skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's worth mentioning that almost any public health, education, welfare program for children gives excellent returns on investment, compared to trying to apply that same money to people later in life (unemployment benefits, job retraining, etc).

The amount you can positively change a child's life for the better means that reasonable expenditures on known problems should almost be a no-brainer.

( I'll see if I can dig up an article link about the difference in outcomes per $ spent, versus age of recipient.)

Edit: here are multiple links within the article about the above: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/business/social-programs-...
Google's superpower: Your smart speaker with its always-on mics
> The elites are presiding over a 30% annualized decline in GDP without a care - mindboggling.

It's only mindboggling if you expect them to care about the entire GDP and not just their personal slices of the pie.
> motion activated dog barking plus auto-turning your TV on

Call it "Release the Hounds".
“I don’t believe that there is or could be a perfect programming language — at least not in the time scale we’re talking about, a few decades or a hundred years. Maybe in a hundred years, but not in my lifetime.”

Absolutely agree and wish more people did.
This statement is so wrong. I am using Julia for at least two mission-critical production systems by now (financial services industry). I have a complete dev ops workflow plus integration with enterprise databases, messaging systems, and cloud resources.
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My hunch is that you're probably correct about the heat effects of wireless charging on battery lifespan to some degree, but I'd love to see more emperical studies on the topic. Especially comparing it to usage of wired quick charge solutions that tend to result in much higher spikes in temperature than wireless charging, but over a shorter timespan. It's not obvious to me that one would be more harmful to battery lifespan than the other.

Newer wireless chargers also usually have some form of active heat management (i.e. fans), and anecdotally my phone only ever gets lukewarm to the touch, even with a somewhat bulky case on it.

At the end of the day though, I personally wouldn't mind having to upgrade my phone slightly faster than I would otherwise in order to enjoy the convenience offered by wireless charging, but definitely speaking from a position of privilege here.
That is roughly correct, although the 6.X series exists for Nokia devices.
> a form of their weakness

Princess Aura:
Look! Water is leaking from her eyes.

The Emperor Ming:
It's what they call tears, it's a sign of their weakness.
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If this had only been known and treatable 200 years ago, who knows how U.S. history could have been changed.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-so...
> visual scripting is really bad for now

Are there any visual scripting languages that aren't terrible? The system in unreal works but every time I use it I find myself wanting a text editor (I have spent years learning to program well, be that C++ or shaders, just let me do that!).
Sorry but can we back track and just go to basics. Facebook throws off a tonne of money. Yes, people get angry about the political nature of their content decisions, but at the end of the day these social networks can be enormous revenue streams. MS can pick this one up at a massive discount, and even if they later decide that they don't want to be in that business they can spin it out for a hell of a lot of money because they won't be under the hammer of being banned.

Strategically the fact that Microsoft isn't political is one of the advantages - everyone knows Facebook is the living emobdiment of a psychopath. But trying to convince people that those nerds who sell Office are secretly pushing a political agenda is going to be a tough sell. Microsoft isn't like Google, Apple or Twitter- they're not advertising a political ideology as part of their company image.
The reason the author flat out didn't consider SQLAlchemy’s alembic seems incorrect? Don't most people simply use a local testing db, generate migrations on that test db then just perform the upgrade on prod if it looks good instead of generating the migration directly on prod?
I can't wear masks due to a medical condition. For a while I just drove one state over to get groceries or ordered online for drive-up/pick up.

I went to a restaurant with some friends last weekend. "Do you have a mask" I was asked, a clothes pin holding my t-shirt around my face. The server said, "We'll give you one," and when I said I had a medical condition. He said, "That's fine," and I was glad that was it ... but I still felt so awkward and filled with anxiety and shame, even at our table where they weren't required. I just saw all the wait staff around and it made me my focus narrow and want to panic.

I think they have a negative mental effect and I think there's good scientific evidence they're not very useful:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/secondary-effects/#masks-...

I probably will just switch to drive-up pickup for groceries and only go to outdoor seating restaurants for the rest of the summer.

We're creating a world of shame and judgement over wearing PPE, and on top of that, there are thousands of people out there with PTSD and Anxiety disorders, with deep, personal, sometimes traumatic reasons, for being unable to wear a face covering. We're making people who refuse feel like they're killing grandma even though there is science that says that's unlikely. We're creating a new religious belief.

A man in a Tim Horton's was pepper sprayed by a cop for not wearing a mask. Another Canadian man was shot by police.

