skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is what to do with the kids in the meantime. Most parents have to work, even if it's at home. And even if they can pay attention to the kids... what can they do? Social events, clubs, camps, activities are all shut down. My kids climbing gym is closed to them, and I don't know if they'll be able to ski at the local boring ski hill this winter even.

My kids are going completely bonkers. They need to see other kids (and other adults). We're sending them back only for their own mental health. We'll evaluate a few weeks in and see how the numbers look and how they feel about the classroom.

My kids don't get much pedagogically out of school, neither are great students, but my daughter at least really needs the social side. I'm not worried about them falling behind so much as I'm worried about their emotional state.
We know that the numbers are being futz with to make things look less bad. They've artificially low, and have been since the data has been redirected through the White House, and the expressed political beliefs of the resident there. In particular, by playing with the number of tests being run.

Longer explanation here (not mine): http://martinhillortiz.blogspot.com/2020/08/coronavirus-case...
Question to those that use GCP/AWS and cert-manager....why not use a managed certificates service that both now offer? I found cert-manager to be the biggest pain point in my cluster (albeit this was 18 months ago)
Hnrobert42 says>Regardless, I stand by my original point. I prefer peer-reviewed analysis.<

This is what "peer-reviewed analysis" has given us:

"Why Most Published Research Findings Are False"

by John P. A. Ioannidis

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

Ioannidis' paper was published in 2005, time enough for us to realize the currently "accepted" methodology does not work.

Hnrobert42 says>"The alternative is a free-for-all where junk claims equal weight with legitimate science. Such a system is usually supported by folks whose work can’t make it through the traditional system."<

If Ioannidis is right (and I think he is), science isn't working out very well. We need to find another implementation of "science" that does work - what we have is a massive failure. Not only is it wrong, it is wrong and slow.

[Aside: some of the following is sarcasm]

I'm starting to believe that much of "science" is fraudulent, a massive, circus-like free-for-all for funding that has no justification other than the egos and livelihood of those embedded in it. We need a "Savanarola of Science" to burn some "scientists" at the stake and straighten the path of "science" just as religion was cleansed in Renaissance Florence:

Girolamo Savonarola

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_Savonarola

[Aside aside: probably wouldn't solve the problem but likely would do much good by culling out (mostly) from the bottom 50%. Maybe rinse, repeat...]
WASM and the surrounding Javascript model offer a lot of opportunities to minimise the damage if something gets exploited.

Say you are running OCR via some C library you have compiled to WASM: wrap that functionality up with an interface, compile that to WASM, and only pass it the image data you're happy for it to see. If someone exploits that binary with a malicious image, there's nothing inside the container except the code and the image itself, so hopefully the damage is contained.

If folks start compiling large amounts of their functionality into one single chunk of WASM, which has a complex interface with the DOM/JS, then I can see how these exploits could become an issue.
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Even if they're limiting the data, it still makes me want to not buy a Tesla.
It's not complicated. Burying a cable costs more upfront and is cheaper int he long run. End of story.
All of this is stupid. For kids too young to distance learn, group them in fours or sixes and send them to one of the family’s houses to spend all day doing whatever the fuck they want. You’re not going to teach them math over Zoom.
This, and also the removal of welfare.

Since you lose welfare when you get a job often there is an opportunity cost decision, should I really work 40 hours a week to make a little more than welfare.

with UBI the salary is always additional.
>The wage employee will be paid is some baseline plus or minus how much the bargaining power employee has.

Given that corporations have been happy to work people to death, that baseline is zero.
The free market sociopathy is still there, of course. Nazi Germany no longer exists so they can no longer rationalize doing business with it.

They're doing the same things they've always done, just with modern issues. They'll be just as disgusting in hindsight for most people. A critical reading of them now will make it so that one doesn't have to wait.

PS, you heard it there first: buy slave-made sugar.
We should also remember that the dual mandate of the federal reserve in the US targets an unemployment rate of 4%. This means that low skill workers will never have negotiating power. Not due to laws of economics but by US government policy.

I’m not here to argue about whether that is the right choice. Or debate about what the target inflation rate should be etc. But if the US government is going to intentionally maintain a minimum scarcity level of employment options for low skilled workers, it is only reasonable that the US government enact policies that protect these low skilled workers on the other side.
I never get tired of reading this story. I remember spending a lot of time tinkering with Graphing Calculator as a kid—I didn't know how to actually model anything, but it was fun to tweak the demo models. I didn't realize it was the result of one of the world's most dedicated squatting operations.

(Given everything I've heard about Apple at that time, which is a fair amount, Avitzur's project was more disciplined and efficient than the majority of their officially sanctioned products.)
So I got this spam link via SMS. And I did something like this. I was all like "Haha! I will outsmart these mutton-brains with my `curl` on EC2!"

