bad results until you found something useful, because there was zero additional cost involved.
First, I really like your comment because it is honest and highlights how different Urban and Rural issues are. Lots of guns in the hands of non-law enforcement people is scary in a big city and most of the reasons are really good (i.e. accidents, crime, etc). In the country, not owning a gun is scary because of the inability of law enforcement to respond quickly when called... even suburbs often have slow police compared to dense urban areas.
I agree. Good data about the nuances around this seems tricky to find. In addition to reading The Millionaire Next Door a long time ago, I just did a little further research and found:

> A 2017 survey from Fidelity Investments found that 88 percent of millionaires are self-made.[1]

I'm not sure if there's anything super motivational about knowing that most millionaires are professionals near retirement age, though. :)

[1] https://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/on-retirement/articles/...
> fifty years ago if you were a US citizen in a foreign nation you were nigh untouchable

This is very much an exaggeration. Plenty of Americans were arrested along the Istanbul–Kathmandu trail 50 years ago for drug possession and spent some time in local jails, for example. And back then, if an American was arrested for drug infractions, he or she could expect as little sympathy from the local US consulate as today. Yes, for other sorts of crime, Americans might have been the beneficiaries of a very active consulate with some sway over local police and politicians, but Americans were hardly untouchable.
I don't know much about ocaml specifically, but speaking in the abstract, probably one of the best reasons I can think of for a compiler to target arm64 Linux is to target android phones.
What is a theoretical maximum time frame for Europe to ban visitors from the US? It seems like the allure of tourists dollars will likely trump public health concerns at some point. Does anyone see this lasting for another year or longer?
Interesting. Was it a regular Android notification or something custom in-app?

For me, there was no indication that this update was going to be any different from a minor bugfix they've rolled out a couple of days ago, until I've launched FF for the first time after the update and was a greeted by a full screen splash with the new version info.
Executives that waste company money(that's what you're proposing) are quickly deposed. They literally can't do this.
Can you elaborate a little on how maximizing productivity is directly related to offering a premium product? For what it's worth I disagree, this doesn't seem like a truth at all.
According to this list, Turkey ranks 6th in tourist destinations worldwide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tourism_rankings#Most_vi...
" Most people I've seen being surveyed in Europe around tourists don't care where they come from,"

When 50% of your tourists are absent, because Americans are not allowed in, and you're out of business ... 'you care where they come from'.

This is bad for everyone and it's not just tourism.
> There's a pandemic, so people in areas that are more affected shouldn't be traveling as much.

Indeed, but people from places like Thailand are allowed to travel because their nation has the pandemic under control! Why should the US be so behind Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and so on? It's not for lack of money.

> Americans are not experiencing what Sri Lankans experience, because Americans can't go anywhere, and mostly shouldn't be going anywhere; Sri Lankans (under normal circumstances) experience real pain because of visa issues.

I agree. We are still highly privileged.
This just isn’t true. The ethnic cleansing in the Uyghur regions is well-documented by several independent sources. EDIT: Here’s one: https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c

And BTW, your sources include a Medium post, a YouTube video, and Chinese govt controlled media. These are hardly reputable journalistic sources.
If this were the only criteria, then Chinese passports would be accepted visa-free in a lot more countries than they currently are. Not saying that travel bans will remain in place once the current pandemic ends (which might take a while still), but "high spend potential" is not the sole determinant for this kind of polices when outside of a worldwide health emergency.
Vietnam and Turkey are actually very nice.
Maybe you should examine your assumptions.
The mods are one of the reasons SO is my last resort for finding help these days (for years now). You can say it's "us" but its not, and never has been.
I get your point, but I think Doreen is actually being reasonable here. Even if you just consider children, the link between covid-19 and Kawasaki Syndrome is well-established (https://www.cdc.gov/kawasaki/about.html).

But, it's not like there hasn't been additional coverage on covid-19 as a circulatory disease rather than a respiratory-first one.

https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2020/07/what-is-known-ab... and https://health.clevelandclinic.org/should-you-be-worried-abo... and https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/autopsies-indicat... for consumer-oriented overviews.

A recent covid-19 study here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32291094/

And this from a post-SARS study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6178621/

There's plenty of primary and secondary research out there. The problem, I think, is that mainstream media headlines have been -- and continue to -- present covid-19 as a respiratory virus.

Perhaps like Doreen, my family have been tracking the circulatory effects more closely than most, given we have a toddler with a heart condition and family with diabetes.
Most Americans just don't tremendously care. I wouldn't travel internationally right now even if I could; look at what happened to the British tourists in Spain, who got a surprise 2 week quarantine order dropped on them.
So, to make a different criticism from Chomsky, I will note that regardless of whether insecurity of workers is an end goal, an explicit goal of the fed is to maintain 'low' but non-zero unemployment. This, at least, is well-documented.

The left, naturally, points to that as an example of how the government is actively taking steps to depress the labour market (during good economic conditions).

Would you find that criticism to be more on-the-nose than Chomsky's claim?
Sample handling mechanism in new Mars rover
Thanks for the great resource! I first encountered Peter Thiels thoughts in his interview with Erik Weinstein in The Portal and was blown away by their discussion.

Looking forward to reading these!
GitHub's Public Roadmap
This principle also doesn’t work well for things that have practically no ceiling to their cost, like clothing, cars, and furniture.
Instead they ought to just send you an invoice for the items you borrow. If the invoice goes unpaid, it can eventually be sent to collections.
Turkey is a very popular destination for Danish people.

I, for one, would very much like to visit Venezuela and Vietnam.
> The last 3 ground wars either lost or ended in stalemate

Afghanistan, Iraq and ?
It's a regulated crowdfunding - so there is a fair amount of reporting startups need to do before they can raise and they're limited with how much they can raise from unaccredited.
Turkey is a pretty popular tourist destination - good climate and one of the worlds most ancient civilizations.
I'm sorry to say, I chose that word quite specifically. I don't mean loyalty. I mean solidarity.
It's funny how in 2020 PHP use is a sharply bimodal signal—it either means your tech leadership is clueless/absent/hopelessly-terrible, or they are among the few who've achieved true enlightenment.
> To add to this, most of the additional countries aren't really umm... worth traveling to, at least for most people.

This is a quite unfortunate attitude to have. Every country I've been to has something to offer, has helped me gain perspective and empathy with other people and has been "worth" traveling to.
Google Image Search used to be perfect, around 2-4 years ago or so they swapped out the old school system which seemed to take some sort of fingerprint of the image and then tell what it was from the context of pages the image was found on.

The current system seems to use machine learning to try and tell what the content of the image image is then just provide generic results for that term along with a similar color palette.

Used to be able to find a movie screenshot on Tumblr, image search it and the name of the movie would come up. These days it'll go recognize the image is a woman on a street using ML, then show you results for "Woman" or "street" in the color palette of the image and if you're lucky you'll get a link to Pintrest too which also doesn't contain the context and just pushes you into a Pintrest onboarding flow.

Feels like the Image Search team is more preoccupied with solving problems which are interesting to them with zero interest if the tool actually better or not for people who use it every day.
The business frequently expects IT to solve business problems.

The business problem should be solved by the business, then IT should transform the business system/process into a technical system by following well defined requirements.
Also cheap drills seem to have poor batteries or electrical setups that are rough on battery life. Even 6 months of a casual usage (pulling it out every other week for some small job) might be enough to basically brick the thing.
Hopefully they changed the address bar back to be non-Chromeified.
How creative AI techniques became a threat for national security
Only after the first $100,000. I don't see a big problem with this either.

> An EU passport would vastly outrank the US passport in terms of economic opportunity

Extremely debatable, even more so with using the term "vastly".
Interesting that there's no mention of agile tools like Project cards, issue dependencies, etc..

I wonder if the plan to incorporate features from Azure DevOps is still on-going.
I bought a bike because I have at least 6-7 hours additional each week to do something new instead of commute, although as suspected, work is already attempting to steal from me.
Peer review is the heart and soul of scientific research. I do think there is room to speed up collaboration, but we should not compromise the rigidity of the scientific method, especially with as many unknowns as with the current coronavirus, establishing definite knowns is very valuable.
The conditional probability of shark attacks (2015)
You can’t do a rewrite on something involving 10-20M jobs without a migration plan, which is essentially why huge complex problems don’t get solved. When you get into actually coming up with real plans, you end up in webs that just touch too many people. And trust me, these are not problems that are solved by throwing money, they’re deeply serious webs of entanglement that won’t be solved with simplification.

I’ll give you one counterexample, but trust me there’s millions of them. Meatpacking is overrun with off the books labor. You could throw around $15, $30 an hour salaries and it wouldn’t matter because salary isn’t the killer. It’s lawsuits from people falling in the equipment that simply go away when the laborer wasn’t supposed to be here. It’s being able to have something like coronavirus come around and react. I’m not repping the current system but catcalls to just solve it aren’t actually helpful, they’re a big reason why we are here in the first place.
And who gives a crap about the livelihoods of the sources Google pulled that info from and now will never see your traffic.

You think Google did all the original research and information creation to populate their answers?

And since when do they provide decent attribution and link-throughs to the sources they used, so you can check their graph? Or do you really trust Google's automation of everything to generate accurate results every time?
You are hugely overestimating American power 50 years ago. We were in the process of losing the Vietnam war, the Korean war was basically a draw, were unable to impose our will on a tiny island nation 90 miles off of our cost, and we were on the verge of the 1973 oil crisis.
If it makes anyone feel better, most U.S. citizens have _never_ had access to any part of the world because they've been too busy barely making ends meet working dead-end jobs with no healthcare or vacations.

So, in the grand scheme of things, is it really so terrible if the middle echelons feel a little squeeze as well as a result of political malfeasance from the people that they (collectively, not individually) put into power?
Indeed: https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/house-bill/2589

Notably, Sonny Bono for whom, along with the other sponsers I withhold invective purely out of respect of this community and its value of civil discourse.

I find the extension from 50 to 70 years extremely distasteful; manifest contempt by 'artists' for the commons and society's investment in their success.