skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The perpetrator defrauded the bank, not you. The fault for your account not showing the correct balance should be on the bank.
Which can be restated as "Economic theories, on average, have little predictive power."

I'm glad I took econ classes, but it is not a very practical discipline.

And, yes, I think it's a stretch to call it a science when you can't do meaningful experiments.

I object to calling geology a science for the same reason.
I doubt Apple rate is this high.
Humana partners with telehealth startup Heal, invests $100M in it
Homeland Security seized $2B from travelers
The question becomes 'as opposed to what?'

The article says that studies which controlled against dance or sports showed no additional effect. Which looks really good for music IMO- because exercise has incredible benefits.

Maybe as compared to sports, music doesn't show additional benefit- how about as compared to watching YouTube videos? Playing flappy bird?

I find it hard to believe that we can really 'prove' anything with respect to child development. The studies have a phenomenally low lack of control on one end, which produces a LOT of noise. On the other end- we have no effective ways of measuring child development. Standardized tests or IQ produce metrics that are somewhat useful to measure how productive a child may be, but is that really what you want to optimize for as a parent?

What we really want to do for our kids is optimize for lifelong happiness. And we aren't even remotely close to measuring that.
Thats just one of their datacenters?! Thats huge!
Don't want to get too far off topic but I'm curious what are your thoughts on Solid?
Remember when we all were happy that Google was finally starting to break down the Microsoft monopoly? And then they ended up becoming a way, way worse monopoly? Good times.
Let me take a crack at this.

“ When your language is so tiny and unpopular that a growth of couple of small projects in an industry your don't like can overshadow the whole existing community”

So you decide to open your argument with an insult to the community... Not a great showing.

“ If you create neutral open source tool like a programming language, you have to be OK with people using it to do stuff that you don't approve of.”

So I have to be okay with crime and scams? I can’t decide to call attention to it and recommend that people don’t let the bad influence guide the direction of the whole language?

“ I am wrong, and who am I to make decisions for other people anyway?”

Good thing this article didn’t try to do that.
Interactive Notebooks – Pluto.jl
I'm not sure I get it - is the joke that "ML" could stand for Marxist/Leninism?
There are thousands of scam penny stocks as well. The number of programming languages tainted after being used by them is 0.
I thought it I validates the attestation chain so the TPM won't play ball. Hang on...

https://superuser.com/questions/1278841/bitlocker-asking-for...

I cant find the reference I'm looking for which was a decent explanation about why the days of traditional style dual booting where the Linux boot loader let's you choose between Linux or Windows using GRUB to choose between Linux and Windows were over, but that question basically covers the same ground.
Looks like its in the realm of

Yes, you need to be able to "sign" 110-130 wpm.

https://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/topics/how-fast-should-i-si...
Commercial chips still use gold bond wires (except flip chips), but that's fairly little. Apart from that it's just copper or aluminium for the metal layers, a bunch of silicon and a bunch of silica dust bound with some epoxy resin. Most of this isn't worth anything to reuse.
Once the gold has been recovered, are they still able to recover other metals? I don't mean this antagonistically, this is a serious question (in case you know).
> We have the luxury of having job security and very high salaries

I think this view is colored by SV salaries. There are many places where programmers are paid in line with other kinds of skilled labor.

> if IP was abandoned and nobody could make money on software we would all be calling for lawsuits

Doubt it. Quite a few companies already make money on integrating solutions, support and consultancy services.

A great amount of software already has very lax licenses.

But I am not calling for that. I am simply asking for a bit of compassion during an unprecedented situation.

> Just because one medium is easier to pirate

Are you saying books are easier to pirate than software? If so, I have news for you.

> Nearly all libraries already have digital lending programs that are legal and controlled

Quite a few don't or the process is super convoluted, proprietary, requires plugins, mobile apps, Windows only etc.

> IA just distributed pirated copies.

There were certain restrictions in place, like time restrictions, but I guess this shows there's no appeasing the copyright lobby so next time IA might as well place no restrictions on it whatsoever. The backslash is the same.
In my experience doing video work for some of these type events, its possible for a music festival to negotiate riders that work for the festival an implement them properly, it might take a few more people and decent planning ahead of time.

The problem is that it requires a fair bit of documentation, coordination and processes to make it work, which some festivals do fine and I guess some just don't.

The key is that your head QA person knows who is in charge of what and has a process for holding them accountable, one such way would be to create a checklist of all the items that need to be checked, based on the riders, production requirements, regulations, expected amenities, plussing, etc.

Its also needed for each stage of the process, planning with stuff like speaker modeling, truss engineering, power load calculations, network and communication requirements, etc... on to checking the event area after load in and setup is complete and continuous checks on key items for safety and a reliable performance.

