skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just confirmation bias. If this were actually happening then:

a) You'd be able to detect it by sniffing the network traffic, and

b) Some journalist or scientist would have reproduced it and written about it.

It also makes absolutely zero sense that Google would do this. The press would be terrible if they were found it, it's outright illegal in Europe, and they don't need to! They have an amazingly good signal for the things you are looking to buy because you type that into a nice easy to collect search box for them!

I know HN is home to lots of paranoid folks but I thought they were smart enough not to believe this dumb conspiracy theory.
Read again?

"Florida 8,051"

Right after Texas and Massachusetts in descending order. Where did you think it should be?

And it looks like Florida has turned the corner on this later surge - new cases 14 day trend is dramatically down: https://coronavirusbellcurve.com/#fl new deaths is still trending upward, as would be expected for a lagging indicator of the case trend. It appears unlikely to get close to the results of New York, which has a similar (but less elderly) population. https://covid19-projections.com/us-fl
Something I have been thinking about for a few years... How far away are we from being able to grow seeds on a substrate directly and skip growing the plant at all? What I envision is a substrate that is able to provide the nutrients needed for embryo growth, maybe with micro channels or pores. You could "seed" the substrate with embryonic plant cells, then when they are done, you just scrape them off. Is that totally crazy?
Plenty of good stories here too: https://www.folklore.org/
imagine if we had invested more into nuclear power and 1/10th electricity prices
I think it's because GitHub started as git hosting and people find it offensive when people use it for other things.

That being said, I'd rather read a blog on GitHub then a blog on Medium, generally speaking. I feel like it helps give a better expectation of the type of material you'll be reading.
CDC Admits in Federal Court They Have No Evidence “Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism”
Would that not depend on the type of Instant pot you have? There are so many now

Many of a Sautee mode used to brown meat, I dont think you need a 1 cup of water for that? or the ones with the Air Fry attachments...
> it is absolutely, demonstrably true that individuals can cause a 'chain of deaths'

"Can" is not the same as "will". I already said "when done with with appropriate precautions and care" in my previous comment.

The thing is, just because there are some Oz bogans returning from their coma drinking holiday in Bali acted in an idiotic fashion doesn't mean we should prevent everyone else on the planet from travelling at all, no matter the personal circumstances. Lockdowns also cause real harm, see e.g. [1], although the full effects won't be known for certain with time.

"There's enough people not doing the right thing for it to cause major problems" with many things: cars, guns, knives, etc. It's always a matter of balancing different interests and trade-offs.

> Lastly, it's very obviously false to claim that a hard lockdown cannot help, see New Zealand as a shining counter-example. Extremely aggressive lockdowns and widespread testing can indeed control it.

That's not exactly that I said either. What is your long-term plan with this? Institute a draconic hard lockdown every time there is a single case? It doesn't seem that any of this is just going to disappear from the world any time soon, if ever. It's not a solution, just a stop-gap measure (which is what people have been saying pretty much from the get-go).

The real question is what will happen in 6 months, a year, or 2 years time with New Zealand. Remember, we've managed to eradicate exactly one disease in the history of humanity, and that was a far more serious one, although we've been close with Polio for years.

New Zealand had great success in the short term (being a fairly sparsely populated island more than 3 hours removed from any other significant landmass probably helped with that), but you can't lock everyone indoors every time there is a new case and it's almost certain this will happen unless NZ commits to a long-term multi-year border lockdown.

[1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...
This is a good idea. I started testing this previously by just choosing different wallpapers, but didn't take a step further to photoshop in some text.

I may yet in addition to the space naming. It feels like it would be helpful to see on the wallpaper using expose, and also from the three finger swipe up.