History will not look kindly back on this period of our humanity.
No Soli? Did they give up on it already?
Just thinking out loud: Wouldn't it be possible to get much more accurate temperature readings by having people open wide and imaging the backs of their throats? This could still be done at a reasonable distance.

Of course, that would require people to stop long enough to take a reading, and would be useless for the products trying to scan crowds with an unattended camera and AI.

And, of course, nothing is really going to help you if the thermometers are inaccurate to begin with.
I also own a 2XL and really enjoy it. Sadly google will stop supplying updates this fall.
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Brian Kernighan Interviews Ken Thompson (2019)
The Tesla story referenced above is a perfect example. NYT reviewer tells a story about how inadequate the Tesla is and how he ran out of charge and had to be towed. Tesla logs show that he essentially rigged the test drive to get the results he wanted. Tesla calls this out and the NYT basically stands by the story.

You're right that the NYT has a lot of employees. If this were one guy writing a bad review, and the NYT took some disciplinary action against him, wrote a retraction and wrote a new article, then I wouldn't hold it against the NYT and I would probably increase my respect for them. They had a problem, employee did bad work, and they corrected it - that's good.

Instead, they just stood by the bad work and kept on without doing fixing the core issue. "It's just one person" doesn't really make sense because it's actually the whole organization not correcting problems originally caused by one person.

Put another way, if they're willing to lie and district to get a more sensational car review, what else are they willing to lie about? Who knows, perhaps they'll lie about some country having weapons of mass destruction to help trick the country into a pointless war. Okay, maybe that's a bit extreme - obviously they'd have to be extremely far gone to do anything like that.
The section on "Electron, HTML5, CSS and JavaScript" is worth a read. We might have taken a few wrong turns when it comes to web technologies for applications.
>> there was no API available on iOS

> they used a private API not allowed in appstore

So how did I have selective memory again?
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Yeah do people really use their headphone jack? Most everyone that I know in my circle uses bluetooth headphones now. Some of them are quite good...maybe not audiophile level, but if I wanted to be an audiophile, I would listen on a proper AV receiver with an amp.
Yellow headlights used to be a legal requirement for driving in France and we had to put yellow film on when driving there until the EU standardized white headlights.

Apparently it was to reduce dazzle and glare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_yellow
I'm commenting to have a reference to this post, I'm curious to see what other people will say on this topic.

I agree, by the way.
A lot of psychological literature shows that one of the most important factors in a long, healthy, happy life is being part of close-knit social fabric, so it may be that "getting drunk in pubs" has the greater utility.
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New insulation technology changes the balance. Practical aerogel production means that heavy, shape-constrained high-pressure tankage is no longer needed, so that tanks may now be light and have the most convenient shape.

Furthermore, recent advances in catalysts for hydrolysis, some directly from sun exposure with no detour through electric form, make production of hydrogen from water and light practical.

New airframes with lifting-body designs, already better than those used now, have more room for tankage as a side benefit.

The practicality of any idea can change very, very rapidly, as details of solutions to engineering problems change. Recently solar and wind power were impractical. Now they are cheapest, and coal-fired power is impractical.
To me, the biggest limitation is the limited range in luminance. By design, half of my work (ig:@charliehagedorn) is in black and white. The difference in light intensity between sunlit snow and shadowed rock is often far, far more than 8 stops.

While it is the job of the photographer, these days, to collapse the dynamic range enough to get it onto a screen, there is a huge depth of experience awaiting us the day that our displays reach parity with our sensors.
Introudction to Ansible Playbooks
Wrote a quick tutorial introducing ansible and ansible playbooks.
I assumed the OP meant "camper" as a mostly-permanent thing mounted in a pickup truck bed, not a detachable trailer.
Shouldn't the C runtime do that before calling main?
I would respectfully disagree that things which are currently mandatory are better examples. We're talking about making new rules in response to a newly emerging phenomena. A change to the status quo, as it were.

Asserting that a change to the status quo is the same as the existing status quo that you already "bought in to" 5-50 years ago (for most of us) is in a lot of ways not the same at all.

Further it's possible to opt out of seat belts by not driving and you can kind of opt out of government IDs also by not driving or flying. It'd be difficult but if you really, really cared you could.

I'm not saying that these people's reaction is entirely rational. But if you want to try and understand them a bit better I think my very, very loose analogy might help you. If you don't want to understand them feel free to ignore entirely!
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Nope, I can't imagine anyone that would want to use this.
Seems like you could come up with a recursive formula to compute the expected number of steps to reach hedge N. Along the lines of how you compute the expected number of coin flips to get K heads in a row. I'm too lazy to figure it out right now though, so there may be some nuance I'm missing.
Outside in low density areas appears to be fairly safe, but it's a behavioral problem, and if masks are mandated and normalized, this thing'll be over in a jiffy and we can meet down at the pub for a pint.

R0 is an ensemble average, not a useful metric for any given person. It's likely that transmission is wildly variable, and that superspreading events are major contributors to transmission. Basically, households slowly pass the disease between each other, and occasionally one person manages to get a shitload of people outside their household sick. Masks appear to be extremely effective at stopping the superspreading events, which has a huge effect on R0.
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HSBC (at least in the UK) has a Voice ID feature that literally has you say "My voice is my password".
Exactly. Covering wages would have been a great investment -- preserving countless businesses that would be irreplaceable, or infeasible to start again. As life resumed, the businesses would be right there, immediately ready to go, serve their markets, pay their workers, pay their taxes, pay their landlords, preserve the equity of their owners, and resume community roles. Instead they're gone forever -- because such an approach is seen by a substantial cohort of Americans as an undeserved handout and moral hazard.
For a proper fix they would probably want the guest to remember places they had been previously and bias against those places.
All Samsung Galaxy S20 phones suffer from a terrible front camera bug
People are pretty dependent on their cell phones. It's our maps, ways out of places. You can even do bus tickets on them. It's our way to call for help, see if someone is okay. So it's weird not to have my phone on me.
Giving out system information over the phone without verification protects ADT from the “fake ADT sign” problem, or from people under buying systems.

I doubt they’re actually that cynical though.
Except it's not negligible, at all. Let's say, for argument's sake, the chance of death is 0.8%. Say coronavirus can't be contained, and 100,000,000 Americans contract it - not unthinkable.

In that scenario, a "chance of death less than 1%" would kill 800,000 Americans - an unfathomable number. That level of death would plunge the US into far worse than the Great Depression.
Or the De Havilland Comet ... arguably killed off the nascent UK jet aviation sector until we joined Airbus.
As far as I'm aware, ISO 9995-7 only specifies symbols which would be used on or in relation to a keyboard -- glyphs representing functions like Shift, Control, Escape, Scroll Lock, etc. Useful if you're trying to describe keyboard shortcuts, useless if you're trying to describe a more concrete operation like "zoom in", "add a comment", or "delete this".
I would say no, as the owner is still profiting based on the value offered (the home for rent). I wouldn't think that whether it's financed or not would change that.

So the rent seeking would remain constant. If the home+land is value at $500k, but the land is worth $200k, then 40% of the income could be regarded as "rent seeking".
The medical versions are different. They're not just reporting the actual surface temperature of the user's forehead. (Which is going to be a few degrees lower than core body temp)

They compensate.

I have an iHealth unit that Wyze was selling a few months ago. I check my temperature several times a day. I believe it's quite accurate. In the mornings it'll read 98.2˚F, afternoons I'm at 98.4˚F, and just before bed it'll read either 98.4˚F or 98.6˚F.

The fact that it's this consistent with the intraday variation gives me some confidence in it. But, granted, I have yet to have a fever. (That I know of!)

I'm not sure what it uses to arrive at the answer. It could be as simple as adding a fixed constant or multiplier to the forehead surface temperature. Or it could separately measure the ambient temperature and factor that into the radiant heat coming from my forehead to arrive at an answer.
The thesis itself is false and the implications fail because of it. Paying is no guarantee of the truth and it being free is no guarantee of falsity. If free was always false then they could be filtered more or less to subconscious effects in a "Don't trust the tabloids about batboy being the love child of the pope." sort of way.
This and parent are both good points. I actually knew this, but someho didn't think about it when writing my comment.
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> The birth of the anti-mask movement, etc.

Hogwash. Those people would have latched onto something else. The 1918 pandemic also had its "anti-mask" idiots.

Stupid is timeless and universal.

> You shouldn't lie to the public.

Agreed. Calling an active pandemic a "liberal hoax" started a huge problem.
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Presumably the 2019 Nobel Prize committee had seen that criticism?

Frankly I'm appalled that intestinal worms still plague so many human beings. I happily spend about $50 a year to worm a herd of horses, a herd of cattle, and a dog. Surely as a species we can find the resources to buy these children some pills, at least until we cowboy up and eradicate these worms from our planet entirely.