skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The concepts are interlinked, no need to take offence.
Sounds to me like someone sold Rite Aid a sow's purse, and is no wonder for a chain that had to go begging to its competitors to bail it out of insolvency. (They attempted then failed to merge with CVS and settled for giving more than half of their stores to Walgreens.)
My understanding is that it’s the other way around — both cases and deaths are being undercounted substantially. And testing capacity has been intentionally kneecapped by the govt (if you test fewer, you’ll find fewer cases, which looks good).

All told, COVID looks to be about 10x deadlier than the flu. Which is still low, but not trivial given how quickly it spreads.
I would seek out a therapist to work on your depression.
It is difficult and not advisable to make career decisions in the fog of depression. You can take small steps before committing to a big decision.

There are plenty of paths out of coding. You could become a sales engineer for one, a solutions architect is another. You could become a consultant. You could go back to school and get an MBA for example.
I recently watched a 5 year old video of Thiel at some conference (actually autoplay after some other video I can’t remember). I didn’t even notice it was that old because he’s so far ahead with his ideas that they are still relevant.
The source is right above. Have you clicked on the link? They don't exactly hide the truth. If you click the link to their "400 sources", you'll be taken to a page that lists all of their "Instant Answers" sources only which supports their goal of providing information without leaving DDG. Interestingly, Google gets a lot of shit for scraping results from websites and not giving them the direct traffic, even in this very thread, but I guess we have lower expectations for a search engine that's 99% Bing.
I genuinely don't understand what the big deal is. Brick and mortar stores lose a lot lose of money in theft. Walmart alone loses $3 billion each each year. It's their private space, so it makes sense that they want to know who's going inside. The majority of shoppers are using their credit card and store rewards card anyways, so they already know who most of the paying customers are anyways.
I follow a completely opposite model. I research and learn as much as I can about something before committing to it and get the best equipment I can afford. Consequently, I’ve enjoyed all my hobbies over the years and find myself going back to things often.

I have never regretted investing in quality tools. It’s not necessary to buy the most expensive option, but prioritizing quality and ergonomics over price is the right play (at least for me).
I also noticed random increase in latency when you put a rest api server behind cloudflare. Since then, I don't put api servers behind cloudflare anymore and limit cloudflare use on traditional websites only. I suspects cloudflare might flag api clients as bots (especially those with non-browser user agents) and do additional check on those requests, thus increasing the latency.
It could indeed just be declining sleep quality. No more 13 hour nights on weekends. Waking up to alarms every day even without work. Constant stress of the grind.

I've considered getting one of those REM signalling masks to recapture my lucid adventures. Haven't taken the plunge yet though
I don't think anybody is advocating for using crappy tools for 10 years, especially when a better option is available for just $20.
I'd previously read that COVID-19 might be a cardiovascular disease, which would account for the blood clots and heart stuff.

From the OC:

Marcus plans to also start collecting data from wearable devices, including Fitbits and Zio patches, which wirelessly monitor heart rhythms. “There may be large numbers of people who are suffering from cardiovascular effects of COVID-19 in the absence of other symptoms,” Marcus says. “I’m worried we’re missing those cases.”

I have no idea what it means to regard COVID-19 in cardiovascular vs respiratory terms. I'm just repeating what I think I've read. I really don't understand this stuff.
Hedonic multiplier is the idea that a CPU that's twice as good should count for twice the GDP even if it doesn't actually sell for that. It's a strategy for overweighting our strengths in those manufacturing indices by confusing the relationship between money and value.

Intel was the lynchpin of this lie. We are in a thread about Intel becoming non-competitive at highly-differentiated, tech-intensive, difficult-to-execute manufacturing.

No, that is not a great geopolitical position to be in.
Approval of U.S. Leadership by Country
Making transistors and connections is a bit like Minecraft: you need blocks to create structures and in this case the blocks are atoms of semiconductors.

It means that, leaving whatever physics considerations aside, the size of structures is limited by the size of the building blocks.

1 nm is about 5 silicon atoms so cannot be physically shrunk much further. I suspect that there are further physics limitations (e.g. you may be an isolation channel to be wide enough to actually isolate by preventing things like tunneling, etc.)
Agree - I do think they have something novel with Workers, but with the upsides (small overhead, SW-like API, WASM) comes downsides (poor native multi-lang support, JS API drives other languages).

But this announcement is all “man behind the curtain”: you’re not really writing Python, but instead JavaScript-as-Python, without any of the good parts of Python or modern JavaScript. Instead you’re likely to end up with a Franken-program that is neither.