Really, Apple should allow this meta to be overlayed on a wallpaper instead of having to photoshop it in. I'm perplexed on why Spaces has gotten zero improvements for so long.
It's true; this yin-yang of "What if there's a better way?" / "Don't tell me what to do" is inseparable in America, and is at the root of so much of what makes it both great and terrible.
It's about why don't they move the vertical farms outside the city. Farming on lands outside population center is cheaper than on vertical farms at the same locations. This is due to low cost of land and benefits of mechanisation.

Right now we have excess food production.
what conditions are present to make this a constant? just heat and oxygen? moisture?
For me 500 days of summer is a documentary movie, it helped me to deal with many stupid ideas I had about relationships.
Personally I'd like to see something similar, but with taxes (perhaps 2% or so) paid on the value of the property. Who sets the value? You do! With the caveat that anyone can buy a perpetual license to do anything they want with the property if they pay its declared value.
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“Now, she tells her full story for the first time: a story of extraordinary determination and resilience that reveals what it takes—and what it means—to be a whistleblower. Long before she arrived at Uber, Fowler's life had been defined by her refusal to accept her circumstances. She propelled herself from an impoverished childhood with little formal education to the Ivy League, and then to a coveted position at one of the most valuable companies in the history of Silicon Valley. Each time she was mistreated, she fought back or found a way to reinvent herself; all she wanted was the opportunity to define her own dreams and work to achieve them. But when she discovered Uber's pervasive culture of sexism, racism, harassment, and abuse, and that the company would do nothing about it, she knew she had to speak out--no matter what it cost her.”

— blurb for her book “Whistleblower”
I'm curious if this would be a good use of land in places like the Saharan desert, semi vertical greenhouses would optimize for water loss and light usage, and there is plenty of sand for production of the glass walls and growing medium.
Yeah, this. The ads were COMPLETELY RELEVANT TO THE EMAILS. My recollection was that this was the very obvious trade-off/not-at-all-secret when they first introduced ads to Gmail. (I don't think Gmail had ads initially?)
I should mention that "good video lectures" are extremely hard to come by. Experts appreciate a clean narrated delivery, and novices like it too, but students generally don't learn from a monologue.

You can't just watch videos. You have to work through the problems.

If you have a lot of free time, and you're curious about designing effective educational multimedia, check out Derek Muller's (of Veritasium fame) dissertation: http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/super/theses/PhD(Muller).pdf
> "Every player is involved throughout the whole game, even when it's other players' turns, you're not sitting around waiting," says Arneson. "The games are always quite close. Nobody ever gets eliminated. It is just a remarkable achievement in game design."

I hope most families go for Catan instead of Risk while sheltered in place. The latter tends to cause fallouts and retaliation that go beyond the game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_(game)
Yeah, especially given the fact that literally nothing is open out of hours in the UK (with exceptions - but you wouldn’t be able to base your life on that).
Is it better to indent your code from left to right or right to left?
There was a nice list of good popular physics books in the beginning of the article. I wonder if anyone has similar lists for other science disciples?
Btw, I tried the API and it works! There's a small caveat, for anyone who might trying it too.

If you have an active Affiliates account with Amazon, and you qualify for the API access, it won't be enabled even when you get your key-pair. The API will throw a generic error "Too many requests."

You have to go to >Contact Us< section of the affiliate program and ask them to enable your access.
However, the study doesn’t seem to include the costs of transportation. I wish they had looked at the wheat supply chain holistically rather than only cost per hectare.

Building a close to the city, colocated flour, and/or cereal factory under the wheat farm, allowing gravity to help build automations would reduce holistic costs. I wonder if that makes this farming method profitable?
Who doesn’t do stupid things after getting drunk?
The Inca Children Who Were Given Cocaine Before Being Sacrificed
SARS Cov-2 infectiousness decays exponentially, with the time constant a function of temperature and humidity. A two-parameter calculator:

https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/sars-calculator
Naturally, it's a joke: https://xkcd.com/566/.
Be sure to toggle the System Prefs -> General -> Font smoothing when doing the comparison. Turning it off might be more pleasant in some resolutions.
I mean I'm not opposed to this, but if you're claiming something is your copyright, there should be online carbon copies of it so anybody can confirm and verify.
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You'll find most Dutch reading this topic slightly confused that people don't drink milk straight-up in the morning or during lunch. It's a staple in the majority of households here still.

Cow milk is recommended as part of the diet of young children, with government guidance noting that although calcium-enriched alternatives to cow milk (such as oat milk with added calcium) seem fine, there is as of yet insufficient data to suggest that replacing cow milk from the diet of young children won't have a negative effect. It's a fair and balanced view I suppose.

In the 70s a dairy campaign taught everyone that three pints of milk a day was healthy, but that kind of propaganda is in the past. Still, the Dutch tend to have a very positive view of our dairy industry, in part aided by animal welfare programs and certifications. That doesn't address the environmental impact of course.

I have switched to cow milk with a certified guarantee of decent treatment of the cows involved for my young son, and oat milk (Oatly usually) for us.
China is now blocking all encrypted HTTPS traffic using TLS 1.3 and ESNI
The new Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra ships with Exynos in the UK and EU but performance drops against the same phone running Snapdragon (shipped in the US).

So whilst the security might be better, we're (tech geeks in EU/UK) don't want to pay the same price for a less performant phone sadly :/

But maybe in a few iterations!
Agreed that air travel would seem to be high-risk given airborn transmission.... but why aren't we seeing it? Seems like the easiest transmission to trace -- someone takes a plane, tests positive, contact everyone who was on the same plane. But I haven't seen a documented case over the last five months of "one person a plane infects 20 others..."

It confounds my mental model of how this virus is spread. Any idea what's going on there?
Yes, that's how the 6502's registers work: two inverters with pass transistors for hold and load. As you point out, the tradeoff is that the latch is no longer clocked, so the latch doesn't help you do things synchronously.
I have to say, this sounds awful to me. Living in a tiny bubble world surrounded by only things I like honestly sounds horrible.

How can you appreciate the things you like if you never have to experience things you don't like?

Life isn't supposed to be a constant pursuit of cutting out any unwanted or negative things. It's about experiencing things in general.

A world like you describe sounds pretty bland and lifeless to me.
> The Guy paid about a quarter of the original price tag.

Cool story but this line doesn't make sense to me? So did he just pay them $25k instead of $100k as agreed.
Am i missing or misunderstanding something?
A variant of this is dragging to the terminal. I drag stuff from Finder to a terminal window all the time to get the full pathname.
If I decide to wastefully and stupidly order a bunch of extra clothes and food when I can fulfill the same requirements by other means... then, yeah, sure.

Imagine walking around with an extra 1000Kg of clothes on me powered by fuel extracted from a dictatorship half-way across the world. I'd say the exhaust is only the beginning of the full cost I should fairly be charged.
Instagram was first called 'Burbn' (2014)
Here "cost" is a euphemism for stupendous amounts of energy. Producing it would take up a lot of land in PV panels. That'll only give you a little extra forest and entire agricultural states covered in PV and vertical farming towers instead. I could imagine some rich, arid countries trying this but not ones with fertile soil and rain. It's hard to compete with the free fusion reactor floating up there.

From the appendix¹ (assuming I am reading this right):

Value of production 405,329$/year
Cost of energy 15,987,286$/year

Area of field for equivalent yield 6,333,272m²
Land Area Required for PV Array 4,157,293m²

¹ https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2020/07/22/200265511...
These studies are really interesting to think about for space settlements.

Terrestrially, you're never going to get more efficient use of an acre of sunlight (~4 MW at noon) than you will with photovoltaics (~75% loss ~= 1 MW at noon) and conversion to artificial light.

But it could totally work on some future Trantor with flying cars and fusion engines.

* edit: another poster has dug into the appendix and concluded that you might be able to do about as good w/r/t land use with photovoltaics, presumably due to other factors affecting plant growth.
That could be either algae or genetically modified yeast.
There were a series of showings of 2001 last year, on IMAX screens. I can't even describe the delight I felt in taking my son to see it there (muffled a little by his not liking it, but that's life.)
Toggle Do Not Disturb with a single click:

https://taoofmac.com/space/til/2020/06/11/1915 (has animated GIF explainer)
Am I reading this right, does this mean that 45% of the country has a serious pre-existing medical condition?
> It's kind of broken, but it took zero effort. And that's the direction we're headed.

"thug life" is kind of a horrifying one to hear. On another note it would be interesting to have a sort of test for these sort of systems, if they can say x sentences without screwing up, they can say almost anything. A "turing" test if you will.
May not produce the same feel, but there is:

defaults write -g NSRepeatCountBinding -string "^u"

> This default controls the numeric argument binding. The default is for numeric arguments not to be supported. If you provide a binding for this default you enable the feature. This allows you to repeat a keyboard command a given number of times. For instance “Control-U 10 Control-F” means move forward ten characters.

— https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...
Because you're still running the engine and it doesn't store and reuse the energy from braking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropropagation

like that?
Well, you don’t burn it down, but it’s bad news for the chickens, certainly. And the practical approach is normally keeping bacterial load low via vaccination, hygiene, culling etc., rather than total eradication.

I live in one of the ‘raw eggs are basically safe now’ countries; a government study in Ireland involving testing 5000 eggs about 10 years ago found no salmonella in egg contents, but did find it on two shells. I still don’t trust raw or undercooked eggs, though; I was at an impressionable age when the last major outbreak happened in the early 90s.
Maybe just me, but this feels overly political and not particularly interesting from any technical standpoint.
I have given up hope that the wide public cares at all about privacy

Time and time again large companies get outed violating privacy, it hits the news for 5 mins then Trump tweets something stupid and it is all forgotten about

The fact that Twitter, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc are all still massive companies with billions in revenue proves the public does not care about privacy
70F / 21C and 50% RH or something close to that, is how standard "indoor" environmental conditions are tested in general.
One thing I find interesting is that AWS has added some safeguards to the console to protect against exactly this, since it's presumably a very common issue. As of the last couple years when you make any S3 bucket open to the world you see a big warning about it.

However if you're following the "industry best practices" and using something like Terraform to manage all your resources including IAM policies, you won't ever see the warnings. If you take a step back, it's somewhat bizarre that we've decided that having infra teams manage hundreds or thousands of lines of not-very-human-readable JSON across all the IAM resources they manage is the proper way to do things. I believe there are some linters that have some semantic understanding of IAM rules that could provide the same benefits, but at least when I last looked into it they weren't very mature and didn't match all of AWS' own rules.

After experiencing some of the pains of managing a large Terraform configuration in the past, I've definitely started to wonder if we take the idea of "infrastructure as code" too literally. I think manually writing text-only configuration files for infrastructure should start to be seen as an anti-pattern as well, and we should mostly be working with better, more intuitive UIs for creating resources and then outputting the representation in some log format (which can then be read back by the same tool for reviewing/diffing, replayed in additional environments, rolled back, etc.)
I found these after years, although it's been years since I found it. Preview is pretty good for merging PDFs, deleting pages from PDFs, and adding annotations. Whenever I have to do these things on a windows machine, I struggle to find software to do it. Most importantly, preview can add your signature via trackpad, or by holding up your signature to a webcam.
Well, they did promise to cut costs to 1/3 of the German version, but they didn’t actually build it:

“Originally planned to be ready for Expo 2010, the controversial project was repeatedly delayed, with final approval being granted on August 18, 2008.”

“[...] In March 2009, the project was reported to be "suspended", although it had not been officially cancelled. The October 26, 2010 opening of the Shanghai–Hangzhou high-speed railway makes construction of this line unlikely.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai%E2%80%93Hangzhou_magl...

