skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A National Security Letter is hardly an absolute order.

What % of NSL has been turned down ? FISA warrant rejection rate is like 12 for 30,000+ warrants. For all intents it is absolute order if the Courts hardly reject it.

> The lack of prisons full of political dissidents ...

Your prisons are fuller than any other large developed country more than 3 million people are in prison, your judicial systems are racially and economically biased . In a country embodying capitalism, is this not worse than putting dissidents in prison? At least they actually have to dissent before being put in jail, here the system is rigged such that poor hardly have a vote or voice, rich keep paying lower tax than middle class, and gets exploited and still happily vote for the people robbing them blind.

Perhaps you have better rights as a citizen, the rest of us around the globe not so much.

China does not kill by drone extra judicially outside their country. I don't have to be afraid of clear skies.

I don't have to as afraid that I will be grabbed by Chinese Intelligence to a black site like Guantanamo bay with no legal course or judicial oversight.

I need to be lot more worried of U.S. funding and meddling in local politics than of China. Every single time U.S. has engaged in covert/ overt meddling in ME/Lat Am , Far East etc, it has always lead to lot of death and suffering.

For citizens of the world there is no protection, If I do business with FAANG outside the U.S. and even if keep my data outside, still U.S. courts have full rights to grab my data,
against my country laws under which the tech giants supposed to operate in my country .

For all your rights and amendments against surveillance and wire-tapping on paper , the rest of the world has none. Your security agencies can legally monitor at anyone at will without any oversight.

U.S. companies have and continue to backdoor / frontdoor everywhere in the world as they please, and suffer no consequences.

Privacy and basic human rights should not be just American right, I hope rest of us get treated as humans too in your system.

Does it make China better? of course not! it is not whataboutism. Both are bad.

For rest of us, the U.S. has already done lot more damage. China will do lot more damage in the future no doubt, but today U.S. is in no position to talk .
The snark is adorable and comically out of place.

Swedish schools closed for the summer break just as COVID was peaking. They return in just over a week. Businesses are sparse because few people are shopping. Restaurants and bars were closed, and other than that have strict reduced occupancy.

But Florida man is sure that Everything Is Normal. It's hilarity. That "look they didn't close their schools"...when they were closed regardless. Hurr.

"And masks aren't mandated, but most people are wearing them?"

Masks are necessary when you're in close proximity to other people. Swedes aren't getting in close proximity to other people. Are you getting this?

The Cult of Idiocy that has overtaken the US isn't there in Sweden. Florida in their highest level of lockdown has dramatically more social interaction than Sweden minus it.
I'm guessing it's this clause?

>Do not organize, promote, or coordinate servers around hate speech. It’s unacceptable to attack a person or a community based on attributes such as their race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, or disabilities

I can definietly imagine some religious people claiming to be "attacked" by a political cartoon, eg. the charlie hebdo cartoon
really? my impression is that snopes is pretty good. why do you say it isn't?
Right, but antibodies often are transient for some diseases. Once the infection disappears, the antibody levels drop. But if post-infection there are T-cells that recognize the virus, then future exposure to the virus results in a rapid and robust immune response.
This should have 'Robert Sapolsky' in the title. He is a fantastic scientist and science communicator. An advertisement to anything else he does.
Yes, despite its agnostic branding and name indicating basically totally maximal scope, schema.org has basically the features Google's interested in supporting for pulling out things from pages and emails.

To the extent that other uses can basically piggyback on data that sites added to target Google, it does provide some value, but I don't see it as really even attempting to be a generally useful "semantic web" or linked data vocabulary in the sense of interoperating with other things.
> Capitalism is property rights Capitalism is property rights

Capitalism is a very specific model of property rights and economic freedom as far as consistent with that model, which was designed—incrementally, over a long time—to advance the power interests of a particular clases (mostly not collectively, but as the aggregate of individuals in that class leveraging their growing power to advance their personal interests.)

Confusing it with “property rights and economic freedom” more generally is just as wrong as doing the same with feudalism, which likewise featured a particular model of property rights and economic freedom so far as consistent with that model of property rights.
yeah, that 80ms lag for DMs to go through really cuts on productivity
> bill clinton, is that you?!

For the record: Clinton was making a banal and uncontroversial, if inartfully stated (and awfully hilarious in hindsight), observation on the tense of a verb. He was right, actually. But yeah, that was a sound bite for the ages.
Every two years, no.