So, its certainly possible to reach an optimized state where you have a negotiated list of requirements and implement them correctly.
Ask HN: What's your dev origin story?
What sparked the fire for you to become a developer? We're half way through the roughest year in memory. Let's get back to basics and remind ourselves of why we started building software in the first place.
I was at a conference at IBM around 1993 at which a very smart person pointed out that we had reached peak “knowledge”, in the sense that the new explosion of data on the Internet, including the the new “www” meant indexing would soon be impossible. “You’d need to keep a copy of every host”. We all nodded because this seemed pretty obviously true.

It also wasn’t an urgent problem as experiments like http were unlikely to reach broad usage due to critical failures like the one way links.

I mention this not to mock your “‘almost’ impossible” statement but to point out that you’re in good company
Cool project, I think the README might need some improvement.
The 2d level headings are h5 and then 3d level headings is bolded text; it looks kinda odd.
I'll send a PR :D
Absolutely! I know the main color themes have contrast issues with accessibility. My plan is to create a high contrast theme to help with that.

That said, any other suggestions would definitely be appreciated.
If nothing else, I'd think that having a good test for early diagnosis would help future cure research, for a few reasons:

- Whatever specific thing is being tested becomes a candidate for future interventions.

- It could give researchers a tighter pool of candidates for longitudinal studies.

- As others have mentioned: any treatments that require early intervention have a better chance of working. (Similar to cancer, I imagine.)
The issue is that looking from the outside, they have a lot of “smart people” (tm). But not people talented enough to bring products to market that people want. Despite years of trying - almost all of their profit comes from display ads.
Team work isn't really a cognitive skill. I agree it can help with team work but you don't necessarily need to play in a band to learn an instrument. Also, from the actual study, "music may be beneficial for non-cognitive constructs in children such as prosocial behavior".
Or perhaps you should stop minding other people's business.

If the CEO can't manage it will lose market share so why should that bother anyone but their shareholders?
Congratulations on the launch.

What kind of features are you looking to add in the future? Also are there time limits on how long the videos can be?
Inkjets are actually superior to color laser for photo quality, but almost everyone would be better served by just having their occasional photo printed at Walgreens or target
Admittedly it’s better on Mac keyboards, with Super directly next to the space bar. Less strain and movement to hit that with my left thumb than to stretch down to ctrl (if I hadn’t mapped caps lock to control). The rest of the layout is wildly better than any other I know of for composing text in English, which is a thing you’d think every default layout would be good at, but they’re not. Better than “standard” layouts on Linux and Windows, better than the “international” layout, and better than “alt-gr” layouts, at least.

[edit] every default layout for English, I mean. I wouldn’t expect a default layout for another language to be great for composing English text, obviously.
In an alternative future where the double slashes didn't exist we would just use the colon.

http:example.com/thing.jpg
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The Natural Law: A study in legal and social history and philosophy (1936)
The benefit of playing music is that some people find it fun. What’s wrong with that?
This is my biggest worry with UBI. Won't most of the extra wealth just be captured by rent-seeking?
I believe the real answer is that they do keep it (at least sometimes) for chargebacks but not for regular refunds.

I've seen the discrepancy in our own accounting, and as mentioned elsewhere, it's in the App Store terms. But Apple's dashboard doesn't show a clear difference between chargeback and refund, and maybe that's where the story originated.

HN won't let me amend my comment above, but I stand by the claim that this happens on chargebacks. Otherwise the App Store Connect numbers don't add up.

I think the truth has some nuance, but that doesn't work on the internet, it's got to be either an outrageous story or "total fake news".
Some times it's not about domain transfer. It's about learning how to learn, how to accomplish goals, how to manage time, and how to focus.

Focusing on specific, easily-disproven knowledge transfer questions is missing the point. A child who has a decade of experience in structured practice, focus, and learning is going to be better equipped to learn future topics than a child who doesn't have similar levels of experience pursuing goals and achieving academic accomplishments.
Container image for Azure Cloud Shell
US records a coronavirus death every minute as toll tops 150k
Thanks! We thought it would be best for HN to have direct access (we didn't do this for Product Hunt).

I'll keep Wireguard in mind :)
What Does a Computer Mouse See?
Thank you Joseph! It feels amazing to build a niche community out of nothing.

Also it's interesting to see most of our members never did vlog before. But they still love to share their updates on IndieLog. I think it's because people feel that there are like-minded people around. You can't get the feeling by posting a video on YT.
Yes, to your question about stimulated demand. While most sex offenders are unable to control their urges as a matter of biology or neurology (which is why they became sex offenders in the first place), pedophiles are uniquely limited in their ability to control these urges, which is why the treatment system is focused on preventing these urges entirely (even to the point of chemical castration).

