skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, human “culture” and it’s “trends” are such a waste. Why can’t everybody just spend their entire lives staring at screens while dressed in tshirts, like us software engineers do?

Those thousands of years of human history spent on emotionally-driven aesthetic pursuits like art, fashion, music, culinary tradition and architecture...what a waste of time and resources. If only we could be more robot-like and efficiency optimizing! Good riddance indeed.
I shall tell my friend about that. Thank you for the information!
I would add environmental friendliness - more creativity in supply chains so more local materials used. Fashion will always exist and by itself shouldnt be considered wasteful - think deeply about other cultures relationship to it.

Google around for Adam Minters book secondhand on how the rag industry is one of the largest.
Yeah, You can get some OK ones between 30-50 but the more stylish ones are easily >100 or way more.
PyTorch-ProbGraph – Hierarchical Probabilistic Graphical Models in PyTorch
Thanks. I didn't know that they've started to backpedal. As for sources I had no idea it was such a controversial topic and something I thought was obvious (again, my point was just that an inefficient mask could be counterproductive) but here's the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control saying the same thing:

> There is a risk that improper removal of the face mask, handling of a contaminated face mask or an increased tendency to touch the face while wearing a face mask by healthy persons might actually increase the risk of transmission.

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/COV...
Okay so honestly I’m so new to this I don’t even know what to learn first, so I’m open to suggestions!
Reduce Memory Used by Random Forest in Scikit-Learn
Probably Workday. It takes more clicks to get where you want to go than older, less flashy software. Rendering and response times are slow too. It might just be how my company set it up.
I'd hazard to say most people outside of tech (in free speech countries) don't care about encryption as a key feature.
What he's implying is that Gates' willingness to associate with known child sex traffickers indicates that his concern about CP is likely disingenuous, and merely a posture he's adopting to push a policy goal he supports for less politically palletable reasons.
What are you taking about? The man devotes his time and considerable resources to public health and solving the tough to solve issues instead of spending his time owning sports teams and racing yachts. Yet...you still look for the negatives in his motives?
“Great Business?” The man is literally giving away his money, all this pandemic is doing is taking more of his precious time up than normal.
I mean we have other unelected experts leading the pandemic response (eg Fauci) so does he need to go?

Or is it just about the wealth?

Bill Gates is there because his foundation is responsible for helping to eradicate diseases and coordinate pandemic responses, so without his wealth he certainly has experience in this field.
Don't forget he gave a TED talk warning the world about the next pandemic. And obviously he knows a thing or two about high-level issues dealing with epidemics (which extend beyond just the medicine). Why would they just ignore him?
In Objective-C, that’s called “method swizzling”, and better supported by the runtime. See https://nshipster.com/method-swizzling/

And of course, Common Lisp has “change-class” (https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2015-07-27-use-cases-f..., discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=734025) and Smalltalk has “become:” (https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2009/07/miracle-of-become.html. Short discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=734025)
Don’t forget you’re still a second-class citizen as a foreigner: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/05/19/national/social...
I don't think there is more danger to the existence of this command than to the existence of `rm -rf /` which I guess is more likely to be entered accidentally (though still very unlikely).

People who can use the command line are usually more aware of what they are doing than the typical end user.
Companies Want Access to Your Medical Files to Speed Up Life Insurance Purchases
These days you can get your reentry permit directly at the airport, and in the case of a PR you can stay outside the country for up to a year. Much better than the “buy an expensive stamp” system they had prior. I moved back to the US at the end of 2018 and haven’t gone back, so I assume my PR expired. That said, if I ever went back I could likely re-obtain it due to my spouse being Japanese.

I’m not aware of anyone trying to game keeping their PR, but I do know that if you need to repeatedly stay out of the country for awhile you need to provide a solid reason (like caring for a sick parent).
"The probability that any particular event will happen is very small. So the probability that any particular event will happen twice is even smaller. So the probability that any particular event will happen twice in a row is even smaller. So the probability that any particular event will happen three times in a row is even smaller."

This sounds like a meta-joke, lol.
https://archive.vn/ttHx5
The slow fade is because there is a large electrolytic capacitor in the power supply which retains a small amount of energy when the power supply is unplugged. This slowly drains (depending on circuit) and is why it sometimes take up to a minute to see the LED fade. When repairing or modifying power supplies it is important to be aware that capacitors may still be storing enough energy to cause a shock.
What exactly do you think is weird? That someone would switch from studying for one high status career to studying for another high status career?
Yeah, not remotely accurate for me. I'm typing this on consumer/residental symmetric gigabit fiber (albeit a bit oversubscribed on the downlink side, but I still get hundreds of megabits both directions). Not listed in the results table.
Nope. Your vendors a lying to you. 5g in general will require a lot more power. That's one of the barriers.
Not exactly on topic:

There have been a few HN submissions in the past linking to papers concerned with the effect of 5G on insects.