When the standard starts to actively limit further development, though...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion
Perhaps! I'm not an expert on COVID, and I've not been following trends in Europe. His claim would only make sense if Finland's low current rates are due to lockdown, and Sweden's low current rates are not because of lockdown but because COVID is no longer spreading much due to prior spread.
+1 for Monomorphization. Though more and more code base try to avoid virtual dispatching by either not using it at all or using template tricks instead
IIRC Hipchat had a lot of outages when Slack was becoming popular. I'm sure there was more to it than the meme image size.
A surgical mask protects other people more than the person wearing it.[1]

[1] https://www.bryanhealth.com/app/files/public/4953/wear-a-mas...
What are your favorite talks you've watched so far?

I enjoyed Bill Graydon's talk on "bruteforcing" physical/metal keys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suN0IsifTyY
It's a fresh take on "The Peter Principle" [1] and the author even references the formulaic expressions of it (if not by name). I found the article refreshing because it kind of backs into the topic by pondering an inquiry that might sloppily be expressed as, "I wonder why I have not yet succumbed to complacent fiefdom-ism?"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
Thousands of people with enough money to own and operate small planes is not "no lobby".

There's literally a foundation that spends tens of millions of dollars every year on small pilot interests:

https://www.aopa.org/about/governance
Thanks for the link, the thing I wanted to know and this paper answered was how they measured the current and this was the cool part! They used voltage induction caused by salt water flowing past abandoned submarine telephone cables. [1]

[1]https://journals.ametsoc.org/jtech/article/31/5/1169/262
It definitely can work, and even has some additional benefits (1), but requires special considerations. You can deblur using global motion vectors (2), or additional hardware like accelerometer reading embedded in the video feed (3).

1) cant find the paper now, but by exploiting predictable rolling shutter you get additional temporal resolution

2) http://users.ece.northwestern.edu/~sda690/MfB/Motion_CVPR08....

3) http://neelj.com/projects/imudeblurring/imu_deblurring.pdf
Worth noting that plenty of democracies aren't as dysfunctional as the US and have more than 2 viable political parties.
As a trained scientist, I'm skeptical of these calls for "scientific consensus". Sure, there are many areas of science where there is clear consensus. But if you're talking about a new area of science, where we don't have much data, it's not unusual for experts to not agree on things.

And sure, one of them is likely right and one wrong, but we won't know which one until we get more data.
Todays sneak-peak at dilettantism in the philosophy of language, logic, and formal semantics. Brought to you by YC!
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You break the site guidelines routinely, and we ban accounts that do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's mostly curiosity. Probably docker in docker in docker.
If the goal was to increase support for Trump I don't think it will accomplish that goal.
These statements are true in general, of course.

Now, as for the current pandemic, data is plenty already.
Says the person who isn't 80. You're mind bogglingly unaware of perspectives outside your own.
Part of Toshiba was banned from selling into the US for two years at the end of the 80's for selling machines to the USSR which were used to make quiet propellers for submarines. https://apnews.com/aad45a6f2de8d599d97242394be65923

This response by the US would have hurt both Japan and the US, while not so much affecting the USSR who already had their quiet propellers. It probably did hurt US consumers, but it didn't end up hurting the US government which ignored its own ban! https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1988/12/15/t...
Because capitalism is broken. And the SV work ethos always has been, to a large extent, part collective hallucination, part massive con game. Whereby the vast majority of us are shoehorned into donating our souls, our creative potential and time away from our families -- for the benefit of the comparatively very few who actually call the shots.

In this context, the real question to ask is: why are you still working there?
We had a Trashiba system 20 years ago. The case was impossible to open.
I'd point out that OP posted a link to a science fiction site
No snark intended, I'm actually trying to understand what's happening versus what's being reported.
> And do note that you can purhcase movies from Youtube app.

Not on iPhones?
> At its heart is the understanding that controlling the virus is the single most important thing right now

You misspelled “belief”.
About 20 years ago I was a newly minted CS grad and a new software engineer. I told someone a lot older than me what I do and she said "Oh, that's a great start!". Which threw me because I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do next. That's what I wanted to do. Today I am a "programmer", because I realized software isn't really engineering. That's still what I want to be doing today, and I still don't know what she thinks I'm supposed to do next.
At $100k per quality-adjusted life-year and 10 QALY lost per death, those 5k deaths are $5B, about 1% of Sweden's GDP. So by the same math used to determine if medical treatments are cost-effective, it's breakeven if that GDP difference persists for about four months. We should also account for QALY lost due to people who get severely ill but recover, but I'd guess the net result is surprisingly close to breakeven. Perhaps this means the policymakers just chose different but roughly equivalent (by that math) options, or perhaps that's just chance.

Of course you could say that math is horrible and inhumane, and any equation involving dollars and human lives will feel that way. But the point is that health care spending is already rationed by something like that standard, and every dollar of GDP that disappears is a dollar that's unavailable to spend in other ways (including medical treatments that are cost-effective by that standard).

