skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides my own projects, the only one I've been contributing anything to lately is Apache River.
I would expect moderation to lower grades much more often than it would raise grades.

After all, it's understandable why a teacher would over-estimate grades (assumption everyone else is going to do the same, and their kids will be relatively disadvantaged if they don't) and hence get moderated down.

And it's understandable why a teacher would give spot-on estimated grades (honesty, valuing the credibility of their estimates) and hence not get moderated at all.

But it's difficult to see why a teacher would under-estimate grades.

So I suspect there are not many C grade students getting upgraded to an A.
You don’t need taxes to offset subsidies, of course. You just need to end the subsidies. But yeah, there are likely major environmental externalities that could be eliminated by taxation.
The problem is that the tax would need to be super-linear. There are two effects going on.

First, with a fixed quota, the value of a credit is bid up by people wanting to fly, not dissimilar to the Norwegian butter crisis where a stick of butter cost upward of €40.

Second, with a credit transfer system, people selling their credits receive a "negative" tax, while people buying credits pay a positive tax.

This system ensures everyone still has access to a basic level of air travel at today's prices, but is also super-linearly incentivize to travel less.

A linear (fixed) tax on travel will just price out the lowest class, and a linear tax means nothing to those on top of a power-law wealth distribution.
As long as the courts are fair, there's no problem here.
Would you have any advice on getting started in the IoT space?
I dont think China counts as a centrally planned economy. Its a weird state-capitalism hybrid. The government has a say in corporate affairs but doesn’t set production goals.
It's this: https://github.com/p-ranav/structopt/blob/master/include/str... mashed into a single header with some other stuff by a build tool, I think.

That looks like something that was proposed for inclusion in boost a long time ago. I think it eventually got accepted after some renaming :)

The amount of preprocessor magic in that file makes my head hurt.
Agreed. And before anyone interjects something like: "But medical professionals recommend meditation!"

Meditation for medical purposes is almost always just a relaxation technique, e.g. autogenic training. The rest, beyond relaxation, is rarely recommended and usually frowned upon.
I don't get it... if News Corp doesn't want to be indexed can't they just set their robots.txt accordingly? It doesn't seem like they'll be able to successfully argue this.
If you want to spell out a new word, how does it work?

For this system, You’d need an input device that sends its input to a dictionary and then sends that through the normal input?

Like another poster here, vim’s modal editing bit with chording makes me wonder what could be achieved with a normal keyboard
I'm sure there are, but, in a pre-scientific age, such accounts have a tendency to be rather unreliable.

Where bubonic plague is primarily transmitted by flea bites, the plague doctor gear is ultimately a personal protective equipment version of the Maginot Line. But it would plausibly offer some protection against contracting pneumonic plague from getting coughed on all the time.
The visual design of the landing page emphasizes face to face communication. This is at odds with the pitch as a tool for distributed teams. Probably out of step with the pandemic as well. Particularly the high-fiving around a table. Good luck.
We need to be realistic. Reeducating several billion people from something very addictive, culturally engrained and with no direct negative effects for consumers is almost impossible.
I had no idea speculation was surfaced up through Truffle. That's so cool.
The malware is in a Jar, a data file executed by Oracle's VM. It's a bit much to hold Microsoft liable for the behavior of 3rd part software.

I could write a program that deletes your hard drive if you run a script named delete me.jpg. should Microsoft be liable?
> The original Jolla 1 even used Btrfs, which was deemed a mistake.

Why is that? Was it too young or is it generally impractical on a phone?
This claim seems credible: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/thr-esq/genius-says-it...
Except for the Defund the BBC movement that's going on right now... I'm skeptical any government funded broadcaster is sustainable when it just turns into a propaganda outlet for the establishment.
I’m part of the team that makes Zoho Writer (Google Docs alternative) - https://writer.zoho.com

Back in 2009, we wrote our real time collaboration component using Operational Transformations (OT). But when CRDTs started to gain the spotlight, these are the reasons why it didn’t warrant a rewrite to our stack:

#1 Memory issues with tombstones. Marking as deletion has a cost of maintaining them throughout the session.

