skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that a meme or something? I checked the current front page, and I think it's only half bad.

> Coronavirus: UN warns of 'catastrophe' over school closures; France says second wave likely

Negative

> US Donald Trump flounders in interview over US Covid-19 death toll

Neutral

> Spain Country speculates over whereabouts of scandal-hit ex-king Juan Carlos

Neutral

> A good sign Sailors stranded on Pacific island saved by giant SOS in sand

Positive

> Climate crisis Rising temperatures will cause more deaths than all infectious diseases – study

Negative

> TikTok China hits out at US 'smash and grab' as tech row deepens China hits out at US 'smash and grab' as tech row deepens

Probably negative

> Thailand Country orders new investigation into Red Bull heir's alleged hit and run

Probably positive

> Brexit Number of UK citizens emigrating to EU has risen 30% since vote on withdrawal

Neutral

> Thailand Protesters openly criticise monarchy in Harry Potter themed rally

Probably positive

> Mexico Giant dam poised to displace indigenous people and flood graves

Negative

So four negatives and three positives.

Maybe people just focus too much on the negatives?
No, our institutions are purposefully broken. “Knowing” about ways to reduce exposure to the virus is the difference between life and death.
Whoever said, “the only thing we need to fear is fear itself?”

Markets become bearish because there are more bears, it is a downward spiral and a self fulfilling prophecy. Just like Black Scholes option pricing model is a self fulfilling prophecy if everyone starts using it.

As for funding startups, investors can always object. When things are going up they say they dont want to invest in a startup as they want to get the high returns in the market. When things going down they say they cant invest because they need to wait until things go back up and their positions stabilize. I have heard both things from some investors while others invested.

Arguably, the best thing to invest money in during a downturn is a startup that will spend it on internal development, which needs to get done anyway, even if no outside money is coming in, good labor is more easily coming in, and on better more reliable terms. Microsoft and Apple were both founded in a recession.
One of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. Extremely clever and such a great aesthetic. Awesome job!
Woah, wait til you guys see what the last one was!
honestly I've been thinking about the necessity for something like this for a while now, especially since the pandemic hit. solid product, solving a real problem in the community rn and really good timing. extremely optimistic about the future. best of wishes guys!
That is really my point. They will use and celebrate your code if they can use it to make money and give nothing back. If you place some restriction on it that forces openness then it becomes toxic waste to them. It is a one way street.
I learned datalog through Crux and I really enjoyed it. After not very long, it was more intuitive and easier to reason about that similar sql.
From what I can tell from the official VS Code site by Microsoft they no where say that it is a fully open source piece of software. Infact they say "Free. Built on Open Source. Runs Everywhere" So they are saying it is "Built on Open Source" which means something completely different to me.

https://code.visualstudio.com
Could you show me that women receive raises when asking for them at the same rate as men?
I think that was most typical when the party declaring the debt jubilee was the lender itself (e.g. the government), or when the lenders were despised by society (e.g. Jews in mediæval Europe).

A debt jubilee would not fly so well now when all of our pensions, retirements and endowments are tied up as … someone else's debt.
> Car headlights that can blind cyclists should be considered a serious issue.

Even people who design bicycle facilities don't consider this. They'll happily install a bidirectional bike lane where contra flow cyclists are effectively riding against motor vehicle traffic. This puts cyclists on the wrong side of the headlamp beam.
Being smart helps you get a good job and be rich.

With those come good health insurance, being able to afford co-pays, being able to take time off work to go to the doctor, being able to comply with complex instructions like changing your diet, being able to research your diagnosis even if it's in lots of long latin words, being able to tell good advice from bad when researching online, being able to take time off for treatment or recovery, knowing the magic incantations to get yourself taken seriously, knowing when it's a good idea to get a second opinion and how to go about that, less stress caused by financial worries or job insecurity, etc etc
That wasn't the case before Adobe switched to subscriptions. Just look at all the shit they poured into Acrobat to keep selling upgrades.
Right, they ported their proprietary language server from Visual Studio to VS Code.