As a layperson I was not able to evaluate those papers. But if anyone knows if there was any kind of consensus reached about that, or even if this is something that anyone serious is concerned about, I would appreciate the pointer.
You can easily wire your brake lights to flash while you are actually accelerating
They knew that there was a continuous risk of a pandemic and prepared for one happening eventually. Just like we know there's a low risk of an entire server room going up in flames/water damage/lightning/getting hit by a truck driving into a building and that's why we have offsite backups even though we won't know when something is going to happen.
"So why not talk to the really smart people he hired?"

There is definitely a billionaire cult going on these days. I don't know when it started but I see more and more headlines "billionaire does X", "billionaire says Y". Somehow being a billionaire gives you credibility on everything you do or say.
Evidently when enough people flag a comment, one loses the ability to edit the comment. This actually makes complete sense in that it helps preserve for mods what the original comment was in the event of an abusive comment, but to add clarity since I can't edit my parent comment, the title should be what's in the original post:

"How Malicious Tor Relays are Exploiting Users in 2020"
This seems like a trivially testable hypotheses. Compile the code and look at the instructions generated. No need for elaborate speculation.
This is a tale that people like to weave. I can only imagine that they haven't used Haskell much, or at least my experience is completely different.

Sometimes I try to do something that seems sensible. The compiler says "you can't do this, you need to turn on -XExtension". I do so. The end. It's really not terribly mysterious or complicated.
That is correct. AND is added by default and is never necessary in Google.

It's a little confusing because fo how Google implemented some of the operators. The boolean + operator in many cases is used in the same way as AND, but Google originally used it to let users to force a specific word to be present in a search result.

So a search for Fish +Chips was a search for both words, but 'Chips' MUST be present. The equivalent search today is Fish "Chips". It's a little annoying because it requires typing another character, and it it is still not always respected.
Bill Gates is a public health expert. He has been working on these problems with some of the smartest minds in the field for decades now. How long does someone need to be working on a problem before they're worthy of being a "go to source", in your opinion?
And Australia already has experience [1] of building that type of link.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basslink
Redesigning Ventilation Systems to Reduce Covid Transmission
4:3 is underrated. I was watching Star Trek the other day and realized it is easier to focus on a square screen. I wonder if the widescreen era was driven by some technical detail in ease of manufacturing.
The Grand Challenges of Robotics
This post was inspired by a question Richard Hamming asks in "You and your research" (paraphrasing): "What are the most important problems in your field?". When I thought hard about this question, I realized that I didn’t have a satisfying answer. This post is an ongoing attempt to remedy this.

Since solving these challenges is a collective pursuit, I’d appreciate suggestions on content to add, general feedback, and comments! :)
No longer have Google Chrome on any devices, switched over to Chromium Edge.

Same browser, different overloads.

Left the default search engine as Bing, but only because Duck Duck Go is useless for geographicly local search.
I was suggesting that ffggvv could be more fair in their assessment. I do not believe that the average ‘handling’ has been anything even approaching considered or realistic. ‘Handling’ is perhaps the wrong term.
Yes. What you wouldn't find there generally is support for any left-wing, (actual left, not "liberal") policy.
Posts are considered dupes if the earlier ones have gained sufficient traction. In this case, there were few points and no comments prior to yours, made minutes ago. As for title editorializing, the submitted title is the subtitle of the submission, as opposed to something made up by the submitter. If you think the title is in error, you can contact the mods (using the link in the footer) with any suggestions.
But why listen to him either? You could have talked to any disease expert over the last few decades and they would have told you that a pandemic will be coming and that we aren't prepared.
Learn them when you come across them, like any other language feature. It's as simple as that. That they are enabled via an extension is really just a historical quirk of the language having been originally defined by a standard.
6-7 words per line is just ridiculous
Rusty von Humboldt
Status symbols in general are ridiculous vanity.
That's GAN training in a nutshell.
> I play FlightGear

Version/Platform?

> on a ThinkPad T420

This is not cheap PC.

Try run FlightGear on cheap laptops produced before 2010.
Yep, that's powerline (or an alternative inspired by) with an improperly-patched font (which is why it's got the box characters).
I remember a lot of these hig voltage technology needs as insulator sulfurhexaflorid. Unfortunately the most potent greenhouse gas, so lets hope leackage is not too high.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_hexafluoride
It's the same thing. People aren't spending $150 on designer jeans but now spending $100 on designer sweatpants. Hollywood celebs have been replaced by instagram influencers.
That’s not a bidi SFP. The attenuators aren’t needed either.