Instead, what happened is that the URL was unique and it validated my phone number. Now I constantly get that variety of spam. NUuuuuuuuuu
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Relevant: Youtube algorithm blocked a video on a popular chess channel with 1800 videos, supposedly for a "racism" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSjrYWPxsG8
It is definitely a problem of defective hardware. But there are plenty of people out there with both Intel and Ryzen systems who disable every C-State and every Turbo setting because any change in power levels causes their system to crash. Lockup, bluescreen, kernel panic or just computation errors.

Some of that is from overclocking. Some is from old and/or defective power supplies. Some is from motherboard VRMs. And some, like the original Ryzen 1700X, is from bad SOC-internal power management.

At any rate, I have read forum posts reporting system failures caused by AVX. Either overcurrent or clockrate changes crashing it.

So it seems to have support. I wouldn't call that "misinformation."
> we need to sacrifice some of the more trivial things

The "more trivial things" like normal social interaction, employment, and healthy exercise?

I've never seen a more pointed example of most people's abject inability to perform utilitarian reasoning than this pandemic. If you think causing at least tens of thousands of suicides since the start of the lockdowns, impoverishing millions of people for years to come, and drastically reducing almost everyone's quality of life is a reasonable tradeoff for buying (on expectation) an extra few months of life for geriatrics, you are not rational.
Mmmm You can see the timeline of orders that were put into place and the correlation. Here is Florida https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/state-timeline/new-confirme.... No mask mandate at all. Disney world is open. Beaches are open. The only order was bars are shut down. Without other distancing or masks, it's hard to believe that would stop spread.
I know it's an idea that would kind of... eat itself, were it reality. And maybe this is some shitty first-world take and I'm an asshole for thinking it or whatever. It's even a pretty unfair idea, really. But every time I read these sorts of human interest stories I wish there were a "send them some money" button. Again, an idea that would ruin itself immediately. I know. But failing that I'd rather not have them reported at all. This case is different, sure, because it's not targeted at an English-speaking audience at all, but we get them in our media, too.

Some of those Yazidis in northern Iraq a few years back? Some of the people trying to get into Greece who got interviewed? Man I wished, as soon as they were someone halfway stable, I could have dropped them some cash. An amount I wouldn't have missed that much would have made a difference. This is an utterly dumb "take", I know, for so very many reasons not least of which is that I could be doing more locally and that's something I actually could do, but it's still all I can think about when I see these kinds of stories. How much help even $100 would be some of these places, if only it could get there. And then my next though is how dumb that is. And that I wish these stories would just go away if I can't do anything about them.
Maybe the reason some Asians are successful given the opportunities is because such stories are thought of as uplifting instead of lamenting against the system. The system is bad but what's wrong with celebrating and finding inspiration from people who beat it?
This rationalization only works for you. I also concur that "Teachify" will be more compelling and more brand-able. Change it! ;-)
One of the things I like about my cat (Eleanor Roosevelt, a one eyed Maine Coon that sat in the local SPCA for 8 months) is that I don't try to understand her. She does her thing, mostly involving naps and head scratches, and I just admire her calm and general contentment. Whatever your dog or cat is thinking, I would suggest you just leave it alone and appreciate the life those animals live that seem so contented. Who wouldn't want that?
Yet, empirically, you're 100% wrong.

Canada has both Federal, and Provincial FPTP parliaments. On the Provincial level, new parties appear, and are elected , minority or majority, all the time. Constantly.

On the Federal level, things move more slowly. Yet new parties are appear, grow in popularity, and replace older parties.

Canada is not only a place of multiple parties, it is a place of constant party renewal.

And as a Canuck, I am all too familiar with vote splitting. We have party mergers. Parties that split and form new parties.

We know all about strategic voting, but because we have the concept of minority governments, and because we don't vote for who our Prime Minister is, the dynamic changes a bit.

FPTP isn't what causes two parties only, it is certain methods of government that do, mayhap combined with FPTP.
I'm actively scouting around for my own plot of land, so this resonates with me.

> That being said, recently I have been feeling that all my efforts are for not, sure I might be making the world a better place in my own small way but for what purpose?

There's two things there to unpack.

First, making our part of the world better is really all we can do.

I'm a big fan of "be the change you want to see in the world". Be a role model. Show others why doing this is a good thing.

If that proves unworkable, then, well, as the saying goes, "there's your problem."

Educate others, but when they push back -- listen. Don't shout over them, or insult them. Understand why they push back, and either learn to address their concerns, or adapt your world-view to encompass them.

The second part -- what's the purpose? -- is something only you can answer.

I love nature. Especially trees. Living in Tokyo, you really start to miss trees and green spaces.

The Tokyo mindset seems to be, "oh, look, there's a bit of dirt, we could pour concrete on that."

That's why I want some land. I'm not trying to change the world, or score points from other people. My motivation is purely intrinsic -- I want that for me. And because I believe it makes the world nicer, but since I live in the world, that's also something for me.

Probably also for my future kids. I want them to be at home anywhere, whether it's rural nowhere, or a dense urban core. Far too many people have only one perspective, and it limits them.

Figure out why things matter to you. If it's because you want something from other people, validation or what-have-you -- and I am not saying that is the case -- then you're just going to be disappointed.

> I guess my point is every inch of soil I build and every tree I protect is like money in the bank, I can cash in at any time I want. The truth is every day I get more tired and feel the pull to cash it all in for my own selfish gains.

Well, which would make you happier? More money in the bank, or having your own personal forest?
That is the same in all languages mature enough to have variant options. Rust included.

Therefore, a tendentious distraction from the topic. Chris, I shall expect better from you in the future.
Every year struggling farms go out of business[1]. If expenses are a bit higher, a bit more farms will go under.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/02/10/us-far...
- loaded premise (that AI community thinks causal reasoning, whatever form that may take, is the silver bullet)

- Failure to distinguish b/w narrow and human-level AI

- Zero mention of attention/transformer models

- Zero mention of BERT, GPT, let alone GPT-3

Note-to-self: ignore and file away in the gary-marcus box.
If you're interested in UBI, you may also be interested in UBS, universal basic services. UBI is potentially weak to things like increases in the cost of living and inflation, whereas UBS at least ensures that we must always face a semantic justification of what counts as meeting a service requirement, such as housing, food, etc. They are not mutually exclusive, either.

https://universalbasicservices.org/
I agree with #1 in particular. However, there are always ways around these issues. Some solutions for founders: 1. Use an evergreen fund (such as many family funds) instead of traditional 10-year fund lifetime VC. They are specifically set up to harvest these sorts of opportunities. 2. Demonstrate commitment and operational efficiency. For example spend nontrivial amounts of time and funds on the project to reach relatively advanced stages before asking for outside investment. 3. Regulatory hedging (cross-border operations, and establishing facilities near borders) is one viable strategy.

Full disclosure: I run a nontrivial hardware startup seeking to define and dominate a greenfield segment and have used all three strategies in the last few years.
Hmm, it sounds like you originally deployed your site using Wrangler, but then you tried to edit it in the online editor. The code you saw was minified -- not intended to be edited directly.

The right way to edit the worker code is on your local machine before using wrangler to publish it. There should be a file in your project directory like `workers-site/index.js` which is your worker code in easily-editable format.

BTW, this file was copied from a template when you first generated the project. Earlier this year we updated the template to set several security headers:

https://github.com/cloudflare/worker-sites-template/commit/8...

But if you generated your project before that, you probably still have the old code. If you haven't made any changes yourself, you might want to regenerate your project so that it uses the latest template.
Thats an interesting idea, I do have lots of cottonwoods that are coppicing, they are currently around 20ft tall and 2-3 inches thick. They tend to grow along the edges of the forest, as the conifers shade them out further in.

Are you planning on making water skis? I normally just cut a few each year for my runner beans, I have heard that the larger trees mill into good floor boards in barns as they are easy on animals feet. I do know they don't make very good firewood as they produce insane amounts of ash.
Many people in India are so poor they barely survive, and dream of having their children in some kind of desk job so they can earn money. Any money. But not all parents love their children as much as this dad did; the reason most families stay poor forever is the guardian (usually the father) of the family is indulged in cigarette, tobacco or alcohol consumption. What they earn goes to fulfill the most basic needs of the family, and on intoxication.

Hundred of thousands of families stay that way for years until the kid grows up, and either gets a job, or continues like the guardian. It’s sad, but true story that I lived through. Not really an Indian, but from a similar kind of community in its neighboring country. I’m telling all this because this kind of kind gesture from a father is rare, that's why it became a news.

Many people ride bicycles everyday for work - my father rode 30kms a day for probably 12-13 years because that was the only vehicle we had. He’d have rode 105 any day for me. Kudos to all the dads who put their children before anything else!
> ...companies have more power in negotiation... Workers can't usually live too much without finding a job... That's why minimum wage laws and workers rights are important.

Is this true? Do you agree that reducing the minimum wage would open up more jobs that couldn't previously exist, and increasing it would close existing jobs?

For example, if I want to start a lemonade stand that serves my entire neighborhood, I'm gonna need help. If I have to pay the help $50/hr at minimum, then I will probably not open the lemonade stand. I think in this case it is obvious that too high of a minimum wage can result in a suboptimal outcome. The next best solution is to enter an informal agreement with my worker, which is an even worse outcome because now no one is protected.
I live in Europe now.

The reason that the "second wave" (if that's what it truly is) is coming now is because of easing of restrictions more than anything else. This is summer, and Europeans religiously go on vacation during summer.

This second rise in Covid-19 is more related to groups moving between borders, and those borders having had their restrictions lifted, than some "lockdowns don't work" conclusion. If you looked at the data for different EU nations, a few weeks after moderate lockdowns were introduced, the curve did in fact flatten and cases began to plummet. And as countries open up their borders -- and gyms have reopened where I live -- cases go up.

I was in Greece a few weeks ago, and the cases in the entire nation were pretty OK. On the island where I was, it was pretty good. But their borders with their neighbors were open -- Croatia, Albania, etc. -- and the uptick came largely from their neighbors. Now, at least last time I checked, current cases are higher than from the "first" wave.

In total - I'd say it's more a result of the vacation mindset and opening of borders here in Europe that is resulting in this summer uptick than a failure of lockdown measures.
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It's interesting that people are only applying this level of precaution to covid when (if they were consistent) they would probably apply it all the time to every novel viral strain. If the far-off chance of covid causing some crazy complications down the line is enough to warrant partially shutting down civilization, then we should probably all just live in hermetically sealed bubbles on account of the possibility of the hundreds of more obscure but (cumulatively) more dangerous viruses out there.
I've been using Fastmail, on my Mac, for six-plus years now, no problem.

Didn't use any sort of auto-configure script, though.
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Just because it is better than nothing doesn't mean that it is right. My point still stands: If you can't pay a living wage, don't have a business where you need to hire other people.
You basically described life in lots of Eastern European villages.
Agree. I might not like it for myself. But I benefit
knowing there’s a cost for all the horrible drivers out there might make them drive more safely.
Yup, entitlements.
Because we are on the hook for the parasites in the suburbs.

It’s exactly like the paradigm between coastal states and welfare states.
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I'm a self-taught programmer, but my degree is in visual art. I'm not sure this is true for everyone, but I very much think about programming visually: how everything ties together, how things are scoped, which objects are subclasses or instances of other objects, etcetera. I can't really grok anything until I have a visual metaphor for it. While it can sometimes be helpful, I also worry it holds me back in areas that may not translate well to visual metaphors.
Instead of wishing & typing this out here + moving on, and then feeling worse the next time -- try messaging the publication and ask for a way. At least you can say you did what you could.

Bonus - if you are able to do so successfully, come back here and link it.
You can probably get set up with a special division of UPS or FedEx if you want to use them.

There is probably a 9 week signup process with 6-7 reps that only do business by phone, and it probably costs 30X as much as USPS. These are not meant to be exaggeration at all, and are probably accurate IME dealing with far more common shipping needs.
math.h has M_PI in posix.
There's a lot of confusion about taxes and wealth in this thread.

Suppose that I'm paying someone $100/week to get my iguanas polished. If my taxes go up by $100/week, the obvious place for me to make it up is to stop paying to have said iguanas polished.

Is society better off? It depends. That said, the person who got that $100 from the govt is happier, but the iguana polisher is less happy.

As far as wealth taxes go, there's a similar effect.

Suppose that I have my wealth in a bank. I owe $100 in wealth tax so I withdraw it and pay the govt, which then spends it. Someone is happy because they got that $100.

But, what about that $100 I withdrew? That's at least $100 that the bank can't loan. The person who doesn't get that loan is less well off.

Okay. So we don't tax bank deposits. We'll tax stock.

Okay, so I sell $100 worth of stock to pay my stock wealth tax. In other words, someone gives me $100 for said stock and I give $100 to the govt.

Where did that $100 come from? Yup, someone decided to buy stock instead of paying her iguana polisher. Again, the iguana polisher is worse off.

You may think that no one should have shiny iguanas. My point is that taxes don't create wealth. They merely change where it is spent.
Why can’t Apple just push that through XProtect?
We are just starting to learn about the long term effects. They are myriad and present for even people who had mild to no symptoms. Joint pain, cognitive issues, stroke, and cardiac arrest are shockingly common. Plenty of articles have popped up here on HN about it. No one knows anything except that it’s hard to tell who will have problems or why.

I have a pretty good guess as to how I got it, but nothing conclusive. It’s everywhere and has been since the beginning of the year.
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I recall an article from the Scientific American back in the 70s where they did a word frequency analysis and determined that Francis Bacon was not Shakespeare.
I didn't read and don't want to spread misinformation. Disregard.
We all know it but somehow ...
'it is not so much that AI machinery cannot grasp causality, but that AI machinery - qua computation - cannot understand anything at all.'