Why would we expect them to open-source a completely different project just because they're adding support for a new editor?
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I dunno. There are "Raven's Progressive Matrices" which have no language component, but they have been cracked for a long time.

If you look on the net you will hear that some celebrity (say Alyssa Milano) took an IQ test and got a crazy high score.

There are just 60 of them so it is not hard to practice and I am sure there is some racket of psychologists in Hollywood who coach people to take the test and then send them to the psych across the street to get them tested.
I just read that article, and I'll bet you're right that it represents the (unstated) thinking behind that conclusion. But if so, my conclusion would be different from the author's.

The big picture is that Go programming is intended to be more automated while Rust programming is intended to be more customized (relative to each other). When the automation does what you need, it's more convenient, so it's more useful. When it doesn't, because of some issue or other, Rust's ability to customize is more useful. Go can be customized, too, but it's usually the case that something intended to be automated is harder to customize than something intended to be customized like Rust.

So my conclusion (for just this 2-language comparison) would be, Use Go when its built-in features do what you need. It's easier to build with in that case. Use Rust when you need more optimization of something than you can get out of the box from Go. It's easier to optimize.
No you just need more of those parts, and depending on how much manual labor you want to be doing a different number and configuration.

process is:

-take sample
-amplify via thermocycler
-validate presence

That last step can be done a few different ways depending on what you are looking for and how much time/money you have. (I'm just a hobbyist so not getting into specifics to avoid misspeaking but I'm confident it's possible via open tech for the 'crude' methods -- more advanced are more proprietary i'm sure.)
They moved to a new HQ last year, with a 25 year lease (and minimum 20 years before break-off terms) - https://www.thetradenews.com/goldman-sachs-brushes-off-brexi...

Seems unlikely they'll have vacated. The stories about people moving to Frankfurt all mention a tiny handful of people.
The US (a country without a wealth tax, and an income tax that only applies to realised, non-loopholed, income) can be a more effective tax haven than switzerland. I believe various ex-british islands may also part of the reason we get this particular bit of anglophone[1] two minute hate[2].

Yes, we're part of the Global North. We have a relatively high standard of living now, due to not having blown ourselves up twice last century, before which we were considered poor in relation to our neighbours. Compare Heidi. (Iodine in salt may have helped immensely, too.)

[1] the brits may still be salty that our bankers did to them what Soros did to thailand. Someone's gotta make sure The Market stays efficient, innit?

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975900

How are worker protections in your jurisdiction? Solidarity is an ideal invoked here even by the pro-free trade pro-small business centre-right party.

(One way our rich flex amongst themselves is on the Züri equivalent of Groundhog Day: they ride horses around a giant wooden snowman with explosives in its head after it's been set on fire. The faster it goes boom, the better the summer will be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reuJ8yVCgSM&t=58

One can tell the Zürchers are a bunch of capitalist pigs who'll be against the wall when the revolution comes[3] because although the holiday is celebrated on a Monday evening, some of them don't even get the day off.)

[3] at the end of Cold War I, we learned we'd had a secret https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay-behind unit active on our soil. This was a scandal, because we are not a Nato member. Thank you, UK!
Lion Air's request for additional training was eminently worthy of mockery from what I could tell - it would've been a lot of hassle, and so brief and cursory to be basically useless if their pilots already knew how to fly a standard 733 and completely inadequate if they didn't.
I am very skeptical of Microsoft, even in 2020, with a visionary, embracing CEO. VS Code is a beautiful product with very nice defaults out of the box, very polished workflows and user-experience when it comes to extending it. With this free offer MS drove many competing products out of the market (Sublime Text anyone?). Google trends for VS Code is sky rocketing.

Thank you Microsoft, but I stick to the intelliJ family when I need a serious IDE and Emacs for all other text related stuff.
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That Apple locks down iOS very tightly is a separate problem.