Then there’s the fact you are ordering from Aliexpress, rather than Fiberstore. Fiberstore has multiple locations and warehouses, a returns policy, a level of customer service and no shipping charges.
Agreed here. I'd love to run cable to access points on my 1st floor ceiling, but the work required to do that (getting it up from the basement into the ceiling and through the joists) is just too much work. I've decided just to run the cable on the ceiling.

If I ever build or renovate a house, I'll be running it like that though.
High-end fashion is not fast fashion. I wear high-end shoes daily, some that have been resoled twice, having a 10-year lifespan each. I feel I stand out from the crowd when I appear in my don't remember-when-I-bought Hackett blazer and Liberty shirts.

If you are a man, whatever looked good on Steve McQueen in the 70s would still give you the look today.
Not really a downgrade it if offers 10 Gbps easily.
To me, the most striking thing about the interview is his idea for just fixing the Covid testing delays. I think he puts his finger right on the problem: we're incentivizing essentially worthless tests by paying full price. Change the reimbursement structure and capitalism will do its job.

I'd like to understand more deeply why this is not happening.
> If the language is more coherent with the extensions, they should enable them by default.

The main reason that they are not enabled by default is that Haskell has a standard. It's like gcc having -std=c++11, except the opposite way around.
I don't consider Apple laptops good to be honest. Things should be simple, but not simpler than simple.

That said, if some device is simply too thin to accommodate a network port, I don't mind using an adapter through USB-C / upcoming USB4 and etc.
Yes, it's really weird, also that he is actually supporting the WHO financially. But here's the reality: U.S. doesn't spend enough to WHO (in fact now they even want to leave), so he gives them money - which is actually possible for everyone. Also Bill Gates wasn't the only "Cassandra", practically every popular science magazine (and probably also HN) has written about the possibility of a future pandemic since years. And yet, Government did nothing. Actually in Germany there were even pandemic simulations about 10 years ago, showing how bad Germany is prepared. Still, nothing was done to improve that.

I think the summary is: this is really odd but it is even more odd how governments are unable to work on long-term topics unless shit hits the fan.
I don't find it hard to believe at all. I see people fidget with their masks all the time. Here's the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control saying the same thing:

> There is a risk that improper removal of the face mask, handling of a contaminated face mask or an increased tendency to touch the face while wearing a face mask by healthy persons might actually increase the risk of transmission.

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/COV...
Fauci was appointed by an elected representitive. Who appointed Bill Gates? He purchased his position of influence/

Nothing against the man. I'm distrustful generally in the richest people in the world wielding control that can make their friends even richer. I really doubt I'm alone.
I don't use reddit, twitter, facebook or instagram, but HN is super important for me. It makes me more efficient because it gives me the knowledge of the community.

HN gives me a treasure of information in so many areas I have found invaluable when I need it.

Just use something like Zotero so when you see something interesting, you just give a quick look at it, and save it without spending a significant amount of time.

And also learn to manage yourself. Without it you will not need facebook to waste your time, you will fantasy dream while looking at the window or staring against the wall.
Maybe politicians with a high BMI are more likely to be caught being corrupt. Doesn't mean that they're more corrupt.
One of the first things which comes to mind when thinking about obesity is neglect.
It makes sense that someone who is neglectful with their health and appearance could be neglectful with their public image and reputation.
Maybe they're simply more neglectful when it comes to covering up their tracks.
They don't value their personal image much so they don't invest much energy into protecting it.
I've run fiber from my basement to my second floor rack (two cables). It's really cool. Right now its 1G, but I can upgrade it to 10G whenever I feel like paying for new switches.
Good to know.

Sounds more like duplicate submissions should register as an upvote on the previous one if it's within a certain amount of time rather than posting separately. This is a feature Reddit has had for about a decade.

Additionally, the title here states "More than 23% of Tor exit relays operated by a single malicious actor", whereas the subtitle states ">23% of the Tor network’s exit capacity has been attacking Tor users"

While OP's title is confirmed deep in the article ("As far as I know this is the first time we uncovered a malicious actor running more than 23% of the entire Tor network’s exit capacity. That means roughly about one out of 4 connections leaving the Tor network were going through exit relays controlled by a single attacker."), this wasn't anywhere near the top nor was it the intent of the author to make this specific point.

Anyway, emailed per request.
It's the subtitle. And the subtitle is more informative.
> 5G doesnt seem like its enabling anything fundamentally new.

It does, just not for you and I. We will be surveilled more completely and inescapably than ever.
"So the probability that any particular event will happen four times in a row is looking a little suspicious. Five is right out"
CLAMP has probably been more influential. They're four women from Osaka who have been turning out manga for over 30 years.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamp_(manga_artists)
Updated the article to reflect and credited you for the contribution!
Authentic culture isn't created by a microscopically small group of rich people. If you think that criticising an exploitative industry is the the same as turning people into cultureless robots, then you're missing the entire point.
I have never touched template haskell.