As a way to appeal to some users, sure: this would have been a solid set of guides/tutorials on the edge of what they support. But as a major announcement, it feels like Cloudflare is trying to trick users into seeing Workers as something it’s not.
I'm not sure which necessarily comes first but yes.
When it applies to international business, it can be read as colonial extraction, sure, but I think this mentality is a core part of what's taught in business schools for the management of domestic workers as well. This is the basis of Frederick Taylor's "scientific management" and the raison d'etre of the modern corporate structure - lots of upper management whose job is to be the thinkers on behalf of the doers.
It appears that you've been downvoted but I believe you are 100% correct. I lost count of how many times "AI" was mentioned in the one pitch I was in the room for.
An example where this really doesn't apply is bicycles. When you're trying to get a child to learn to ride a bike, if you get a cheap steel bike from a big box store, it will be twice as heavy as it needs to be and can make the activity itself so difficult and unpleasant that the child decides they don't enjoy the activity.
Drawing a line in the sand is still an important step in the debate surrounding this issue. Now that the line is there, we can discuss legislating it.
I'm confused. Bokeh refers to the quality of the blur. Applying a filter to an originally sharp background (because of a deep depth of field) can absolutely simulate bokeh. It may be bad bokeh, but then plenty of lenses have bad out of focus rendering.
I like the idea. Not sure it works on its own, but something like
"Investment in tools should be proportionate to your knowledge about the domain" seems reasonable.

Beginner? Pick an cheap tool. Expert? pick the best tool :)
Thank you, I read the title and was trying to figure out what this person was talking about. There are references to thought experiments going back to the Ancient Greece and Rome.
Twitter Suspends Donald Trump Jr. For Tweeting Covid-19 Misinformation
There already are private prices -- the result of targeted coupons that certain customers get. Those coupons are tied to the SuperSaver(tm) account and aren't transferable.
Students Learn Better from Online Engineering Videos
Edge Chromium has Microsoft Translate which does a pretty good job as well
Is it me if does it seem like Cloudflare uses HN as a marketing channel? Pretty much anything they post gets voted to the front page. This post is just an extension of the press release-type article yesterday discussing the workers. I don’t have much opinion on Cloudflare other than my absolute disdain for them using Google reCAPTCHA and thus compromising user privacy. Other than that, I don’t give them much thought. I’m sure they’re reasonably great people. However, HN’s front page seems almost like it’s curated by Cloudflare. Multiple employees from the company presumably upvote the articles, and definitely comment on the articles. I wouldn’t be surprised if when the CTO posts something on HN that a chat/email doesn’t go out to let everyone in the company know to visit the article on Hacker News with the unwritten but implied suggestion to upvote it.

I find it hard to believe that the normal HN community is just dying to know about Workers two days in a row. That these articles are being posted by Cloudflare employees and presumably upvoted by same, it just feels inauthentic and seemingly violates the HN rules about organized article voting or at least the spirit of the rules.

Of course, this comment will get downvoted, which just proves the point.
I suspect that some of the language of credit and debit is so old that it was created before postive and negative integers were widely accepted
A high one? All of the tennis rackets I've seen are used until they are torn, broken, and been repaired multiple times (at least the cords). True I'm from Spain, but it's rare that rackets are used only once.
> ...who was clearly expressing an opinion but wasn't "defensive" enough in their post to clearly state their post was an opinion.

You are giving OP the benefit of the doubt, which is a nice thing to do, but what if it isn't actually true? One isolated case is no big deal of course, but what if this (people accidentally mistaking opinions for facts) was actually a very common phenomenon? And when combined with the power of the internet to propagate ideas (opinions perceived as facts), brought about a scenario where people's beliefs about reality are highly divergent from actual reality...in a complex system, might this possibly result in a kind of self-reinforcing negative feedback loop?

If one looked carefully, I wonder if some signs of this phenomenon could be identified within the system we find ourselves living in.
Building command-line app with Java 11, Micronaut, Picocli, and GraalVM
It's getting scary out there... especially with the younger generations. I'm legitimately worried about how our country will be able to operate in 30 years. If it makes it that long.
Not gonna happen. Brrrrrrr.

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Long version for HN moderators:

In the current climate, I believe, the outcome suggested in the title of the article, could be largely avoided, if suitable monetary policies are timely introduced, via responsible bipartisan legislation.
> I personally like the approach that Gwern takes (e.g. [1]), which works fairly well on screens where you have a lot more horizontal space

I do almost all my reading and general browsing on half-width windows (side note: I highly recommend this practice), but sometimes I break out a tab into its own window and maximize it for pages that don't play nice at half-width. Gwern's footnotes break if you ever transition from a full-width window and then drop down to half-width. (Whereas if you start at half-width and keep it that way, they work as intended.)
Nice article. Any caveats when translating this setup to another distro (e.g. Ubuntu) or another laptop brands?
The original ARM chip came from engineers at Acorn seeing first hand how few people were involved in the creation of the 6502 they were using in the BBC Micro and deciding they could have a go at a RISC chip themselves.

