skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've added more accurate R0 values, with links to source for each, for COVID19, the flu, and the cold, to my original comment:

median R0 for COVID: 5.7

Flu: 1.3

Cold: 1.5

Of course, R0 is a context-sensitive value, so all this is debatable. But I think claiming COVID is 3x as contagious as the other 2 is not that far off the mark.
After Twitter got hacked by a 17 year old who obtained admin access to accounts...I don't think it's anecdotal anymore.
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Looks like it was pretty fortunate to have been in that warehouse versus further back. A pretty good amount of the direct blast radius looks like it was water.
I disagree, in part. As a (wannabe-science-fiction) writer, I think GPT-3 has potential to be useful.

In my case, I have plenty of stories I want to write, lots of ideas that I want to play with. The thing I struggle with is writing the first draft of a story - it turns out that I find writing the first draft of a story to be really, really boring work (even with the help of NaNoWriMo). My fingers are typing out the words for chapter 3 but my brain is already grappling with the obvious plot holes in chapter 28.

This is where GPT-3 could really help: churning out words to fill the page with crap first draft copy. Feed the existing copy into the GPT-3 engine, alongside some prompts about the directions I want the story to go, themes I want it to tackle, etc. Receive back 2-3 drafts of the next thousand-15 hundred words. Then edit the heck out of those suggested words to bring the crap copy into line with my vision for the chapter.

I like this idea because most of my storytelling work happens in the first and second revisions, not the initial draft. I'd be happy to call the results my work, not the work of some mindless ML bot. Proper writers will probably feel differently about the process.
They should. They should know every possible treatment for the condition you have. This includes how to properly ensure they have the right diagnosis even if you have the 1 in a million case and not the typical case everyone else has.

The above probably isn't humanly possible for everything.
I think it’d be more honest to simply not visit those ad ridden sites.

My concern with ad blocker proliferation is that it invariably leads to paywalled content. Which I’m sure most HN users are ok with, thanks to their 6 figures jobs, but I think it’s a bad thing overall.
Thank you. Somewhat related: I wanted to inform that ublock hides the submit button on the blog - if someone is having difficulty subscribing, they should trying disabling ublock for a bit before the submit button becomes visible.
This is a _very_ charitable interpretation of Person2's motivations. Person1 correctly called out something fairly bluntly, and the call out had (in hindsight, I didn't see the comment before this) a pretty good basis for the comment.

Person2 was very dismissive without even addressing the comment. That to me seems antithetical to "trying to uphold the tradition of trust and charity," though I'm pretty new here. I personally don't think a dismissive attitude and a snarky quip for no good reason is worth anything.
The last time this was posted it was quickly flagged into oblivion for being a highly unreliable source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24049672
Adding Personality Back into UI Design - awwwards. [video]
> The conclusion was never drawn from a comparison between a) wearing a facemask in public, and b) not wearing a facemask in public.

Well, in fact, that's exactly what the conclusion was drawn from. If you're in public and not wearing a mask during a pandemic then the logical thing to do is to keep a lot of distance between yourself and others. There's a non-trivial amount of people who believe that masks are providing much more protection than they actually are and this misunderstanding could have an impact on people's behavior in public spaces.
SIM swapping should not be an attack. It's called "Two-factor Authentication", not "OK Whichever Authentication".
Honest question, why is democracy always the "flag" people wrap themselves in when defending these kinds of positions?

I get that democracy is somewhat better than feudalism, but at the end of the day I don't really care if the king is standing on my neck, or if its a mob of unruly peasants. Tyranny is tyranny, and democracy has demonstrated a great affinity for it when it suits the mob. Democracy seems to be the best of the bad options available, but without the strong protections afforded by an deep seated respect for individual liberty and freedom, there isn't much difference in end result.

If anything modern academia's treatment of "Science!" is a nice little peak under the covers of what happens when you let the mob make the rules - Thought becomes regimented to the point of absurdity and you either get on board, or get (thrown) over board.
He means the website also has John Pipers and Timothy Kellers recommendations (they only recommend one book each tho). https://www.readthistwice.com/person/john-piper and https://www.readthistwice.com/person/timothy-keller.
HotPlug Field Kit https://www.cru-inc.com/products/wiebetech/hotplug_field_kit...

"With the CRU WiebeTech HotPlug you can transport a computer without shutting it down.

"The HotPlug allows hot seizure and removal of computers from the field to anywhere else. The HotPlug's patented technology keeps power flowing to the computer while transferring the computer's power input from one A/C source (such as a wall outlet or power strip) to another (a portable UPS) and back again.

"We created this product for our Government/Forensic customers, but it has IT uses as well. Need to move a server without powering it down? The HotPlug can do it.

"It's great for digital forensic investigators and techs who can't risk losing access to data on a running computer. With many computers now employing full-disk encryption, shutting them down poses the risk of having to crack a password after moving the computer to a lab for analysis, which can greatly increase the time and expense of an investigation. When combined with a WiebeTech Mouse Jiggler, you also won't have to worry about the computer entering password-protected screensaver or sleep modes."
Yep I agree. I find FB the easiest of them all but I had to log off b/c of the politics. I'd rather be ignorant.
It is if you want to fly, starting next year (was supposed to be this year but was delayed).
No throwaway? Someone is going to out your company.
Density is much more informative, it should be the default sorting order.
Turbolinks and the like just move the problem elsewhere. Great, now your site is no longer blank on subsequent loads but your first input delay has jumped by a magnitude since the server still takes forever to respond. There's still a delay regardless.

Also Turbolinks only becomes useful after the page has loaded. So every fresh visitor is still going to see that horrible flash of blankness, wondering if the site is broke.

That isn't to say it's worse than just default server-side rendering: I think it provides a better UX. But who knows how much, and who knows if it's better than a SPA. Nobody is citing any real data here, just talking out there ass.
> wearing a cloth mask can cause you to give yourself COVID is the result of a cogent analysis of the corruption of scientific institutions.

You’re kind-of proving the point. That’s exactly what WHO and some other “scientific” institutions (but really political institutions using science as a pretense) were saying at the beginning (that wearing masks could increase the risk because people would be touching their face more or something).
Indeed. I'm not saying they should do a perfect A/B test. Rather, in this case, their conclusion (of "chat bubble blindness") is not a logical conclusion you can draw from the experiment they performed.
How is it different from acquiring a US app?
I'm somewhat of a layman, but I'd wager A/B pages printed 50:50 (by IP for instance) could lead to a rather solid conclusion if ran long enough. On the other hand, eh, chat bubbles suck and you can quite confidently say they don't help, so might as well keep it this way. On a personal note I do feel like I would be much more prone to click a chat request as another menu option than a bubble.
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Quite an impressive list. Wonder whether he has read these all and not sure what is meant by monetisation. Just a book list?
This is not exactly what happened. U.S. medical authorities really did not believe that basic masks, like fabric or paper surgical, offered significant protection. Thus they believed it was N95 or nothing, and they (correctly) wanted to save N95s for medical professionals.

They were wrong about basic masks, which is what we're all using now.
I think processing is done frame per frame.
Anything like that has to be balanced against things like:

250k deaths caused by medical errors in the US each year

7-9k people die from medication errors

https://mymedicalscore.com/medical-error-statistics/
Eh, technically I suppose.

When people refer to a "pension", they're usually talking about a defined benefit plan that requires little or no funding from the employee's paycheck. The amount of money you get at retirement is determined upfront, and based on things like years of service and average wages over some prescribed time period.
I recall some of the first comments when it happened were questioning when the layoffs would begin. The most common answer was "about a year." It's been about a year, so here they come.
How long before this is used to help fake political videos from existing footage. Sigh
Automated mistake by Apple kills all Mac developer’s apps
This is the standard pattern of every new security technique ("2FA" in this case). Once it becomes an industry buzzword, snake oil vendors get busy coming up with ways of technically supplying the buzzword without the difficulties inherent to the actual security.

When sites require this crap, I give them a phone number that forwards to my email. If my desktop computer gets owned, I've got much bigger problems than some fraudulent bank transactions.
Little project I created to curate the best life hacks to optimize your life.

Looking for any feedback and especially QUALITY life hacks you want to add!
Thank you! The website actually includes 1300+ people. Whose recommendations are you interested in?
> An open-source-foundational company

Well that ain't Silicon Valley! You're taking an extremely modern view and projecting it back! Silicon Valley was historically defence silicon and CIA contracts!
Google is the closest thing to a "shared public resource" for indexing/searching the Internet that we have.

I agree with you that there are inherent properties of physical transit pathways that make them difficult to compare "one to one" with digital index searches. But I do not think these differences make the two completely incomparable.

I completely disagree that the 1st page of google is "just" an ideal place to show an ad.

While it definitely is an ideal place to show an ad it is also much more than that.

That is like saying a supermarket that can give cash-back at the register is just an ATM.
You would be stunned at the number of people to whom it would never occur to search the web for drugs, and among those who do try to search, how poorly they do it. The average person is still not very intuitive when it comes to that area.

On top of this, the majority of drug consumers are old people, who (statistically speaking) are far less likely to even use the internet at all. This is why drug advertising can be quite useful for them.
I totally agree. I hope people like you will keep fighting for a vision like this. It's the only hope we have, and this problem is far more serious than most people are willing to admit. Unfortunately being outspoken about this viewpoint can be a big liability in a scientific career.
> overconfident scientists who can be bought off for nothing

Well, I wouldn’t call sex with underage girls on a private island nothing.
This study talks about 12-16 layer cotton masks as being the most effective. They say this offhand, as if that's a thing. However, it's very difficult to find anything with more than 3 layers. None of the citations to that claim give any hints about how to find 12-16 layer cotton masks (in fact, one of the citations to that claim is a paper that couldn't determine the efficacy of one mask-type over another).
It’s one thing to show an ad, and it’s a completely other thing to go around the internet and unmaks my behaviour and identity in order to profile me in order to show me ads AND store data about me. The thing is, I don’t know whether site will do that or “just show an ad” before I go there, so it’s not active subversion, it’s an active defense against downright shady business. Show me an ad - fine. Go out and profile me - fuck you.
I think I agree with those points. However, the most interesting thing about GPT-3 in my mind is how it was largely a naive scaling up of GPT-2.

I would be very surprised to not see a GPT-4-like system built in the next several years by simply scaling up by 100x again (perhaps with some algorithmic improvements thrown in as well). I don’t know how it will perform but I expect it to be significantly more impressive than GPT-3. Which would be a very interesting thing... the world would look very different. Potentially even scary, especially with immediate follow-up reapplications of the techniques in other areas.
Great site. How did you make this?
mac os... they may have added it since i stopped using it. but i like firefox more for it not being google
Reminds me of the foosball table in our old engineering students' society room. You can buy special lube for foosball bearings. OR you can just rub popcorn butter on the bars. Guess which one we had in ample supply.
I posted this myself as well a couple days ago.

I was personally interested in HCQ before Trump ever tweeted it - turning it political. It was looking promising and still does.

After further personal study, I would like the conversation to continue.
I thought about HotPlug too. And the obligatory Seinfeld Frogger scene (become much less familiar to younger folks).

HotPlug must only work in countries with terribly designed plug outlets like the US and Canada. Our NEMA 5-15 plugs are live when the plug's hot (electrons be here) and neutral (return to sender) blades are still visible. I don't think this device could work in the UK I'm not from there but I think their plugs can't be live with exposed plug blades.

https://www.cru-inc.com/products/wiebetech/hotplug_field_kit...
The problem is systematic: There is currently no realistic way to pay and be done with the medium; there is no spotify or netflix for websites. Those services kinda prove that people are willing to pay after a decade of torrenting and burning DVDs.

HN readers typically know how to deal with ad blockers, our less technical fellows don't, and we ultimately owe them to work against this bullshit, like we expect them to steer their respective fields and professions to the common benefit, that they make their products and services healthy and safe.

A computer literally heating up due to who knows what arbitrary javascript is executed on that person's computer is notable, and the advertising-tech-complex is very much on topic for HN.

Finally, there can be NO DEAL between a website visitor and a bunch of third party javascript that cannot be understood or audited, and if the operation is not profitable, tough. There were cool websites on the internet before ads and we will have websites in the future.
That’s not true if the particles are aerosolized (why dentistry is so high risk) and simply go around the face shield into the eye. Eye googles would be far more effective.
Is it arguable that it wasn't a net benefit? You can argue specific cases maybe, but survival rates for the vast majority of diseases are better, longevity increased, and outcomes better for chronic illnesses.
Logic goes beyond truth tables: it's about being able to see the simplicity and symmetry in objects. That's why it comes from the word /logos/ which means "prevening order" (see Gospel of John).
Yeah, what would the penalty have to be to get companies to stop doing this?
Lawyers, ha - when IBM did it (years ago) there was an investigation by Congress! But of course the big corporation was found blameless and within their rights.
I really wish people wouldn't pay attention to anything coming from this "source". IBM _is_ indeed a terrible employer, but anything from this joke of a web site isn't to be taken seriously. Look at the history - it's all "X stole my giant ball of aluminum foil" written in quasi-English.
Ha, that's nothing. I once watched a stubborn guy replace the bus bars in the input panel of a house. He did wear rubber gloves and boots and stand on a plastic stool. But, this is a kind of job where you are operating a socket wrench on the clamps holding down the bare ends of the thick direct-burial power cables, then wrestling the ends of the cable out of the way to unscrew and remove the bus-work from the panel chassis.

He did this without notifying the power company, so those supply lines were hot with 240V residential service. The weather shifted and a light mist started falling before he was done. Like another poster above, I was thinking I need to be ready to call 911, but wanting to be far enough away not to be hit by splattering metal or any surprise voltage gradients in the soil.
Just like the tick-tock of a mechanical clock.
VMware has been one of the few companies to be bought by an old dinosaur of tech (Dell) and so far, managed to survive. It helps that they're much closer to equal with Dell than RedHat and IBM, but I'm pretty sure RedHat knew exactly what they were doing when they decided to let IBM in the door.
So, just pedantry. Thanks for clarifying!
What number of those would've died without care?
Very interesting. Seems like a more sophisticated version of https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/
On Finding Your Passion
I've worked very hard to get to where I am, so working hard isn't difficult for me. I chose to work here because it provides the best life for me, not because anyone forced me to. Would you rather take this choice away from me?
Thank you! It's built on React/Node.
The only IBM people that I have worked with had their office in North Carolina.
401ks don't have vesting though. At worst the match might be in December so people who are laid off mid-year lose half a year of matching.
I want this rather than the weird cookie messages that you get everywhere now.
Wavesurfer.js has a nice spectrogram plugin for audio files.

I also found out audio based classification trains your models on spectrogram images!
I have yet to be in a buyout where I didn't end up feeling like livestock. The sale is good for people owning enough stock so that the only reason they show up tomorrow is because the new owners put conditions on the sale.

For everyone else it's not good news. Even the hope that they will fix things that have been bothering you? Those will all be open for debate. As will all of the things you've already gotten resolved. You'll be lucky if they fix as many things as they break.
I guess, unless it's zero though, exponential growth will cause it to eventually reach its last-year equilibrium again... :(
There is not just one cold virus, there are many. So the 1-1 average sounds reasonable.
mistermann says>" Now that the truth came out,... "

Are you sure of the truth?

In recent news, the Dutch aren't requiring masks (except under limited circumstances, e.g., on buses):

"Dutch Dr. Fauci Thinks Masks Won't Work. Here's Why":

https://www.newsweek.com/netherlands-mask-policy-1522917
I'd say not only is fundamental, it's pretty much the only tool you have to start the analysis of an FP algorithm. If you want to analyze a naive sum algorithm for instance you do that by recursively applying the a ⊕ b = (a + b)(1 + ε) rule and figure out how the epsilons bubble up - the result being that the error is linear with the sum length.
You can stack allocate objects, so those are alive just until the end of the stack.

Then there native memory allocation and safe handles.

IDisposable and Finalizers aren't the same thing, actually, although they happen to be used together as means to combine deterministic destruction alongside GC based destruction.

You can also make use of lambdas or implicit IDisposable implementations via helper methods, that generate code similar to memory regions or arenas in C++, but in .NET.

Finally, many tend to forget that .NET was designed to support C++ as well, so it is also possible to generate MSIL code that ensures deterministic destruction RAII style, naturally this falls into a bit more advanced programming, but it can be hidden away in helper classes.
You're not the only one, and the worst examples are news sites. Pretty darn annoying if you're in a boring videocall, want to read some news and then suddenly your speaker blaring ads reminds everyone you're not paying attention...
If a company wants to know who you are they can find out. Data brokers are pretty cheap and they share so much data between each other it's bonkers.
How Long Does It Take Tech CEOs to Earn Your Salary?
I wonder if it might bias the reset request.

Sort of like "If this person is paying for this, he's probably legit."
Owning a web search box is valuable because you have customers coming to you making some request that can often be satisfied by the sale of a product or service. It’s the perfect advertising opportunity - much more effective than throwing ads at customers that aren’t actively looking for your product. That’s why Google makes the big bucks. It’s also why Goggle pays Apple billions for the privilege of answering queries in the iOS search box - so it can sell ads on that traffic. And this is why Google had to make Android, so they don’t have to pay for all mobile search usage. Also, Amazon is now making billions selling ads on the Amazon product search traffic. There are other uses for the data from search intent, but none of it generates cash like directly selling ads on those searches.

Now apply this context to the voice assistant market. If computer interactions shift from the web to voice, the digital assistant is the new search box. Being the company who creates the leading digital assistant means you’re in the position of getting paid billions for that traffic, rather than paying billions to get it.

In short, I think the idea that voice assistants must exist to obtain new kinds of data misses the point. The creators of these services are going to want to collect data to train models, to debug, etc. but it’s all a means to an end. The end is to put a troll toll in place to extract a chunk of the value of any economic activity organized through the voice assistant. Imagine if AT&T could collect a tax on the value of any service sold over the phone - that’s the kind of economic opportunity we are talking about here. There’s no need to search for other hidden motivations.

Of course, other entities like governments would actually like the ability to listen to all your conversations, so they are going to try to get ahold of this data too.
Prison time is the only serious deterrent. Specific people in the upper management need to have non-suspendable prison sentences.

Start with maybe 3-6 months, then escalate for repeat offenders. That fact that these decisions were made internally to a business should not indemnify the executives who allowed it to happen from criminal charges with mandatory prison time that cannot be suspended or avoided.
>Since big companies are driven by managers not engineers, and the managers are always, always from the bigger company, the decisions are perceived as clueless.

Not only that. If they had a clue they wouldn't have needed to acquire the company in the first place.
Let that happen, then--if he/she is in a safe position now, it would only be fair that the company was outed.