#2 CRDTs were perfect for plain strings and arbitrary key/value pairs. But when it comes to schematic JSON that has semantic value CRDT was an added overhead. For example, try making a collaborative HTML editor with support for table operations. It is very likely you will end up with a table structure that is invalid to render. In OT analysing, modifying or cancelling ops were much easier.

#3 Since the software is primarily a cloud document editor, a central server is necessary even otherwise. So why not use the server for efficient version management and operation sequencing as well? Why prefer CRDTs whose bulk of complexity comes from eliminating the need of a central system?

Such practical reasons have kept us from venturing into CRDTs. As of now, common editing platforms like Google Docs, Zoho Writer, CKeditor, ProseMirror, Quill, CodeMirror - all of these work with OTs instead of CRDT for collaborative editing.
That is textbook ADHD.

My apartment is never more spotless than when I have to tackle some hard/complex piece of code that requires my undivided attention for a long stretch.
Even better, those users are probably suffering from alert fatigue already due to all the security warnings about the ancient kvm software, so using a technique like this to bypass AV scans would probably be enough to compromise some major systems.
DHS Estimated Airborne Decay of Covid-19
https://www.clamxav.com/ was free and is now paid — perhaps the poster was thinking of that.
I think there might be a slight misunderstanding of what the 25% actually relates to - from the linked CDC pdf

"The percentage of respondents who reported having seriously considered suicide in the 30 days before completing the survey (10.7%) was significantly higher among respondents aged 18–24 years (25.5%)".

I read that as out of the ~5000 that answered the survey, 10.7% considered suicide and out of that 10.7% subset, 25% of those were in the under 25 age group.

I was interested in seeing how that compared to previous years -

" The prevalence of symptoms of anxiety disorder was approximately three times those reported in the second quarter of 2019 (25.5% versus 8.1%), and prevalence of depressive disorder was approximately four times that reported in the second quarter of 2019 (24.3% versus 6.5%) (2). However, given the methodological differences and potential unknown biases in survey designs, this analysis might not be directly comparable with data reported on anxiety and depression dis-orders in 2019"
And here, dear reader, you have witnessed the birth of new Internet Explorer. Half the standards of a proper web browser with twice the opinions!
MLOps and Reproducible ML on AWS with Kubeflow and SageMaker
Interesting. They used to only sell through Amazon in the UK but this is no longer the case.

Something I’ve learnt - a reason I’m tempted to shop at Amazon is because I have an account there. But many suppliers now allow shopify or Paypal without needing to set up an account. By avoiding the temptation to set up an account (ie ignore FOMO of offers), using other sites becomes as seamless as Amazon.

I now believe shops that push customers to set up accounts and don’t use shopify etc, drive people to Amazon for convenience.
Apple and Samsung had been partner for a long time. Some iPods and iPhone, iPhone 3G, 3GS use Samsung arm processor. Apple A4 to A7 is made by Samsung too.

But A8 is made by TSMC, A9 has two versions, APL0898 by Samsung, APL1022 by TSMC. There were some debates on which one is better.

After that, all Ax process are made by TSMC.
Read Sheena 5 by Stephen Baxter, great short story.
I don't have the numbers in front of me, but this doesn't seem like it could be true. My Dad always raised cattle as a pastime, just a handful, one for meat and sold the rest. Never subsidized, and he usually broke just about even. A big mac has a fifth pound of beef. $75 a pound for ground beef? He'd buy hundreds. So would I, and everyone else. Why bother cutting out steaks, just grind the whole thing down.

So I'm curious where that number comes from.
The comment he was replying to was clearly from the perspective of a straight man, as that previous comment was pushing back against the idea that a prime purpose of bars is to find sexually compatible mates.