OverloadedStrings is one of the few extensions you'll see everywhere, but there's nothing to remember about it. It's really the kind of thing you'll understand in 10s and find obvious forever after.

> If the answers to that list were enabled by default in the language, and most Haskellers agreed on them, there really wouldn't be much complaint

Here is the thing: just moving all the extensions into the language and removing the pragma would basically mean there would still be the same amount of things in the language, but with no convenient way to know what's used in a specific file, and it would be hard to research that topic which you don't know.

Extensions are great in that they force devs to label files with searchable names for the concepts they use in the code.

> A newcomer wouldn't know that some of them are required reading and others aren't and not know which is which.

A newcomer, just like a seasoned haskeller, shouldn't bother learning new extensions if they're not about to use them. That's the way to go forward.
Nitrogen Fixing Trees in Permaculture
I think plenty of people said that a global pandemic is just a matter of time. Countries had made preparations with varying degrees of success. E.g. Switzerland back in like 2014 did a nationwide preparedness test, identified numerous problems (e.g. insufficient stock of PPE) and created a pandemic strategy. We still ended up in 2020 with doctors having to go to home depot to buy protective glasses because the states, responsible for implementing parts of the strategy did absolutely nothing.

Few like to prepare for something that might happen, but nobody can tell you when. But as a private citizen or small to medium business, what you can do to prepare for an event of this scale and duration is also fairly limited. It has to happen at broader societal level.
Argonne National Lab Breakthrough Turns Carbon Dioxide into Ethanol
Note to self: remember to re-download the guidelines every once in a while. This has been in my mind for ~3 years and they have changed them (for the better mostly!) a couple of times. A clear example is that now you don't need to have the high skill visa for the given time, but you just need to have the points for the given period (and even that is a bit ambiguous, it says you need to have the points at the time of applying and 3 years before, but it doesn't say "for the duration of those 3 years")
Lol...this seems a bit tongue in cheek
I don't think America is anything special in this regard. I think the answer to your first question is "no".
Is it realistic to expect 5G coverage in rural wetlands?

From what I understand, the range of a single 5G base station is significantly lower than 2/3/4G so they are having to install new cell sites in major towns and cities just for 5G coverage.
Microchips have existed for a while now. Even dogs are microchipped for tracking owners.
What search do you prefer and why?
If you blindly believe Western media, sure. There is no actual proof of either narrative.

Try at least hearing the other side.

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-...

https://youtu.be/BjgSOYRZqIo

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/89BEIJING18828_a.html
I would imagine at least some of the price increase was DTO...
Like it or not, he's become a highly controversial figure for a large fraction of the population, particularly within the societies that his foundation works. In my opinion, they'd do good to pick a figure whose name is less tarnished if they want the message to be more broadly accepted.
They have begun to allow them to return:

>Aware of foreign residents’ concerns, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said last month that Japan would loosen some of the rules. On Wednesday, immigration officials said at a news conference that they had begun readmitting those who left before the start of the restrictions in April.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/business/japan-entry-ban-...
You need to remove the blank after the colon.

https://www.google.nl/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+l...
Unless you're a victim of a targeted attack, and the perpetrators know your accounts and go to immediately hijack them, it's a non-issue. You just generate and print new rescue codes, and the old codes become invalid.
Another attempt to gpt-3 filtering the intro section of the paper: This book is about how we can guess what will happen in the future. The first chapter is about how we can guess the next number in a sequence. The second chapter is about how we can guess the next word in a sentence. The third chapter is about how we can guess the next word in a book. The fourth chapter is about how we can guess the next word in all the books ever written. The fifth chapter is about how we can guess the next word in all the books ever written
I think he’s like a bored nerd tremendous in managing Windows and using web browsers.

So I’d think his accounts would be as easy and correct as some wiki articles or better, and at the same time would sound “irrelevant” to the public for the lack of emotional components to it.
Again, contact the mods. Carrying on editorial discussions in the comments largely rehashes discussion that have been made many times before.

Edit to add: thanks!
You can use three asterisks in a row, surrounded by whitespace, to get a single asterisk like: "Stocks rose today by * percent".

Oddly, this results in a non-italicized asterisk in the output, contrary to reports in earlier comments that the resulting asterisk would be in italics. There is, however, a zero-length italicized string right before the asterisk in the HTML:

"Stocks rose today by <i></i>* percent".
Indeed. This seems like a bit overreacting. Google is lots of things, but a shitty search engine to the point of deserving being blocked is not one of them.