WebKit on Mac continues to be usefully open source, and I believe performance improvements that Apple has made for Mac Safari have been incorporated into Firefox, Chrome, etc.
Well, I wasnt thinking about givin time off. Let me be more specific: while in West Germany it was common for females to stop working for more than 18 years (paid by the family), in East Germany there seems to have been social pressure to go back to work after 1 year (or slightly more). (This is annecdotal evidence, but I think it was rarer in East Germany for the wife to completely stop working)
I couldn't find reference to a Chrome extension that overrides fonts on other websites on their site, but I found one with a quick Google:

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Does each citizen need to become a vigilant member of the general public oversight committee, spending his days and nights making sure that the institutions work correctly, are responding appropriately to the threats etc? Are they qualified to evaluate that? Do they even understand the severity of the threats?

Or are they, in effect, the amplification apparatus for journalists who, by and large, also know very little about the things they write about?

I understand the point, it feels like a noble and important thing, to be informed, have an opinion and be ready to tackle the problem when the White House calls. But they probably won't call, not me, not you, not anyone getting their information about anything from the daily news. They'll call the people who are giving the information to the news.
Their main building is now in "The City" at Plumtree Court. This may explain why their Canary Wharf office looks a bit desolate.
Yes that Elon Musk. People can say dumb things, and sometimes they can say interesting things. No one is permanently locked into one or the other.
To take down WWII German V-1 drones, physicists had to develop a “smart fuse”
I'm replying because you're obviously being downvoted for the content of your comment, not the quality. It appears to me that you're contributing to the conversation in good faith with tough questions.

What your questions triggered in me was to reject the notion that the institutions set up around me will solve much. I'm sure most people have lost faith in these institutions at this point, on all sides.

But I agree with the part of your comment that implies that we're being lied to in the process of entertained. It's the end goal, right? Fear drives clicks which drives revenue. I'm sure it's one of the foundational blocks of modern journalism.
A lot more than I would have expected. Turns out that biology degrees are not as lucrative as computer science degrees (at least amongst my anecdata), so people with biology degrees often fall into the CS career track. But they know how to engineer life!

There are so many fun (for various definitions of fun) things you can do with a home lab. I know a guy who collects fungi, just to sequence them - because he can. You can also design your own experiments to produce materials, engineer plants, and play with organs.

It's like modern alchemy, and it's super cool.
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https://www.opendyslexic.org/about goes into how weighted bottoms help prevent rotational mixups
You don't need to prove the the timespan left for a species in order to prove that the species is better at surviving, assuming better at surviving means surviving for more years.

In regards to Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals you just have to wait until Homo Sapiens goes extinct or has been around for a number of years that exceeds that of Neanderthals. Then you can conclude which species was better at surviving.
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Not sure how truly effective the Porsche solution really is. I have a hard time believing that computer controlled sensors can effectively direct beams of light. What about conditions which scatter light? None of the interesting problems are addressed in this article, instead we are left with a clickbait title.
> When I add an extension to my IDE, I make sure I understand the licencing implications.

The UX decisions of VSCode go against this kind of careful consideration of licencing implications. If I open a code file and VSCode has a suggested extension for the file type, I will see an animated popup in the bottom of the screen, with a button to install. The simplest way to get rid of this popup is to simply install the extension. There's also no link on the popup to read up on the licensing terms. Everything about this interaction design wants you to just mindlessly install the extensions VSCode suggests to you, and I would wager this is what a lot of users end up doing.

Also if you look at the VSCode homepage[0], very close to the top of the page you get these marketing claims:

> Free. Built on open source. Runs everywhere.

You might be very capable of understanding the details here, but I think a new CS student who's maybe just heard of open source and knows a little bit about it could be forgiven for conflating these claims with the idea that VSCode is FOSS.

[0]: https://code.visualstudio.com/
It's a big page, so I might be missing something - could you point me towards the part where is says it logs keystrokes?
See above, it seems to be a handful of people, and they've got a long lease on a new HQ in London.
That's an awesome function. Is it multiprocess?
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It's not useful to describe the behaviour of "pointers" in JavaScript, because JavaScript does not have pointers[0].

I think the article I linked to earlier was already sufficiently unambiguous. To clarify once again: If you can mutate a value, then the value is mutable. Mutable means it is not immutable. The `const` keyword in JavaScript does not give you an immutable value.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17382443/704015
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Amazon gets approval to buy 16% stake in UK food delivery firm Deliveroo
My mk8 Ford fiesta (this current gen was never launched in the US) already does that: it does real-time processing to determine when to enable and how to angle the LED high beams in real time so it's not just a European manufacturer thing. I was genuinely surprised at how well it works.
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The US news media (left, right and upside down) is sensationalized trash. Fueling hate (stereotypes), outrage and inducing fear..all for profit and their agenda!

I've tuned it all out minus some pertinent local news.

Give me a US media that shows peaceful protests without an agenda (don't watch news anymore but did in May and all I saw was the ugly protests filled with violence.. didnt see any peaceful protests that were surely happening ...now i hear CNN, etc are showing the peaceful protests like in Oregon which are now peaceful because Trump isnt there and so CNN Im sure is now blasting/banging the peaceful protest drum). As for COVID news i just get it directly from my friends who are doctors, nurses and hospital administrators. Forget the media.. i loathe it!
> I'm not sure this is going to work fast enough for that.

From reading the SIMD Everywhere description, it seems to me that SIMDe is a way to allow code that targets only a platform to work on other platforms as well. As a nice byproduct, you get _some_ speed up if architecture targeted by the code is similar to the architecture that will run the code.

Portability is the main focus, not speed.

Obviously, once you have a good emulation of an architecture the first question is going to be: can I make it faster?
I don't understand why I've been downvoted to -3 here. I'm sure if I just showed off how much I hate technology and live in a cave then I'd get lots of upvotes. Hacker news is wild.
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Seems I can't edit the comment anymore. "Viscose" was supposed to be "Viscose". Thanks autocorrect :)
Obviously the news cycle thrives on panic and style over substance. This does not change the fact that "knowing" about the world is valuable. Effective action to address a threat is nearly impossible without an accurate model of it. People don't need to be experts about everything to become relatively well informed about many things, nor do they need to try to solve every problem at once.

The appeal to institutions as trustworthy problem solvers is also disheartening. Institutions are supra-human intelligences. This does not mean they are necessarily more intelligent than any of their members. They're often less so, and in any case they usually have their own incentive structures which are entirely separate from (and often antagonistic to) people's wellbeing.
And run through tolower() silently.
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Anonymity is a weak (but better than nothing) solution to this problem.

The stronger solution IMO is "publish what you observed, what you conclude from it, what you think good next steps are, and provide your signature and contact information" and let people openly collaborate and build on each other's work.

Imagine if Linus Torvalds published the first version of Linux anonymously. Would we be in the same spot now as a technology society if collaboration were limited to anonymous, arms-length interactions on public channels?
dang, can we change the url to just opendyslexic.org? www is breaking the font due to same origin policy.
I would advise the way to beat the anxiety about doom scrolling is to RTFA

Headline: The world is spiraling out of control

Body: X is happening that will impact Y in these specific ways. Z people are working against X and trying tactics A & B...

The Headline is calibrated to maximize your anxiety. The Body is often calibrated to the right level of anxiety and context. I find instead of trying to mentally suppress Headline that freaks me out, and thus subconsciously imagining the worst possible thing, RTFA helps to soften and calibrate the anxiety more appropriately.
TikToc is basicaly Vine2.0 and will go down just like Vine and YikYak already did. The reason behind MS wanting to acquire TT we will never know. I have a feeling the national sec. implications arent exactly what we are saying they are.
I suspect this is why:

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AFAIK, no. But there is also the EU ePrivacy Regulation, which is some ways is stricter - I'm not actually sure it if applies to software, or just websites though?
I agree with you but we also need to be careful given how powerful defaults are. Even Thaler has, I believe, argued against organ donation being opt out; rather I think he's argued for requiring a yes/no choice when driver's licenses are renewed. (The argument is opt out would lead to next of kin/families arguing that the deceased never made a choice to donate.)