In relation to risk of re-offense (aka recidivism), access to stimulating images was found to increase the risk of recidivism dramatically, by double-digit %, and pedophiles are already one of the groups with the highest rates of recidivism (in this context, we're talking more than 50% rate of re-offending).

If you get off to sexually abusing a child, that is pedophilia, so essentially all CSA crimes are committed by pedophiles. Generally the only exceptions I can think of are where both of the "offenders" are teens engaged in consensual acts before they are old enough to legally consent.

To put it another way: access to regular porn may inflame the desires of a rapist, and they may even make him more likely to committ an offence; is this sufficient to illegalize porn for everybody? Alcohol may have the same effect, and the question still applies.

This hasn't been shown to be true. But more importantly, the converse has been shown to be true: the overwhelming majority of people can watch porn, or drink alcohol, without becoming rapists, so it is not the porn or alcohol that creates the urge to rape. In contrast, the consumption of CP has been shown to create the urge to engage in pedophilic acts in pedophiles. (Additionally, CP is also illegal because it results in actual physical harm to the child.)

Again, AFAIK nobody has done a study specifically on manga, since that's an incredibly niche market in the U.S. Studies using fictional characters in the U.S. have generally used Disney characters or similar, so if you really insist on following up on this, you should start your search with that.
that's simply because taxpayers are sick and tired of the eternal theft through subsidies, fake news and massively failed climatist predictions.
RL Unplugged: Benchmarks for Offline Reinforcement Learning
Why can't they write the code to a writeable page then remove the write permissions when they need to execute it?
Willing to share your story on video? We'll include it in an upcoming article (and enter you in a drawing for $100) https://vocalvideo.com/c/linearb-2
I am ignorant of the primary users of Tezos, but I imagine given it's low value relative to other coins, it isn't the prime target for black market deals, money launderers, and other criminals.

I love Tezos, personally, and think it's one of the more technically superior blockchains, and can see it having a better chance than other stable coins of having broad applicability to more than one or two industries.
The largest reduction in rate of transmission is when the infected person is wearing a mask. However if both the infected, and uninfected person are wearing masts, it drops just a little bit lower. But you're right that if an unmasked infected person comes in contact with a masked healthy person, the masked person is still very likely to get infected.
Definitely not. This might be revisionist or not correct, but my impression is that Google after Eric Schmidt pivoted from seeing ads as the way to keep the lights on to ads being the core of the business with brief forays into other products/technologies that were analogous to dipping your toe in the water. They’ve jumped in feet first on very few ventures outside of their core business (ad tech) but they still have this air of innovation despite not actually contributing meaningfully to much of anything.
> C was and is widely used in weapons control systems. Let's stop using C!

Let's definitely stop using C in weapons control systems.
TLDR: Giving non-IT users direct edit access to the production DB will most likely break stuff.

I wrote something similar to BaseDash ages ago, I called it dAgent (for database agent). I had it running for many different clients from all sorts of trades (I do custom development). The GUI built itself from reading the DB schema.

My initial motivation was to cut dev time since dAgent would automate the coding of CRUD interfaces. However, the use of dAgent in production ended up being quite limited: maybe only used to edit catalog data (i.e. add a city to the cities table). The reason for this limited usage is no mystery: one can easily break things. In particular non-IT users can break things.

Allow me to use an example. You have a CRM with a customers table. On that table there is a field called status. For that field, dAgent would load a select input using the related table statuses, there was no risk to break integrity. However, in the business logic of this CRM, changing the status of a customer is the result of running a process. That process not only sets the status of a customer to a new value, but also writes a history log, sends email notifications and perhaps triggers an invoicing process.

Now, imagine a non-IT user changing the status field of a customer using a tool such as BaseDash. Now you have a customer in status active who is able to login to your paid SAAS but has never being invoiced.

Many such nightmares can happen when users can directly edit a DB.

For this reason, in production, dAgent features where limited to CRUDing simple catalog tables. It did help, but was not the silver bullet I had hoped for. On the other hand, IT users would never adopt dAgent since the DB engine provided a much more robust and feature-rich admin GUI. I was not in the business of competing with PHPMyAdmin, so I eventually dropped the project.
Decentralized Social Media: Balaji Srinivasan, Vitalik Buterin, Juan Benet
> Power Divide - society will be easily divided into two groups: those who depend on the UBI to live and those who don't

There's already a power divide between those who can live off of their assets and those who can't. Those who can't are at the mercy of those with significant assets when it comes to providing themselves with housing, healthcare, food, etc.

> Even with UBI they could still end up hungry or homeless. Will we help them? Or will we say "you had your UBI, the rest is on you". This changes the morals of how we treat people in the worst times.