But they keep promising it:

Title: “China's 600 km/h high-speed maglev prototype completes successful trial run”

Reading further: “The prototype didn't run at 600 km/h, but at a much lower speed as an operational debugging test.”

And then:
“According to CRRC, by the end of 2020, five high-speed maglev test vehicles will be rolled off the production line. Besides, a whole engineering system of the 600 km/h high-speed maglev prototype will be completed, which signifies China will master a whole set of the technology and engineering capability by that time.”

“[...] China aims to put a 500-km-long high-speed maglev line into commercial use by 2025.”

“[...] Using German technology, the Shanghai maglev line is a demonstration line. Since then, China has been striving to develop its independent technology in the field, where Japan and Germany have been taking leading positions.”

“Step by step, the country is making solid progress. Analysts say that the successful test on Sunday signifies that China has achieved the same level as Japan.”

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-06-21/China-s-600-km-h-high-...
Regarding math, one topic that is often neglected: Asymptotic approximations. I would often read a grad level textbook, and the author would whip up some fancy approximation, and it always seemed like brilliant magic. It was demoralizing: I could never come up with that. Do I not have what it takes to be a physicist?

Then my math department offered a (rigorous) course on doing asymptotic approximations. I took it, and it all made sense. There are well known techniques, and the physics authors were merely using them. Yet it's rarely taught formally in physics programs. I've occasionally seen it covered as part of a "Mathematics for physicists" course, but they can cover only so much.

There are books out there on the topic.
Not a professional finance person, but I think that in that context it's important to look at "uncorrelated from what". When building a basket of uncorrelated assets, you look at pairwise correlations, not just aggregates.
> I think it's because GitHub started as git hosting and it's _very_ offensive when people use it for other things.

Why?

People use it for dot files, resumes, science literature, ML data sets, Python notebooks, research journals, website designs, games, assets for website designs and games, speech synthesis, speech synthesis wave files, generated visual media, film scripts, recipes, leaks, crypto, and much more.
That’s odd considering Github is just a CDN; you still have to generate the HTML somehow or another.
I read most reddit posts that mention IPv6, as well as comments on any blog post, news story etc that makes the rounds. People bitch and moan about every little problem with v6, including blaming it for problems caused by v4 or by completely unrelated causes and with no regard for whether the problem has been fixed 20 years ago or was just imaginary in the first place. They'll even complain about the benefits it gets them.

If 30-minutely prefix changes were common, people would definitely be complaining about it.

...but okay, I won't claim that I catch everything. Can I ask which ISP this is, or at least which country? Perhaps it's common in places that don't have much presence in the English-speaking parts of the internet.

It's nice to hear that it mostly works for you. It should do, but a lot of software is terrible at handling dynamic changes -- it seems to be something that programmers struggle with. The biggest problem should be that long-running connections aren't possible.
... think Evangelicals, Mormons, Witnesses, Catholics...
The line read something like 'he thought he'd have to charge 100k' so he made an estimation of the required costs of infrastructure and hours worked I think. He probably communicated the 100k more as a 'I cost this per hour and the machines would likely cost so-and-so would you agree to pay this or can we call it off?'.
Completely unrelated to this article. But can anyone explain why my WH-1000MX3's (Bluetooth on Android) volume lowers for a few seconds loading this article? Seems to restore to normal volume after the cookie wall disappears.
Fish is plenty popular regardless of all that. Sure, it won't replace Bash, in a sense that you'd have Fish handle all the scripts on the system - that's impossible for backwards compatibility reasons. But it's used as a primary interactive shell, and for custom system & user scripts, by a lot of people.
But can you lead in (2) without being good at (1)?

If you train on limited data, then your inferences will be of poor quality, even if they have low latency.

So in sum, it seems you can't be a leader in ML without both.
Underarmour.com:

> Polyurethane open-cell foam lets air through ...

And virus particles.