To be clear, I think Sweden erred by not mandating masks, which seem cost-effective to me by that standard. Their response otherwise seems reasonable to me, not obviously better than stricter approaches but not obviously worse.
We use discourse for this. Any type of forum-like product is very effective as a complement to email and instant messages for the reasons you describe. For effective remote I think it's indispensable to have: Instant messaging, email, forum, wiki. Looks like p2 might also serve as a sort of "company directory" thing, which we also use another product for, but I don't get much as value out of that.
I’m a big remote work advocate and have worked with some amazing European engineers. That said, having worked as an engineer in the US office of a early stage startup with a European office, the 5-9 hour time difference is a not-insignificant impediment when you’re resource constrained and moving fast.

Even with great communication and good management, having little overlap during the day for realtime conversations made it hard for me to feel like we were a well-oiled machine, especially with so much of the product changing on a daily basis. It’s very much a complex decision to make, in my opinion.
Finland has it under control for now, but they should expect to see future waves of infection, since nearly every country that did a hard lockdown has. So the question is, will they be able to do the same severe response 2, 3, 4 times before they get the required supply of vaccines?
> The four other members of the Five Eyes are under no such restrictions.

None of your links provide any evidence that they do so, which makes sense because the agreement that the Five Eyes programs derive from was a no-spy agreement between the members. If the US government asked other countries to spy on its citizens to skirt its own laws, there would have been evidence in Snowden's document haul, and that would have been the biggest story in them. Instead, bupkis.

To reiterate the initial point, I don't know why you have those links given that they say absolutely nothing that supports your claim.
> (surprisingly and infuriatingly, this does not apply to native macOS tabs; e.g. in Finder Cmd+1/2/3 changes the view, but not tabs)

That behaviour predates native tabs on the Mac, historically it even predates Safari and other browsers with tabs, I believe.

⌘1,2,3 in Safari for a long time selected favourites in the favourites bar. There is still a setting to still do that. I use it for useful bookmarklets.
>Why compete with FAANG trying to pay new grads $300k

I am pretty sure even FAANG dont pay $300K for fresh grad.
An observation and a question:

1) I'm glad I don't have this guy as a doctor.
2)If it's not a big deal, why is he wearing a mask in the picture? Catch covid-19, rub some dirt on it, and move on. If you die, you were going to anyway.
Please don't break the site guidelines. I understand the frustration of people being wrong on the internet, but responding with name-calling ("contact with reality", "mythology you propose") only makes the thread worse. The spirit of this site means either posting corrective information (as others in this thread are doing), or resisting the temptation to post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think your definition implies that the only way to be an Enemy of the United States is if the United States is in a state of war (which we can stipulate we haven't been stated as an official declaration of war since 1945).

Is that reading backed up anywhere legally, that the definition of an Enemy only applies during a state of war from an official declaration of war?
Innocent in the eyes of the law, meaning what? No prior convictions? Not convicted of the crime for which the police officer is looking for the perpetrator? Of course they're not; they haven't even been arrested yet. And once they're dead, nobody's going to bother to prosecute and convict them.

For example, we recently had an armed robbery outside a bar here. Police came looking for the perpetrator. They found a man who they suspected might be the robber. He ran from them. They chased him. He turned around with a gun in his hand. They shot and killed him.

Now: Was he innocent in the eyes of the law? He wasn't convicted of that robbery. He wasn't even arrested for it. They would have arrested him (or at least detained him), but he fled, and then turned around with a gun.

So I'm not sure that "innocent in the eyes of the law" says very much. Other than escaped prisoners, everyone the police encounter is innocent in the eyes of the law, at least on the issue for which the police are confronting them.
Memory B cells exist and will produce antibodies as needed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_B_cell

Proving herd immunity impossible is a rather bold claim and the threshold for that has simply not been met.

We do have a rather large confidence that this virus isn’t going anywhere and will be endemic. It will join the 200+ Cold viruses that hit us every year.
How Wikipedia is grappling with one of its biggest challenges ever – Covid-19
It's not clear anything is saving lives. Once everything opens up we could be right where we started. Also we've said basically that people with coronavirus matter more than other illnesses. There will be millions of deaths around the world because of shutdown. Things like AIDs medicine. Then thousands due to lack of treatment of cancers and people not going to doctor(England did a study on this). Then you'll have the domestic violence, murder rate increase. Then the negative effects on children decades later. It's only a trade off of lives, not a net saving of lives. If you think it's "clear" that any lives are being saved then I would challenge you to think more critically.

The shutdown will be looked back on in 10 years as one of the worst mistakes the world has ever made.
Its strange that some of these messages are written in Chinese. https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1596820874448-s...

Also some messages instead of saying Donald Trump they used 唐纳德·特朗普 which are the Chinese characters for Donald Trump according to google translate.