There's a lot to be said for having a go to see how far you can get.
>is management, bureaucracy,

It isn't just the USA. The natural state of things is to not be run that well. Any well run company will tend to descend and get worse, revert to the mean. It happens to everything, everywhere.
Glad I have a variety of different shoe sizes to alter my gait somewhat at least. Maybe that will become a thing.

My gait changes if I use hiking boots vs. bouncy runners for example.
> Every single person in America could be lifted above the poverty line with a one-time cash subsidy of around $10,000 per impoverished family (and about $7,000 for impoverished individuals). The total cost would be $170 billion, a little under 5% of the wealth currently controlled by 400 individuals.

From [Wealth, shown to scale](https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/)
> Currently far too many here, especially here, are the head in sand type. If they shout it down and declare it evil and see a big name step down they declare it fixed. Ignoring the fact the world is a big place and other companies and countries really don't care what your opinion is. So get in there and make sure where you live that this technology when it does become common place has the structures in place to protect the individual.

So because it's going to happen anyways, get on board or else?

I'm not a follower of defeatist thinking. Large structural changes can happen, but only through persistence and focus.

Saying "it's not worth it" right from the get-go is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
> I research and learn as much as I can about something before committing to it

For me, the time I end up spending on research and the mild stress I feel when trying to make a decision is not worth it at the very beginning.
This focus on business and capitalism is just one part of a larger jigsaw puzzle, which is an economy based on American exceptionalism and the American dream. The former states that we must be unique and the best, and the latter states that everyone is able to have a castle, a good job, leisure time, retirement, etc. But they don't explicitly state how we get those things.

At no point in the American story does it say that wealth is to be distributed fairly. The past century has shown that as popular revolts upended the old ideas of aristocracy and monarchy, the US elite became extremely fearful of the idea of a more equal society. Communism was the worst specter of this potential loss of personal wealth for the elites, but its modern forms are also increased taxation, universal health care, increased public education/transporation/housing, etc. The more you distribute wealth to the rabble, the less wealth you can have as an individual, and Americanism is all about personal wealth (personal freedom comes largely from personal wealth; you can't even be the king of a puddle if you don't own the land it sits on).

It's similar to ancient Rome. The citizens can live quite comfortably as long as they have soldiers, slaves, and foreign riches. The big corporations of today are a modern-day Roman army: roving the world to capture and bring home cheap goods. The generals, senators, and merchants get the majority of the loot, and the citizens get fresh bread and garum, fruit, and the occasional exotic spice.

And much like the circuses of Empire, as long as the rabble are kept in bread and games, they'll put up with anything. No health care, no education, 3 jobs? Keep them in bread and games and they'll be satisfied. Netflix provides the circus, Wal-Mart provides the bread. Why would the rabble want them broken up when they're getting exactly what they want?

So this notion of fighting the status quo is really anti-American. You can't get far with the argument without butting heads against the fact that people would have to give up their cheap t-shirts, and that some would always have to work hard and live poor their whole lives. There's no way around it: somebody has to pay for our wealth, surplus, and convenience. If it's not us, it'll have to be someone else.
Takeaways from “Turning Side Projects into Profitable Startups”
>I laughed out loud when they suggested that this is a “low stress” time to be pregnant. All indicators show the opposite.

For most people it isn't, but for some people it is. If you are financially secure, then staying at home with no obligations could very well be relaxing.

I thoroughly enjoyed the lockdown until about a month ago, when I started getting tired of it. I spent every day out in the woods reading.
Just note that a lot of more socialist countries do not have clearly higher taxes, and they look much better financially when you factor in the ridiculously high price US folks pay for healthcare
Windows service C# tutorial – topshelf introduction
As an old gamer, I would love to have next game consoles to include an emulator for every previous generation.
Being able to play with my whole (past) library.

Dreamcast, super famicom, neo geo, etc had amazing games, hope they will not be forgotten because of copyright protection...
Some of mine definitely started that way, but there's many that didn't.

I used to have a ton of false awakenings, as I would go lucid in nightmares and attempt to wake myself. Often successful but sometimes trapped in a cycle. I would have 3-5 false awakenings sometimes, just like Inception. I'm sure a lucid dreamers experience with that is what inspired the movie
I wouldn’t be surprised if when the CTO posts something on HN that a chat/email doesn’t go out to let everyone in the company know to visit the article on Hacker News with the unwritten but implied suggestion to upvote it.