Look at the standard UBI proposal of $12k a year. That is not even enough to cover health insurance premiums, deductibles and copays for a single person on the individual health insurance market, let alone a family.

If UBI were to replace social programs, people would necessarily have to choose between paying for healthcare, or going without it but being better able to feed and house themselves.

UBI must be a supplemental income on top of programs that address our societal and economic shortcomings.
Career Path as a Data Scientist
You might find interesting experiments on housing in Asia. Specifically Singapore has a housing subsidy system such that basic housing is subsidized to be affordable for all. In China land is rented from the government on a lease. This does tend to have the weird side effect of encouraging massive build-outs as it's how cities raise money.

One of the more interesting ideas I heard is that zoning is a cause of developers only building luxury apartments in US cities. If there were no minimum apartment size, a building could be split into smaller spaces such that the profitability per sq ft remains the same.

> then the rents go up by the same amount

I can believe that rents go up. I am skeptical that specifically rents go up by _exactly the same amount_ and in every neighborhood when a portable income source is introduced, such that it perfectly cancels it and we're back to nothing. I don't hear this criticism brought out for a minimum wage hike or tax reductions.
You mean like in 2000 when Microsoft dominated the operating system and office productivity market and when they were one of the top five most valuable companies in the US?

How things have changed thanks to government intervention and Google....
The liability shift in the US that affected most retailers occurred in October 2015 -- basically, merchants are and have been liable for fraud that occurs on swiped transactions. I'd be curious to find out how the example presented by the parent article could change this -- a valid-looking card that only has swipe would definitely be taken by a merchant for fraud, and if the card doesn't claim to be EMV-capable, it seems like this would not be the merchant's fault. I would think in 2020, however, a mag stripe only card would raise red flags with humans at the counter, but gift cards are this way, so perhaps they would just breeze right through.
Had many arguments with cashiers in Europe who refused to let me sign receipts and insisted I just enter a pin.
Most of our attempts to quantify intelligence have shown a correlation with race. That's evidence of something- either bad tests with cultural bias, or differences in intelligence between races.

I think most people recognize that the latter idea would be really bad for society, and thus requires a pretty high bar of evidence to consider, and IQ tests are far from good enough evidence.
I wonder if you could put a spool of paper in and print "one page" which is actually 8.5"x50' or something along those lines.
I have a hard time really accepting this concept given how unintuitive it is to me but I found your comment helpful in that regard.
Average views per video is around 10k. I don't know what the mode (most frequent number of views) is, but I'm almost certain it's not zero, since the uploader checking if the video uploaded correctly already counts as a view.

Anyway, for archival purposes you don't need to save the plethora of formats Youtube keeps at hand for each video, you just need one size in one codec, and it probably doesn't have to be 4K or 8K, which probably reduces the storage requirements by one order of magnitude or so.
paraphrasing to emphasize irony:

"Science should be based on solid data: published, auditable, peer-reviewed numbers. Data is good, data is objective, data is truth.

"Academic hiring is broken. We can't base academic hiring on numbers because people game the numbers. In academic hiring we need to be subjective, to evaluate the intrinsic merit of each researcher. Data is corrupt, data isn't sufficiently subjective, data is flawed.
First page was hilarious. Does anyone know if there's a way to buy a paper copy? I find reading fiction on a screen much less convenient.
> unless, of course it's a bug that ... is similarly rare...

I'll give an example: a bug in the revision ordering logic that could be triggered by two edits being submitted almost simultaneously where one of the editors had made another edit within the past few minutes. The bug resulted in rows being interleaved between the two revisions and the post being rendered as a combination of two unrelated edits.

Almost impossible to reproduce. Affected a low double-digit number of posts out of millions edited over the course of several years.

Was able to finally nail down the scenario by pulling logs for all editors involved in each of the events over the years and identifying the common factor.

(You can argue this is a crazy way of storing revisions, but that's beside the point; at this scale even very unlikely bugs do show up with some frequency and it is nice to be able to investigate them)
That's really interesting. I'd assumed turmeric was only (traditionally) popular in the vicinity of India.
Rust Edition 2021 and Beyond
I would say that basic availability is ok(except for the egg shortages during the COVID rush), but there are shortages in butter, and in fruits and vegetables around the High Holidays season - and they are already importing a lot of food for it.
Also, seasonal fruits appear only in their season(which can be as short as three weeks), and are expensive(look at the price of any berries).
Also higher prices is a (market) form of shortage-demand outstrips supply.
Sizedness in Rust
Last I knew Barclays is the only one who offers a credit PIN that you can use at kiosks that only accept PINs. I also heard Navy Federal was rolling it out but their services are a military+family only

This article says there's a few, ymmv

https://www.creditcardinsider.com/blog/chip-and-pin-credit-c...