Was this done to try to frame China or something? Or would Chinese hackers really use Chinese characters?
What does that even mean?

If it has a clear meaning, can you point to a single example of the sort of arrangement you’re talking about?
Yes, that Scott Aaronson paper was an eye opener for me.

It wasn't because of the correspondence between Godel's theorems and the halting problem, although for a computer programmer Aaronson's formulation turns Godel's inscrutable theorem into something easily accessible. (Oh, and for the curious, the reason Godel's theorem is so hard to understand is he needed a computer programming language for his proof but there were none lying around back then, so he invented his own. I strongly suspect he wasn't thinking of it as a series of executable steps, let alone a programming language whose most important property is to be readable. As a consequence it's bloody terrible.)

No, it was because it Aaronson made it plain both the halting problem and Godel's theorem are really statements about the difficulty of reasoning about infinities. The infinities are really well hidden in both approaches, but once you uncover them it's like seeing the elephant in the room - it all becomes obvious. And it also becomes evident they aren't particularly relevant to anything you are likely to encounter here on earth. That's because there are no infinities in our corner of the universe. And, there there is no halting problem for finite, bounded systems. For some reason, no one ever tells you that.

This paper, listed here on HN recently, explains it much better than I can:

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411418
What are the benefits of this? over using any backend to build an api, generating swagger, open api, postman specs and then generating a client(s) in what ever language you’d like.

Code completion and variable type validation from the front end is nice.

Is there a direction this is going that differs from the existing tools?
Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy is a legit science blog (man, the term feels so quaint in 2020...) - even though it is hosted in a shady-looking syfy.com website.
MacOS is bloated and glitchy nowadays.

But I keep coming back to MacOS. It's funny but the No.1 reason for me is the readline shortcuts.

The No.2 reason is rendering.
> A hidden opportunity for semantics?

Unfortunately this hack only works as attribute bgcolor on some tags, not all tags, and it doesn't work in css
This is a total tangent, but I'm an American with a partner from Stockholm, and we're interested in maybe moving over there when that is possible again. Do you have any suggestions or resources for getting to understand the tech scene around Stockholm, especially AI/computer vision stuff? Thanks!
Are we now going to ignore the weeks of horror that New York went through and many South American countries are going through right now?

Contrary to the author’s claims, no one in their right mind went into lockdown trying to decrease the total number of deaths, not directly at least. Lockdowns were/are there to smoothen the spike of cases and prevent medical system from the overload.

As to diminishing cases, could it be that people got the habits of social distancing and hand washing? In a small country without large cities it would not take much to take R_t to the values that are close enough to 1.0.
He talks about applications in the first lecture:

* Robotics is a big one, folding robotic arms.

* Computer graphics. ... animate your characters ... skeletons as foldable objects

* Mechanics: A lot of the early folding work is in like 17, 1800s, and is motivated by building mechanical linkages to do useful things.

* Manufacturing: if you could get them to fold objects (ex: CPUs), then you could manufacture 3D nano-scale objects.

* Optics. A MIT group does some optical devices through folding

* Medical: folding a stent really small, do non-intrusive heart surgery. Drug delivery.

* Aero-astro. fold things within space shuttles

* Biology. Big one: protein folding

* Sculpture: origami.

* Interactive buildings' architecture: reconfigurable buildings. Hoberman is one example of somebody exploring this, getting the building to fold from one shape to another, or getting your shades to fold from one shape to another, all sorts of things.
Unregulated price gauging will likely end very badly, yes. I'm aware, and just didn't mention it in detail for brevity's sake.

Yes, but funding allocation is hard.

That'd be the case only if it was sudden. If entrepreneurs had the time to think and plan, they'd come up with stockpiles that they rise the sale price for when the time comes, calculating to use that future sales price increase to offset the increased bound capital and storage expenses of their large(r) inventory.

Military is a bad example, but firefighters do train a lot. But that's also due to them needing to respond within hours at best, instead of weeks/months for most wars. I'm referring to the majority/bulk of them, not the leadership hierarchy.
I see this line trotted out frequently but this criticism never made much sense to me. The vehicles exist to benefit us. They are either directly transporting us or transporting goods to be used by us. They don’t exist for an independent reason. So if the streets are designed for vehicles it’s ultimately to benefit humans.
same explanation as other comments with other words.

The books were cooked. The profits oscillations in the tweet graph aren't natural, and the peaks were inncreasing.

At one point the profits were even greater that revenues.
80k died in 2017-2018 US flu season. I'm sorry but where was the shutdown? Luckily this whole thing is going to be gone November 4th.
I can’t think of a single great developer that you could hire in the US for $100K. The few jobs in non metropolitan areas for software developers are going to be WordPress Developers. Everyone else is going to at least leave for the closest metropolitan area.