It's OK if other people are having a conversation that isn't directly about you. Even better to reach out and see how it could apply to you if you think being in a bar with very few people you could be potentially attracted to would be less fun.
An option not yet mentioned in the comments, if you shoot sheet film, is to use X-ray film, possibly cut to the size you need.
This game is truly amazing.

> In February, Phil Spencer, Microsoft's head of Xbox, made some waves when he said that his company's true competitors in interactive entertainment were no longer traditional gaming rivals Sony and Nintendo, but rather Big Tech rivals Amazon and Google. For those two companies, Flight should be a sobering reminder of just how far behind Microsoft they are in gaming in particular, but also perhaps more generally in their ability to bring different internal groups together for a common cause.
What are you on? You gave me two questions, I answered them both.

Here are your exact words:

> So here's some specific questions for you to answer: What is the walled garden you're accusing Google of creating? And again: how does an open standard allow Google to create it? And how does a walled garden let them "dictate how the internet operates?

There are no question about signed exchanges in the above text.

I do not wish to continue on this debut. Have a nice day.
Mostly, but I think you could have an org chart and let individuals and teams override it if they find good ways to reuse assets.

I just don't think most companies run this way, maybe it's the military way of thinking of strict hierarchy rather than a market where the best ideas can develop or where you can at least break out of the hierarchy to get something started.

The MBAs and bean counters would probably argue that it's important to get certain unpopular things done, but I think a market would solve that too, as soon as something becomes a bottle neck, someone would step in.

My impression is that organizations are far too centered around VPs and directors who get to carry on without having to prove themselves again in the new situations they're in.
CDPs Are the New Destination for Data
Show HN: Quarantines.site – safely open documents and web sites
That is exactly how it works over in our “unplanned” economies too
I think if we're to the point that we're comparing Uber to the violence market, we're not having a meaningful discussion any more.

True: it is not the case that we should fundamentally allow any association between two consenting adults. No, this does not justify preventing it in other cases.
> That is why during serious meditation retreats (like 10 days vipassana) some people freak out and they aren't able to finish the retreat. It's perfectly normal and usually has positive effects in the long run.

To be fair the vast majority of people who leave (Goenka) Vipassana retreats leave on days 2 and 6 (Goenka himself mentioned this in one of the prerecorded talks). It's extremely unlikely that first timers get concentrated enough to start experiencing negative effects (such as 'bhanga jnana' or dissociation) in 1-5 days of meditation. Anyone familiar with those retreats would guess they couldn't take the boot camp schedule and not being allowed to speak or to peruse any kind of diversion such as book or smartphone.
I don't think that we're really at odds here, I think I'm just more conservative when representing the status of the feature than you are. It's already taken over three years for the minimal version of the feature, and the author of the PI types trilogy RFCs has quit open source entirely. I just don't want to give the impression that this is happening any time soon.
They're not irrational. They're quite rational. They'll go for whatever is cheapest.

For a long, long time, commercial fishing as they currently do it will be the cheapest way to do it. It's darn difficult to beat the cost-effectiveness of just harvesting the grown fish without any further involvement in the process. Especially given the labor conditions [1] exploited by these sorts of operations, there's no way that any domestically-operated farm could beat them out.

[1] I've been reading Ian Urbina's Outlaw Ocean on a recommendation from another comment somewhere on HN. It's eye-opening, to say the least.
#1 suggestion: Washington, DC. Museums (the Smithsonian museums), bars, restaurants (one of the Michelin cities), proximity to nature (there's a national park that cuts through the middle of the city, there's the National Arboretum, and you're about an hour drive from numerous state parks in Virginia and Maryland)

#2 suggestion: Chicago, IL. Museums (check), bars (check), restaurants (also a Michelin city), nature (Lake Michigan).

#3 suggestion: Boston

I will 100% grant that the weather in the Bay Area is generally better than all three of those places - but if you don't highly rank outdoor activities, does that matter as much?
> you get acceptable performance with an insane package repository that means you can ship so much faster.

You absolutely do not. There are a ton of holes in the Python package ecosystem that have been plugged by Julia. For example, stiff ODE solvers that mix with structured matrices, like block banded matrices, are very common in PDE fields, but Python really just has (very slow) stiff ODE solvers and unstructured sparse matrices are the only thing you can mix with that, along with a lack of a solid sparse AD. You can keep going down the list of all of these applications that are wide open, and where Julia libraries already are either (a) existing where Python libraries don't exist or (b) are orders of magnitude faster. So let's be a bit more concrete there: there are areas where Python packages can get you by, and there are not, and there are a lot of things in the not category (which is why we as devs exist!).
Why would they need a 5 year plan to "restrict" their already goal-achieving fleet size if it was not for reducing?
Ok, bug fixed. Should work ok now.

edit: still got issues....
I've noticed the same thing myself at various times in my life. My most frequent sleep schedule I maintained was 4am to noon, but it drifts from that pretty often. And when it does, my days push longer. I actually mapped out a "6 day week," where I would sleep 8 hours and be up 20. It lines up with a 24/7 week where I wake up at the same time on the same day each week.

Thank you for posting this. It's encouraging me to consider giving that a shot again. (especially since I woke up at 5pm and that's been pushing later again)
Yes, something changed with 10 to a new business model, right?
1) drive more users toward cloud services, and 2) users are the other product.
I agree multinational corporation taxation is sorely in need of updating but this isn't taxing Google. This is just robbing Google and giving the proceeds to News Corp. The Australian people don't get anything from this, it's literally just taking money from one multinational and giving it to another. What would be hilarious is if Google just delisted News Corp in the US and UK and charged them a premium for adwords to offset the theft in the Australian market.
Research on the Bongard Problems
There's some great info in these slides: https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/08/17/ibm_power10_summary.pdf

- They leapfrogged everyone else with PCIe v5 and DDR5

- 1 TB/s memory bandwidth, which is comparable to high-end NVIDIA GPUs, but for CPUs

- Socket-to-socket interconnect is 1 TB/s also.

- 120 GB/s/core L3 cache read rate sustained.

- Floating point rate comparable to GPUs

- 8-way SMT makes this into a hybrid between a CPU and a GPU in terms of the latency hiding and memory management, but programmable exactly like a full CPU, without the limitations of a GPU.

- Memory disaggregation similar to how most modern enterprise architectures separate disk from compute. You can have memory-less compute nodes talking to a central memory node!

- 16-socket glueless servers

- Has instructions for accelerating gzip.
Nice! Try to make a GUI application.
It can be difficult to orchestrate years and layers of adjusted statistics to tell a consistent story.

Cities, provinces, and the central government all have their own agendas and different reasons to lie. They don't necessarily do cross checks before publishing their own data.
Does Windows claim to verify signatures JRE data files, or only native executables?
I’ll give you an example from my own life that meditation and therapy helped clear up for me.

In my 20s, I would routinely get into yelling and screaming matches with girlfriends. There were two significant driving forces behind that:

- that is how my parents interacted. Things are good, someone screws up, everyone yells at each other for a while, and the next day it’s as if nothing happened. There were addictions involved...

- because it was the family dynamic I was used to, I was naturally attracted to people with similar disagreement-resolution styles.

I started down this path when I met someone awesome (now going 10 years strong), and she came from a family that uhhh wasn’t quite as messed up as mine. We’d have a disagreement, I’d yell, and she would shut down. She basically told me that if I didn’t stop trying to argue like that, she’d be gone.

So I started figuring out how to take something I was upset about and generally stay calm enough to discuss it, but the anger was still there, I was just suppressing it. Turns out, when I did that consistently, I started to go emotionally numb. Sure, I didn’t fly off the handle when I was upset, but I also didn’t find much joy in anything either (which I had before!)

What I basically concluded one night was that I had effectively found my “volume knob” and I had turned it down too much. Therapy and meditation (encouraged by the therapist) helped me work through all the baggage that came from my weird childhood and helped me get that volume knob dialled in.

Now I have wonderful joyful experiences, and when my partner and I have a disagreement about something, we can resolve it calmly. I don’t think I’ve yelled at a single human being in probably 8 years.

Objectively happy vs. objectively miserable? I don’t know if objective applies since I didn’t collect any data :). But, if nothing else, I would wager my cortisol and other stress hormone levels are waaaaaaay down compared to how things used to be.
Proof of stake vs proof of work?
One of the fun things that happens with HTTPS proxies is people desire a policy that only spies on some things people do, and the people making these middleboxes (who are concerned first and foremost with selling a product not with whether that product works or even if such a product could in principle work) are eager to offer that.

This can't work, but, having sold it/ bought it then there's a lot of pressure to make it work.

The best case scenario with such products is that some fraction of traffic is unmolested but the product owner policies do not actually control what that traffic is (which might surprise them and make their overall security policies ineffective but otherwise is no big deal)

The worst case is that in the attempt to do this "selective proxying" some or all traffic security is compromised. Non-participants aren't affected (except it might introduce denial of service) but active participants give up potentially all security. e.g. the company laptop that's configured to the trust the MITM proxy, might not only be uploading your bank password to some screen accessible by an entry level IT guy it might also just inadvertently remove the security of the bank connection altogether so that now random bad guys on the Internet can see everything, whoops.
Seems like a unique concept.
Yet the wealthy are disproportionately represented in that 2.4%. You can literally look at it as a business class seat taking 3x the footprint of a cattle class seat.

According to https://phys.org/news/2019-02-income-attitudes-affect-greenh..., transport related GHG emissions are most strongly correlated to income. So it's convenient to sweep air travel under the rug as a small contributor, when the "rich" are the biggest offenders.
I had a celebration the day I could push RHEL5 builds off the compatibility raft. Then I spent a couple weeks learning about "new" C++ features I hadn't been able to use because it was too hard to ship code that a customer could build on RHEL5.
Multi-Cluster Load Balancing with GKE
The OP reports exploits in the wild.
Global pandemics are not direct negative impacts?

We have several documented(h1n1 etc) significant loss of life events due to animal agriculture.

No more silent downvoting. People are dying and will continue to die as these continue to happen until grown adults get some self discipline and stop eating meat.
Asking for the benefit of me and others since this is on the front page now - are there any resources this comprehensive for any other field of study? This guide is amazing and I've failed to find anything else like it. I was specifically interested in biotech (from the perspective of a software developer, i.e. practically zero biology background), but will take what I can get
I believe it's in SQL:1999.

It's tedious that all this is hearsay without open access standards. It's "only" $195 for the latest.
Ask HN: Do you experience a crippling fear of “writing low quality software”?
For many years, I have found myself unable/unwilling to write software as a hobby. While I still do it as a profession, I'm barely able to write for leisure or for personal projects these days.

For some time, I just assumed it was something like burnout; I write code at work and don't wish to do it at home. But even when I do have a day off and I feel like writing something... I rarely get anything done.

However, yesterday, in my spare time, I started working on a small program. I had an idea that I wanted to explore, but very quickly I ran into some trouble writing unit tests for it. Eventually, I got overwhelmed with two unacceptable options:

1) Write this thing without tests.

2) Build an -insane- amount of scaffolding to make tests possible.

A whole day of struggling to do TDD and I have nothing to show for it. It has really ruined my mood, and I realize now how often that has happened when writing software. In a way, "ignorance is bliss" -- had I never learnt about software correctness, I'd be producing more. Though I fear it would be 'lower quality' in some way.

Has anyone else felt this? The solution can't be to abandon tests, static analysis, and so on. I did initially think perhaps tests should only be written when a bug is discovered - i.e. reproduce the bug with a failing test, then fix the software. That particular function's rewrite/repair can be guided by static analysis.

I guess so long as the code is written to be reasonably testable, that may work?

Even though I want to write good code, the pressure I put on myself to produce good work seems to drain my soul.