That would be a bad idea as HN has a voting ring detector. If you look at my post history you'll see which Cloudflare blogs got upvoted and which went nowhere.
I assumed that they'd just link it up with credit cards even if I refuse to give my phone number. Or, maybe they'll invent some common encrypted face fingerprint with which they can identify customers across companies.
These papers are such unutterable horse shit it makes my head spin. You know what: Kriging on the data set (or any other kind of functional approximator) would do the same thing a hell of a lot computationally faster on the 3-4 shitty solutions they demonstrated. As a bonus; it's more likely to conserve angular momentum and energy.

The fact that HN weebs gobble this horse shit up as if it were pate de fois gras is also depressing.

TLDR: physics nerds do an unimpressive thing with neural nets. You want to look at something impressive and still mysterious involving physics and neural doohickeys: why do echo state networks (reservoir computers that are effectively projections onto a random hyperplane) reproduce chaotic time series, most famously Mackey-Glass, so well?
If facial recognition were 99.9% accurate, it would confuse someone with at least 350,000 other people in the US.
I have to admit, more and more I read about things on HN and just reason "ah this is tech beyond my grasp, and it makes sense to someone somewhere but not me". Lots of developer tools for languages I've not heard of or libraries that seem so remote and arcane I wonder who is using them.

Now in this case, it is solving a real problem, with a clear way to make money. Go Density Go.
> Sometimes you don't know what the minimum viable is because you are a beginner and don't know yourself well in that field.

+1.

Although the saying is "a bad workman always blames his tools", but I often heard the notion that a beginner should be trained using tools and equipment of decent quality, so it doesn't mislead the beginner or interfere with the learning process. After one has mastered the skill, one may choose something worse later on if budget is an issue. At this point, the limitation of the tool is more tolerable, since you already know how a task is supposed to be done properly, you only need to overcome the deviations.

Of course, this strategy is more suitable to the trainer than the trainee - it can only save money for you when you are trained at workplaces or institutions, where you don't need to pay for the equipment...
I do understand the difference between debit and credit. The point is not whether you can balance the books looking at them when they fit in a single page. The point is that in a balance sheet assets appear as $x (where x is rarely negative, an asset with negative value would become a liability).

People want assets to be positive in the balance sheet. This may be a convention but it's a reasonable convention. I don't think you're helping developers who try to understand accounting by telling them that assets are negative quantities (it may make sense as an implementation detail, but not so much as an accounting concept).
> In other words, while 2-8% of rape allegations are false (according to the article),

When i read articles about rate of false rape allegations, the established percentage was really a percentage of rape allegations that were assessed 'false' by police during investigation. Most rape allegations were just lacking evidence on both sides (not enough evidence for prosecution, not enough evidence for rejecting as false), so they are not counted in this statistic.
> people who don't have access to bank accounts or are undocumented how horribly they are treated and marginalized then come back and see what is and isn't a ponzi scheme.

Are you saying that the use of BitCoin significantly improves the situation of people without access to bank accounts? Or - that it has the theoretical potential to do so? If it's the former - then I disagree, if for no other reason than for the inability to exchange most things for BitCoin. As for the theoretical claim - you need to first prove that BitCoin is likely to become acceptable on a similar level as fiat currency, and moreover, that there are enough compelling usage scenarios for BitCoin over cash.

For undocumented immigrants, you will need to go to even more effort, because they can use their bank account at their country of origin.

About operation chokepoint - I understand there was an argument regarding the lack of due process in targeting certain companies, but - did it target individuals? In what way?

Now, indeed, governments do prefer capitalist interests to popular interests more often than not. But I don't see why this bolsters your argument. BitCoin is not useful not because the US government or other governments are great; and Mr. Varoufakis argued as much.

About "System D" - please post a link to what you mean, because I don't follow.
The very newest microwaves try to get you to install an app that phones home everything you cook in exchange for being able to scan a barcode to set the time and "hands free control."
I wanted to love that book. The only bigger sci fi disappointment to me is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the movie.
> To address your examples, the state should try to help people with abnormally low life expectancy achieve higher life expectancy

But we don't, and that's generally accepted, isn't it? There's a strong (and recent!) difference between male and female life expectancy, but we accept that, because "men" aren't one of the chosen minorities.

The issue is exactly what you mentioned there: "abnormally low life expectancy". Once we declare something normal, we're done, no more intervention necessary. We could just do the same with poor people and only help those that are abnormally poor. But we don't, because reasons.
I've seen the playback from the camera above and I'm okay with that one.

The other one targeting my face? Not so much (tho I'm less bothered, since wearing a mask).
Can someone on HN explain why some links to medium try to make me setup an account to read while others go to a clean well designed blog style post, the way they should.

Is this a setting based on popularity of the article? who is posting?
corded drills, and if you are an infrequent user you dont have to worry about the battery going flat.
Also with the Basicode broadcasts too. I remember the BBC broadcasting these and then us running them on our BBC B at home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASICODE